Monday Afternoon SugarLinks – The Hat and The Hair: Episode 87

by | Jul 16, 2018 | Hat and Hair, SugarFree | 500 comments

“Here, take a bite of this,” Donald said, thrusting the Finnish Big Mac into Sarah’s face. She moved away from the dripping sandwich.

“Take a bite, Pie,” Donald insisted.

“My name is Sarah, sir,” Sarah protested.

“Take a bite. I insist,” he said.

“What’s wrong with it?” she asked.

“Wrong? Nothing’s wrong. It’s a Big Mac. It’s delicious.”

“Why is it, uh, dripping?” Sarah asked. Her stomach rumbled audibly.

“I always ask for extra-extra secret sauce. Because it makes it better. And because it’s secret.” He reached out and smushed the edge of the sandwich lightly into her face. Sarah licked her lips reflexively and gagged.

“See? I told you. Just tremendous. I made this Big Mac so much more delicious,” Donald said. “Me. I did that.”

He devoured the Big Mac in three enormous mouthfuls, except the small part that had touched Sarah. He looked at as he chewed the last giant bite and then dropped it on the floor. He turned back to rummage through the McDonald’s bag.

“Shit. The fries are cold. I can’t eat these,” he said with roiling disgust. “I bet Vlad never has to eat cold fries!” He threw the large order of cold fries at Sarah and they dotted her white dress with grease and salt where they struck.


Get up off my dick, New York Times. I am going to cut you.

NYT gay-bashing freak out in the replies. Which I don’t get. Can’t two virile world leaders be in love without it being coded as gay? Platonic bromance, fam.


Tim Tebow Dating Alleged Woman

Tim Tebow has confirmed he is dating Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters.

The 30-year-old football star, who has made a vow to stay chaste until marriage, gushed about the 23-year-old pageant queen to ESPN.

The former NFL quarterback, who famously switched from football to baseball, told the outlet on Sunday: ‘She is a really special girl and I am very lucky and blessed for her coming into my life.’


Imagine a world where everyone was judged solely on the opinion of the exes. Do you think the cat ladies of Jezebel really want to live in it?

Yvette Nicole Brown Will Fill In for Chris Hardwick on Talking Dead Following Abuse Allegations

Last month, actor Chloe Dykstra posted a lengthy, harrowing essay on Medium detailing extensive sexual and emotional abuses she says she faced during a three-year relationship with “a mildly successful podcaster to a powerhouse CEO of his own company.” It didn’t take long for readers to realize she was accusing Nerdist founder and AMC’s Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick, and it didn’t take long for noted dumbass Adam Carolla to come to his defense.) AMC is currently investigating the accusations, and because of that, Hardwick will be replaced, temporarily, on Talking Dead by Yvette Nicole Brown (Community, Drake & Josh).

And to show you I am not just being biased, here are pictures of my cats:


Turtle man is really just a big ol’ dog…

Scientist Loses Distinguished Award After Acceptance Presentation Full of Racy Photos

The Herpetologists’ League rescinded its annual Distinguished Herpetologist award after winner Dick Vogt showed racy photos during his acceptance address.

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports:

According to several attendees, Vogt, a longtime researcher of Brazilian turtles, showed several pictures of “scantily clad female students” doing field research. The photographs were risqué enough that conference organizers added blue boxes to cover parts of the women’s bodies.

Henry Mushinsky, committee chairman of the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, told the Democrat and Chronicle that the conference did not have a code of conduct. He said that students doing fieldwork near water often wear bathing suits, but that these photos were “not just typical documentary photos,” the Democrat and Chronicle wrote. Several attendees tweeted that they walked out of the talk. The Herpetologists League offered a statement to conference attendees condemning Vogt’s behavior.

With bonus “asking to see the pics is being childish” action in the comments.


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500 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    showed several pictures of “scantily clad female students” doing field research

    Where did he do his research, because the problem might not have been the photographs, but the quality of the students.

    • SugarFree

      Brazil.

      • UnCivilServant

        Were the students Brazilian? Or did he import them with his expeditions?

      • SugarFree

        It seems that the Turtle Conservancy takes students from all over for field research, but Herpetology draws the hottest students at any college. Everyone knows this.

      • leonadasiv

        I think you mean herpes-tology

      • Brett L

        How long does it take them to figure out that Herpetologists don’t get cured of herpes?

    • creech

      Were the women newt?

  2. kinnath

    Pics or it didn’t happen.

  3. Negroni Please

    A links thread competing with Prime Day? Let’s see how this goes.

    • SugarFree

      Our site is working, brah.

      • Negroni Please

        Glibs motto?

        Our site is working, our users are not.

      • Raven Nation

        Rufus approves

      • Rufus the Monocled

        /spits cherry pit out.

        DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, NOW you remind me I had a meeting at 3:30.

        Sheesh, what sort of secretary are you?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I just aks the qweshtins.

      • Negroni Please

        Anybody wanna do my job for me? I need to write an American history midterm today for the motley collection of retarded illiterates I call students. Time period is Reconstruction to the Spanish-American War if you guys want to offer up some suggestions for questions.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Who supplied Reconstruction projects? Lowe’s or Home Depot?

      • UnCivilServant

        On what constitutional Grounds was the federal anti-lynching law overturned?

      • UnCivilServant

        Nevermind that is post-1900.

      • Spartacus

        Grover Cleveland: best president of the 19th century or best president ever? Discuss.

      • UnCivilServant

        List the members of Grant’s Cabinet that were not indicted for corruption.

      • Raven Nation

        How did US policy against Native Americans in the western territories influence foreign policy in the era of the Spanish-American war?

      • C. Anacreon

        Sing any song from REM’s “Fables of the Reconstruction”.
        Extra credit if they choose “Driver 8” and nail it.

      • dbleagle

        Discuss the principles employed by George Crook in the Apache campaigns of 1873 and 1886 and compare them to the principles employed by OO Howard against the Apaches.

      • dbleagle

        Explain the impacts of major copper (AZ and MT), silver (NV) and gold (ND, SD and AZ) discoveries impact US monetary policy.

      • R C Dean

        Compare and contrast US Army tactics, rules of engagement, and strategic goals in the campaigns against the Apache, and the campaigns against the Taliban and Al Quaeda.

        Actually, that would be kinda interesting.

      • Trolleric the Goth

        ^ hit ’em with that “cross of gold” speech and what the Wizard of Oz is an allegory about!

      • dbleagle

        RC, My Strategic Research Projects (aka thesis) at the War College was on the topic you suggest.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        not anymore!

      • Galt1138

        Home sick today. I’m periodically checking work e-mail, if that counts.

      • Galt1138

        Well, maybe not ALL of the users.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Shit….runs to Prime.

      • Raven Nation

        Here’s what you want.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Lol.

      • cyto

        Did anyone find anything? I didn’t need another echo dot.

        I was hoping for a high end wifi router for 80% off.

      • UnCivilServant

        Another? Why would you pay someone to spy on you?

      • Private Chipperbot

        I had a few things I was ready to purchase, but the site kept crapping out so screw it.

      • dorvinion

        I’ve nabbed a Chromebook for my wife to replace her 5 year old tablet.

        Camping gear (screen tents, chairs, lanterns, etc) are on my mind.

        Solar bits for my camper are an upcoming deal…just not sure how good a deal yet.

      • Naptown Bill

        Not shit. Prime Day is pretty much bullshit. Nothing on my Wish List is discounted at all, and the stuff they’re discounting I either already own or don’t want.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Warehouse Cleaning Day” didn’t test as well with focus groups.

    • Count Potato

      Do they have McVegan’s in the U.S.?

  4. Michael

    Anybody that owns a black cat is alright by me.

    • SugarFree

      She was in my underground parking garage, raising seven shades of holy hell, yowling and screeching, lonely and afraid. I took her to see if she had a chip and looked for lost cat signs for a couple of weeks. Rather than risk taking her to the Humane Society, she just moved in.

      • Michael

        That’s awesome. My cat was a wee little kitten when our paths crossed. I was leaving my apartment one evening when he came traipsing up outside the building gate and sat right in front of me. I thought he might have belonged to one of the neighbors, so I let him in to the stairwell. He darted up the stairs and just sat in front of my apartment staring at the door until I opened it. He’s the first cat I’ve ever had, and we’ve been together for about ten years now.

      • SugarFree

        That’s adorable. The tuxedo showed up like that, tiny little thing, howling on the back porch to be let in like she already lived there.

      • Mad Scientist

        Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.

      • kinnath

        Dog: These people, they feed me and take care of me. They must be gods.

        Cat: These people, they feed me and take care of me. I must be a god.

      • Galt1138

        Heh. I like to tease about cats. Still, they can be cool pets…for a week or so.

        Was it here that someone posted a link to an article about how cats would kill their owners if they could (I think it mentioned studies showing domestic cats are just as predatory as they big ones, and as such, couldn’t really be trusted if they were that big).

        Also, decades ago some comic made the point that you’ll never see a Seeing Eye cat (at least not a successful one).

      • C. Anacreon

        Tuxedo cats are always the best.
        We have one now that wears an XXXL tuxedo, as he weighs over 30 pounds.
        Vet thinks he may have some Maine Coon in him and thus the big frame.

      • Playa Manhattan

        I’m just big boned!

      • R C Dean

        That’s not what she said!

      • UnCivilServant

        I am actually big-boned, but I’m fat too.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Mine is a rescued cat. We got him when he was a few weeks old. He was skittish and hissed for a couple of weeks. The first time I held him he sang me a melancholy meow tune. Now he’s King Shit of the house.

      • Creosote Achilles

        My cat (we have 3, but one is clearly mine) was a rescue from a restaurant parking lot. She tentatively emerged from the bushes, meowing pathetically, her hunger having overcome her fright. We had leftover lobster pizza (Red Lobster, don’t judge) and she got bits of lobster. It was all over from there.

        Now, she greets me at the door and stays by my side as much as I allow. If she’s in another room and I call her, she comes running. And I’ve taught her to stand up on command and beg for food. As well as she has figured out how to ‘ask’ for play times. there’s a toy that’s a ball with a feather. She doesn’t like /that/ toy, but she brings it to me and makes a certain sound when she wants play time with the feather on a stick.

        I value her more than most people.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Back it up….beep, beep, beep. Pizza at Red Lobster’?

      • Creosote Achilles

        Well, for certain values of pizza. it was an appetizer with cheese and bits of lobster on a thin crust bread as I recall.

      • Enough About Palin

        Okay, here is what I want to know. When a big road grater is backing up it goes beep, beep, beep, which can be heard for blocks and blocks. WTF? Who isn’t going to notice a big road grater belching smoke and noise? Seriously, What’s with the F’ing beep, beep, beep…?

      • R C Dean

        Those backup beepers probably come in handy more on construction sites than on roads.

      • UnCivilServant

        Government regulation in case it rolls over workers on the site.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        OSHA and backing over workers

      • Mad Scientist

        Those things frequently move a little forward, then a little back, then a little forward, then a little back. The beeping is to let the guys working around it know when they need to get a move on.

      • Enough About Palin

        They just need to fucking pay attention

      • Old Man With Candy

        Who isn’t going to notice a big road grater belching smoke and noise?

        Rachel Corrie.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ouch.

      • R C Dean

        Alright, that’s what she said.

      • Mad Scientist

        My wife rescued our two current cats. One of them came from the pound and has decided she much prefers me to my wife. My wife is sorely jealous about this. The other cat was found as a kitten, minding his own business in a parking lot. My wife scaled a 6-foot chain link fence to “rescue” the little asshole. He showed his gratitude by biting the shit out of her hand. Now he sleeps all day, cultivates blubber, and ignores both of us.

      • Swiss Servator

        So…the second one is a very successful cat then?

    • Grumbletarian

      I got my mini-panther at an animal hospital a friend worked at. Scared to death of everyone but me. Other than that he’s awesome. Also rescued a tabby that was a little too bitey for families to take, but as it’s just me in my condo and no kids around she’s mostly okay.

  5. KibbledKristen

    Apparently Joe Walsh got suckered by Sacha Baron-Cohen. LOL. I might have to watch the show now.

    • Ted S.

      When Borat was released, I saw an interview on the Today show with Baron-Cohen in character as Borat. I couldn’t believe anybody would find this stuff funny.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The naked fight with his manager and him jamming his tongue down his “sister’s” throat was cringe funny, the rest of Borat not so mich.

      • UnCivilServant

        I keep wondering what would happen if someone he tried to dupe figured it out but accepted the interview anyway and tried to interview him asking what it was like to go through life pretending to be other unfunny people. Would he be able to maintain character?

    • Chipwooder

      Life’s still been good to him so far, though.

      • Private Chipperbot

        He’s living life in the fast lane.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Now days he picks up the dog poop

  6. Ted S.

    With bonus “asking to see the pics is being childish” action in the comments.

    Dammit, you stole our joke!

    • Mad Scientist

      So we should ask, for the children?

    • Count Potato

      And still no pics!

  7. Rufus the Monocled

    Cats are the best.

    • UnCivilServant

      Just make sure they aren’t the first to find your corpse.

      • Spartacus

        Meh. if I’m dead, they can eat all they want.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Donald Trump’s not-so-secret admiration for Vladimir Putin

    They still don’t get that one way Donald gets people to do what he wants is to blow smoke (or big macs?) up their ass.

    • UnCivilServant

      well, yeah. But I just kinda figured people pretending to be scientists knew better than to display it publically.

      How many of the other atendees took the images home to add to their own personal collections?

    • commodious spittoon

      “It wasn’t explicit,” she said, “but it was not professional.”

      Well, don’t let that stop you.

    • Brett L

      “Fuck turtles. We look at turtles all day. Let’s look at tiddies instead.”

      • Heroic Mulatto

        I sense he is a kindred spirit.

    • Spudalicious

      “swiftly and vocally criticized within the herpetology community.”

      Turtle scientists had a mad.

    • R C Dean

      Of course, these are academics. I wouldn’t be shocked to discover that, in the era of #MeToo, patriarchal oppression, and the male gaze, any woman clad in less than a burkha is being “exploited”.

      You’re in the frickin’ Brazilian jungle, mucking around in mud and water. What do you think you should wear?

      • Raston Bot

        mosquito netting + knee-high snake boots

      • R C Dean

        I can see wearing high boots and gauzy fabrics as being pretty offensive to the #MeToo harpies in academia.

      • Bobarian LMD

        And nothing else… ladies.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Well, garter belt and stockings would help.

        … Hobbit

    • Grumbletarian

      In another instance, Mr. Vogt used a photo of a bikini-clad woman lying in the sand with baby turtles “nestled near her breasts,” said Lori Neuman-Lee, who leads the Herpetologists’ League’s new diversity and inclusion committee.

      Isn’t it kind of natural to position objects near oneself in the center-of-mass area… i.e., the torso?

      • Bobarian LMD

        That’s where I try to center myself.

    • Not Adahn

      This reeks of fetish behavior

      Nah, that’s the turtle poop.

  9. Spartacus

    Your cats have beds made out of Amazon boxes, just like mine do.

    • SugarFree

      I’ve also used them to make stairs for the old lady. (The tuxedo cat just turned 17.)

      • Spartacus

        That’s a pretty good idea. I actually bought stairs for our old guy once he couldn’t jump anymore. Now the other cats use them all the time because they are lazy (and getting middle-aged). We have three four sets of stairs at this point. Next time I’ll use boxes if I can keep the cats out of them long enough.

      • SugarFree

        Mine sit in them for some arbitrary length of time and then decide one day to never get in or even near them ever again.

      • Spartacus

        Mine take turns. We have seven, so by the time they all get tired of it the box is pretty well trashed.

      • Negroni Please

        Seven cats? Seven? Good God man. Do you live on a farm?

      • Ted S.

        Spartacus is a crazy cat lady.

        (This is why there are no female libertarians….)

      • Spartacus

        No, I live in a litter box.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s just because you have seven cats. Offload some and you’ll be able to clean up…

      • Spartacus

        They’re good kitties. I always know when someone is coming up the driveway because there is a mad scramble to get to the back of the house and hide.

        Most of the current group were foster kittens of various kinds that my wife was unable to adopt out. Not that she tried very hard.

      • mindyourbusiness

        SF, ever notice that cats are much like little kids? Buy ’em all kinds of toys and they ignore those in favor of the box the toys came in. But the box must be just smaller than the cat.

    • Ted S.

      Our cats took over the dog bed.

    • Rebel Scum

      I got my cats a $30 cat bed. They never use it. They prefer cardboard boxes.

      • mindyourbusiness

        See comment above.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Heh. Every time I get a box from Amazon mine always goes in and chills in it.

  10. Rebel Scum

    who famously switched from football to baseball

    So what you are saying is that he is rounding the proverbial bases and will not be chaste for much longer.

    • Chipwooder

      Sarwark isn’t going to like that.

      • Winston

        Considering Syria and Crimea it is a bit too late for Trump to be Chamberlain…

      • UnCivilServant

        Where was the 1974 Line? There were so many accords and agreements that I lose track.

      • Playa Manhattan

        Unrelated

        My impulse buy of the day:

        All-Clad 12 Quart with steamer and pasta inserts.

      • RAHeinlein

        Nice. I love All-Clad.

      • Playa Manhattan

        I have the 6 quart, but I NEEDED 12q.

        And now, knife shopping.

      • Spudalicious

        Cool. I love my All-Clad.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’m becoming convinced that they won’t be happy without a declaration of war.

      • Rebel Scum

        They wouldn’t be happy with one either.

    • LJW

      Technically Trump was right. Obama was well aware of the Russia activity and didn’t do shit to stop it.

      • LJW

        To clarify right in regards to both are at fault

      • commodious spittoon

        He downplayed it, ironically, because he didn’t want Trump parroting conspiracy theories after he lost.

    • Chipwooder

      For all the talk of “surrender”, I’m not sure what is being surrendered.

      • SugarFree

        His virtue.

      • Winston

        How can he surrender something he never had?

      • Chipwooder

        That’s what it makes it all the more shameful.

      • Swiss Servator

        For Putin…

        YOU GOT USED GOODS, VLAD!

      • leonadasiv

        To be fair, its probably the smartest move the left has taken against trump in a bit. It is a move made to weaken support among what the left see as his conservatories base. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. As i see it this really hits neo-cons who are already a majority Never Trumpers

      • Chipwooder

        Most of Trump’s base couldn’t care less about any of this. The “national greatness” Weekly Standard types who are screaming about this already hated him, as you mentioned.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        FOX News (and not just Shep Smith) is hitting him hard on this.

      • Winston

        Left going from rabidly anti-war to rabidly pro-war depending on political expediency? What a shock. Where is Dalton Trumbo?

      • Viking1865

        Right but again they are completely missing the point.

        The Republican Party’s elites are Hamiltonians when it comes to foreign policy. But the base, and particularly the diehard Trump supporters, are Jacksonians.

        They don’t give a fuck about Putin, unless and until Putin makes war (war, not “hacking into the Democrats server”). If Putin ever does make war against the US, the Jacksonian response is to wage war, not to levy sanctions or make speeches.

      • Emmerson Biggins

        Good Explanation, IMO.

      • R C Dean

        It is a move made to weaken support among what the left see as his conservative base.

        And it might have worked, if (a) they hadn’t pissed their credibility away with shrieking hysterics and (b) this wasn’t presented in a tone of shrieking hysteria.

      • Viking1865

        I really don’t think it would have worked.

        See, the Republican base needs to be sold on war and they only buy if they perceive an immediate and lethal threat. The Iraq War had to be sold as “Saddam did 9/11 and he’s working on WMDs for even more 9/11s”. It couldn’t be sold as what it was, a Hamiltonian/Wilsonian nation building project, it had to be sold to appeal to the Jacksonians who make up the base of the GOP.

        The media and the Left is trying to sell the Republican base on the idea that “Hacking into and releasing damaging information about Hillary Clinton” is analogous to a direct attack on America. There might be one Middle American Trump voter who wants to send his sons off to the Crimea to defend the Honor of the Harridan, but I think you would be hard pressed to find two.

      • leonadasiv

        I agree that i don’t think this tactic will work, due to (as viking explains ) the whole basis of “RUSSIA! !!” Is that Hillarey and DNC were exposed as crooks.

    • leonadasiv

      This is a part of why i stopped reading hot air and left the conservative movement (as much as i was ever a part of it )

    • The Other Kevin

      If he had come out swinging against Putin they’d accuse him of creating an international incident, and trying to suck up to Comey (which would be seen as an admission of guilt). Trump will never win with the press, but at least he knows it.

      • cyto

        That is his greatest asset. He not only doesn’t give a rat’s ass what the press thinks, he can chose to completely ignore it if he wants.

        His famous “grab them by the” brag would have destroyed most politicians. Not only did it not take him down, he didn’t even acknowledge the issue.

        I still can’t figure out if it is on purpose, but after a lifetime of defensive republicans mewling at the first accusation of racism or sexism, it really is fun to have a politician who just doubles down and ignores the chattering of monkeys in the press.

        I predicted that he would respond to accusations with “yeah, well you are fat and stupid. ” I was wrong. He is even more oblique than that. It really is funny watching the left have a stroke over the fact that they keep landing what they think are killing blows, only to have him completely ignore them.

        I was listening to Dave Smith on his podcast the other day and he addressed this phenomenon. Apparently he had some SJW dude come up at an event and grab a microphone and start ranting about how they were all racists. So the Puerto Rican dude on the panel jumps up, ready to fight. So old person of color from Puerto Rico yells at the kid who is in his face and calls him a fag.

        At this point the SJW is flummoxed. He thought he had won the day with “racist”, and then was shocked that grabbing some guy’s mic and getting in his face resulted in not only a socially unacceptable epithet, but threats of violence (i.e. “Let’s step outside”). So he says, “well, I might be a fag, but at least I’m not a racist!” (dude wasn’t gay, BTW)

        And there you have it. The SJW just absolutely spun sideways that his juvenile tactics not only didn’t work, but resulted in a resounding defeat.

      • R C Dean

        He is even more oblique than that.

        I dunno. Neither “fake news” nor “enemies of the American people” is particularly oblique.

      • Michael

        I think he’s oblique in that he doesn’t use those every time. Certain stories that the press deem “newsworthy” are completely ignored by him and get no reaction whatsoever. Sometimes it seems like he has some sort of formula for it, other times it seems like he’s just completely winging it. Which it is, I have no clue. I’m just as dumbfounded by it as anybody else.

      • cyto

        That is exactly my reaction. He is an expert at keeping people off balance. It is almost like he is a giant magic 8 ball of responses. You shake him up, and something random comes out. Sometimes, like playing Dark Side of The Moon along with Wizard of Oz, it lines up and seems brilliant. Other times, it is an absurd non-sequitur.

        The randomness of ignoring something vs going scorched earth vs saying something infuriatingly inappropriate about something completely unrelated really keeps everyone off balance and his enemies chasing their tails.

  11. leonadasiv

    Re NYT tweet:

    I cancelled my @NYTimes subscription during the campaign. If you haven’t done so yet, here’s a reason for you to do so now. #Bigotry and #homophobia abound at the #NYTimes #HateHasNoHomeHere – ha!
    DOLLS
    DOLLS
    @6TH_SCALE_DOLLS
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    2h
    I stopped stealing it from my neighbor’s doorstep because of this crap.

    • UnCivilServant

      I find the reply unbelievable – nobody gets newspapers delivered anymore.

      • Swiss Servator

        I’ll have to tell my neighbors that they are hallucinating that rolled up print in the clear blue bag that is found on their driveway every morning.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s a delivery from their Weed supplier

  12. The Other Kevin

    Now herpetologists? IS NOTHING SACRED?

  13. Winston

    https://therealnews.com/stories/why-is-the-anti-war-movement-still-so-weak-under-trump

    ARIEL GOLD: Well, I would say that Donald Trump has just exhausted the resistance movement in general. He has us running in so many different directions, with so many atrocious appointments. If we look at Betsy DeVos in Education, and moving Tillerson into the State Department; his policies on the border wall, and immigration policies. We’re just, you know, in general the protest movement and the resistance movement that I would say is exhausted.

    And there’s so much to deal with with domestic issues that it’s hard sometimes for people to see the connection on a broader global perspective of what’s going on internationally, and how much, for example, weapons companies are profiting.

    Notice the lack of mentions to a certain nuclear power and its leader…

    • leonadasiv

      “We’re just, you know, in general the protest movement and the resistance movement that I would say is exhausted.”

      Of the things listed they all seem to pale in comparison to the atrocities of perpetual war. So using that as an excuse makes me doubt their commitment to the anti-war movement.

      • Winston

        So using that as an excuse makes me doubt their commitment to the anti-war movement.

        HAHAHAHAHA

      • B.P.

        We can only be brave and strong-willed for so long!

    • The Other Kevin

      I don’t blame them for being exhausted. For the past 2 years (or more) the left has gone over the top ape shit over FUCKING EVERYTHING. Bathrooms, #metoo, Russia, wedding cakes, literally Hitler, you name it. It reminds me of my office, where we have no system to prioritize things, so everything is a #1 top emergency priority. That will burn you out quick.

      • Grumbletarian

        An incomplete list of outrages is as follows:

        Trans bathrooms
        pussy grabbing
        Gorsuch
        Betsy DeVos
        Scott Pruitt
        RUSSIA!
        ‘gutting’ Obamacare
        lowering taxes
        two scoops of ice cream
        Sean Spicer
        cutting regulations
        Obamessiah’s legacy
        Kavanaugh
        The Emoluments Clause

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Man, the quality of the Dammaz Kron has really gone down.

    • Rebel Scum

      I’d imagine perpetual, hypocritical outrage is rather exhausting.

      • R C Dean

        Oh, c’mon. They’re coming off of 8 years of resting comfortably. They should have plenty of energy left.

  14. KibbledKristen

    Someone has got to sneak a video cam in the bridal suite on the Tebow wedding night.

    Or is he one of those abstainers that only does anal until marriage?

    • Q Continuum

      He only dates girls that are down with pegging.

      • MikeS

        Is that that thing the Mormon kids do?

      • MikeS

        Nope. Soaking. We ere looking for soaking.

    • Brett L

      Goddammit, why can I not find the wedding cake from Bull Durham?

      • Negroni Please

        Cuz it isn’t 30 years ago?

      • Brett L

        Look, there are only about 6 movies everyone needs to see so I can express myself:
        Office Space
        The Godfather Part 2
        Bull Durham
        Full Metal Jacket
        Giant
        Ghostbusters

        Also, minor league ballplayer whose a goody-goody Christian marrying a way hot chick? Its the perfect movie reference.

      • Playa Manhattan

        Caddyshack

        Ferris Beuller

      • Heroic Mulatto

        None of those were porn, so you are a liar.

      • Q Continuum

        Orifice Space
        The Godfucker Part 2
        Hung Like a Bull Durham
        Full Metal Jackoff
        Giant Cocks
        Nutbusters

      • Heroic Mulatto

        There you go.

      • Galt1138

        Backside to the Future.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Animal House. Especially these days.

        If I were a teacher/professor I’d probably troll my students triggering them by sliding in a VHS of the movie in class.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Thanks for the reminder. I need to make sure my college age siblings see it

      • R C Dean

        When I saw Animal House, I was convinced that it was about Pater Dean’s fraternity, because about 2/3 of what they showed (not including the parade at the end) were stories I’d already heard.

        The other stories were more R rated.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Wiki:

        “…The film was produced by Matty Simmons of National Lampoon and Ivan Reitman for Universal Pictures. It was inspired by stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon. The stories were based on Ramis’s experience in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as Miller’s Alpha Delta Phi experiences at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and producer Reitman’s Delta Upsilon experiences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.”

        Canadians leave an imprint everywhere.

      • Private Chipperbot

        Sorry. You need to add Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Slapshot.

      • Chipwooder

        and Fletch

      • Playa Manhattan

        These days, most Blazing Saddles jokes will get you a one way trip to Human Resources.

      • Mad Scientist

        I can’t believe none of you assholes mentioned the Blues Brothers. It’s like I don’t know you people at all.

      • Private Chipperbot

        It wasn’t my fault. I swear to God.

      • kinnath

        Shampoo

      • kinnath

        Don’t forget Sweet Carrie

      • Count Potato

        Nice highbeams.

      • Enough About Palin

        Apocalypse Now
        The Godfather Part 2
        Pootie Tang
        High Society
        The Outlaw Josey Wales
        Gallipoli

    • Pope Jimbo

      What if Tebow started dating the Miss Spain contestant for Miss Universe?

      Would anyone warn him? Or would the entire world hold their breath hoping for the glorious taunting the morning after? And even then, would any of us admit to Tim that he fucked up? Or would we all keep the ruse going and pretend that all hot chicks had dicks and try to get him to admit to sucking his wife’s cock?

      • Not Adahn

        Didn’t she have it inverted?

  15. I. B. McGinty

    The cat on the left is thinking “I’m going to kill you in your sleep.”

    The cat on the right is thinking “I’m going to kill you in your sleep.”

    One of mine tried to kill me last night.

    • kinnath

      Every cat thinks “If I was bigger, I would eat you.”

      • Drake

        “Instead, I’ll just wait till you hurry up and die”

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Speaking of which, is McCain dead yet?

    • jesse.in.mb

      My roommate’s cat is decent enough to only try and kill me during the day. If I’m not going to feed her that minute she walks between my legs just as I’m hitting the top of some concrete stairs in the hopes that I’ll take a tumble and be a reasonable meal.

  16. Q Continuum

    Hot young ladies are always slippery when wet.

    http://archive.is/tFSar

    33 looks like she knows how to handle something spraying in her face.

    • Heroic Mulatto

      Noice.

      Though some of those tattoos are tragic.

      • Chipwooder

        Most of them, I’d say. Anything close to a sleeve on an attractive woman isn’t a good look IMO.

      • UnCivilServant

        Ink is a terrible thing for attractive skin.

      • Count Potato

        I was thinking the same thing.

      • Galt1138

        Seconded.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      She’s done that before.

    • Spudalicious

      6, 7, 15, 26, 40, 41.

      • Old Man With Candy

        “What are the ages of Spudalicious’s former wives?”

  17. Q Continuum

    Buried deep within the replies to the stupid NYT cartoon tweet:

    “Socialist Angel ‏ @socialist_angel · 1h1 hour ago

    Thank you thank you, dunno how much I’ll get to be one though…fucking capitalist ISPs are causing me issues.

    #BernRubber2020 ‏ @LeftwardSwing · 1h1 hour ago

    Heh I actually have a socialist ISP”

    wut

    • R C Dean

      Heh I actually have a socialist ISP

      If its one of the cable companies, its a government-backed monopoly. Pretty close.

  18. Q Continuum

    “According to several attendees, Vogt, a longtime researcher of Brazilian turtles, showed several pictures of “scantily clad female students” doing field research”

    Bet you all didn’t know I was a herpetologist.

  19. Playa Manhattan

    Prime day seems to be all about how many microphones they can get in to your house.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Lol.

    • trshmnstr

      Absolute trash. I haven’t seen any good deals on anything remotely interesting.

      • Gustave Lytton

        An item I was watching went up $100 overnight. Yay.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Soy-boys of London assemble!

    As part of it’s anti-Trump protests in London over the weekend, the British anti-Trump resistance trotted out a mostly-life-sized Trump doll, and implored march attendees to “Thump Trump,” presumably to warm up for the real “Resistance” that doesn’t involve merely milling around and posting on social media (as the London protests mostly did).

    The results do little to recommend the modern anti-Trump resistance. In fact, President Donald Trump can probably rest easy knowing they’d be mostly useless in any sort of real rebellion. Put down your coffee lest you spit it across your screen while watching the ensuing display of lethal athleticism.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Trump should offer to buy the balloon and have fun with it.

      • Chipwooder

        Buy it, put a MAGA hat on it, and fly it from the White House.

        I read that thing cost $40K. Money well spent!

    • B.P.

      That Nazi Trump hurt my wrist!

      • Viking1865

        Yeah Fat Trump Guy is always ready to tell you that his 2 years of playing HS football 30 years means that his 300 pound frame is “all muscle”.

      • Chipwooder

        Hey, look, it was 25 years ago and I’m only 260, not 300!

      • Breet Pharara

        Confession, I’ve started using the term “Cuck” to talk about the unmanly looking left. “Neckbeard” for the idiots on the right. I think both labels fit.

      • UnCivilServant

        Note to self – trim facial hair.

  21. Spudalicious

    Lessee, Trump spends two hours trying to

    • Winston

      Caption contest?

      • Spudalicious

        Twitchy fingers.

    • Spudalicious

      mend some fences and tone down some of the strife between the two countries that own 90% of the worlds nuclear weapons, and then he gets vilified for not ripping him a new asshole on the world stage right after that meeting. Trump really is Putin’s cockholster.

      • Q Continuum

        What did the pundits think he should do? Deck him in the jaw? Pepper spray him? Piss in his coffee?

      • Mad Scientist

        The nice thing about Trump is he knows the media will hate him no matter what he does, so he makes no effort to appease them.

  22. Chipwooder

    Stunning news from Vox. Gotta give credit where it’s due, that’s some razor-sharp analysis there.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Winner of election won by rules of electoral contest”

    • Q Continuum

      Reply:

      “France only won the World Cup because it scored more goals than Croatia”

      • R C Dean

        I like pointing out that we decide the World Series by who wins the most games, not who scores the most total runs.

      • Breet Pharara

        There is a wonderful timeline out there where the Cubs are still in their world series drought with this logic. Alas, we live in a shitty reality where Chicago sports fans are happy.

      • Galt1138

        Just Cubs fans, not White Sox fans. And we deserve to be happy. Dammit.

      • Galt1138

        Yep. I’ve heard that explanation before. It’s a good one, provided the proggie you’re speaking with knows anything about baseball.

    • Playa Manhattan

      Trump only won the presidential election because he won the presidential election.

    • leonadasiv

      Reply:
      To be clear, that is true of literally every president elected since the Constitution was ratified in 1788.

    • Count Potato

      “What they need to win is score more points.”
      — John Madden

    • UnCivilServant

      Mister Willis, just pretend to shoot the bad guy and collect the residuals. It really makes no difference to you that it’s because people watch the work around Christmas.

    • Chipwooder

      It’s Christmas, Theo, the season of miracles!

      Now I have a machine gun. Ho…..ho…..ho.

    • Mojeaux

      Husband linked me that this morning. I said, “Shut your whore mouth!”

    • mexican sharpshooter

      If I watch it every Christmas, that makes it a Christmas movie.

    • Creosote Achilles

      He’s right.

      It isn’t /a/ Christmas Movie.

      it is /THE/ Christmas Movie.

  23. grrizzly

    Megan McArdle on twitter:

    Don’t really write about foreign policy. But I’m not immune to the visceral disgust that must grip any patriotic American at watching an American president aggrandize a foreign autocrat at the expense of American intelligence in order to preserve an imaginary electoral mandate

    I guess I’m not a patriotic American. Should I pack my stuff before being sent to an internment camp?

    • UnCivilServant

      Why’s she still harping on Obama and the Ayatollah?

    • Chipwooder

      “American intelligence”….I love that I’m supposed to get the vapors over the supposed honor of a bunch of spooks.

    • R C Dean

      I’m a little unclear on how Trump “aggrandizing” Putin is at the expense of American intelligence.

    • Viking1865

      “the expense of American intelligence”

      It’s kind of funny but really it’s deeply terrifying how journalists have been so completely suborned by the national security state. There was a time when journalists thought of the CIA as sort of a mortal enemy of transparency and honesty.

      • Winston

        There was a time when journalists thought of the CIA as sort of a mortal enemy of transparency and honesty.

        That was before the CIA opposed a Republican they hate…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        This. The CIA/NSA/FBI have their sycophants all over the media now. After decades of conspiracy theories, I think it’s actually finally come true.

      • Mad Scientist

        Journalists moved along to “If you can’t beat’em, join ’em.”

      • Q Continuum

        Ever since they learned that the permanent bureaucracy (including the IC) was in the tank for Hilldog and tried to rig the election. That causes them to make a mess in their panties.

      • Trolleric the Goth

        Three Days of the Condor would be completely believable today EXCEPT for going to the NYT to publish the story

      • Winston

        Well Nixon was a Republican the NYT hated…

    • grrizzly

      David French on twitter:

      Today was the foreign policy version of Trump’s press conference after Charlottesville.

      I guess now I have two reasons to vote for Trump in 2020.

      • KSuellington

        And just after that charming Strzok fellow got done showing us all how delightful the hardworking the top brass at the FBI can be.

      • Drake

        Always nice to know what the cuckiest of cucks thinks,

    • commodious spittoon

      Again: nearly a decade of “smart diplomacy” which saw a failed coup in Syria, the collapse of Libya, and the near-collapse of Iraq, Russia annexed the Crimea with no real penalty, Iran given the green light to develop nukes, meddling in Israel’s election, a major uptick in drone warfare and the assassination of two American civilians, and meanwhile Obama making the rounds denigrating and downplaying the United States… but now, because this logorrheic chump mouths meaningless, platitudinous blather at Putin and Duterte and Un and Ping, I’m supposed to take special umbrage.

      • Q Continuum

        “I’m supposed to take special umbrage”

        Well he is a Republikkkan after all…

      • R C Dean

        this logorrheic chump mouths meaningless, platitudinous blather at Putin and Duterte and Un and Ping in between bouts of kicking them in the balls

        Well, dunno about Duterte, but he has certainly kicked the other three good and hard since taking office.

  24. Chipwooder

    Reminder: these are our supposed intellectual betters and VERY serious people.

    Also a reminder: the chick that wrote the book about Hillary’s campaign said that Reines was a shitheel:

    Sharper are the profiles of Clinton’s entourage, particularly the longtime male press aides whom Chozick never identifies by name but simply calls “The Guys.” The women around Hillary — such as Jennifer Palmieri, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills — rate full names and attributed quotes, but the men are dubbed Brown Loafers Guy, Policy Guy, Hired Gun Guy, Outsider Guy and the loathsome Original Guy, “the longest-serving Svengali and the most-devoted member of Hillary’s court of flattering men.”…. The undercurrent of sexism spills over when Chozick and Original Guy spar over whether a prior conversation can go on the record, and he randomly paraphrases a crude line from “Thank You for Smoking,” a 2005 film in which a reporter sleeps with a lobbyist for information. “I didn’t know I had to say it was off the record when I was inside you,” Original Guy smirks. (“The words hung there,” Chozick recalls, “so grossly gynecological.”)

    Chozick doesn’t name him but later cites a Times story by Maggie Haberman revealing that Original Guy served as the Trump stand-in during Clinton’s debate preparation. “Hmmm, wherever will Hillary find a manipulative, sometimes-charming, often hilarious, possible sociopath?” Chozick muses. I won’t out Original Guy here, except to say that his name rhymes with “Philippe Reines.”

    • R C Dean

      The undercurrent of sexism

      Is this a reference to naming all the women, and none of the men? Because that seems kinda sexist to me.

  25. Winston

    Anyway the real reason the anti-war movement is dead is that it is a leftist movement. Right now the left is all about how Trump is a Russian puppet and destroying the “Liberal World Order” so the anti-war movement is useless to the left.

    • Q Continuum

      Well of course; that was confirmed by how the anti-war people disappeared magically into thin air the moment King Zero ascended to the throne in spite of the fact that he loved himself some drone striking.

  26. B.P.

    I’ve moved into a new neighborhood while my house undergoes renovations. The new ‘hood is in the throes of dreaded gentrification. In walking the dog around the neighborhood, I’ve noticed a remarkable abundance of those professionally printed, smug yard signs that have popped up over the last year and a half, with slogans such as “Hate has no home here,” “In this house, we believe Black lives matter, science is real, [list of various other hobby horses],” “we love our immigrant neighbors,” etc., etc. Most of them are in front of pricey real estate. It occurred to me that the purpose is probably two-fold: (1) Of course to let the world know what wonderful, tolerant, righteous people live inside; and (2) to provide a marker that the house should be avoided during the coming race riots, crime wave, or whatever these folks feverishly fantasize their swarthy neighbors are going to get up to during the Great Gentrification Passover.

    • R C Dean

      I can think of a third purpose:

      Flagging your house as an easy target for burglary, home invasion, etc.

      • UnCivilServant

        “This house is weathy, unarmed, and undefended.”

      • Chipwooder

        I forget who did it, but someone went around asking gun grabber types to put a sign saying “This House Is Gun-Free!” on their lawn, and no one wanted them.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Wouldn’t that have the opposite effect? If I’m a looter all those signs scream “I’m rich and Anti-Gun! C’mon in and don’t worry about getting shot”

    • Heroic Mulatto

      I’m just planning on standing in your front lawn and masturbating, if that makes you feel any better.

      • Playa Manhattan

        At least sit down.

      • Q Continuum

        How can he go for a PR on distance if he’s not standing?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Mark Twain wrote a story about this once.

      • Count Potato

        The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?

      • Count Potato

        Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Extraordinary Twins?

      • Pope Jimbo

        What does HM have against Puerto Ricans?

        Or is “shooting” them from a standing position a good thing? I can’t keep up with the kid speak any more.

      • B.P.

        It’s a rental, so feel free to spread out in one of the chairs on the front stoop.

    • Raston Bot

      those signs scream “we’re house rich but cash poor”. most self-respecting thieves have no time for fencing beard oil and thumb rings.

    • Q Continuum

      “In this house, we believe Black lives matter, science is real, [list of various other hobby horses],”

      My pulmonologist, ICU physician sister has one of these signs. I know her to be objectively intelligent. That’s what makes it so much harder for me to understand her being enthralled by meaningless slogans and thought-stopping clichés.

      “Molon labe” is a slogan, but it has historical backing and meaning behind it. “Black lives matter” is a pointless tautology that’s been transformed into racialist propaganda.

      • leonadasiv

        I love/hate the “science is real” because it is so absurd to say. It is literally treating ‘science’ as a dogmatic religion which cannot be contradicted when it is a method that thrives off of diversity of thought.

      • R C Dean

        “Indeed it is. Scientific conclusions, however, are always contingent.”

      • Raven Nation

        As are policy decisions. This is one of the things that irritates me about people like Skeptic Guide to the Universe, etc. They seem to completely lack any understanding of a distinction between scientific analysis and policies which result from such analysis. Well, that, and their easy default to authoritarianism in order to enforce said scientific analysis.

    • Gilmore

      “smug yard signs”

      please post photos

    • Mustang

      I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess the owners of those signs are all (or mostly) white.

    • Spudalicious

      I suggest you join with your neighbors in publicly voicing your views through signage. May I suggest “science is real, there are only two genders”.

  27. Scruffy Nerfherder

    So they got Bill Plympton to weigh in on the Trumputin.

    Some of Bill’s work is not exactly SJW feminist friendly, I eagerly await his crucifixion.

    • Q Continuum

      He sucks. Don Hertzfeldt is way better.

      • Count Potato

        They are both good.

  28. Pope Jimbo

    I expect the dude who lost the annual Distinguished Herpetologist award to post a blistering reply that will take a week or so before the pain and humiliation go away.

  29. Juvenile Bluster

    It’s amazing how fast the Chicago PD can release body cam footage when it makes them look good

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44844907

    If it makes them look bad, well … let’s just say you’re not getting that footage within a day. Or two. Or 100.

    • Chipwooder

      Hah, I had the same thought. They sure are Johnny-on-the-spot this time, aren’t they?

  30. R C Dean

    Question:

    In that Trump Bites pic, why does Putin have a tumor on his chest?

    • Q Continuum

      They want to insult gays and cancer patients simultaneously?

  31. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Dammit Amazon, I’ve got a ten dollar gift card for today only and I need socks. Get yo shit together.

    • Juvenile Bluster

      If it’s the Whole Foods one, you can use it tomorrow.

      I’m working on getting as many of the kid’s school supplies as possible. I don’t remember having to get this much shit when I was in 4th grade.

      • Playa Manhattan

        The supplies list is so ridiculously specific that I just buy the kit through the school supplier.

    • grrizzly

      It works fine for me. I’ve already placed two orders for things I don’t really need.

      • UnCivilServant

        I skimmed the front page, shrugged, and came back here.

    • Playa Manhattan

      I got a 24″ breaker bar. And a bullhorn.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I bought a goat ejaculator. Expensive but worth it.

      • Playa Manhattan

        I thought you were old school and did it by hand.

    • Chipwooder

      Wasn’t he supposed to be room temperature by now?

      • R C Dean

        I’m convinced he hasn’t resigned solely to either cast the 51st vote against Kavanaugh, or to cause a deadlock on Kavanaugh by being absent.

        I doubt he has anything against Kavanaugh, but he obviously, desperately wants to do anything he can, at any price, to hurt Trump, who humiliated him by snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, rather than politely losing because black vagina.

      • Raston Bot

        i would love to see McCain take some principled stand for democracy and vote against Kavanaugh only to have a handful of red state Dems up for reelection undercut him.

    • Viking1865

      Was he as unhappy as his first wife when John McCain left her because she got injured?

      Was he as unhappy as the people who were prosecuted under his law for exercising their Constitutional rights?

      • Q Continuum

        “Was he as unhappy as his first wife when John McCain left her because she got injured?”

        I never knew this; read about it on Wiki, what a piece of shit he is (even more than I thought before). Basically, she almost died in a car wreck, he didn’t find out about it until he got home from Vietnam and found her fat and in a wheelchair. So he started fucking around and then dumped her. What a classy guy.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah John McCain is a piece of shit, both personally and professionally. He crashed two attack jets and a trainer and still remained on flight status because hes the son and grandson of admirals.

        Since the death of Ted Kennedy, there’s not been another politician who has a reputation for personal character and integrity that is less well deserved than John McCain’s. He is human garbage.

    • leonadasiv

      Was it as disgraceful as an American Naval Officer contributing to wartime propoganda for the enemy?

  32. Mustang

    I got my all black cat when he was five. He loved at the shelter that whole time and was never adopted, but he was so adorable they let him stay. He has never weighed more than seven pounds and he’s got enormous green eyes. He greets me every morning and when I come home from work and spends most of him time trying to sleep on top of me. He’s also the only cat I know that adores belly rubs. He’s getting a bit old now and can’t jump anywhere, so I’m putting together a new cat tree with steps so he doesn’t have to haul himself up to his food. Our mostly blind pug thinks he’s a phantom and our 100 pound pit bull mix won’t mess with him, though all three can be found sleeping together from time to time.

    Has this been posted? I’m just waiting for these lunatics to start deliberately targeting conservative businesses, breaking windows and whatnot a la Kristallnacht.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/397177-proud-boys-group-run-out-of-la-bar-by-democratic-socialists-calling

    • R C Dean

      I’m just waiting for these lunatics to start deliberately targeting conservative businesses, breaking windows

      They are halfway there already.

      • Q Continuum

        Compare:

        1) Wearing a MAGA hat today in some neighborhoods of LA and NYC
        2) Wearing a yarmulke in Berlin in 1937

        Much difference?

      • Mustang

        Yes. I suppose I was being hyperbolic. I’m fairly sure if they actually tried that they’d get shot. Something like that won’t happen until their gun-grabbing is successful.

      • Q Continuum

        Actually I was agreeing with you. I realize now that the phrasing was ambiguous.

        Perhaps not quite to the same level, but the harassment, dehumanization and vilification are all there. Throw in a heaping dose of institutional encouragement and we’re not far from something like that.

      • Mustang

        We are definitely on our way to it. I’m breathing a little easier about my guns with the Supreme Court shaping up the way it is, so it may be a bit longer than I thought it would be.

      • leonadasiv

        I think the counter would be “well you can choose your political beliefs, but ethnicity you are born with” which of course glides past freedom of concience. Now obviously a owner should be able to refuse service for any reason but it is a bad sign fot free society that people can suffer assault for their beliefs. Especially because often their beliefs are misrepresented to and by their attackers.

      • UnCivilServant

        I only ever meet the first.

      • Mustang

        Mine is the second. Hes wary of people for about thirty seconds until they rub his belly.

  33. Winston

    You know for a Russian puppet Trump really hasn’t done a whole lot to actually change US foreign policy. And how is demanding NATO countries increase defense spending and tariffs on China support the Putinite agenda?

    • R C Dean

      I can see Putin being reasonably happy with anything that puts a dent in the Chinese. They have a long, historically unhappy border.

      These people are just . . . deranged. They can’t see that Trump’s America Firsting, no matter how misguided in detail (seriously, tariffs?), is inconsistent with “colluding” with Russia (or anybody). They have to argue that Trump’s America First thing is just a pose (hard to sell), and that all the things he has done to put a dent in China, Russia, North Korea, etc. are just misdirections, a distraction from what he’s really doing to help those countries get a leg up on us (which is what, exactly?). That’s way deep in the conspiracy theory zone.

      • Winston

        It’s all based on political expediency and pure personal spite. They hate Republicans and Trump and hitting him with being a Russian stooge is something they hope will end him and benefit the Democrats in November and 2020.

        Just like how the “war criminal” Bush was hated for similar reasons rather than any real objections to the Iraq war. I mean Bush has apparently been forgiven judging by all the articles slobbering over the “Liberal World Order”.

      • Winston

        I mean how seriously do these anti-Trumpers caterwauling really want to deal with Russia and China? Do they want to intervene in Ukraine or Syria or try to destroy China economically? Not really judging by their responses to Crimea and Syria. And witness how the MSM pivoted from “Trump is going to cause nuclear war with North Korea” to “Trump is selling out to North Korea!” shows they would hate him if he went all anti-Russia…

      • Q Continuum

        “These people are just . . . deranged”

        Yes. They don’t care what happens in the world, they don’t care about the consequences, they don’t care what happens to the USA, if Trump does it, they’re against it.

        If the Russians launched missiles at NYC, and Trump retaliated, they’d say Trump was being unhinged and aggressive.

      • Count Potato

        They proved that when they defended MS-13.

      • Mustang

        You being up a good point about China. With Russian forces focused in the west (of Russia) it is probably unnerving to watch the Chinese build-up happening at the other end of that huge swath of territory Putin controls.

        For being so anti-American, the Left sure has a very America-centric focus. They really don’t give a lot of thought to other countries’ geopolitical strategies that may not center around America.

      • Mustang

        Fucking hell I cannot type this morning. More coffee.

      • Mustang

        Japan.

  34. Gilmore

    There have apparently been like 100 editorials already written today declaring that Trump/Putin have declared some pact to Destroy Democracy and enslave the brown people of the planet, or something.

    its pretty obvious most were written well in advance, and just had a few quotes thrown in to make them seem timely.

    I think Frum wins the “Soppiest Pampers” award for most-hysterical take

    • The Other Kevin

      The left has been very forgiving and polite up to now. It’s for the gloves to come off, and impeachment proceedings to start! And barring that, start saying really mean things on Twitter! WE CAN NO LONGER DELAY!

    • Winston

      Only 100?

      And I see Frum has been forgiven for “Axis of Evil” and Iraq.

      Amazing how much of our “foreign policy” elites are purely motivated by personal spite. They are not really trying very hard to conceal it here….

      • wdalasio

        They are not really trying very hard to conceal it here….

        I will say that one of Trump’s genuine talents has been demonstrating, in no uncertain terms, that most of our policy elites have the mentality of a second-tier high-school “mean girls” clique. “Like, OMG, did you SEE how much Trump was kissing up to Putin? That is like, so. un. cool.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Good lord…

      America is a very legalistic society, in which public discussion often deteriorates into lawyers arguing whether any statutes have been violated. But confronting the country in the wake of Helsinki is this question: Can it afford to wait to ascertain why Trump has subordinated himself to Putin after the president has so abjectly demonstrated that he has subordinated himself? Robert Mueller is leading a legal process. The United States faces a national-security emergency.

      Frum just went full Roper, you never go full Roper.

      • R C Dean

        Has anybody actually seen this press conference or whatever it was? What exactly do Trump do or say? Did he get Russian Mafia tattoos? Give Alaska back? What?

      • UnCivilServant

        He offered to pay them to take California.

        Vlad instead gave concessions to make us keep it.

      • R C Dean

        “I’ve already got all the commies I need, thanks, and I’ve got all the failing states I want on my borders.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Does it matter at this point?

        Those dumbasses are actively trying to instigate political violence. Whether they realize it or not, they’re playing with fire.

      • Breet Pharara

        He didn’t cut an Ultimate Warrior promo on Putin and then take off his shirt, rub baby oil on his chest and greco-roman wrestle Putin for telling the world about how corrupt the Democrats are.

    • Galt1138

      Facebook is full of hysterics today. I can’t count how many of my normally intelligent friends are posting things like, “United States, RIP. It was great while it lasted,” or, “Trump is siding with an authoritarian over our own intelligence community. It’s treason!”

      All of these folks are lefties. Sadly, some of them are smart enough to know better.

  35. Rufus the Monocled

    I saw this a couple of years back and stumbled on it again. Still cool. 102 year-old woman sees herself dance on film for the first time.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bktozJWbLQg

      • Rufus the Monocled

        That’s three LOLs!

    • The Other Kevin

      Like, zoinks Joe!

    • UnCivilServant

      “It looks like it was the Bitter Clingers Again!”

    • The Other Kevin

      At the end of every book they pull back the ghost’s mask and it was Trump the whole time.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Fred = Obama
        Daphne = Hillary
        Velma = DWS
        Shaggy = Biden
        Scooby = Bernie

      • F. Stupidity Jr.

        Scrappy – John Edwards or Julian Castro?

      • SoberPhobic

        Mystery machine- HRCs server

    • R C Dean

      “So it was the Russians the whole time! Gas up the Trans Am, Joe!”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      At the risk of sounding like Trump…

      What a bunch of losers.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      “Dammit Joe, this kid coulda been my son! I won’t rest until we find his rapist!”

      “And he speaks so well for a black boy!”

    • RAHeinlein

      They would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling Russians!

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m looking forward to the climactic shootout with the bad guys where Shotgun Joe blasts a sniper out of the bell tower by complete accident.

      • UnCivilServant

        They can’t do that, because it happens in a gun free zone!

    • Drake

      Joe decides to grope a young girl – who turns out to be the culprit.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s a cult folks.

    • wdalasio

      Let me guess, they’re planning on calling the series “The Hardly Boys”.

      ht to South Park

  36. Mojeaux

    Lovely pair of kitties!

    We had an all-black cat and a tux. They were littermates and we got them when they were still kittens. The tux died at 11 about 3 years ago. The all-black cat died at 13 about 6 months (we had to put her down because of congestive heart failure). Then we got a pair of littermates who were rescues. They were about 8 weeks old. I was shocked when I read that people don’t adopt all-black cats.

    My only concern about another all-black cat was because the old one was my husband’s devoted shadow, and he was devastated. I didn’t really know how he’d react to another all-black cat, but weirdly, Chunky Monkey (new boy) looks *nothing* like Blackberry (old girl), even though they’re both all black. Chunky’s littermate is a girl tortoiseshell with a bobbed tail (Snickerdoodle). First time I ever heard the word “tortitude,” and boy does she have one. Chunky is ornery but friendly and has trained us to play fetch with him.

    We’d decided after the first pair that it was good to get them in pairs. Otherwise, one kitten would be lonely.

    • Q Continuum

      I have a Russian Blue named Kosmo. Clearly I am part of the vast Right Wing Rooskee conspiracy.

    • Mustang

      Nothing brings me closer to tears than thinking about how old my little dude is getting and what that means. He has been my shadow for years, greeted me from multiple deployments, and has been just wonderful. I dread that day.

      • Mojeaux

        It was more heartbreaking for me to watch Blackberry suffer so much than to see her go to sleep for the last time. She didn’t hurt anymore, yanno? What I had a hard time with was, with husband and kids out all day, there was no other soul in the house but me. I needed a kitty soul in the house somewhere, even if I never laid eyes on the actual animal all day.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Don’t make sad when I first get home You Guys, My kittah is rounding 19 yrs, old, and still going strong, don’t freak me out 🙂

      • Mustang

        Sorry Yusef!

      • Mojeaux

        Whoa, sorry! My bad. My only real point was we got two black cats in a row.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s alright, really. When We lost our DubZ the Melon Dog, my house went into mourning for 2 days, no working, cokking or cleaning, the 3 of us were Devastated.
        / Now I got’s My Belly Pooch!

      • mindyourbusiness

        Mo, we’ve had seven black cats spread out over a number of years – all orphans. All of them sweethearts.

      • R C Dean

        Nothing brings me closer to tears than thinking about how old my little dude is getting and what that means. He has been my shadow for years, greeted me from multiple deployments, and has been just wonderful.

        Euphemism of the year.

        Sorry, Mustang, I couldn’t resist. The sight of gray on the muzzles of the Dean Beasts has the same effect on me.

        Easily the hardest decisions I have ever had to make have been when to put my dogs to sleep when they have a wasting illness of some kind. I always put it off too long, which to me means that I have failed them at the last turn.

    • Grumbletarian

      I was shocked when I read that people don’t adopt all-black cats.

      Superstition, of course, but also most facilities don’t allow black cats to be adopted in October because people want them around as Halloween decorations and then kick them out the door on November 1st.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s awful. 🙁

      • Count Potato

        The same thing happens with rabbits on Easter.

      • Count Potato

        Also chicks.

    • trshmnstr

      Our tux cat is a good one. She keeps the tabbies in line. She’s the type of cat youd find spread eagle in the middle of the street sunning herself.

      My dad has an ailing black cat and my mom has her sister. Both of them got the cats right after they divorced almost 15 years ago. I’m kinda turned off to black cats because of the experience with that litter. Very skittish cats.

      I still miss my tortie. She was bonded to me and absolutely hated my wife for stealing me away. She would get in between my beer bottle and my mouth to drink the beer. Even thought she was front declawed, she’d catch squirrels and birds and mice.

    • Spartacus

      We have a pair of tortie sisters. One of them is relatively quiet, but very focused and intense and wicked smart. The other one is six pounds of bile and fury.

    • Bob Boberson

      Best reply:

      “Man @jaketapper hasn’t been this mad since Bill Clinton beat him to Monica Lewinsky” Still giggling….

      • Bob Boberson

        “Does that make me a nitwit, a himbo waiting to happen? I think it just makes me toweringly average in Washington, just another creature who is here because this is where the national vat of power lies, and I’m sitting here waiting for my bowlful.”

        At least he had some self-awareness back then

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Journalists should just stick to reporting the facts and not feel the need to build a creative narrative around it.

        That’s my take and I’m sticking with it, Mrs. Garrett.

      • trshmnstr

        Journalists should just stick to reporting the facts and not feel the need to build a creative narrative around it.

        LOL. As if.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Brennan is a worthless piece of shit lying son of a bitch that a lot of people take seriously unfortunately.

    • Spudalicious

      All this shit happened on Brennan’s watch at the CIA. What a fuckstick.

      • R C Dean

        And nobody in the DemOp Media will call him on it.

        “Mr. Brennan, you criticized President Trump for not holding Russia accountable for interfering in the 2016 election, and wondered how the national security team can continue to abide by this, and why they don’t resign. As head of the CIA while these Russian activities were going on, did you hold similar views about President Obama and his national security team? Why didn’t you resign?”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I’m watching a highlight reel from the Five, on Trumps speech right now, With Kennedy on the Left hand Side
      https://youtube.com/watch?v=aofYx0FUHFI

    • Viking1865

      “Man who voted for the Communist Party in an election accuses a political enemy of treason”

      • R C Dean

        “So tell us, Mr. Brennan, as a former voter for the Communist Party (which received support from Russia), when did you stop supporting Russian involvement in US elections?”

  37. UnCivilServant

    Wait, they named the most recent Prince “Louis”? Are the Brits going to Renew the Plantagenet Claim to the Throne of France?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Probably named for his great-great-uncle Louis Mountbatten, who was blown up by the IRA (fuck you Peter King R-IRA).

  38. LT_Fish

    Yo Tulip – thanks for the great recipe recommendation this weekend! I had some Kielbasa hotdogs left over from the Fourth that I was trying to figure out what to do with. After seeing your recipe I chopped em up, added a can of low-sodium black beans (probably moved with me from my last place in 2016), added a little salt, pepper, garlic powder (apparently I need to re-buy chopped garlic), rosemary, and then tossed in the rest of my leftover sweet chopped bellpeppers (also left over from the 4th). Turned out really well, although the bell pepper probably needed to be softened up a tad more beforehand or in a different pan.

    Also pairs great with the new Devils Backbone Golden Pear Lager. Highly recommended.

  39. Gustave Lytton

    That NYT Trump Bites sucks. Eleven people in the credits, and CPRM by his lonesome puts together far superior animation with a better plot & audio. Sad.

    • R C Dean

      Somebody with a Twitter account should link CPRM’s superior version in that Twitter thread. Show ’em how its done.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Someone other than STEVE SMITH.

      • Count Potato

        Doesn’t CPRM have a twitter?

    • Brochettaward

      I didn’t view it, but when I see 11 names attributed it stinks of an attempt to diffuse responsibility rather than an actual collaborative thing.

    • The Hyperbole

      Look I love CPRM ( in a purely platonic sense) but claiming that Bill Plympton’s animation is far inferior is a derangement syndrome in and of itself. Like his politics or not Plympton’s animation is top notch.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Plympton’s work looks like a shaky cam version of a four year old’s drawing. I may be deranged, but he’s vastly overrated.

      • The Hyperbole

        Alright get the cat butt ready, But comparing using a handful of crudely drawn images and then some off the shelf animation software to make them talk to drawing frame by frame, whether the images don’t float your artistic boat or not, is asinine. Shakey cam or no the fluidity and movement of Plympton’s work is one of a kind work and influenced and inspired countless animators.

  40. Spudalicious

    Huh. It appears that I’m a douchebag Rooskie sympathizer. Putin just echoed my opinion as to why Trump didn’t rip him a new one.

    “Why travel all the way across the Atlantic just to insult somebody?”

    • Old Man With Candy

      It appears that I’m a douchebag Rooskie sympathizer.

      You could have shortened that sentence.

      • Spudalicious

        Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I’ve seen your penis.

      • AlmightyJB

        No need to elaborate. Didn’t know Spud was a child though.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Only certain parts of him.

      • AlmightyJB

        Ouch.

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought this was supposed to be a Family-Friendly Website.

      • AlmightyJB

        By Family-Friendly mean rape.

      • Spudalicious

        No you haven’t, you were facing the other way begging me to “drive it like I stole it”.

      • AlmightyJB

        Guys, THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE HERE!

      • R C Dean

        As exhibitionists, we certainly hope so.

      • Old Man With Candy

        We’ve been doing this for 25 years, we’re not going to stop to protect your tender sensibilities and your ability to ever achieve another erection because of the visual.

      • Pomp

        ::polite golf clap::

  41. Brochettaward

    Forgive me if this was already posted, but it may be the most appalling thing to come out of the Russia investigation yet:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 29-year-old Russian woman living in Washington has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian government while developing ties with American citizens and infiltrating political groups, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.

    Maria Butina, who studied at American University in Washington and is a founder of the pro-gun rights Russian advocacy organisation Right to Bear Arms, is accused of working at the direction of a high-level official who worked for the Russian Central Bank and was recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Justice Department said in a statement.

    According to the complaint against her, she worked with two unnamed U.S. citizens and the Russian official to try to influence American politics and infiltrate a pro-gun rights organisation.

    The complaint does not name the group; however, photos on her Facebook page show she has attended events sponsored by the National Rifle Association.

    However, Butina was a Trump supporter who bragged at parties in Washington that she could use her political connections to help get people jobs in the Trump administration after the election, according to the same person familiar with her actions.

    In a Dec. 8, 2016, class project at American University, she gave a presentation titled “What Might President Trump’s Foreign Policy Be Toward Russia?” and listed several of Russia’s key policy objectives, according to a copy reviewed by Reuters.

    She goes on to say they should build a relationship with a major gun rights organisation that is the “largest sponsor of the elections to the U.S. Congress” and a sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in order to improve U.S.-Russia relations.

    What is more nefarious of the Russians than supporting gun rights? Some are already dubbing her a spy…when she apparently just graduated from college and did little more than lobby.

    What the hell is “Russian advocacy organisation Right to Bear Arm?” Do they advocated for gun rights in Russia? That doesn’t seem like something Puting would care for. Or…does she advocate for gun rights for Americans? You know, which also doesn’t seem like something Putin would give a fuck about, but which the media wants to tie to him to make it some somehow un-American.

    The government is talking about putting this person in a cage. For vague assertions that she tried to influence Americans (not even necessarily government officials) in a pro-Russian way. EVERY FUCKING RUSSIAN I meet here in the US talks up Russia and acts slavishly patriotic., Can they call be charged? Or just the ones who support Trump and guns?

    • R C Dean

      Let’s say she was “working at the direction of a high-level official who worked for the Russian Central Bank “. They say that like it means anything she did would be illegal, but I think whatever she did would have to be illegal regardless, wouldn’t it? If a Russian asks you to do something perfectly legal, that doesn’t make it illegal. So, what did she do?

      She tried to “influence American politics”. Not a crime.

      She founded a “pro-gun rights Russian advocacy organisation Right to Bear Arms”. Not a crime in this country, but probably is in Russia.

      She tried to “infiltrate (oooh, scary! why not say “join”?) the NRA. Not a crime.

      She wrote a term paper on Trump’s foreign policy. Not a crime.

      She bragged she had connections and could use them to get people jobs. Not a crime. If it is, half of Washington would be behind bars.

      Some fuckstick judge signed off on indictments and arrest warrants for this?

      • trshmnstr

        But much rushhhuh kunshpeerasee

      • trshmnstr

        Muh*

      • Hyperion

        “If a Russian asks you to do something perfectly legal, that doesn’t make it illegal. So, what did she do?”

        If you’ve ever even spoken to someone in the grocery store who is a Russian national and you didn’t even know that, you’re guilty of Treason.

      • R C Dean

        Seriously, there is nothing in that article that isn’t 100% protected by the First Amendment. She did a lot of talking (free speech), wrote a term paper (free speech), met with people (freedom of association), tried to join the NRA (freedom of association), founded a gun rights group (freedom of association).

        Speech and associating with people can certainly occur in the course of committing actual crimes, but I’m still looking around for an actual crime here.

        $20 says that “high-level official who worked for the Russian Central Bank” was more sugar daddy than espionage handler.

      • straffinrun

        Just saw that story on Drudge. How is what she did different legally from what undocumented immigrant advocacy groups are doing? No Mexican nationals are lobbying in DC?

    • AlmightyJB

      “On her Facebook page, Butina is featured prominently photographed alongside a number of American politicians and other high-profile figures, including Wisconsin Governor and former Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker and David Keene, the former president of the NRA.”

      That’s all democrats need to go after some innocent person. Just another brick in the witch hunt wall.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Our Government sucks, and it’s getting scary, one wrong move and your Life is wrecked, it needs to stop

      • AlmightyJB

        I concur.

    • Pomp

      according to the same person familiar with her actions.

    • R C Dean

      What’s really amusing is that all of her activities that are supposedly a nefarious plot were included in her term paper. Its a dead giveaway – just like comic book villains can’t help but monologue about their evil plans, covert agents just can’t help but write term papers about their subversive plots.

  42. Hyperion

    “Tim Tebow has confirmed he is dating Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters.”

    I wonder if he plans to keep doing this? Because if these ‘beauty’ contests keep trending in their current direction, in a few short years, the Winner of Miss Universe will be Triggly Puff. We’ll hear in the news, thinking it was FL man, about Tebow being bludgeoned to death and stuffed in a washing machine.

    • R C Dean

      One hyphen in a name is a warning sign. I expect that additional hyphens have an exponential effect.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I agree 1000% Hyphenated Names, Races and Cultures are Bogus and Dangerous if taken the there logical Conclusion

  43. Hyperion

    So, I see the media have been working themselves into a frenzy today to see who can churn out the most and most outlandish ‘PUTIN WINS IN FINLAND!’. So, what exactly did he win? Did they have a raffle?

    • R C Dean

      With the eager assistance of the US media, I think he may have won a news cycle? All this breathless reporting about how he totally pwned Trump is certainly not going to do him any harm back home, that’s for sure.

      • Hyperion

        I’d place a large wager that most of these articles were ready to go, yesterday. It is their modus operandi, after all. Reality is their narrative.

    • Gustave Lytton

      “The President of the United States won’t believe his own government over President Putin.”

      Would that be the same government that’s been proven over & over to working for the Democrat establishment’s goals, and has been trying to undermine him sinceeven before the election? That government?

      • R C Dean

        The President of the United States won’t believe his own government over President Putin

        Pair that with video from Strzok’s testimony, and ask yourself “Can you blame him?”

      • Hyperion

        Shep looks like he’s 10 years old. And boring, very, very boring. I mean I don’t watch Fox, but I do remember him, although, he’s very forgettable, as are most of them. But he’s now going to be the loony left’s newest hero. They’re going to forget all about Stormy and get right on Shep’s weeney.

    • Pomp

      For fuck’s sake, day 0 and the hyperventilation over low grade brain lint is already tiresome as hell.

      • straffinrun

        You guys need to change your sleeping cycles. By the time I get up the temper tantrum has died to air sucking whimpering.

      • Hyperion

        One of the good things about my schedule. By the time I get in a position to be able to check the news, it’s likely 4pm and maybe 5. The shitty diapers are getting cleaned up already and a new order put in for tomorrow.

      • straffinrun

        I remember when the Trayvon story first erupted. It was already in full viral hysteria before rational people could parse the facts. If you tried to play it even handed, you were relegated to a game of whack a mole as absurd claim after absurd claim was made by the media. If there is no fire, at least the media can create a shitton of smoke.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m up and Ready for Late night links Straff! let the Tantrum Rise!

      • straffinrun

        Unfortunately, I got 5 minutes before I gotta get to work. I leave the shenanigans in your capable hands.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Work smart, not Hard, the Nips will never catch on…….
        /I have a Half sister in Okinawa, hmmmmmm

      • Hyperion

        You know, I remember back when I was a kid. I was curious and so I did watch the evening national and world news, frequently. Back in those days, a president was apparently supposed to meet with leaders of foreign governments. I don’t really remember anyone freaking the fuck out 24/7. In reality, what is going on here that is really sad, is that these irrational psychopaths are trying to prevent the guy from doing his job which he was hired to do. I mean you had Obama who intentionally didn’t do that job, but this is much worse.

      • Drake

        I don’t get it either. Wasn’t Nixon a hero for meeting the Red Chinese, Carter for meeting Sadat and Arafat, and Reagan for meeting Gorbachev?

        So are Presidents just supposed to meet with countries we are buddies with?

      • trshmnstr

        But drumf said nice things about put in, that means there is a conspiracy!

      • Raven Nation

        That’s Suderman’s take on it at TOS.

      • Brochettaward

        Is there anybody that Trump meets who doesn’t say nice things about to in person? He slathers Chuck Schumer in praise when they meet. He’ll insult someone, meet them the next day and then deny he said it and praise the person and his relationship with them to the heavens. We saw this recently with May.

        But let’s look at the other dictator he supposedly admires or said too nice of things about – Kim. I mean, a few months before that he was accused of inciting him and threatening war with his insults.

        But this – this being nice to Putin in person obviously means he’s an authoritarian in the pocket of the Kremlin.

      • Hyperion

        The fact that they cannot figure out Trump, despite his very formulaic methods, which he repeats over and over again, only shows just how incredibly stupid they are. Charlie Brown’s, all of them. I mean how smart can you be if you claim to be a leftist? You’re either an ignorant dumbshit or you’re a Stalin wannabe. There’s no other options to choose from.

      • Hyperion

        That’s the way I remember it. Way back when in a more sane world.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Nixon Goes to China, I ‘member…..

      • UnCivilServant

        That did not turn out so well in the long run.

      • Drake

        And let’s not forget FDR’s statesmanship for meeting Stalin in Yalta and giving him half of Europe.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “No George, you can’t go destroying the Soviet Army, they are our friends remember?”

    • Drake

      When pressed on what she meant she struggled to give an answer and then admitted she does not know what she is talking about.

      Nope – way too honest.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Never Mind
        /Littela

      • Hyperion

        She forgot the official reply.

        ‘The Trump tax scam has cost us twenty trillion kazillion billion children dollars!’

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Um, it’s like the I-raq and such….

      God dammit is there anyone with a literate and enlightened mind anywhere in fucking North American politics?

    • Spudalicious

      She is dumb as a box of rocks. “Capitalism won’t always exist. At our founding we weren’t a Capitalist country.”

    • leonadasiv

      I got my bachelor’s degree in Econ from a Marxist university. Even then i learned about the flaws in her thinking. Also having a bachelor’s degree in economics does not make you an economist.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      RIIIIIGHT

    • UnCivilServant

      Funny, but horribly inaccurate.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s very Racist, if you think about it, only POC have a sense of taste, only POC know how to raised livestock, Herp a Derpity Doo………………..

      • Count Potato

        I’m going to out on a limb and say an ice cube sandwich isn’t entirely serious.

      • Galt1138

        Yep. Given what I’ve seen from Shoe0nhead, I think it was meant to be sarcastic/get a rise out of her followers.

    • Gilmore

      lol ice cubes on white bread

    • Hyperion

      They’d best take care here, look at that ginger! You can tell it’s one with a double no soul! She’ll turn them into toads, she will!

      Also, scroll down, Natalia Veselnitskaya, THICCCC!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Let not forget Anna Chapman!

  44. Brochettaward

    I ran across this via the other site, and I was reminded by how the most obvious and blatant cases of abuse and potential racial bias (only one officer involved cited a racial angle to the frame jobs) never generate the traction as the gray area ones. Also, the ring leader is not a white guy and has an obviously not white name, so… Google this and you won’t see a story from a single one of the prominent lefty outlets. Closest you get is one minor story from Politico.

    Records obtained by the Miami Herald suggest that during the tenure of former chief Raimundo Atesiano, the command staff pressured some officers into targeting random black people to clear cases.

    “If they have burglaries that are open cases that are not solved yet, if you see anybody black walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries,” one cop, Anthony De La Torre, said in an internal probe ordered in 2014. “They were basically doing this to have a 100% clearance rate for the city.”

    • Hyperion

      “from Politico”

      Dude, Politico, they hold the world’s top record of being wrong about everything, the most, ever. They make CNN and the NYT look like trustworthy guardians of the truth. I mean, on the other hand, it’s not that they try to be wrong, they’re just stupid. Unlike CNN and the NYT who are intentionally wrong to promote the commie agenda.

  45. Count Potato

    “An immigrant owner of a kosher cafe in downtown Los Angeles, Asher Shalom, has been targeted by a local anti-Trump group and had his membership revoked from the City of Commerce after it was found out that he is a supporter of President Donald Trump and allegedly holds “anti-immigrant” views.

    Ironically, Mr. Shalom legally immigrated to the United States 30 years ago and currently employs 65 immigrants, he told The Daily Wire.

    Asher Caffé & Lounge was targeted by an anti-Trump group known as “Defend Boyle Heights” (DBH) with a fierce protest, calls for boycott, and slanderous social media posts because of Mr. Shalom’s support for the president, his alleged “xenophobia,” and the cafe’s “gentrification” to the neighborhood.”

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/33102/kosher-cafe-targeted-immigrant-owners-support-amanda-prestigiacomo

    • leonadasiv

      White kids grew up with stories of the civil rights era (im part of that Generation ). Most SJW stuff is White Kids wanting to do LARP of civil rights. I wouldn’t be suprised if they thought that MLK did the same tactics as they do. They don’t comprehend that they are coming from a position of priveledge, harming others for their own ego’s.

      • trshmnstr

        This. They seem to be completely unaware of the fact that they are the Man this time around.

    • Q Continuum

      As Mustang said upthread, we creep closer and closer to Kristallnacht.

      If I were a nefarious and amoral troll, I would try to organize online a “National Night of Broken Glass” for all the #Resistance and antifa LARPers. 4chan should get on that.

    • AlmightyJB

      Im guessing he might hold anti-illegal immigrant views, not anti-immigrant views. But of course the establishment doesn’t make a distinction anymore.

    • Chipwooder

      I wish these fucks would make up their minds. Either white flight is a horrible thing, or gentrification is. You don’t get to have it both ways.

      • UnCivilServant

        The did make up their minds – anything white people do is bad.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Sure you can have it both ways, all you need is to not have scruples or ideological consistency.

  46. Gustave Lytton

    I’m disappointed to learn that the bj league is not what I hoped it was.