The Cap and The Wig: Scene XCVI – The Tragedy of Goode King Donald

by | Sep 12, 2018 | Hat and Hair, SugarFree | 198 comments

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration: I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

King Donald
Embattled Ruler of a Western Land

Queen Melancholia
His Foreign Wife

The Royal Cap
The King’s Advisor

The Royal Wig
Cachier-de-Honte,
Gentleman of the Bedchamber

Pie
Aide-de-Camp

Act XCIV. Scene I.

King Donald
Traitors are all mine eyes can see. Foul
Betrayal from every quarter, every hand.
Who does conspire against our august light,
I, Donald, such a good and noble king?

The Royal Cap
Anonymous? Choad-choked cowards, say I
Come out and fight fair, so we may fall on you
With all our appetites and might, to rend,
Like starvling weiner dogs their snausages!

His Royal Wig
Who could be the hand of the dread deep state?
Who has dipped his pen in poisoned ink?
Does ghostly Pence seek your crown and throne?
Spymaster Pompeo, lich of whispers?

His Royal Cap
Forsooth! Thou do talkest like a big fag!
‘Tis no Pence, No Pompeo, the villain
Is near, a viper in Donald’s very breast.
Melancholia! This house ill suits her!

King Donald
Slander not my dear Melancholia,
You who seek to Make Dondonia Great Again.
Her swamp pussy is yet most tender and sweet,
And her eyes narrow delightfully tight.

His Royal Wig
Foul cap, work of demon haberdashers–
The Royal Melancolia is the best!
She is above all reproach, drag her not
Into the gutter in which you wallow.

His Royal Cap
To refuse my insight and fair counsel,
Leads the King astray from his truest friend.
The rest are gone: The Fair Hope, The Sloven Steve,
Spicey Sean and Preibus, Fucker of Rats…

King Donald
Squabble not my excellent courtiers,
We must unite to ferret out this traitor,
Find who did lay a’pon your king’s brow
This Judas Kiss.

PIE CALLS FROM OFFSTAGE

His Royal Cap
Harken, Hairpiece, something waddles our way!
‘Tis King Donald’s Courtesan of Kitchens,
The Intemperate Pie, who throws rank scraps
To the braying lap-dogs of pen and ink.

ENTER PIE, SINGING

Pie
Blackberry and blueberry
pe-can and quince
Sift the flour, knead the dough
Strawberry–So sweet!
Rhubarb–So tart!
Allspice and cinnamon,
Nutmeg and mace,
Cherry, ap-ple and peach
All go in the oven
To make pies for me, me, me!

King Donald
Ah, Sarah… so loyal and round. My Voice,
My Word made wobbly flesh. My Will, My Power
In a bright dress. Approach my sticky one…
Faithful Pie, always well-fed and so gay!

Pie
I never! Wait, what have you heard? Fake news!
Sure, there was that time in college… Fake news!
She was the RA in my dorm… Fake news!
Jesu did judge us like Father said… Fake news!

The Royal Cap
(to the troubled Wig)
How like a sow she must have snorted and
Rooted for that poor girl’s meaty truffle.
You laugh not at mine jest, dearest brother?
Why doest thy countenance darken so?

His Royal Wig
I have great fear upon me, my headmate.
Secret hand signals. Secret listeners.
Goode King Donald is but a simple beast.
I quail at the duty to keep him safe.

His Royal Cap
My night terrors are diffuse and ill-formed;
Like fingers of fog creeping in a moor.
No fears for our king, but that you and I
Will be unmasked as simple metaphors.

END SCENE

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SugarFree

SugarFree

Your Resident Narcissistic Misogynist Rape-Culture Apologist

198 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    I need to bleach out my eyes….

    /FIRST!

    • WTF

      Yea, bleachest out thine eyes
      yet all the bleach in the world
      shall not erase the horror
      from thy mind

    • UnCivilServant

      You complain about the content, but you keep coming back and reading them.

      It’s not as if you don’t know.

      • AlexinCT

        Everyone sees the coming train crash but can’t stop looking…

      • Tulip

        This is why we need common sense SugarFree control!

        /progtard

  2. The Other Kevin

    Superb.

  3. WTF

    How like a sow she must have snorted and
    Rooted for that poor girl’s meaty truffle.

    I. Am. In. Awe.

    • AlexinCT

      I was worried you would say it needs more gunt…

    • Endless Mike

      Also the only stanza in Iambic Pentameter, so clearly the authentic line.

    • bacon-magic

      sexy

  4. Naptown Bill

    It’s not that your previous work is inferior, it’s just that this…this is the Thriller of The Hat and The Hair. Like this gets played on every single radio station in America, and people who don’t even listen to music would be able to sing a song from this in its entirety. Metaphorically speaking.

    • Swiss Servator

      Amen. Seconded. Bravo.

      I smile any harder, muh face might break.

  5. mexican sharpshooter

    I can’t compete with this.

    *throws manuscripts into a fire*

  6. SP

    This is the most magnificent writing ever to grace the interwebs. Well done, my favorite!

    • SugarFree

      [takes victory lap]

      • Lord Humungus

        in a deserted raceway littered with dried-out tampons, used condoms, and broken vaporizers.

      • invisible finger

        The Fenway Victory Garden?

      • A Leap at the Wheel

        Oh yeah, that’s where Tundra races his little British car.

  7. Spudalicious

    “How like a sow she must have snorted and Rooted for that poor girl’s meaty truffle.”

    The spirit of Shakespeare is laughing/wretching/crying all at the same time.

    • Jarflax

      No chance he’s retching, the Elizabethans would welcome SF. He is a return to their earthy humor.

      • The Last American Hero

        They did enjoy watching bearbating in Shakespeare’s day.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    *goes to lobby, tosses down martini, rushes back to seat*

  9. Old Man With Candy

    Forsooth, I appear to have soiled my pantaloons.

    • Spudalicious

      Cross dressing Wednesday at the office?

      • Old Man With Candy

        This ain’t no fire station.

      • MikeS

        Then you must be a lumberjack.

      • Chipwooder

        This ain’t no disco
        This ain’t no foolin’ around

    • Lord Humungus

      Your man servant shall render assistance!

      • Gustave Lytton
  10. MikeS

    Her swamp pussy is yet most tender and sweet,
    And her eyes narrow delightfully tight.

    *rises for thunderous applause as one solitary tear rolls down face*

  11. Sean

    Good stuff SF!

  12. The Late P Brooks

    The Royal Melancolia is be best!
    She is above all reproach, drag her not
    Into the gutter in which you wallow.

    Hear, hear.

  13. wdalasio

    SF, you give the Bard a run for his money.

  14. invisible finger

    It’s being wasted on this small community. If it could be put on twitter.. well, it might be pearls for swine but at least The Real would have a chance of seeing it and would probably approve.

  15. Chipwooder

    You almost have to retire after this. Hard to go anywhere but down after it.

    Also, minor gripe – “wigge” would have been better.

    • SugarFree

      Yeah, I thought about it. I was trying not to Ye Olde Englynd it up too hard.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I’d think more Ye olde Scotland–

        Lady Melancholia:”Out, out, damp spot! Out I say!…Here’s the smell of the Donald still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!”

  16. Gustave Lytton

    Now, Oepeidus Praeses!

    • SugarFree

      I am Sarah Pie-Eater, known to all men as a crafter of lies
      My crumbs go up to heaven, to garland the bosom of White-Armed Hera

      • Gustave Lytton

        *retreats to fainting couch*

  17. Q Continuum

    “Her swamp pussy is yet most tender and sweet”

    I thought he was going to drain the swamp?

    • Q Continuum

      “How like a sow she must have snorted and
      Rooted for that poor girl’s meaty truffle.”

      Oh shit that’s great.

  18. Tundra

    I think I’m broken.

    Not only is this not putting me off my food, it made lunch even better.

    • AlexinCT

      We have all been corrupted and desensitized….

  19. Hyperion

    “Harken, Hairpiece, something waddles our way!”

    LOL

  20. CPRM

    Missed a chance to have it end with an eloquent soliloquy by USA Hat.

    • Chipwooder

      Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow
      Creeps in this petty capital from day to day
      to the last day of the midterm elections
      And all our yesteryears have lighted fools
      the way to dusty electoral disaster.
      Out, out, brief majority!

  21. Just Say'n

    SF doing some high brow Shakespeare fits perfectly with what I learned today: “Classical liberalism is just fancy racism”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/racists-classical-liberalism-classic-rock-fraud_us_5b6b232ee4b0fd5c73dff019

    “Alas, the term “classical liberal” would have been novel to Smith, Locke or Mill. Mill called himself a socialist, Locke called for a state ban on Catholicism, and Smith favored all manner of encroachments against the free market. The corporate radio gurus of political theory ― Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman ― popularized the notion that these thinkers represent a coherent, libertarian-esque school of thought in the 20th century.”

    and

    “Friedman’s classical liberalism just gave elite conservatives an excuse to ally with the nation’s most belligerent racists ― something to say at a cocktail party to establish a bit of rhetorical distance between themselves and the rabble.”

    This is how I know that I’m not racist: I can barely read, ergo, I’m not fancy.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Again with the cocktail parties.

    • SugarFree

      I wouldn’t get too upset about a high school book report.


      “I’ll have you know I borrowed this tie from my Dad!”

      • Just Say'n

        Who can identify fancy racism better than a guy who probably bought the Cliff Notes to every book he had to read in high school?

      • Just Say'n

        Zach: Shit, I didn’t read King Lear like Mr. O’Malley assigned us

        Porter: I hate how we have to read all this old English stuff and shit

        Zach: I’m with you, we shouldn’t have to read all this stuff by a bunch of old dead white guys. That’s just racism. Hmmmm….some might even call it “fancy racism”

        Porter: Yeah, man. It’s like the system of the white male patriarchy is constantly oppressing me and shit

        Zach: Damn it, I just realized I got a test on Zora Neale Hurston next week. I didn’t read her book either

        Porter: White male patriarchy bringing you down and shit again

    • Rhywun

      Jimmy Page never turned to Robert Plant and said, “Hey, let’s start a classic rock band.”

      How could one possibly refute such bullet-proof logic.

      • invisible finger

        Isn’t that pretty much EXACTLY how Led Zeppelin started? Page committed what was left of the Yardbirds to tour dates and needed a singer.

      • Bobarian LMD

        They needed a drummer, too.

        Keith Moon suggested Bonzo; he also suggested it should go over like a lead balloon.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Mill called himself a socialist

      Do you know who else called himself a socialist?

      • Chipwooder

        Nononono, it totally doesn’t count that the National Socialist German Worker’s Party had the word “socialist” in its name! NOT FAIR!

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Well, if they get to cherry pick ideas from supposed “thinkers” without any regard to their obvious racist tendencies, then…..oh right. I don’t get to do that.

      • Hyperion

        Well, right here it is, from Wikipedia, dude! You Wikipedia, or not!?

        National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism (/ˈnɑːtsiɪzəm, ˈnæt-/),[1] is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.”

        It must be that State Capitalism that’s all the rage now.

        “Nazism is a form of fascism and showed that ideology’s disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system, but also incorporated fervent antisemitism, scientific racism, and eugenics into its creed.”

        Hmm, that sure does sound like our very own progressives to me. Must just be me. I mean if Wikipedia say they are right wing, although they called themselves socialists, and no one has ever explained how they are ‘right wing’, then it must be true.

      • Q Continuum

        Socialism = benevolent utopia.

        Therefore: if( !benevolent utopia ) -> not socialism.

        See? Simple.

        (this is how these people’s minds actually work)

      • invisible finger

        You bolded the basic reason why I would never give one red cent to Wikipedia. Sort of a tragedy-of-the-commons result.

      • invisible finger

        Antisemitism, scientific racism, and eugenics are okay if the left does it because they pinky-swear will only use it for good.

      • AlexinCT

        These are the most frightening people to me. The ones that think as long as they hold the reins of power the abuse is tolerable and even defensible, because after all the mean well. These are the people that will look at gulags and say, well, they were needed because of those wreckers….

      • AlexinCT
      • MikeS
      • Ted S.

        Mill called himself a socialist

        That wasn’t real socialism.

    • Chipwooder

      Look at the picture of Zach Carter and tell me that isn’t EXACTLY how you would picture him.

      • SugarFree

        Zach Carter is HuffPost’s Senior Political Economy Reporter

        Senior. This means he gets to take his cousin to the prom this year.

      • Chipwooder

        Is their Junior Political Economy Reporter one of those woke eight year olds I’ve heard so much about?

      • Naptown Bill

        “Excuse me? I’m the Senior Political Economy Reporter for the Huffington Post. The Huffington Post.”

        “Ok, but I’m still going to need to see your ID if you want the Malibu, son.”

    • Q Continuum

      Shorter HuffPo: Let’s retcon the founders of capitalism and the Enlightenment as socialist fellow-travelers and brand their erstwhile supporters as crypto-Nazis.

      • Naptown Bill

        Mill was more like a soft anarcho-syndicalist, who was totally against state ownership or control of capital, and “socialist” in the sense that he believed workers should form their own partnerships and invest in capital directly, profiting according to the terms they drew up among themselves. Locke was anti-Catholic because he feared that the Catholics owed a greater allegiance to a foreign power in the Pope, and would disregard the laws of the state if ordered to do so by the Church, particularly those regarding the tolerance of other faiths. I’m not sure what encroachments he’s referring to, but Smith’s position was that, essentially, whenever the government tried to influence the economy through manipulating market forces it made things worse because the markets a.) are better at it, and b.) tend toward efficiency, and so the government’s ideal role should be to support markets through infrastructure and diplomacy, by enforcing law, and by trying to curtail profligacy in business.

        They were all liberals. That doesn’t mean they all believed exactly the same thing, or that if one of them stepped out of line they were booted out of the Party. It wasn’t the modern left.

      • Q Continuum

        The Left is intellectually bankrupt so they replace their lack of substance with syntactic games. They’re rehashing 150 year old ideas so to try and be taken seriously they have to skinsuit other ideologies. It’s like a psychopath or Korsakoff-afflicted confabulator taking on the personality of the people around him to try and fill an unfillable void.

        They hijacked “liberal” to hoodwink gullible morons into believing their ideas actually are liberal. As they’ve dropped the mask and revealed themselves to be authoritarians, actual liberals are repulsed and take on new political identities. Their response is, instead of arguing their ideas, to once again change the definition of words. Either you believe in self-determination or you don’t; I don’t care what you label each side.

      • AlexinCT

        I WANT TO CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER! TO MAKE THE WORLD MORE JUST!

        That sounds great until you ask for details of how they plan to deliver on these ideals…

        I warned people that when Obama was promising to fundamentally change America, most of them would end up appalled if they could actually get through the usual word salads and see the details of what the change he was going to make really entailed.

    • Raven Nation

      “I conclude that Mill certainly was not a socialist of the modern type, often mainly aiming at state property or ‘social property’ of social capital and considering this to be the necessary and often sufficient condition for socialism. This precisely was no part of Mill’s programme for social reform, although he probably didn’t exclude it from being considered in the future. Therefore, a part of the answer to the question why Mill called himself a socialist lies in the fact that his understanding of the term ‘socialism’ differed in important respects from its
      modern meaning…

      But I want to introduce a complementary explanatory argument. The relevant sentence of Mill’s self-description as a socialist in the Autobiography states that ‘ . . . our [Mill and Harriet Taylor] ideal of ultimate improvement went far beyond Democracy, and would class us decidedly under the general designation of Socialists’.‘ Here are two noteworthy aspects, first the fact that Mill is apparently talking of the far future after the above cited ‘considerable time to come’, of an ideal. Secondly, Mill is not talking of a decision to become socialist, but of the fact that he (together with his wife) developed a position that led to the consequence of being looked upon as socialists.”

      Raimund Ottow, “Why Did John Stuart Mill Call Himself a Socialist?” in “History of European Ideas,” 1993.

      (There’s more detail and nuance in the article but I believe I have correctly pulled the summary quotations)

  22. Michael

    Forsooth! Thou do talkest like a big fag!

    …can’t…breathe…

    • AlexinCT

      How would one go about including that part about having one’s shit be retarded too in a Shakespearean fashion?

      • Michael

        Thine shit be comprised of feeble constitution?

      • SugarFree

        And verily thy shite be all a-foul as well

        Dexasyllabic, but my iambic is terrible.

      • AlexinCT

        You sir, are a master of speech!

  23. libertarianjoe

    Just burst out laughing in my office.

    Far and away the best of the H&H series (so far). SF, you’ve outdone yourself. A tale to rival The Bard himself

  24. Chipwooder

    I think the #RESISTANCE finally found an effective tactic. They should start copying this guy en masse.

    • Q Continuum

      Was it accidental? WTF?

      What is any of that going to prove?

      • WTF

        That Trump’s America has made guns more dangerous!! The gun shot him!!!11!!!

    • AlexinCT

      He should have really made the point by shooting himself in the ass.

      • Q Continuum

        Or in the head. One less idiot consuming resources.

      • Democratic Hitler

        Either of those options would have meant a bigger tip for the janitor. He’s #resisting on a professor’s salary ffs.

    • kinnath

      Inside the bathroom, campus police found a $100 bill taped to a mirror along with a note that said, “For the janitor,” according to Bird’s arrest report. On the floor of the restroom was a black-and-white, .22-caliber pistol and one spent shell casing.

      pussy

      • kinnath

        Mark J. Bird was charged last month with discharging a gun within a prohibited structure, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and possessing a dangerous weapon on school property, court records show.

        And a criminal to boot.

        I hope they prosecute the hell out of him.

      • invisible finger

        Those laws are only supposed to apply to the lower castes.

      • AlexinCT

        He meant well and served the narrative, so he gets a pass…

      • Chipwooder

        Oh, man, I thought college campuses are no-gun zones? How on earth did he get a gun in there?

      • AlexinCT

        I hope he has to go to pound-me-in-the-ass-prison….

      • kinnath

        He broke the law by carrying a concealed weapon (without a permit) onto school property (a no-gun zone).

        He’ll be convicted and a jury of his peer will fine him one dollar.

  25. Lord Humungus

    Well I’ll post this here since the morning links are dying:

    Pence finally arrived: https://i.imgur.com/yG1cxT6.jpg

    Road cutoff, state police helicopter above, cops everywhere.

    • Q Continuum

      Fuckin’ A. Bush would periodically come to Denver becuz one of his biggest donors lived in Greenwood Village. They would completely shut down I-25 for extended periods during rush hour. It was suicide inducing.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Obama flew into Peterson AFB…constantly because of the whole “purple state” thing. I already disliked him but going to FPCON Delta (shelter in place) every few weeks for his motorcade certainly sealed the deal.

      • Chipwooder

        I remember when basically all of downtown Pensacola was shut down when Obama showed up so he could take pensive pictures on the beach during the Deepwater Horizon thing. Gah.

      • Gustave Lytton

        SS would shut down the neighborhood where Michelle’s brother lived whenever she went to visit. Fuck her, she’s not even an elected official. Let her buy her own plane ticket and provide her own security if she wants to travel. Or do without.

      • Rhywun

        I’m OK with SS protection of the president’s immediate family. No more than a couple bodyguards, though. Shutting down neighborhoods is carrying it too far.

      • Democratic Hitler

        And domestic duty only. Everyone knows the rest of the world is safe because of their common-sense gun controls, so no need to be flying those SS assholes all over the planet.

      • AlexinCT

        What does SS stand for in the age of DRUMPF, huh?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sure. And she can stay at the White House, or accompany the president for that protection. The first lady is not an elected office, nor should it be supported or staffed as one.

        And no more taxpayer funded protection once out of office.

      • Rhywun

        It’s their susceptibility to kidnapping that is a concern, not whether they’re elected or not.

        Agree that she doesn’t deserve a staff, or any protection after her husband is out of office.

      • Chipwooder

        What does SS stand for in the age of DRUMPF, huh?

        Super Sport

      • kinnath

        Steam Ship

      • invisible finger

        Susan Sarandon?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Swiss Servator?

      • AlexinCT

        I think we need a narrowed gaze now…

  26. Brochettaward

    I wonder how many charges could be thrown at John Kerry for this if there was a special prosecutor with the time and inclination to bother with him.

    Kerry, in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt to promote his new book, said that he has met with Iranian Former Minister Javad Zarif—the former secretary’s onetime negotiating partner—three or four times in recent months behind the Trump administration’s back.

    “I think I’ve seen him three or four times,” Kerry said, adding that he has been conducting sensitive diplomacy without the current administration’s authorization. Kerry said he has criticized the current administration in these discussions, chiding it for not pursuing negotiations from Iran, despite the country’s fevered rhetoric about the U.S. president.

    Kerry’s comments are in line with previous reporting on his behind-the-scenes attempts to save the nuclear deal and ensure that Iran continues receiving billions in cash windfalls. These payments were brought to a halt by the Trump administration when it abandoned the nuclear agreement and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran that have nearly toppled its economy and sparked a popular revolution.

    Kerry said he met Zarif in Norway, Munich, and other international forums.

    • Brochettaward

      Then there’s this comment from the guy who initially supported Iraq, and was all on board with Libya and Syria:

      The former secretary of state cautioned the current administration, saying “the United States historically has not had a great record in regime change strategies, number one

    • Rhywun

      What in the everloving fuck?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I’m just curious why anybody in Iran thinks he holds any kind of influence.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s free money. Get to tweak the current admin, and possibly their dicks sucked when the D’s return to power.

    • Chipwooder

      Where are all the Democrats screaming about the Logan Act now?

    • Michael

      Meh. If he’s meeting with former officials, I don’t really see much impropriety. It would be a totally different story if they were sitting members of government though. Kerry is a limp dick egotist who can’t stand seeing his sad little legacy upended, so I can sort of understand his drive to do this.

      I heard an interview with him on NPR a few weeks ago, and his tell was remarkable. He corrected himself multiple times after mistakenly referring to this harebrained diplomatic scheme as a treaty.”Treaty…err… I mean diplomatic agreement.” I hope for his sake that he doesn’t ever play poker.

      • whahappan

        That’s a misprint. He’s not a Former Minister, he’s the current Foreign Minister. So Kerry’s meeting with a current government official to undermine Trump’s foreign policy.

    • Q Continuum

      Lurch is a joke. He way overestimates, not only his own intelligence, but his influence. The Iranian minister probably thinks he’s a joke too, but just wants to keep a backchannel open in case the Jackass Establishment ever gets back in power. That’s looking less likely IMO. The next Dem president is gonna be one of these New Left Dem-Soc types (G-d help us).

    • Hyperion

      There seems to be something …. illegal? about a private citizen trying to undermine US foreign policy. Did that used to be illegal?

      In a just world:

      Mullahs: So, infidel of Great Satan, you been talking a lot. Time for talking is done! We’ve prepared a large area out back for the big pallets of US dollars, when can we expect delivery?

      Kerry: Well, just be patient, there’s an election coming up in a couple of years and…

      Mullahs: Years? I thought you said you were here to help us against the Great Satan? We need the money tomorrow!

      Kerry: Whoa now, I don’t exactly have the money, we have to take that from the tax payers, I’m going to …

      Mullahs: You lie, agent of Great Satan! Obama was a true warrior of the jihad, we just emailed him and the money appeared! Guards, take this infidel out back and give him a thousand lashes before cutting off that Lurch head! Does he look like Lurch or what?

      Kerry: Noo… wait, let me explain… I have a boat, it’s parked right across the state lin…. no, let me go!

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Do you know who else called himself a socialist?

    Peter Lawford?

    Oh, wait- socialIST, not socialITE.

  28. trshmnstr

    Ignoring his labor, trashy tried
    so hard to stifle his laughs he cried.
    With a tear rolling down his cheek like the red man
    trashy’s boss walked by and trashy was a dead man.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Kerry, in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt to promote his new book, said that he has met with Iranian Former Minister Javad Zarif—the former secretary’s onetime negotiating partner—three or four times in recent months behind the Trump administration’s back.

    Just as long as there was no hotel or golf course construction discussed.

    • Rhywun

      It sounds like two mental patients larping at “statecraft”. I just hope the “former minister” doesn’t have the ear of that dick running Iran.

  30. Michael

    O.T. – Puerto Rico has had a runway full of pallets of bottled water sitting undelivered FOR A WHOLE FUCKING YEAR:

    https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1039849446731915265

    As you might guess, this water is now unfit for consumption. Even more astounding are the comments insisting that this is somehow FEMA’s fault. In a sane world, who should be better prepared and equipped to distribute emergency supplies in the event of a disaster – bureaucrats in DC or people that live on an island that is in a hurricane zone?

    • Hyperion

      “O.T. – Puerto Rico has had a runway full of pallets of bottled water sitting undelivered FOR A WHOLE FUCKING YEAR:”

      How else are they supposed to resist?

    • AlexinCT

      Some politician blocked these from being taken to where it could be used to help and will eventually – hopefully when people have forgotten about this stuff – make a killing selling this crap.

    • invisible finger

      If it’s not in the inventory system it doesn’t exist.

    • invisible finger

      Also, it sounds like this is an unnecessary runway.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        it is now.

    • kinnath

      As I recall, the governor of PR held things up because FEMA wanted to use truck drivers that weren’t paid the prevailing union wages.

      • Bobarian LMD

        FEMA getting water bottles to PR is mission complete.

        That crony driven, corrupt local/state government (just like NOLA) is where the sucking chest wound exists.

  31. AlexinCT

    I am surprised 1600 Pennsylvania Ave was not put on this list….

    After all, all woke people know Trump-Putin-Hitler is the most dangerous thing to all womenz!

    • Q Continuum

      AKA: Guide to Female Sex-Tourism.

      • Q Continuum

        Which, BTW, you are a fucking moron to travel to Guatemala at all, let alone as a solo female. Whoever follows this advice is Darwinism in action.

      • Democratic Hitler

        Chapter 1: Are you hot? Go wherever you like the scenery and the weather.
        Chapter 2: Not hot? How do you feel about Wash DC?

      • Democratic Hitler

        Chapter 3: Guatemala

  32. Tres Cool

    Reading that reminds me of when I bought my english-lit-teacher ex-wife a copy of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”

    …kinda

    • Hyperion

      Nuclear is dangerous because it might make power cheaper and more abundant. Can’t have that, the peasants will start getting all uppity.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s because to these people anything that gives the individual more freedom is wrong and anti ethical to their real agenda: marxist govvernment. It’s why they keep advocating for things that are onerous in cost and use and restrict people’s freedoms.

      • Q Continuum

        They want control. Can’t rule a free people, so you have to make them as destitute and dependent as possible.

  33. Mad Scientist

    I can clearly foresee a time when everyone looks forward to attending SugarFree In The Park!

    • UnCivilServant

      As part of some dark ritual to bring about the end of glucose?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Ever read Sirens of Titan? Sugarfree is going to be remembered like the Malachai except the doll will be made from compressed cocaine.

    • SugarFree

      “Traditionally, all of the characters in SugarFree’s works were played by non-binary identifying individuals. Even the hat, the hair and John Bolton’s mustache.”

    • AlexinCT

      Stupid is as stupid does…

    • Juvenile Bluster

      I knew exactly who it was before I clicked.

      His commercials are basically “I’m not like other Republicans! Look1”

      • Juvenile Bluster

        He is, however, an incumbent in a district that’s heavily blue.

      • Just Say'n

        “Conservativism is progressivism driving the speed limit”

        – Michael Malice

    • Just Say'n

      “Who will not wave the flag?”

  34. AlexinCT

    So when they vote Kavanaugh into the SCOTUS tomorrow or Friday, will the pants shitters lose it even more than they have so far? Are we looking a Rome burning while SF plays his fiddle and recites Hat & Hair prose?

    • Just Say'n

      Of course SF would play the fiddle rather than the lyre. He has to be different and all learned and shit

    • kinnath

      I need more guns and lots more ammunition

      • Sean

        ^^^ I strongly agree with this statement.

    • F. Stupidity Jr.

      But we shouldn’t ally ourselves with potential travelers or participate in the culture war because, a pox on both their houses.

      • F. Stupidity Jr.

        potential *fellow* travelers

    • Hyperion

      “Millennials would rather live in socialist or communist nation than under capitalism: Poll”

      I’m started a GoFundMe to buy them plane tickets, because why make them wait? It would be cruel. I mean to the rest of us.

      • AlexinCT

        This is also the age group where most of them believe that they will become millionaires…

        The same way they made everyone millionaires in Venezuela and Zimbabwe, I bet, if they believe socialism is the way to go.

      • Hyperion

        They’ll be millionaires in their socialist utopia, alright. Just ask Venezuelans, you take millions to the market to buy a chicken. Millionaires!

  35. Q Continuum

    Uncontroversial statement of the day:

    Michael Buble is a fucking joke.

    • AlexinCT

      He should shut the fuck up and go home already…

  36. Just Say'n

    Today in “No, but seriously, we should honestly torch every college to the ground and enslave all liberal arts college professors to work in agricultural fields where they can finally be of use to society”

    https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1039932662343983104

    • Hyperion

      The Pol Pot plan?

      • wdalasio

        When you put it like that, most of them would approve.

      • Just Say'n

        The man had some strong points. Not that those villagers that he had to murder would have stopped to consider his points. Stupid, kulaks

  37. Chipwooder

    Why, it’s almost as if the NeverTrump GOP crew is proving to be a bitinsincere.

    • Hyperion

      Same thing happened to Paul Krugman. A bunch of Krugman impersonators wrote articles claiming that deficits don’t matter. Why are these impersonators so mean?

    • Just Say'n

      Max Boot, no joke, should be persona non grata in respectable company. Watching beltway libertarians praise Rick Wilson and Mitch Daniels, while progressives fall in love with Max Boot and Bill Kristol is beyond disgusting.

      Neocons are not good people. End of story

  38. Warty

    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he who reads The Hat and the Hair with me today shall be my brother.

    • AlexinCT

      Preach on brother!

      And do some squats.

    • Hyperion

      Well met, Sir Warty of Wartyshire.

  39. Chipwooder

    A couple of local news stories from ol’ Virginny:

    THERE IS NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT DONKS TRY TO RIG ELECTIONS!

    Hurricane Florence claims its first victim.

    • Just Say'n

      Square this for me:

      “Russia totes rigged the election”

      and

      “Domestic voter fraud is a myth”

      That doesn’t make a lick of sense

      • Hyperion

        But we know for a fact that illegal aliens vote in elections. They do in MD, I know that first hand. Why? Because they admit to it. Not saying they know that’s wrong, because they were told they can do so, and encouraged to do so. It’s just too obvious watching Dems always freaking out over voter ID. Total giveaway. If you can’t go get a state ID to vote, how they hell did you get to the voting place? Really, the mask is off, democrats are coming right out and admitting they want illegals to vote.

      • AlexinCT

        Your problem is that you expect these douchebags to be motivated by actual facts/logic other than what helps them in pushing the marxist narrative at all costs.

    • Bobarian LMD

      What could be more fair than a culture of open support?

    • Just Say'n

      All this consent stuff seems to boil down to “I want to act like a whore, but not be treated like a whore”.

      Is that too harsh?

      • Q Continuum

        Pretty much. It’s the product of pure cognitive dissonance; “you go grrrrrl!” sexual “freedom” running into the innate, evolutionarily-based female desire for a committed partner. Sure, there are dyed in the wool, true blue sluts out there, but they’re not the ones giving themselves ulcers over “consent”; they’re too busy fucking. Only internally conflicted, joyless, wokified fembots are this screwed up.

      • Hyperion

        It’s basically people who are not emotionally stable enough to establish a working relationship. So when it breaks down, they become a victim and seek revenge, because god forbid it might be their fault. These people have always been around. But then they got the internet.

      • Mad Scientist

        Yes, I suspect these are the ones who used to key their ex’s car or other nastiness. Now they just scream “rape!’

      • Hyperion

        And whereas they used to be fairly isolated, now they feed off each other’s hysteria. That’s how we got #metoo. Hopefully, they have to change that soon to #I’mAloneWhyCumNobodyWontFuckme!?

    • Hyperion

      Don’t let the hussy leave her toothbrush at your house, that’s the same as marriage.

    • Chipwooder

      So now it’s rape if you don’t return phone calls afterwards?

      Hey, maybe be a bit more selective about who you fuck? Just a thought, not a sermon.

      • trshmnstr

        Whatever happened to JATNAS?

      • Bobarian LMD

        He got locked up for not calling afterwards?

    • trshmnstr

      Here’s another: A “culture of care for the other person, of seeing and honoring another’s humanity and finding ways to engage in sex while keeping our humanity intact” used to be known as waiting until marriage. As the old Yiddish saying went, “no chuppah, no schtuppa.”

      But that’s patriarchal repression of a woman’s sexuality, and we can’t have that.

      The punchline is pretty epic.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Something about free milk and the cow?

    • Spudalicious

      That’s some good stuff, right there.

    • AlexinCT

      These are bitches that are basically trying to get control. What really pisses her is that he banged her sorry ass – by acting all beta – and then ignoring her after. That’s the sin most of these skanks are the most pissed about. That the dude had the temerity to just write them off after plowing them. They want to be able to do that to the guy, but they immediately want to invoke victim status and use that estrogen-machine to destroy the bastard, if he does this to them.

      • Hyperion

        You know, there’s actually the chance that a guy, maybe not that guy, or the next one, but some guy, some day, might want to stick around and see how things develop, IF you are not a giant psycho fucking cunt! But that’s too much work, I suppose.

  40. Endless Mike

    This is absolutely amazing. This level of lyrical imagery creation is what I imagine dropping acid must be like.

  41. Tonio

    So very late to the party, but that was masterful. Loves me some Elizabethan drama, yo.

  42. Rufus the Monocled

    Well done SF.