“Do it,” the hat whispered from Donald’s suit pocket, quiet yet insistent. “Do it.”
“No!” the hair said.
Melania, lemon-faced, eyes narrowed, grimaced and reached out her hand.
“Take it, Donald,” the hair said.
“Fine,” Donald grumbled and took her cold hand.
“Do it,” the hat whispered. The words slithered through Donald’s mind and coiled, ready.
Donald and Melania stood in the doorway leading out to Marine One.
“I hate waiting,” Donald said. “I’m still the President aren’t I?” He tugged Melania’s hand and pulled her outside.
“Do it!” the hat hissed.
“No!” the hair said.
“Just two for the press,” the hat said. “He betrayed us, he betrayed all of us! Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!”
“Donald! No!” the hair said.
He and Melania approached the small knot of press corp.
“It’s been a great honor, the honor of a lifetime,” Donald mumbled with no enthusiasm.
“Good, good,” the hair said. “Just like we practiced.”
“Cuck,” the hat said. “Beta male loser simp cuck.”
“Shut up!” the hair said.
“Fags,” the hat snapped. “Both of you. He watches you shower, you know.”
“He leaves me on the back of the toilet!” the hair said, outraged.
“Quiet, both of you!” Donald said, turning back to the helicopter. He had wanted a color guard, he had wanted a 21 gun salute. At least I got my red carpet, he thought and the hat laughed cruelly.
“Stop muttering to yourself, Dahnald,” Melania said.
“I’m still the President!” he said. “You can’t talk to me like that. You wanna go to Guantanamo?”
Melania spat a guttural string of Slovenian.
“Do I even want to know?” Donald asked the hat.
“Roughly, you are rapist of goat’s virginity,” the hat said.
“Is the goat at least a girl?” Donald asked.
“Unclear, but I don’t think so,” the hat said.
“I hate Florida,” the hair said as the four of them boarded Marine One.
“We know!” Donald and the hat said simultaneously.
“Wave for the cameras,” the hair said.
“I don’t want to,” Donald said. “I’m still President of the United States of America and I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to.”
“I still say you should have left Biden an upper decker,” the hat said.
“I couldn’t do it to the toilet, so classy and magnificent,” Donald said, not sitting down, lurking near the pilots as his luggage and hangers-on boarded the plane. “8.6 gallons a flush, like an airplane engine in reverse.”
“Wave, Donald, wave!” the hair urged.
“Give them the half-dab, like Nixon!’ the hat screeched.
Donald, dyspeptic, stepped out and waved a couple of times. Then he lumbered to his seat.
“In just a few months, we’ll be back for Tiffany’s wedding,” the hair said wistfully.
“Who?” Donald asked as the rotors began to roar.
The end? For now?
I was hoping the hat would be left behind as a spy.
It has been previously established that the hat can transfer his consciousness to other hats. So if Joe or Kamala adopt some kind of headgear, he may live on.
Like Dax. See: Deep Space Nine.
Honestly the best Star Trek Series. They even have an episode going after Roddenberry’s communism.
YES, THANK YOU!
I loved the Ferengis. I think, like Archie Bunker, they were the stealth popular characters that no one expected them to be.
The other reason I loved it was that everybody was flawed and screwed up and sometimes it didn’t turn out well. It seemed to me Picard & Co. always made the right decisions and everything turned out well even if they did screw up.
Anyone who doesn’t like DS9 is worse than a necrophile.
Quark was my favorite DS9 character, before I ever heard the word libertarian.
DS9 sucked. I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. Stop pretending.
That’s it! OMWC is proof we need to end the J…(((scientists)))…
Contrarians gonna contrary.
No we aren’t!.
What the fuck is DS9?
Tundra: DS9 is Star Trek Deep Space 9, which is very similar to the much better show B5, aka Babylon 5.
A Star Trek spin-off.
The Dominion War arc was boring.
I said it.
What the fuck is DS9?
What you put on the air when your creativity has dried up.
Ok, at great personal risk….
The problem with DS9 was the character Benjamin Cisco. Superficially he was the perfect actor… Lots of the right tools…. But ultimately boring.
When the central character is boring…. The show is gonna struggle.
Add in annoying Pejoran girl… And you got issues.
Still… I agree. Superior universe, stories and writing in the grand scheme.
Aren’t most central characters boring? It’s kind of the standard. Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, etc.
I agree that in the early seasons, Sisko was too much of the ‘straight man’ they played the motley crew of oddball characters against. But a central theme of the show was Sisko’s skepticism of the Wormhole Prophets vs. Kira’s faith (obviously stolen from X-Files and gender-swapped), if he didn’t start as a reflexive ideological empty-suit, his character would have had no growth.
DS9 was a pale imitation of the Babylon Project.
I have not seen Babylon 5, but I think it’s on one of my streaming services. Next time I’m on a cross-stitching binge, I’ll binge watch.
In the words of Hype:
“NERDS!”
Babylon was a really slow start, but it really got good and weird later on.
In all actuality, if I’m recommending a good SciFi spacer, I don’t think you can beat The Expanse.
On the Expanse: I probably won’t watch the show, but the GF bought the books (box set trilogy) a few years ago. Should I read them?
Still think Farscape is my personal favorite (B5 is close behind and I still need to watch DS9 all the way through). Something just resonated more with the variety of characters and settings (and muppets!!!).
Also, they put in a lot of work to show variety between alien species and some insane make-up effects compared to the blandness of Trek. Wish there was a solid HD release – seeing that they filmed the entire series in widescreen.
Farscape was great! But they needed another season. The movie they tried to tie up the loose strings with kinda sucked.
In all actuality, if I’m recommending a good SciFi spacer, I don’t think you can beat The Expanse.
^this x a lot
^this x even more
I’m halfway through season and enjoying the hell out of it.
Season 2*
Farscape absolutely was the best.
LCDR: Farscape is out on Blu-ray. The quality is very good, although it is not widescreen — most of the series was filmed 4:3. They definitely took care to make the Blu-rays capture the visuals, and the resolution is very high. The CGI is really good, and looks great on Bluray, I can’t even remember how off it must have looked on my old 27″ CRT that I used to watch the original run.
The Expanse is a good show.
The latest season started off great, but is dragging in the middle. We’ll see if it picks back up.
^^It is dragging a bit, but I am enjoying that these people, can be in different parts of the solar system dealing with what they are facing aspect.
I’ll take another look DB – the reviews I read of the Farscape Blu-rays a little while back were pretty bad re: the video/audio compared to the old DVDs.
Peak TNG was better than peak DS9, but your average DS9 episode was better than the average TNG episode.
^This.
Of course, it hepled that DS9 was spun off when TNG was at its peak, and used some of the same writers. It didn’t need to go through TNG’s two excruciating first seasons to figure out how to make a ST show.
That’s fair. If you asked me at the time, I’d probably say TNG was better. But the fact is, I was a more regular viewer of DS9, and made more of an effort to watch every episode.
Even in the later seasons there were entirely too many “diplomats hitching a ride” type episodes that are utterly unremarkable.
It’s hard to criticize too heavily. They were going against 40 years of accepted practice by trying out the whole story arc thing rather than keeping it episodic, but DS9 really benefitted from not being the flagship series and allowing the writers to craft broader story arcs than they would be allowed to do with TNG.
Was that the one in which O’Brien convinces Rom to unionize Quark’s employees, and includes the line, “workers of the galaxy, unite!”?
I really liked Brunt as a character. Jeffrey Combs is a great actor. Recurring as Commander Shran in Enterprise was one of the things that made that worth watching. Yes, please do tell me how much Enterprise is “garbage”. I so enjoy having every mention of it result in that exact same very thoughtful conversation.
There is an episode where the writer’s criticize Roddenberry’s communism by having Jake the Captain’s son try to “buy” an antique baseball card. But because the Federation does not have money he has to engage in bartering which as the episode shows is highly inefficient.
Avery Brooks the actor who plays Sisko is now batshit crazy, I think he took too much LSD or as they say in Star Trek LDS.
Enterprise season 1 and parts of 2 are garbage. The show really got going about half a season before it was shitcanned.
IMO, they tried too hard to bring back that 1960s sense of exploration from TOS to a world that was much more cynical and inward looking. When they carved a hole in Florida, the series really started improving.
Funny, I was hoping Enterprise would be a show about the early exploration and technology. Some escapism from the cynical inward looking world. Then the abomination of the Temporal Time War came along. Then, when I thought that was done, the next season starts with Space Nazis on Earth. NOOO, enough with the Nazis, please. I really didn’t watch the show after that. I caught few later episodes here and there.
The progressive worship on TNG turned me off.
Oh God, I forgot about the space Nazis.
The characters got better, but the plot was still fits and starts at that point.
I love time travel as a plot device, but it only works in a single installment. Multi episode time travel arcs tend to suck.
I didn’t watch any Star Trek series after the original when I was a kid.
That’s pretty edgy. Very countercultural. It’s like not having any tattoos post-2010. Totally radical.
Shatner and his green alien babes.
Can he transfer his consciousness to Kamala’s sneakers?
Joe and Kamala grappling over the hat on the edge of a waterfall, all three plunge to their deaths, Pelosi cackling in triumph.
Derpenbach Falls?
[Symphony applause.]
And I can just bring the hat back when no one wants to read anything else I write.
And you can end all the speculation by just saying, ‘No time to explain!’…Or are we not talking about the BBC Sherlock?
I won’t even give you guys that much. The hat will just here one day, watching you take a shit through your bathroom window.
No freeloading! He’s got to buy a ticket like everyone else!
Literally lol’d
That. Would. Be. Amazing.
H&H with Donald in exile?
If the H&H had found a publisher in time to have the early episodes released in book form in early 2020 or late 2019, it might have turned the election. And some stomachs.
You mean Biden would have legitimately won the election? I know we’re not even allow to joke about it. I hate the sheets in the re-education camps.
They’re certainly no Giza Dreams sheets.
But will we get My Pillows?
Euphemism?
Smallpox My Pillows.
Every time he says “GHEE-zuh” I hear “CHYE-nuh” in Donald’s voice. They really do seem like two peas in a pod.
Yes, possibly that. Not sure which way it turns things.
The story continues
LOL.
I’ve heard rumors that a print edition is forthcoming, but the orphanskin covers are hard to source.
How do we still have an orphan shortage after net neutrality?
We have to wait for some to die in industrial accidents, or of scurvy. We are not monsters like the ChiComs who would just flay them alive.
Everyone was pre-killed by the tax cuts.
So removing the SALT deduction brought them back as zombies?
Lots of kids in cages you could use.
“Who?” Donald asked as the rotors began to roar.
Ouch.
Thanks, SF. I’m feeling quite melancholic about the end of an era.
*sigh*
Such an anti-climatic ending.
Is this the point where the thought to be dead bad guy springs back out?
Epstein didn’t die.
“Give them the half-dab, like Nixon!’ the hat screeched.
The Hat will be missed. By me.
In a good story the antagonist is the most interesting character.
Honestly depressed today. Donald was incompetent. But incompetent in a mostly good way. He stuck it to the press and the deep state and while he didn’t really roll back progressivism he at least acted as a levy. I am honestly scared of what the Democrats are going to do now with their domestic terrorist talk. The sad thing is we as libertarians told the Republicans over and over that the patriot act and national security state would be used against them one day and now we have to suffer because of their foolishness. Honestly, I feel nauseated whenever anyone talks about national healing. What fucking national healing? Democrats are popping erections on national tv at the thought of all the ways they are going to abuse their power and oppress anyone to the right of Mao.
Trump literally left us in the worst possible moment. The lame so called insurrection gave them all of the excuse they needed without you know having the actual benefits of an insurrection.
The Democrats are acting like the reconstructionists without even having a civil war.
Let’s check this scorecard.
How many ended?
Of course you have to take into account that his supposed subordinates slow-walked and even ignored his orders to draw down troops.
True, but he was still a bit submissive for a guy who tweeted like a tough guy.
That tough guy seems to have been a big part of his appeal, no matter how little it reflected reality.
True, but he was still a bit submissive for a guy who tweeted like a tough guy.
Unlike everyone else on Twitter ?
He did try… That was about the only time the Congress got bipartisan.
The cold ones between Israel and the nations they signed agreements with?
The problem with reconstruction prior to the civil war is that your enemy isn’t fully pacified yet.
The fact is that these tensions are 100 years old or more, and have finally come to a head. This will end in organized violence whether or not this specific tense moment is what sparks it off.
“The Democrats are acting like the reconstructionists without even having a civil war.”
They had their Reichstag fire. What more do you need?
Most incompetent Reichstag fire in history.
Anyway Donald can always say – he got us out of Somalia.
Most incompetent Reichstag fire in history.
Which seems appropriate somehow.
Right-wing terrorists riot – oh wait…
#Antifa are continuing to put out the call for riots throughout the U.S. on 20 Jan. These are some of their flyers for Seattle, northern California & Denver.
Sore winners.
Well, they haven’t got their pony yet.
^ This. They’ve established their legitimacy and succeeded in pushing a major party left. And now there are people in power who can give them what they want. They’ve only completed phase 1.
I don’t think so. Now is the time to ignore them, move to the center, because what are they going to do? Vote Republican? They’ll moan and they’ll bitch but they’ll come back to the Democrats when it is time to be stooges again.
Yep.
That’s if daddy doesn’t give them a good spanking. After all, how better to reassure the center than by lashing the lackeys a little?
If you need any evidence of such, the DNC just endorsed McAuliffe for VA governor.
The grifters are firmly in charge for the time being.
It’s wrong of me, but I would love for the vetted National Guard be put to use stomping anti-fa. Or would it be too close to the Night of the Long Knives?
Meh. I am in a “they have sown, now let them reap” mood.
If several major cities run by the left get reduced to Detroit-like husks, I won’t shed any tears. Some people can’t learn by example, and have to learn by concussion, so its the only way, however unlikely, that people might see what a stupid fucking thing it is to put the left in charge.
“8.6 gallons a flush, like an airplane engine in reverse.”
Nice.
Don’t worry about the ‘fun’ ending, folks. I know SF has a plan, as do I. Sure it will be different, but hope and change and such…
Thanks for the heads up. I’m looking forward to more content.
Donald was incompetent. But incompetent in a mostly good way.
You won’t get much of an argument from me. Not as far as the nuts and bolts of “governance” is concerned, anyway.
He kick-saved Hillary away from the goal, and I’ll always be grateful for that. He may be the last president to ever have run a for-profit enterprise.
And the first president, in a long time, not making big profits off his time in office.
I feel a sort of sad emptiness, as one does after really good sex.
^This was supposed to be a general comment on today’s episode.
It fits…again, like really good sex.
That’s usually a tight fit.
That description makes me feel not so bad about my virginity, I mean it sounds just like masturbation.
Post-nut clarity is a universal experience for men.
Not foreign to women, either.
I would think women “mango” more than “nut”. I mean, you need nuts to nut, right?
A friend of mine called female masturbation “making soup.”
He nuts, she finds clarity.
“He nuts, she finds clarity.”
This needs to be on fortune cookie paper.
Almond Joy vs. Mounds?
Sometimes you feel..?
As does “Never underestimate the commercial value of mental illness.”
imagine the loneliness you feel after masterbation and substitute looking in horror at the person you just did it with and you’ll pretty much understand modern dating.
An unbiased editor at NYT.
I have to confess I have trouble with the adulation people are heaping on Biden. I get that he vanquished Trump and was elected on a perceived wave of Progressivism. But Biden himslef has never been particularly popular with the Dems. He’s run for national office multiple times and attracted zero interest.
Joe Biden is the most gifted politician in the history of the country actually. No one has ever done what he did in 2020.
He’s the Dem they went with. *shrugs*
I don’t get it either, but it’s entirely expected at this point.
Get geared up for Bush’s fifth term! All the warfare and double the welfare.
They’re not heaping adulation on Biden, they’re heaping it on the Democratic President. This tongue bath was going to happen no matter who was their candidate. That’s the sick part.
He’s 100% on board with doing whatever the bureaucracy wants, and that’s what matters.
I’m using the new privacy web browser Brave and holy hell this site has a lot of trackers. 11 trackers so far on this website.
‘New’? I use it, but I don’t give that much credence to it’s claims, as I haven’t found any way to access it’s metrics for claims. It has claimed to save me over 11GB of bandwidth through it’s blocking over the last 10 months, but again, doesn’t provide the metrics used to determine such things.
I meant new for me. And it’s still relatively new compared to other browsers. I ran it through some privacy tests on various websites and it performed great. For all I know though it could have been created by the CIA.
It was created by the FBI to keep tabs on anyone who visits sites that mention goat virginity.
Running it through Comodo firewall’s sandbox seems to work well for viewing , um, certain sites, and porn too.
BTW I think the 11 GB figure is from the ads they block that is why it’s a little faster than Chrome.
I’d love to use if full-time but no Monocle support, I believe.
Eleven? I use firefox and ghostery, which reports three.
Whelp, China Joe made it. I really didn’t think he would.
*kicks pebble*
All hail our glorious leader Chairman Biden and long live the PRA!
The Harrison clock is now running.
Harris clock?
Nope juris had it right…
Tippecanoe and Kamala too!
The thing that grinds my gears is that this senile, corrupt fuck spent his entire career wanting one thing, to be president. And he gets rewarded with it at the ass end of his pathetic existence, having been installed as an empty vessel for his leftist handlers.
There is irony in that to enjoy.
The only bright side is that I hope the Q LARPERS go away. Jesus hearing about the PLAN and how everything was part of the PLAN these last few months got exhausting. My father became one and is basically killing himself over it. (Refusing medical treatment). They were also just embarrassing in general like the Berners were on the left.
Although I will admit a small part of me day dreamed a little that they were correct. It would have been epic to have all the swampers arrested on inauguration day. Could you imagine Hillary, Bill, Obama and Biden just being frog marched down Constitution Ave? It would have been beautiful. But it was obviously never going to happen even if Trump had wanted to. The military was more likely to arrest Trump then help him with a coup.
A friend of mine is a Q follower.
When I pointed out to him that it is Tom Clancy fanfiction combined with a Millenarian cult, he said that if he was wrong, he’d be the first to say Biden is president on the 20th.
I’m waiting for an e-mail from him.
We are all headed for the Great Disappointment.
Q Believers remind me that there are so many people I just don’t understand.
I can build a mental model for Branch Covidians, but not these guys.
+ a bunch of underground bunkers in Greenland
Chem-trails!
Q believers are sickening to me for several reasons, 1 being that claim to be for individualism, but believe so hard in a secret top down plan to…
I think, ironically, it’s caused by people who don’t understand that others (on a mass scale) don’t think like them.
When you assume that humanity is good, then a society supporting evil things is a contradiction. They must’ve been tricked into it or there must be some smaller group of evil people pulling the strings. It’s easier for them to believe in the insane logistics of conspiracy as long as it doesn’t shatter their belief in the idol that is humankind.
One of the most convincing truths that keeps me moored to my Christianity? The truth that humanity is rotten to the last and even the good we do is covered in filth. My faith obviously includes redemption, but perceiving humanity as rotten tears apart all delusions about “we are different” or “American exceptionalism” or, to gore a few oxen, “the market is good”. It’s all cowpies of various ages and consistencies. You just hope you can stumble into the least offensive one.
The biggest tell for most conspiracies? “Well, if people just knew, they’d take the power back and overthrow those corrupt conspirators.” Time and time again, it has been proven that no such thing will ever happen. The most widely disseminated conspiracy theories in history were circulated against Trump and he lost the election by a cat’s whisker. The People aren’t joining together and claiming their rights or purging the evil. The people are their own oppressor. The evil they see is reflected in the mirror.
Look at the anti-Calvinist here! You could be predestined to be of the Elect you know. Then your fear is you might screw that up.
Conspiracy theories satisfy a need in common with religion – aside from the goodness and evil, but that SOMEONE is in control.
He can’t be of the Elect. I took his seat.
People always want to believe that someone is coming to their rescue.
The future of QAnon. Based on social media accounts, there are more QAnons than 7th Day Adventists, Jehovah Witnesses, or LDSers.
Ponder that on the Tree of Woe.
I had (*) some relatives which were Seventh Day Adventists.
I can see more QAnon followers than Seventh Day Adventists because QAnon doesn’t require you to give up things like meat eating, spicy foods, or booze.
(*) Past tense because they died between ten and fifteen years ago.
It’s the NoFap crossover that will save us!
I don’t think that’s gonna save any of us.
The methodology seems suspect to me. Q twitter accounts would be extremely easy to find via bot, and you kind of need to be on the twits to be a Qbert. The other groups, less so.
Are Jehovas Witnesses even allowed to twit?
I agree, which is why I qualified with “based on social media accounts”. The studies seem to dance around the fact that people can have multiple accounts, spoof residency in a country, etc.. That having been said, I don’t think it’s controversial to state that the number of QAnons is in the millions, perhaps approaching 10 million. This would make them larger than many smaller but well known Christian denominations, (and about as large as the United Methodist Church) as well as certainly more populous than American Jews, Buddhists, etc.. I think QAnon developing into either its own Christian denomination or a coat you paint over other denominations (like Salafism in Islam) is a likely, but not the only possible, outcome for the movement.
Why not? If they’re allowed to be muthafuckin’ Prince, I think they can do pretty much anything except shut up about Watchtower and get a blood transfusion.
Apparently they don’t do holidays either.
I worked with a Jehovah’s Witness (who happened to be black) and a woman from Thailand… Thai lady was passing out Christmas cards to everyone, but when she tries to give it to the JW guy, he politely declines. She walks up to me later looking very confused and says in her adorable broken English, “I didn’t know that the black people don’t celebrate Christmas…”
And can’t swear oaths.
I’m not surprised. Stalin apologists are aplenty, and Mao doesn’t even appear to need apologists. Utopians abound, and that’s probably the most dangerous flavor of loon.
That said, when the media as well as other founts of knowledge lie their asses off for years on end, people start to latch onto all sorts of crazy alternatives.
Is someone cutting onions in here?
Anatomy of a Pew Pew.
Heh… I like
That one was posted on r/crossstitch and got downvoted to oblivion.
So I assume we can impeach senile Joe for lying when he took the oath to uphold the Constitution given that several planks of his platform are in direct violation.
Why not? Impeachng is hot right now.
The constitution is not a suicide pact. The 2nd amendment doesn’t mean what you think it does. Hate speech is violence. Etc., etc., etc.
#NotMyPresident!
Between 2022-2024 Joe will be impeached. Not saying he will be convicted but as soon as the Republicans get back the House in 2022 they will impeach him. Impeachment will become the new norm. I’ve already read about various House Republicans prepping the articles and who have even told their Dem colleagues that they were going to do it now regardless after Democrats “politicized” impeachment.
Yep. Maybe Wicca is on to something.
Yep, I basically said that yesterday. The GOP will win the House in 2 years, then being the stupid party, they will impeach Biden for something idiotic. Probably something deserving impeachment, but William Henry Harrison may be the only President that didn’t do something impeachable.
They’ll win the House and proceed to do nothing to undo what the Dems will have accomplished in their two years at bat.
“It’s because we only have thou House, we need the Senate! Just put us in controll of all three branches of government and by golly you’ll see sdomething!”
Yeah, that’s when will reduce the size of govt. /pure Jon Lovitz
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Once we’ve accomplished that, I’ll be pleased to introduce you all to my lovely wife, Morgan Fairchild!
Probably the best voice to deliver that line..while creeping in the shadows, twiddling his fingers.
Megan McCain will give a teary speech in front of Congress saying that her father wouldn’t want BidenCare killed. Romney and Graham immediately vote against.
Impeaching Biden in two years for something absurd may be a bad political move, but the deplorable base will demand it. Particularly if the Senate continues hearing an impeachment of an already-out-of-office president. Further, turning up the temperature in an already heated environment may also be a bad idea, but it doesn’t seem to be stopping anyone.
Between 2022-2024 Joe will be impeached.
Doubt it.
I doubt he will be in office that long, for one thing.
But I mostly doubt that there will be enough Repubs in the House who aren’t UniParty buttboys to carry a majority.
They’ll impeach kamalama for 25thing Ole Joe and placing her VP in charge?
Who will be the next president? Vice President Hillary Clinton.
It’s still her turn.
I feel a sort of sad emptiness, as one does after really good sex.
Deny them your essence, Mandrake.
*sips a distilled water*
Congratulations to President Puddin’ Cup and the new pre-Harris Administration!
In important news to haters everywhere, Phillip Rivers announces his retirement on this day.
Never particularly cared for him, even when I saw him play in college.
He struck me as a hothead whose talent habitually ran out just when his team needed it. NFL talent? Sure. Starting for over a decade talent? Not in my eyes.
Meh, too many people get wrapped up in rings. BRADY IS THE GOAT, MOST RINGS EVAR!!!11!1!!! Games aren’t won or lost by an individual. Dan Marino never won a Super Bowl, but he was the only weapon Miami had for most of his tenure. Marty Shcottenheimer had the Chiefs and the Chargers in contention every year for almost 15 years, BUT HE NEVER WON THE BIG ONE!!!1!!!! That’s why Ditka is better! He won one! Barry Sanders never won no Super Bowl! That’s why Terrell Davis is a better running back! (even though the no names who came after him ran just as well behind the same line)…and on and on…Modern sports talk sucks dangly old man balls because this is the mentality…
Marty was also the one who led the Browns to the playoffs multiple times in the 80’s.
I actually agree with you on the rings thing. I don’t think that Rivers was overrated because of the lack of rings. I think he was a journeyman NFL quarterback because he lacked NFL starting caliber arm talent. He was very good at prepping his way around that deficiency, but it popped up (in college and in the NFL) whenever he needed to carry the team across the finish line.
Add to it that he seemed to have an ego of a superstar player and he always struck me as a poor man’s Eli Manning.
Is the Forum broken? I’ve been away from glibs for a while and never used the forum much so maybe I’m just doing it wrong. Prompts me to login but then I get an error.
It’s good for me.
https://www.glibertarians.us/community/
It wants me to log in?
Nonsense! Must be broken.
Maybe he is going to play kingmaker?
“Goodbye. I love you. We’ll be back in some form,” Trump said as he concluded his remarks, noting “I will be watching. I will be listening” as a new administration took office. …
“You are amazing people. This is a great, great country. This is my greatest honor and privilege to be your president,” Trump said. …
“I wish the new administration great love and great success. I think they’ll have great success. They have the foundation to something really spectacular,” he said, adding, “Remember us when you see these things happening.” …
“I hope they don’t raise your taxes, but if they do, I told you so,” he said.
I think he is going to take over Rush Limbaugh’s role in the party.
“That slut, Kamala…”? //jk
But are you? Are you really?
Now that’s a depressing thought.
Rand Paul 2024!?
ahem..its Rand Paul 2024??
Whose Rand Paul 2024?
Things I’mTired Of #53,683,285:
People going to indoor dining, then later complaining that the state still allows it and raising alarm about the imperfect mask obedience of the customers and staff.
Why are you going to indoor dining at all? You’re perfectly capable of buying a can of soup from the store and warming it up at home. No sacrifice should be too great if you truly believe that indoor dining is directly responsible for tens of thousands of deaths.
The hypocrisy of those types is grating. Like the lady at the zoo the other day who bitched at me for wearing my mask too low while standing within 10 feet of her kids’ wagon. What the fuck are you doing at the zoo if you are this terrified of covid? Of course, the answer really is “I should continue to be allowed to have my fun, but you should be forced to accommodate me.”
Our culture’s real pandemic is a case of the “world revolves around me” virus.
The split between masked and unmasked was 50/50 in the Jacksonville zoo. I didn’t notice any confrontations.
There is no shit-giving at the steel matches I’ve been going to, though masked shooters are in the minority.
Pretty much.
If you believe that any type of outing or gathering is directly causing death, you’re morally obligated to:
– Never leave the house unless it’s to work (as an “essential” employee) or for medical emergencies
– Live on canned/dried food from Amazon
– Take 100% of your entertainment and exercise indoors
Breaking any of those rules makes you a hypocrite… Unless you’re willing to admit that people have a right to live their lives and decide what types of risks they’re OK with, in which case all of the non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID should be ended immediately.
Q Believers remind me that there are so many people I just don’t understand.
Really? I don’t think it’s difficult at all. If you’ve got an IQ above room temperature, you know the line being fed you by the Establishment (academia, the government, the media) is utter bullshite. And you see what until a few years ago were almost universal moral standards being abandoned a breakneck pace, often with the explicit support of the Establishment. Is it really so hard to imagine people looking at this being intentional as a possibility? And if you go there, looking for a hero, especially one detested by the Establishment, isn’t that hard to imagine.
So the problem is, if you have the critical thinking capacity to do the analysis you just described – you won’t be susceptible to the Q bullshit. So really, Q believers are just like leftie believers – it is just a different bullshit they believe in.
Well, sort of.
I’m spelling out what I suspect are ideas only half-formulated in their minds. They know “those people”, the Establishment, are lying to them and are terrible people. They sense the world is becoming a crappier place. They know the things they believe in don’t carry the same weight that they did even a few years ago. The Q bullshit just coalesces those half-formed thoughts into an (admittedly false) narrative. I’m not here to defend QAnon. I’m just answering why I think it’s understandable that that sort of line of thinking might formulate.
People feel like the establishment is gaslighting them. And, on that ground, I don’t think they’re wrong. And when gaslighting is the only other narrative they’re offered, are you surprised they buy into QAnon?
I mean, its not like there’s plenty of material for confirmation bias to seize on.
Example: Their trademark theory (I think, I don’t follow them at all), is that the world is run by a pedophile ring. And the man who just took the oath of office has a long history of groping little girls. In public.
The whole “secret elite pedophile ring” is something that’s legitimately plausible because of historical pederasty in British public shools and the membership of those same schools that go on to be members of the ruling caste (or have to be in order to attend those schools in the first place) plus the documented cases like Jimmy Saville. I don’t know that it transfers over dirctly to the US, but the pedophile priest thing, and the Boy Scouts gets enough hype that it makes it seem that it’s common here too.
are you surprised they buy into QAnon?
Not at all, it is a lazy way to go and most people are lazy. I would just argue they don’t get there by thinking, but by looking for something to believe in (i.e. faith).
It’s the same reason I was sharp about the ignorance of the United States being based on perpetual union – it was, under the AofC. The narrative that is easy to believe is that the Founders wanted us to rebel – but that isn’t the govt version 1.0 that they created. You can infer all you want what they meant when they created version 2.0, but you can’t claim they did not do what they very much did. And it is fair to note, there were many secession discussions – in the north – preceding the un-pleasantries of 1860-65.
The path from “the line fed to us is bullshit” to “there is a ninja located in the highest levels of goverment who is going to save us with his secret documents” is non-obvious to me.
Based Rand Paul.
The senator from Kentucky was quick to reply, saying he doesn’t trust Comey because of his previous political and deceptive actions targeting the outgoing president.
“When we start taking advice from Comey, a notorious liar, a guy who ruined the FBI, a guy who used the enormous power of government to go after his political opponent, Donald Trump, I think when we started taking his advice, we’re taking the wrong advice,” Paul said.
Paul continued, saying Comey should have to pay for his crimes.
“And so I don’t plan on listening to anything from Comey,” Paul said. “In fact, I think Comey should be imprisoned for the things that he did.”
Damn straight
I can dream that since Rand had Donald’s back, and his former campaign chair became Donald’s Chief of Staff, that Rand will get the nod next time…but there are too many stupid people on both sides…
You know, I hear Rand take a lot of flack. And I’ll concede he’s not his father as a champion of principle. But, I have to admit that that’s a sword that cuts both ways. If he weren’t Ron Paul’s son, he’d probably be regarded as more a rock star than he is.
Rand Paul is the worst….except for all the other politicians.
I wish he were more like his father but, much as I admire Ron, how much did he really accomplish? Maybe Rand doesn’t either in the end, but he’s in a better position to have more of an effect.
The FBI was ruined long before Comey.
Cough, cough, Hoover, cough cough.
Transphobia? In my Glibs?
Was Hoover really a tranny, though? Maybe he just wanted to feel pretty after a day of wrecking peoples’ lives.
Dainty, he wanted to feel dainty.
Crossdressers are not trans… necessarily.
I did enjoy the penultimate episode of season 4 of Man in the High Castle.
There is a show that got a lot better in later seasons.
The cinematography was great, and there was some definite artistic vision involved, but holy shit was the writing for the first two seasons terrible.
I loved the way they made the scene of sonny boy going to the marines match the one of him going to be euthanized.
I thought the start of season 4 was terrible – like an entirely different crew from seasons 2 and 3. Season 1 was so bad in the first few episodes I seriously questioned everyone who said they liked the series. I think season 4 particularly suffered because it seemed the story arcs could’ve been considered closed at the end of season 3.
So you’re saying it gets better?
Because I watched season 1 and gave up.
Along those lines, Lovecraft Country is god-awful. The racism is at least appropriate for the era if over the top, unlike the Watchmen series where it was just painfully stupid. But the pacing, the plotting, the editing, the ridiculous character decisions are impossible to stomach.
Season 1 suffered a LOT of you can’t expect me to care about someone THAT stupid. I guess it got better, or somehow I dumbed down enough to enjoy it.
Skip season 2, it’s also terrible, and you can figure out anythign that you might have missed anyway.
Really? I don’t remember anything being resolved at the end of S3. That’s where it ended with a naziriffic pageant cluminating in stuff getting blow’d up, right?
J’s escape at the end of season 3 could be taken as closure of a sort, and with Frank’s demise.
Actually I didn’t find the conclusion in S4 to be satisfying; I think there was a general problem in S4 both kickstarting the season (and the idiotic BCR addition) and in conclusion.
Or, to look at it another way – was the FBI ever anything but bad?
My wife revels and resents redpilling. She made a comment the other day about how she can’t believe fbi would be this corrupt instead of the perfect institution she always thought it was. I didn’t have the heart to tell her it’s always been that way.
One of my best friends is like this. It’s all types of amusing. It’s exactly like Cyrus from the Matrix. He’s told me multiple times he just want’s to go back to the pretend world before covid and trump.
I mean if you are any kind of dispassionate or rational the whole system has been revealed the last year. It is kind of depressing coming to the conclusion that it’s all bullshit and based on lies.
Realizing that the world has always had a dark undertone to it can be scary.
Realizing that slavery is the basic human condition is scary!
Misery, plight, hunger, death, slavery…its almost as if we are not that far removed from the animal kingdom than what we want to think.
Throw Brennan in the cell with him while we’re at it.
I would volunteer for Rand Paul.
People going to indoor dining, then later complaining
Or not waiting to complain.
Guess what- you don’t get to control who comes into a public venue, or what they do. Want control? Stay home.
It’s like you want public accommodation, asshat! Try private business. (also, how is the ‘plumbing’ business going?)
Paul continued, saying Comey should have to pay for his crimes.
“And so I don’t plan on listening to anything from Comey,” Paul said. “In fact, I think Comey should be imprisoned for the things that he did.”
OMG conspiracy nutter!
The lie that will not die.
“Today on this January day, my whole soul is in this — bringing American people together, uniting our nation, and I ask every American to join me in this cause,” Biden said in his inaugural speech.
The former vice president, who decided to run for the White House after Trump’s shocking reaction to the White supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, noted that the nation is struggling through a rise of White nationalism, racism and deep political divisions.
“Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path,” Biden said, calling on Americans to come together. “We have to be different than this. America has to be better than this.”
“I will be a president for all Americans,” Biden said speaking directly to those who did not support him in the November election. “I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as those who did.”
Fuck. Off.
…2 years laeter…but , totes because of that…
The point of the lie is to separate. Those who believe it will believe nearly anything the Cathedral tells them. Those who don’t will doubt nearly everything the Cathedral tells them.
“Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.”
WHAAAAAAAATTT?!?
Are we sure he’s a Democrat?
The only way Biden has any chance of coming close to uniting the country is if he gets the leftists in his party under control and calls them out publicly. NO there will be no new McCarthyism on my watch, kind of statement plus of course action. He needs to play the good cop to the AOC bad cop. How in the fuck can they even pretend that he is uniting the country when the dems are glorifying the idea of reeducation camps and a grand inquisition against anyone to the right of Mao? He needs to get his party under control or he is going to be the weakest President since Buchanan.
Biden is utterly incapable of doing any of what you describe. Even before he began his current terminal decline.
I think the speech was pretty good, and hit the right notes, but I’ve got no illusions about it being anything other than a hollow talking point the MSM can use as propaganda. As he’s saying this the rest of his party is going right on with their plans to punish their enemies.
“Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path,” But remember that one time in Charlottesville?
No, politics can be a controlled burn, clearing out all of the deadwood and brush – making the way for new, healthy growth!
His speech was milquetoast up to that point. It would have been the middle of the road, platitude filled excriment that we all expect from an incoming president.
Lol.
https://twitter.com/DesertmadeDC/status/1351962871282819073/photo/1
And suddenly racism was over.
Two weeks after a deadly insurrection put on display the White outrage that threatens the country’s multiracial democracy, a dramatically different scene unfolded at the US Capitol.On January 20, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn into office.
The inauguration of the first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president following the aforementioned assault did two things at once — marked a hopeful turning point in the long fight for racial representation and justice, and underscored in sobering fashion that confronting White supremacy will be one of the new administration’s main challenges.
Harris’ political rise even just over the past one and a half years is nothing to scoff at. Maybe most obviously, the former California senator’s ascent to the vice presidency will change the face of power in a literal way.
Harris’ political rise even just over the past one and a half years is nothing to scoff at. Maybe most obviously, the former California senator’s ascent to the vice presidency will change the face of power in a literal way.
While she is indeed the first woman to fill that office, she is not the first minority. Charles Curtis (elected VP in 1928) gets that distinction.
Cool stuff – my buddy got a little promo.
https://www.facebook.com/FXBGNats/videos/881649762570566/
Okay. I’m setting myself to get mocked mercilessly now. Today I went and got my learners permit.
Car or gun?
Car.
It doesn’t seem like you need a learner’s permit for a gun around here. Hooray!
I suppose if you lived your life someplace you never needed a car that makes sense.
That or you’re 15.5 years old.
I always assume that an adult without a driver’s license has lived in a place where a car is not only not necessary, but a nuisance.
It’s a necessary nuisance.
Even Manhattan residents occasionally visit other places where driving could be convenient.
That’s why God made trains and rental car companies.
Right. But you need a driver’s license to rent a car.
I lived in NYC for the last twenty years and moved there from downtown Philadelphia, where I’d lived for six years.
So, yeah.
My kid is learning slowly, but that’s because I won’t ride with her driving and she won’t drive with me riding, so it’s up to Mr. Mojeaux to teach her and she can’t get her hours in as fast. Also, we have had inclement weather and teaching her how to drive in snow is way down on the driving to-do list.
Mr. Mojeaux did insist on getting her into a driving school. I wasn’t thrilled with spending that kind of money, but it was money well spent.
Two in the hole for me. Both are taking their permit test tomorrow. One drives well, the other…scatter brained like his mother. I mean serious SQUIRREL! moments.
One thinks he is getting his papa’s mustang…not happening. The other is saving the $500 bucks needed to put into the Exploder to get it in better shape. New shocks, A/C compressor, some of the power windows need some work. Luckily there are 12 Explorers in the Pic’A’Part lot right now.
Maybe bagpipes? I’m pretty sure you need a license to operate something that dangerous to those around you.
You’re now certified to go to school?
Grats! You get over 120mph yet?
Many years ago I used to read Andrew Sullivan. I recall agreeing with him a lot. Then one day he admitted that he didn’t have a driver’s license. Shortly after that I noticed all sorts of disagreements with his positions.
If I didn’t grow up in SoCal, and in Idaho instead, I probably wouldn’t have gotten my license other than to work the farm.
Drive fast.
Take chances.
Lots of back roads for it. But, I’m told South Carolina cops are hardasses.
So they have poorly hidden ramps over small ponds that you can use to get away from the cops?
Congratulations! Try not to hit anything. 😉
Water skiing at Mavericks, Un Real!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48mQbJVK3kI
“Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path,” Biden said, calling on Americans to come together. “We have to be different than this. America has to be better than this.”
You stupid deplorables just need to be better people, and do as we say. We only hit you because we love you. Why won’t you be good?
Is everything “normal” yet? Or did white supremacists burn all of the nation’s capitol buildings to the ground?
Where is Pie?! This is getting worrisome.
Indeed.
Although perhaps he’s just taking a break. I know the feeling.
Me too. I will see if any of TPTB have heard anything.
Maybe Pie is Q and he’s been banned from the internet. After all, what letter follows P? Q. It’s so obvious. Wake up, sheeple!
*golf clap*
I prefer to think that our Q is the Q. He would have saved the world, but he got distracted by tits.
Mind your Ps and Qs
Furthermore, what letter comes after pi in the Greek alphabet? Rho or P. Flip it around, what do you get? q.
Inquiry made, email to Pie has gone out.
Thank you! I know Tulip and KK were also worried.
I’ll be so glad once all the “first XYZ” people have taken office and we can go back to caring more about their actual records in government service and their proposed policies as a measure of their worth as public servants.
Do you realize just how many genders and races there are? And then all the combinations.
It’s like obscure sports stats.
Gonna need moar juice boxes.
Today I went and got my learners permit.
Preparing to flee into deepest darkest Flyoverlandia? Either way, it won’t hurt to be ready.
Just remember, steer into the skid, and keep your foot off the brake.
I already made my escape. So, the license is sort of must-have.
Congratulations on both your escape and your DL!
I’ll be so glad once all the “first XYZ” people have taken office and we can go back to caring more about their actual records in government service and their proposed policies as a measure of their worth as public servants.
You slay me.
Do they have pics of Drudge on Epstein’s island or something? The guy has done a 180 politically over the last year.
Anyone have a recommendation for a Drudge like webpage that isn’t ridiculously biased to either side? It can be biased because they all are but I don’t want to be fed outright propaganda lies.
Rumors abound that Drudge sold his site, his lover runs it, Trump was that bad in his eyes, etc. I get my news aggregated from here now.
FFS
Suck harder Chris. You might get hired at another network someday.
Even better than Obama’s?
White supremacist CONFIRMED.
I can’t wait.
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
Now the real work begins, folks. Follow along at @POTUS as we build back better.
President Biden
@POTUS
US government account
There is no time to waste when it comes to tackling the crises we face. That’s why today, I am heading to the Oval Office to get right to work delivering bold action and immediate relief for American families.
There is that dang phrase again. And I really wish you would just leave American families alone.
Bold action would be to use the bully pulpit to get you know..Congress to do its job, but as our current crop of executive leadership have shown, bold action is one-man-rule.
Bold. Action.
Its bold, like bbq sauce and jalapeños. Except its actually Cream of Wheat, a dab of maple syrup, and a box of Ensure.
A neighbor asked me who I thought was the best president in history of the US.
My reply was to the effect of “Henderson or Garfield for me…” I gave a long pause but the person had no reaction. Not even a “they were not in office long”. Just blank stare. My guess, he has no idea who they are.
So I gave my real answer and it was equally met with a long stare. “Coolidge is my #1 and J. Adams would have been my #1 but he forgot what he so ardently stood for, even for what he was going to hang for and screwed that all up.”
I at least know the neighbor has no grasp of even basic American presidential history.
Very few people do. The wonders of modern public education never cease.
Coolidge and Madison.
President Kill
What’s good about Madison as President? I only really know him from the War of 1812, which doesn’t strike me as a success.
High tariffs, wars, and creation of the second bank…whats not to love?
Henderson?
*blank stare*
Autocorrect from Harrison, maybe?
Yes it was…since you know I live in…Henderson.
He left with dignity. *cries
Great H&H story SF.
I really wanted to see an episode(s) where the H&H keep popping in and out of the White House from other future timelines trying to keep Biden alive or dead or alternatively Kamala out or in power. The crux of it would be no matter what they do, with Biden and Harris in charge the result will be a nightmare timeline that gets progressively darker as they stay in office longer.
Now that Trump didn’t die in office from COVID, that timeline no longer exists. C’mon, man. I’m not the Terminator franchise.
The Terminator franchise made a lot of money….Just Saying
BTW 750 Christians were massacred in Ethiopia apparently defending the Arc of the Covenant.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/750.reportedly.dead.after.attack.on.ethiopia.church/136249.htm
Maybe that’s where the Kraken servers are.
What a crazy bitch Sidney Powell turned out to be. I still have no idea if the election was actually stolen or not. because of her, Wood and Guiliani.
Are they really certifiably insane? With their backgrounds, it seems unlikely but looking at the result of their cases they must be.
I really hope Rittenhouse is finding another lawyer very soon.
Wood isn’t handling his defense because he’s not a criminal attorney.
I find it plausible that the CIA used its well established disinformation capabilities domestically.
However, we’ll likely never know.
QAnon is a bread crumb operation. Prove me wrong.
I don’t even know what that means.
It’s all but a certainty that BigTech ran a similar program against American Conservatives as they’ve been running for the last decade when trying to destabilize foreign entities.
I was shocked by Powell. I thought she did an excellent job defending Flynn. But, wow. Giuliani, eh, he did what I expected. Lin Wood, I didn’t know what to expect, but I worry about the Kenosha Kid now. He should absolutely be acquitted, but he’ll need a top-notch defense to beat the full weight of the oligarchy trying to make an example of him.
Trump’s post-election challenges got stabbed in the back by the BigLaw firms he hired to staff them. Of course, BigLaw is firmly part of the oligarchy, so I guess that’s no surprise.
uh… that story is shit. motive? persons responsible? I wonder why no specifics?
“I still have no idea if the election was actually stolen or not”
its a mystery
Just want to point out that legend/oral history/whatever credits the Ethiopian eunuch from Acts 8:26-40 with spreading Christianity throughout the area. Supposedly, when the first Christian missionaries got to Ethiopia, they found a significantly sized Christian community already there.
*grabs bullwhip*
That reminds me: I haven’t seen Creosote Achilles in awhile.
He was here last week. Getting the fuck out of Portland to a cool place in the country. He sounds good!
I already made my escape.
Excellent. Congrats.
Seconded.
I am heading to the Oval Office to get right to work delivering bold action and immediate relief for American families.
It has been a long busy day, Joe. Don’t you think you should lie down and rest? Come back next week, when you’re rested.
I’m calling a lid on this administration.
Heaven forbid he gets that 3am phone call….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_z9Tpdl9A
He’s awake by then, gumming his oatmeal and pissing every five minutes.
Reasons I struggle with Facederp:
“I can’t stop crying. God bless our country and our democracy!”
“The ceremony was so moving!”
You need to leave that shithole.
Seconded.
Find another path for family updates or pictures. Its not like there aren’t choices.
Thirded. I’ve done it, and it’s fine. Also, I’m actually getting more done every day.
My wife has it for one reason and one reason only and that is business. We don’t do advertising and I have been lazy with building out the website.
My mom still will call me and say “you never responded to your facebook message”….I haven’t had it in 4 years now? And you just called me mom….geesh the socials made people lazy.
I find that sentiment not much less crazier than ninja pedo-warriors.
Why?
Twitter seems utterly disposable to me for all purposes.
Facebook, less so if your family is hooked on it AND you feel a need to keep up with minute-by-minute updates on what they are having for lunch or whatever. But still, the world worked perfectly well without it, and most people get along just fine without it. I get that its been designed, at great expense, to be addictive, but c’mon, man!
Not Tundra’s sentiment. This one:
“I can’t stop crying. God bless our country and our democracy!”
Sorry that was a misplaced comment.
Oh, that one. Yeah. Get a grip already.
I have been minimizing my FB time in the past few weeks. I haven’t been on today, though it’s been tempting. My last post was “Politics is poison. Don’t believe me? Check your FB feed.” And that was a few weeks ago. If that turned out to be my last FB post ever, I’ll be ok with that.
Though there was an argument in the comments, that post got a lot of likes. I’m thinking of making “politics is poison” shirts.
I don’t know how you can top that as a final post on Facebook. Call a lid on FB, TOK!
That a heck of a mic drop and walk off.
“You don’t believe in God, and we are a Republic, not a democracy.”
“Bowel moving, yes.”
“Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse” one of Cake’s best lyrics…
This one contains each of their best lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7aDstrDMf0
Ill accept.
Monster Truck Force….
They laugh, they make money,
He’s got a gold watch,
She’s got a silk dress and healthy breasts that bounce
On his Italian leather sofaaaaa
Bravo. This is a great series (or season?) finale.
Also, this
Was hilarious, in no small part to the fact that it seems like what DJT would actually say given the setup that preceded.
I’m sure there will be a new series with Senile Joe, DOCTOR Jill, and Commiela in Waiting.
I’m pleased that the DNC decided today was the wrong day to off Biden.
Wait…..
….that was it?
It’s over, go home
Its like the end of Cheers or Fresh Prince of Bel Air. We both know that house was squatted by meth addicts and Sam lit the bar on fire to collect the insurance.
They just didn’t think we wanted to see it.
At least I didn’t pull back to show an autistic kid staring at a snow globe.
We know you’d have pushed Hawkeye out of the chopper.
Now THAT would have been truly the best series finale ever
I don’t even want to think of the horrors awaiting Suzanne Pleshette when SF’s title character wakes up next to her in bed.
Fortunately for her, she’s been dead for a decade.
That would be if you pulled back to include the glib audience.
Best final episode of any series was The Shield.
Newhart’s was pretty awesome.
Yes.
It was awesome.
D’oh!
Breaking Bad says “say what bitch”?
Yeah but they jacked that up by doing a spinoff..
If it had been canceled like it was supposed to be, Sledge Hammer! would have been at least near the top:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGoU7urNTbI
Idolators
Before they gather virtually to watch the inauguration, students at YELLS, a nonprofit youth empowerment program in Marietta, Ga., will receive some special packages.
Each student will get a delivery that includes an American flag, a copy of the oath of office and a special set of pearls in honor of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. YELLS staffers are encouraging their students to dress up to watch the ceremony, to make a ruckus with provided noisemakers. And after the ceremony, staff will guide them in writing letters to the new president and vice president.
“The staff all came together, we really made sure to let them know that we are going to celebrate this inauguration,” said Sherri Burrell, a program coordinator for YELLS. “It’s very, very important to us that they are witnessing, as one of the students did say, ‘We are witnessing history, and we are also witnessing my future.’ ”
When Harris takes the oath of office on Wednesday, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants will become the first woman to assume the vice presidency. She will also be the first person of Black or Indian heritage to hold the office.
For so many people, the occasion of her swearing-in is a momentous occasion. But it is also a moment that has been stripped of some of the traditional pomp and circumstance.
We wuz robbed!
Just wait.
So we are giving little girls pearl necklaces? OMWC has a sad.
Are they going to teach them to write better than this?
For so many people, the occasion of her swearing-in is a momentous occasion.
Much goodly write journalismists.
That reads like one of my unedited comments. The ones where I hit POST and glimpse the stupidity just as it travels to the server, completely unable to change it.
I’m with you on htat one. The sentences where I start to say one thing and then edit but miss removing or adding a words are most annoyances to me.
I miss letter key strokes more often than I’d care to admit.
I’m with you on htat one.
Perfect.
But Trump supporters are a cult.
holy shit
that, from one end to the other, is a heaping helping of crazy.
“We are witnessing history”
Yes, yes you are.
Technically, I witnessed history on the toilet this morning, but I didn’t think it was something I needed to write about.
The safety of the incoming president and vice president are top of mind for many people, particularly after the crowd of pro-Trump insurrectionists descended on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent assault on the peaceful transition of power.
That reality, coupled with the deadly pandemic that has forced all mass gatherings to be re-imagined, has meant that plans have had to change.
Anita Kirti said she and her immediate family are planning to pray together for Harris’ strength and safety, joining with family members who live in India on a Zoom call.
“As excited as I am, I have the same magnitude of stress about how safe she will be considering what has happened in the Capitol a couple weeks ago,” Kirti said. “Obviously, I hope that everyone is safe and OK, but I feel like she is a particular target because she is a woman of color, and that is pretty distressing.”
Safety was also on Trish Kuper’s mind. Kuper of Edmond, Okla., briefly lived on Capitol Hill after college and described what it was like to see such “ugliness that was in my backyard” two weeks ago.
“To see the very, very real threat of mortal danger, I believe that our elected officials were put into — I’m frightened terribly,” she said. “God forbid something should happen to either one of them.”
Bless her heart.
I try to read shit like that and my brain can only process it like the adults in Peanuts: “Woh-wah, woh wah wah wahhh”
^
I suppose the propaganda runs deep. But people like this have zero ability to contextualize the world around them and are hyperemotional.
‘the sun never sets on the English empire’
I once asked an Englishman ” what happened?”
he answered “you’ll see”
A pony in very pot
Biden plans to create “at least 5 million” new manufacturing jobs. He wants to invest $400 billion in procurement investment — processes such as supply chains — that drive demand for American products and services, and $300 billion in research and development in tech including artificial intelligence and 5G.
The federal minimum wage, which is currently $7.25, would be raised to at least $15 an hour.
As part of his jobs plan, Biden also wants to invest $70 billion in historically Black colleges and universities and Tribal schools, a move that includes a host of initiatives including scholarships and new facilities.
As for clean energy, his administration would purchase billions of dollars worth of clean vehicles and products and require countries that aren’t environmentally friendly to pay a carbon adjustment tax.
Another priority in Biden’s plans is promoting racial equity. He’s said he will fund state and local investment initiatives for Black and Brown entrepreneurs, as well as provide up of $100 billion in low-interest business loans to Black and Brown communities through state and local lending programs.
Sure. Okay. How many magic beans did you say you got for that cow?
How do you create “at least 5 million new manufacturing jobs” if you’re a politician? Well one way would be that you mandate that manufacturers employ a small team of government compliance experts to ensure they are aware of and working to the Production Plan.
Biden plans to create “at least 5 million” new manufacturing jobs.
He will…in China.
Why it ever became acceptable for the FedGov to separate out who gets what funds is beyond me. “$70 billion in historically Black colleges and universities and Tribal schools, a move that includes a host of initiatives including scholarships and new facilities.”
Sorry I know you are a poor white trash school but you don’t fit into a politically acceptable hole that I would love to gain more votes from…
He’s just trying to buy back votes that Trump took.
The HBCUs are loving it because both sides are bidding for their support right now.
Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
“At least” $15 an hour……sure, why not go for the gusto? $30! $50! Who cares, it’s all just Monopoly money anyway.
It is obviously a focus tested number because it hasn’t increased in what, four years?
Time to put my son’s name on the loan application..
I wish people would stop expecting the President to create jobs. At best, he can get the government out of the way so private businesses can create jobs, which will increase demand for labor and eliminate the perceived need for a minimum wage. Maybe the vaunted fact checkers could look into this.
require countries that aren’t environmentally friendly to pay a carbon adjustment tax.
Is this the new Mexico will pay for it?
Biden is looking to eliminate private dollars from federal elections through a constitutional amendment, according to his website, which would require candidates to rely on public dollars alone for their campaigns. He’s also calling for a law that would keep foreign nationals from influencing American elections and create more transparency on election spending, so that an ad on Facebook would be required to disclose its donors.
Wheeeeeeee!
No Incumbent Left Behind.
First question is … what is private dollars?
Where in the constitution does…
Sorry, couldn’t keep a straight face while typing that
At least the first sentence says “constitutional amendment”.
Payment in kind, like from Facebook, Twitter and CNN would still be ok.
At least he’s proposing an amendment rather than an unconstitutional law or executive order.
First question is … what is private dollars?
We’ll know them when we see them. Like contributions to kkkonservatives. Those are banned, for sure.
Biden’s infrastructure falling apart.
Someone done fucked up and set that flood off 2-1/2 months late.
I weep for the millions that died as the capitols of our 57 states burned to the ground today.