“Would you rather meet a man randomly in the woods or a bear?” Hunter asked his daughter.
“I’d rather meet a home aide nurse to clean up Grandpa,” Finnegan said, thick yellow rubber gloves reaching up past her elbows.
“It’s a serious question,” Hunter said.
“No, it isn’t,” she said, stripping off the gloves, balling one into another to make a clean wad and throwing it at her father as lay on the floor of the Oval Office using a rug as a blanket. “It’s a hypothetical. There is no man, no bear, no woods, no one is in danger, and it all means nothing, like everything else on Twitter.”
“X,” Hunter said, as he tried to put a small piece of Cracky in a glass stem with shaking hands, gummy-teared eyes.
“Not in here,” Finnegan said, stamping her feet. “We set you up a perfect good crack house down in the basement!”
“It smells down there,” Hunter said. “Like jizz and death.”
“You should have seen how bad it was when we first moved in,” Finnegan muttered, and shudder-muttered “Wannafud?”
“Wannafud? What does that mean?” Hunter asked.
“I had to sign an NDA,” Finnegan said.
“Can-an-an I get up yet?” Joe asked from the bathroom.
“You are going to sit there until you go,” Finnegan said. “I’m not hosing you off again today.”
Hunter threw off the rug he was under and stood. “NDA? Did you have sex with someone you shouldn’t have?” he asked gleefully.
“Non-disclosure agreements are not just about sex,” Finnegan said defensively.
“That’s the only reason I’ve ever used one,” Hunter said, settling his bare ass on the Resolute desk.
“I went s-s-some,” Joe called.
“Are you done?” Finnegan called loudly.
“I-I-I chose the bear!” Joe said in a strangled cry.
You’re lucky the Secret Service is too incompetent to realize you’ve tapped into the White House security feeds.
I’m assuming he has interdimensional access – it explains everything including why it isn’t detected.
The Doomcock™ is a powerful device.
Hunter threw off the rug he was under and stood. “NDA? Did you have sex with someone you shouldn’t have?” he asked gleefully.
The implication.
and it all means nothing, like everything else
on Twitter.As told by an idiot…
“You should have seen how bad it was when we first moved in,” Finnegan muttered
Hadn’t been hosed out since that prude Carter walled it off?
All they really did was weld the trapdoor in the Oval Office. It was opened during the renovations to the Presidential Shitter.
For some reason I assumed it was something set up by JFK and Bobby….
That’s a great visual.
Seems plausible.
– “It smells down there,” Hunter said. “Like jizz and death.”
A smell Hunter is intimately familiar with.
“I’d rather meet a home aide nurse to clean up Grandpa,” Finnegan said, thick yellow rubber gloves reaching up past her elbows.
Based.
That’s the Sugar Free of old, I knew this was going to good and (disgusting) I wasn’t disappointed.
Thanks, SF, another disturbing afternoon ahead. Time for lunch.
Au contraire! It has a very definite meaning, to wit:
OMFG! Men suck amirite? Now have sex with me, I’m one of the good ones!
Hush Money!
“You are going to sit there until you go,” Finnegan said. “I’m not hosing you off again today.”
Should just have a proper Washlet, but Dementia Joe isn’t going to let those Nips take our shit.
“It smells down there,” Hunter said. “Like jizz and death.”
Hunter, in his crack house. Allegedly.
Lol. I got spam from a HE loan company encouraging me to buy Mom something from Gucci.
Hayeksplosives has a loan company now?
Don’t pay and she’ll blow you up?
No no. They loan you high explosives. You use them to get into bank vaults and pay the company back.
I’m kind of surprised that Uncle Joe hasn’t had a bowel purge system installed to avoid those embarrassing situations. You’d think Fauci could have handled that for him.
You know how some people just post stuff on the internet to start an argument?
Here:
https://twitter.com/Kristennetten/status/1787970405699121299?s=19
Maybe she’s trying to indicate that she’s a swinger.
Is that a Honeyglow pineapple on that casserole? If not, I must harrumph you, Sir.
My kinda gal!
I miss many things about living in a smaller town. Nice essay about growing up and reminiscences about her parents.
My Mom and Dad Owned Competing Side-by-Side Hardware Stores. It Was a Lesson in Life.
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/hardware-stores-family-business-af2a61a5?st=ayul5it1dl3usfz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That is awesome.
Great article. 🙂
“Hunter said, settling his bare ass on the Resolute desk.”
Is he completely bottomless or is he wearing his signature jock strap? I just want to make sure I have the correct image in my head.
Does anyone else picture the oval office with all the heavy curtains closed to block out all the natural light? In my head, its just a lava lamp, tacky color changing LED strips Hunter had installed around the perimeter of the room and a butane torch that he keeps at the ready for Cracky providing light.
Jock strap.
Building Paradise on Earth
Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor of comparative human development, said Tuesday’s actions by the university were disappointing and shocking after its initial openness.
“I think it’s really a sad end to a space that has felt like a community space and healing and grieving space for the entire neighborhood,” she said, adding the antiwar movement will not be dissuaded.
“Our students are incredibly brave and smart and sophisticated,” she said. “I’m proud of them every day for the work that they’re doing.”
Another pompous selfcongratulatory gasbag chimes in.
“Once champions of free speech, colleges crack down on pro-Palestinian protests”
You’re not merely expressing yourself when you are preventing other students from attending classes, etc.
“Bill Townsend, CEO of College Rover, a university comparison tool for prospective students and their parents, said universities are embarking on “the slippery road to self-censorship and society’s unwillingness to be uncomfortable.””
Imagine being a parent who is coughing up a zillion dollars a year for college, only to have your kid call up and tell you that classes are now on Zoom because a bunch of Maoists took over the campus. Universities that don’t clean this up will hemorrhage tuition and donations, and potentially face what is already happening in some places — Vigilantes who come in and perform their own clean-ups.
Also, may Bill Townsend, CEO, be another leader who shit-talks his company into bankruptcy.
Colleges already are hemorrhaging students, which means cash. Enrollment is down if, for no other reason, than the birthrate being down. Add the very explicit biases that have come up in the last few years, something like this is doing real damage to them if they don’t crack down immediately.
They’ve been backfilling with full-pay students from overseas. Being anti-Jew and showing that under no circumstances will they suspend or expel those students is a plus for that side of their enrollment/marketing program.
The big colleges will weather it. Small liberal arts colleges have been increasingly going bankrupt and shutting their doors over the past decade. I think the rate will only increase over the next decade.
These liberal arts colleges’ leadership and faculty have no conception of business and budgets. They are actively hostile to anything remotely business and so fight any and all reforms that might actually attract students and keep them afloat. The leadership at places like Yale mouth the platitudes and laugh all the way to the bank.
Yes, overseas students paying full freight have been a backbone of the academic world for a while now, but there is still an enrollment problem from the issues I stated, and you are right about not wanting to kill the gravy train.
And SSD is right, it is killing small, liberal arts schools, along with less regarded regionals.
These same students had no problem demanding conservative speakers get banned from campuses. But they want to be allowed to threaten people and destroy buildings for their cause.
I’ve been told that universities have to allow speech but are not compelled to provide a platform for it. So it was perfectly okey-dokey to run Milo Yiannopoulos out of a lecture hall with a mob barking at his heels, but it’s completely unconstitutional to interrupt the peaceful protestors for any reason.
Yup yup.
What exactly has this passel of losers ever experienced that they need to heal and grieve over?
Was that the space that Jews and other badthinkers weren’t allowed to enter? That the press was barred from without permission?
That community, healing, and grieving space for the entire community?
It sounds like they’re not doing any work at all, what with camping outside all day.
Sloopy’s text on the bear story from Monday morning links is starting to make sense. I infer that there was some sort of twitter ‘poll’ asking women whether they’d rather meet a man in the woods or a bear? And the bear won? It’s all starting to come together.
At the risk of tempting the gods… Too tame today and, unlike last week, no materiel d’fap – pax rule 34.
It’s a %current meme% for women to answer the question if they would rather run into an unknown man or a bear in the woods alone. Those who are very bad at risk management, or want to signal say they would prefer to run into the bear.
How often do they think of ancient Rome?
I actually think a bear is the right answer.
The bear’s virtually certain to hightail it out of there, and historically/statistically the number of people harmed or killed by bears has got to be fantastically small.
Men are way more hazardous. Heck, I’m a 6’0″ 180# adult man in good shape who’s probably got a pistol on me if I’m in the woods, and a bear is my answer.
Depends on the species of bear.
I mean, I’d personally rather meet the bear, because I’ve never seen a bear in the wild and I think it would be pretty cool. But let’s not pretend that any of the social media hive is doing that kind of analysis.
I met a bear in the wild once. He caught a 12 gauge slug in the ribcage, on account of I was bear hunting.
I was thinking along the same lines. Of course, it depends on the bear. Grizzly? Black? Sow with cubs? But then if you want to parse it, it all depends on the man too. Anyway. Stupid meme. But I’m glad I understand now – Monday’s links were lurking in the back of my OCD addled brain.
^Of course bear.
I have bears in my woods. Same with mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, and packs of dogs.
It’s not any of the above animals that shot my neighbors’ dogs dead when they were surprised poaching down at my pond.
So being mauled to death is worse than being made temporarily uncomfortable because of one’s own unmanaged insecurities. I guess I’m not altogether surprised.
I’m just upset that no one really leaned into it.
The Bee weeps.
That’s perfect.
The investigation started a few months before Trump left office, and she wasn’t convicted until November 2023. Ooooobbviously Trump’s fault.
Just… wow.
Imagine being a parent who is coughing up a zillion dollars a year for college, only to have your kid call up and tell you that classes are now on Zoom because a bunch of Maoists took over the campus. Universities that don’t clean this up will hemorrhage tuition and donations, and potentially face what is already happening in some places — Vigilantes who come in and perform their own clean-ups.
Exactly. Sue them for taking money under false pretenses.
College wasn’t a zillion dollars in the late 60s / early 70s, otherwise the same thing.
In many ways, this is like a bad half-assed reenactment of the Vietnam protests. The prospect of the men getting sent to die in a pointless war might give them more passion.
I don’t recall the hippies ignorantly calling for the murder of millions of Vietnamese in the name of social justice.
I feel like this is something new entirely. To Kinnath’s point, nobody was calling for people’s death. These protestors are not calling for an end to the war. They want the other side to lose. Also they use violence casually, deface property and face little or no consequences. If it reminds me of anything in the 1960s, it’s Clockwork Orange.
Don’t recall them being particularly troubled by the Hue City Massacre by the NVA or any other commie atrocities.
The middle east is just a sideshow, a pretext or at best a fortunate happenstance to express a little Jew hatred. The real issue is the totalitarian utopia they’re agitating for.
I am still trying to reconcile my animosity to the current generation of anti-Israel protestors with my memories of the horror old people found in the non-violent sit-ins conducted by blacks to protest against segregation and by hippies to protest the Vietnam war.
Am I just old? Or are the new mobs on campus actually evil in comparison to the protesters of the 60s?
Embrace the power of “and”.
thank you for that moment clarity
Don’t you get it all the time from your wife?
Uh . . . . .
twice a week . . . .
maybe . . .
maybe not
You only get clarity twice a week from your wife? 🙁
. . . clarity . . . .
what were we talking about?
Maybe the tactics are essentially the same but your political bias leads to an excuse to complain about the tactics when what you really have a problem with is the message. If it was just about any other war issue, say a sit in against US funding in Ukraine, that stuff would be allowed without penalty except for the worst lunatics.
Maybe the tactics are essentially the same
This I disagree with.
The non-violent, civil disobedience of the 60s was specifically intended to get the protesters arrested to generate bad press for the government to change the way government behaved.
The current crop of “protesters” engages in civil disobedience to cause harm to the general public with the idea that this will somehow cause a change in governmental or institutional policies. And if inconveniencing the public isn’t enough, they will cheerfully destroy property and harm other people. And they expect total immunity from the consequences of the harm they cause.
I don’t actually give a fuck about what they are protesting for.
Technically, what the current crop is doing isn’t civil disobedience, which is nonviolent/nonthreatening, and is done, as you note, in order to force the government to act unjustly by arresting you. The current crop isn’t nonviolent/nonthreatening, and absolutely does not want to get arrested or otherwise suffer personal consequences. Now, there were anti-war (really, anti-draft) riots during the ‘60s-70s. Those weren’t civil disobedience, either.
So I don’t think it’s necessarily viewpoint-specific. If all the Jew- and America-haters were doing was marching around waving signs, I wouldn’t want to see them punished.
what the current crop is doing isn’t civil disobedience
thanks for the clarity (twice in one post no less)
I definitely remember the race riots, the anti-war riots, and the anti-war bombings. But those were not related to the organized sit-ins that happened in the same time frame.
That’s true, the motivation is different but the effect of people not being able to get to get to class and the learning environment being disrupted is similar. They’ll be disavowed of the notion that they can do that without consequence on this issue soon enough though.
As I recall, the student sit-ins usually took over administrative buildings to prevent the school administration from functioning. They did not block the general public from using the campus.
I would say the difference (to me at least) is that the protestors conducting sit-ins and the like expected to be arrested, and be processed, and that was part of the strategy. The pro-Hamas protestors have people saying that they need to be pardoned and not prosecuted because that will follow them throughout their lives.
Have the courage of your convictions, and I’ll at least have some respect for you. Unwilling to pay for your deeds, you’re just looking for attention.
There is a raft of potential class action claims against the universities. Who also have a lot of money. Some of the big class action sharks are starting to circle.
Correction – the article I read was class action claims against the protestors.
To the extent the universities facilitate/support, and possibly even just allow, these things to disrupt their campus, though, I would say they are also exposed. You could also climb the chain of organizations funding and organizing these things.
This. Imagine squeezing Soros pere and fils for damages.
Unfortunately for this fantasy to become reality you need to find an unbiased court.
So I don’t know if it was brought up already, but that reporter who was so freaked out by all the secret MAGAs in her circle is the same one in that hilarious video where she was reporting from a canoe in “deep floodwaters”, when some guys walked by and showed that it was only a few inches of water.
https://twitter.com/ingelramdecoucy/status/1787963880758493613
I expect someone will reply to her with that meme Will Farrel movie picture (some elf thing) of “You sit on a throne of lies!”….
I saw Megan Kelly talking to Vivek about that and she showed the clip. Even the shameless hack talking heads at the newsroom were embarrassed by that.
Exactly how tiny and incestuous is our ruling caste?
There can’t be more than 10K Inner Party members total.
“We cannot simply discipline our way out of this problem,” David Banks, the chancellor of New York City Public Schools, told the committee. “The true antidote to ignorance and bias is to teach.”
Now do biology and gender. You see what happens when facts are “fluid” and people have individual truths?
Public School Leaders Spar with Congress Over Campus Antisemitism
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/congress-public-school-education-anti-semitism-4a9723ae?st=0cfj18ztdmplvxq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I saw a NYT headline hit my feed talking about how difficult it is to define antisemitism in the current environment.
Almost as hard as defining a woman. You gotta be an expert!
I’m no biologist!
Easy: Excepting genetic mutations and diseases, a human being lacking a Y chromosome.
It used to just mean “hating Jews,” but now it’s “hating Jews for the wrong reasons” or “hating Jews while not being a Democrat.”
If you define the problem as disrupting campus and the operations of the school, I’m pretty sure you can, in fact, discipline your way out of that problem.
If you define the problem as curing the world of tribalism and hatred, well, teaching is pretty much useless on that front.
Yeah, “teaching” is what got us where we are today.
Ugh. I need to stay away from Gunbroker.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1048051161
Tell me i don’t *need* that.
Ladybugs delivered today.
Tonight I begin the campaign of aphid extermination. From the kitchen to the sunroom, my plants will be (aphid) free!
How are you going to get rid of the ladybugs?
A batch of mail order green mambas should take care of them.
I don’t. They go outside when the plants go outside. I only release a small amount indoors.
They stay in the sunroom where it’s warmest and all the food is at.
45 minutes down, 75 to go….