“Why did you let me get so drunk on that stuff?” the hair asked, miserable, perched on Donald’s shoulder like a parrot about to vomit.
“I didn’t let you do anything,” the hat said. “I’m not your Cracky.”
“I miss that guy,” the hair said.
“We all miss that guy,” the hat said. “He was always himself, you know?”
Someone was talking to the Secret Service officers outside.
“Get up there,” the hat hissed. The hair wobbled up to Donald’s head, circled once, and then settled.
“Mr. President?” Pam called. Tapping on the half-open door.
“Pam?” Donald answered. “Get in here.” He picked up the hat, who giggled softly, and settled him over the hair.
The blonde woman walked in slowly, eyes darting to the ceiling, an instinctive defensive hunch.
“Stephan’s gone,” Donald said.
“I don’t like seeing him in the daylight,” Pam said, shuddering. “It’s unnatural.”
“It would be impossible to be an Orthodox Jew vampire,” the hair whispered.
“Are you doing 90s stand-up?”
“Tell me about Minnesota,” Donald said.
“We could have a strike team there in 10 minutes,” Pam said. “Are you sure we should go down this path?”
“All they drink is blood,” the hair said.
“He’s defied me for the last time,” Donald said, pounding his desk. “I want him brought here. I want to look him in his eyes.”
“His piggy eyes,” the hat whispered.
“I want to look him in his piggy eyes,” Donald said.
“Use trussed,” the hair said, vocabularilly.
“I want him trussed up and brought before me,” Donald said.
“Tim will like that, I bet,” the hat said.
“And then I want the entire miserable city surrounded with, like, tanks and stuff.”
“Does Mercedes make a tank?” the hat asked. “That would be classy.”
Pete chadded into the room. “Operation TAMPON is a go!”
“Did you two come up with this while I was passed out?”
“And then,” the hat said, pausing dramatically, “We take Canada!”
“Why?” asked the hair.
“Because fuck Canada, that’s why!”
EPILOGUE
Donald and his hat and his hair were told by Melania they could not invade Minnesota. And that all three had to go to bed.
The End.
Well, what if we traded Minnesota for Alberta, then invaded Minnesota.
I like the blue book link.
“Because fuck Canada, that’s why!”
So say we all.
AYE
Not Canada, Italy. An acquaintance’s grandson is in Italy for some of the Nordic Winter Olympics. [Kid is serving in Army posted to Germany and he and some buddies got leave to go see some of the games.] Anyway, kid reports they were at one of the ski events at Cortina and when a U.S. athlete was making her run, the U.S. fans started with their annoying “U.S.A. U.S.A.chant. When she finished, well off the podium, the crowd started chanting “Greenland, Greenland.” Those Eurotrash need to be taught a lesson!
“Iceland, Iceland.”
blame Canada
There not even a real country anyway
The Hat is just jealous, as… SOMEONE… got their first.
Lol.
Donald and his hat and his hair were told by Melania they could not invade Minnesota. And that all three had to go to bed.
I hope she confiscated their phones.
Fuck Canada?
Women’s gold medal hockey round is apparently USA vs Canada. I’ll be in my bunk.
Now, hold on a second. I’d want some pictoral verification first. I can easily see a women’s hockey player being built like a refrigerator and having about as many teeth as a meth head.
They are usually athletic college girls. Most likely Brooks will disappear for a while.
Oh, okay.
Field hokey isn’t a winter sport.
Not sure If I recall who Stephan is. (I also miss Cracky. (Who wouldn’t?))
That Pete is a “high-ranking” presidential prospect is amusing. I believe I remember him being *less* terrible than the others, not a high bar. Then, he was inserted into federal bullshit and swiftly ripped off his fem-mask as part of Blue’s attempt to appeal to Hot Topics as he took (I believe?) excessive paternity leave with his male partner as they adopted twins to check as many boxes as they could.
Blue’s bench is remarkably weak, thankfully. That *Harris* is still the highest regarded ‘prospect’ is particularly revealing, especially paired /tied with Newsom, who really can’t be going anywhere. All anyone has to do is point to Cali and the predictable fuckups under his reign.
CAN and CZE are tied in the 3rd period in the quarterfinals. Oh. “Team Czechia.” I forgot the Czech Republic kinda changed names and I don’t remember, nor particularly care why.
I’ve taken a shit in Prague.
Hegseth, not Bootypopper. Get yer Petes straight!
Petes straight!
Or not, as the case may be.
I thought it was Saint Pete come to reap souls.
For Pete’s sake, Evan.
“Pete chadded into the room. “Operation TAMPON is a go!”’
^^ Um. Understandable confusion. I thought Petey was celebrating interest in a further transition. Ya know. Like a M ‘to’ F who’s proud to use tampons just for the fun of it.
Then it would be Percy’d into the room, not Chaded.
Hey Evan, do you get HBO? I’m sure you’d enjoy SATC much more uncensored.
@Tox: We may be getting it soon, a Spectrum add-on that Spectrum added on. (They’re apparently very expensive and we didn’t ‘authorize’ it.)
On E!, sex scenes were kept in but blurred. (I’m sure some was edited out.) Still, I was happily shocked they didn’t edit/blur out the smoking. For a 27yo show, I was happily impressed. Kristen Davis, (Charlotte) is visually very close to my Ideal. Her character may have pissed me off the least, though Kattrall’s honesty about her not caring is refreshing, I s’pose.
Miranda’s a cunt. (I wonder if my Male Gaze impressions of character are mirrored by women.) I’ve also only seen one Ep. Would happily watch if a gal-pal were into it.
She is, isn’t she. With the ugliest wardrobe (Charlotte’s always cute).
They have a lot of stuff on demand. You might like this series since you like kids.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787383
Maybe Marco but I doubt Pete.
I’ve taken a shit in Prague.
#metoo
I’ve also had some good beer and food in Prague.
I’ve done lots of things in Prague.
Blue’s bench is remarkably weak, thankfully.
Amusingly, the two leading candidates for CA governor in the top-two face off primary are both Republicans. The Dems (and there are nine contesting for the nomination) all trail. Imagine the shrieking and wailing if that holds.
It won’t hold. Some of the Dems will be forced to drop out so they don’t split the vote. Get ready for Governor Swalwell.
I will LMFAO when that happens. Can you imagine the parade of horribles that guy has in mind for every position??
Top two choices on the CA ballot will be democrats.
First governor to be hanged for treason.
preached on Donald’s shoulder like a parrot about to vomit.
Preaching from Donald’s shoulder sounds more like something the Hat would do.
“Can you give me an AMEN!”
Cracky is real! That was one of the great unresolved questions of the series.
Anyone know who Stephan is?
Stephan ‘im sure he is just a lizard in a skinsuit” Miller
Thanks.
inorite?
Stephen Miller
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8rl71n4r3o
“Does Mercedes make a tank?” the hat asked. “That would be classy.”
Close
No refrigerators
I would have liked one of those as a Dorm Fridge, back when I was a bachelor.
“I’m not your Cracky.”
What about huckleberry?
“And then,” the hat said, pausing dramatically, “We take Canada!”
The hat aspires to rule America’s hat?
Sean – Monocle 4.5.2 pushed, which may make Firefox happier.
Seems to still work fine on my setup
Seems to be working for me. Thanks!
Working well on my iPad running Safari.
Damn, that’s unfortunate, since I can’t reproduce (no Windows).
Are your Firefox and Greasemonkey up-to-date?
Monocle is using a very old version of JQuery, so perhaps that could be contributing. Getting that updated is on my TODO list.
Er, meant for Sean
4.13 Greasemonkey and up to date Firefox.
Good to hear.
Once things settle, I’ll archive the old versions and make it the master branch at Gitlab. When there’s a stable URL, the normal update mechanism should work normally and I’ll just start using a staging or beta branch for pre-release things for those who want to be test subjects.
I’m assuming nobody is using the old, original Moncle at this point (with the buttons along the bottom of the page).
I’m getting the same error.
It is *entirely* possible that I’m just retarded.
I have some catching up to do in my CSS now that we seem to be settling on a design from a couple generations ago LOL
But the JS functionality is working great also on Firefox and I haven’t got the latest update yet.
Thanks!
Text-decoration: blink;
A cromulent suggestion.
I love that the page isn’t scrolling all the down to my last comment every time – I hope that sticks around because the old behavior drove me nuts.
I just create a new script and copy & paste the code, and save. Right?
I’m not sure if Greasemonkey is smart enough not to have multiple copies going, but that sounds right. It should just show ‘Monocle Eyepiece’ under ‘Other User Scripts’
OK, not so painful; if you want to try a version updated to use the latest jQuery
https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/-/raw/Eyepiece_v4.6/monocle.user.js?ref_type=heads
FWIW, Violentmonkey looks to do a better job in terms of being able to auto-update but I dunno if that’ll have any impact on your issue.
OK. Violentmonkey installed and Monocle working.
🙂
Thanks!
“He’s defied me for the last time,” Donald said, pounding his desk. “I want him brought here. I want to look him in his eyes.”
I guess I missed some Minnesoda news?
Apologies if this is drugs/ass territory, but much missed Glib Gordilocks was interviewed by Jack Fowler over at VDH’s website: https://victorhanson.com/cheap-foreign-labor-managerial-class-killing-americas-last-cowboys-gord-magill-jack-fowler-2/
👍
Gord has a book coming out as well. He’s come a long way.
True:
https://x.com/NihongoDekita/status/2023284273248399519
Followed up exactly as I’d expect:
https://x.com/shinobu_books/status/2023582087324774734
The autists at X never fail!
Or just get a proper fucking alphabet.
/half joking
It’s a language filled with few sounds and many homonyms. I’ve no idea if something like Korea’s Hangul would be adaptable to it.
My favorite are the Japan learnings sites that claim you can learn hiragana and katakana in two weeks. I was a late learner and I am not particularly adept at picking up language. It took me six months before I could use those syllabaries proficiently in reading and writing.
I’m still dreadful with kanji. My current classmate (there are only two of us) is a young Taiwanese women. Her pronunciation is heavily accented, but one thing she doesn’t have trouble with is kanji!
Yeah Chinese in general and Mandarin even more so are like that too.
Gravure names help with memorizing kanji.
Also enjoying how Siri mispronounced names and Apple Music has straight mistranslations that are more accurate (ex: Minaj Honda’s Sneak Away as Snake Away).
Also Japanese English ads never fail to add just the wrong English nuance.
https://x.com/Dengekichan/status/2023890690791665794
That sounds very very wrong.
I’d still definitely try one while I was there!
lol, “Salty Caramel Almond”
*struts on by* I can still read hangul with no problem. There are 2-3 vowel sounds I *cannot* make, but it was remarkably easy, even as a (then) 22yo. I didn’t practice daily, cuz I threw my flash cards against the wall on Day 3 or 4 of working on it. Finally back to work, I was able to ‘fully’ learn it within a week, not too much daily practice really. Well. No bookwork. Just constant practice seeing signs as I lived there. (Damn. That was a really fun adventure. Good job, ev.)
King Sejong and Hangul. They motherfucking *NAILED* it. And got the population out of illiteracy remarkably quickly for a reason. He wanted Koreans to be able to fucking read. ~1450. No doubt, the thing Koreans should be most proud of as a nation, distinctly separating them from their neighbors. Good job, Sej.
55 million on a peninsula state the size of Indiana. And they’re still Korean-Korean centuries and centuries later? Damn. Good job, 한국.
Many people seem to take delight in NY and CA getting what they vote for good and hard. But when they go under, they are taking the union with them. Nothing but violence comes out of that.
I’d rather they get slapped upside the head before bankruptsy, and the problem averted.
True. And I’m currently typing from ground zero.
https://x.com/RonDeSantis/status/2023970893630673077?s=20
It is a dark delight, to be sure.
But is it an…afternoon delight?
The NYC budget is now double what the whole State budget was a couple decades ago (a mid-aughts figure of 64 billion has stuck in my head). And I doubt that’s just inflation. A lot of it is out-of-control spending.
A lot of it is
out-of-control spending.fraud, waste, and abuse.The worst fraud waste and abuse is government spending done efficiently and correctly. Fuck you, cut spending.
Good.
Nothing but violence comes out of that.
But it’ll take a while to reach central Kentucky. I can enjoy it in the mean time.
I imagine most NYC dwellers don’t have cars.
Car ownership rates depends on the borough.
Is a borough an independent city?
I know the term exists.
Peter Parker works in one, lives in another.
Formerly independent. Just a term that came into play when NYC which was just Manhattan and a bit of the mainland to the north later gobbled up all its neighbors.
Is anyone following the Meta/Zuck trial? The basic premise that platforms are addictive and therefore should be held accountable for any negative outcomes is extremely concerning.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/metas-zuckerberg-faces-questioning-youth-addiction-trial-2026-02-18/
On CNBC this afternoon.
That’s pretty much the rationale behind the Australian social media ban:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/generational-screen-time-brain-rot/106278964
Liquor and retail industry lawyers watching with bated breath.
How long will we still have the internet? Because this stupidity is going to shut the whole thing down.
Ice cream is addictive for kids. And pizza. No one under 18 should consume anything that hasn’t been prepared by the government lunchroom ladies.
I’m not sure government lunchroom ladies are preparing anything that could be classified as pizza.
You can just taste it:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ba/6f/3c/ba6f3c3f38126a6b420b75dc82523e80.png
Nation of paupers
Larry Fink has a blunt message for Americans: you haven’t saved enough to retire comfortably, the billionaire BlackRock CEO wrote in his 2025 annual shareholders letter.
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm with $14 trillion in assets under management, surveyed 1,000 registered voters, asking how much they’d need to retire comfortably, and the average response was roughly $2.1 million.
I have questions.
Inflation is going to make that $2M seem like $1M.
My nest egg would have been sufficient in 2019.
It’s only about a third of what we need to retire.
Even the squirrels dare not defy SF for fear of what he’d unleash. Everything is back to normal. Time to go out in search of lunch.
It’s not that Fink is completely against the idea of 401(k)s, but he argues they’ve failed as a mass retirement solution because they place the onus of financial planning on the individual rather than an employer or institution. He’s historically argued for more mandatory savings toward retirement and employers should play more of a role.
I’m sure Larry would be glad to assist. You know, for a handsome remuneration.
And mandatory.
Sure, and when the account goes down, the employee sues on basis of poor advice.
place the onus of financial planning on the individual
Remember, we’re now all about embracing the warmth of collectivism! Individual autonomy? Pfft. Independence? Pfttt. I wonder how many 100’s of millions of lives will have to be sacrificed to this next iteration of collectivism?
How’s that mandatory savings towards retirement called social security working out? Of course the only word in the set of mandatory, savings, and retirement that is actually accurate is “mandatory”. But I’m sure you’ll come up with a better scheme. What could possibly go wrong with tying employees even more closely to their job than the current fiasco that is ‘health care’ policy does?
IOW, eat a shotgun barrel Fink.
Sandi, is that you?
But has he peed in Poland?
Vomited in Venezuela?
I’ve pissed in the Yukon and thrown rocks in the Euphrates. And loved only one woman, with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand
These will all come up in the ATF auction right?
I could use an M107 or two.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/atf-seizes-36k-guns-trump-administration-shifts-focus-from-biden-priorities-cartels-street-crime
Far left progressive libertarians are talking about the overreach on the Trans issue.
https://x.com/i/status/2023889208914702437
Much discussion centers around “backlash” against overreach.
What stuns me is how few people who swim in the media criticism water all day can see these strategies for what they are.
To be clear: trans rights is *only* an issue because the DNC and their activists thought they could make a winning issue by provoking a conservative reaction. This has been their strategy for decades.
In this case they spent many years providing conservatives and then having the press call them bigots.
To wit: first was the Charlotte ordinance on bathrooms. The people on the city council admitted there was no issue at the time, but they wanted to create an issue to brand Republicans as intolerant. It worked.
The NBA pulled their all-star game. The NCAA pulled 7 championship events. The ACC moved their football championship.
None of those people had ever cared one whit. But now they were forced to protest such “bigotry”.
Before Charlotte, there was Drag Queen Story Hour. Entirely designed to provoke protests by putting drag queens with children. Again, entirely designed so that the reaction could be framed by the media as the *true* provocation and those reacting as some sort of extreme intolerant bigots.
Once activated, the on-the-ground activists ran with it, and burly men with long hair started showing up in LA fitness womens locker rooms, kids swim meets…. and the backlash went global.
“Far left progressive libertarians”
Like jamming a transmission into reverse on the freeway at 80.
See magazine, Reason
Used to be cosmotarians. Not anymore.
When fruit sushi comes off as a raving right-wing reactionary in your group, you have moved way, way to the left.
For those who dont see it, this is a tried and true method of political persuasion. I’ll leave it to our resident historians to detail how this was used in the early 20th century, but in recent history we saw the same thing used with race.
Once we had a post-racial society, the democrat leadership saw a looming problem. Blacks might abandon them in large enough numbers to collapse their power base.
So began a campaign to re-create a racist society.
It started with small attempts at creating outrage. Carefully chosen with ambiguous facts to get white people to line up on the other side. Treyvon Martin and his “white” Latino killer. The gentle giant who was murdered by police with hands up “dont shoot”!
But these incidents didnt move the overall needle that much, despite spawning Black Lives Matter.
They needed a backlash, not just disagreement. They needed a group of racists to point to.
Enter the civil war monument.
They began touring the south, looking to provoke a fight with locals by attacking civil war memorials. There were quite a few attempts. They tried Stone Mountain twice. They tried several small towns in Kentucky. They didn’t have much success until Charlottesville. There They had a local populace who didnt want to get rid of their iconic monuments. And they had a local government willing to assist. And a national press willing to follow a script.
So they didnt just protest. They provoked an actual physical fight, using Antifa to attack a bunch of middle aged white folks (who national anchors like Savanah Guthrie gleefully called Nazis – after accidentally calling the antifa rioters nazis)
They had the good fortune to get someone killed. Finally, they had their reaction. The script was off and running.
They got a lot of mileage out of this. But it didnt accomplish what they wanted. Despite blocking some freeways, white people and black people still didnt see each other as enemies in any meaningful way or numbers.
So they kept trying to find a national news story. They came close with the guy who had been robbing construction sites and got chased down by a family in a pickup and killed after a struggle for a shotgun.
But still no luck.
Until George Floyd. Finally they had their moments. And big city mayors were ready. They held back police and allowed antifa to run wild.
Who knows if it would have worked without Covid lock downs. But it worked. Finally we had some real racial tension. Still not that big of a deal. But it was there.
Then the big push.
You must be anti-racist. All white people are racist. Almost no white males admitted to top universities at all, regardless of grades.
They have their backlash. They can point and call people racist.
Power to the uniparty.
To be fair, watching the likes of Chuck Schumer in full rage-mode against the thought of keeping dudes out of girls’ locker rooms is funny as hell.
So the point is that we should all be frustrated with a nation that lacks the critical thinking skills to see these little performance art pieces for what they are… attempts to manufacture issues out of whole cloth and get people to take sides.
One wonders how much of the Biden administration’s importation of illegal immigrants was designed to create an immigration issue that could be exploited to call everyone racist and stir up passions among Latino voters. This wouldn’t be the first time that has been done. I still think the major driving factor is economic (both parties seem to want a large pool of illegal immigrant labor), with a nod to the conspiracy theorists who note that across the west, dilution of western citizens with people who do not share western civic values seems to ba a major government goal.
I think Glibs infected my phone.
It’s formatting on new windows I open is all screwed up. I wonder if there are larger issues on the internets than just what’s going on here.