I for one would like to say I wholeheartedly approve of Peoni's wardrobe pick in this installment, Roy. That is definitely an ensemble Peggy, er, Peoni would wear. The veiled pillbox hat is a bit much, but maybe she's trying it out now to see if she wants to incorporate it into her Inauguration outfit (shudder).
1) A pillbox hat must be named after a reinforced-concrete gun emplacement? Because all my pills come in bottles.
2) Back when women's hats used to come in boxes, weren't the boxes short and cylindrical, kinda like a pillbox? Why didn't they just call it a hatbox hat?
Look, what if Trump had picked competent people whose histories didn’t evoke disgust in the Americans who voted for Harris and the many more who couldn’t be bothered to vote but might not want tariffs on all the imported cars and TVs and kitchen appliances and clothing they charge on their credit cards to fill the emptiness of a life of endless drudgery? We might be in real trouble then!
Doesn't Buff wear shoes anymore? I thought going barefoot was for hippies. Seriously, why hasn't the show replaced him yet? Far right pundits are a dime a dozen.
Thank goodness the media is working so very hard to sanewash picks like Kennedy. NBC Nightly News had a segment on him last week in which he was allowed to blandly assert he's "never been anti-vax."
This assertion was not challenged nor even given any context. Because it is clearly not the role of journalists to inform the public.
Seems like things are setting up for a perfectly cromulent " Give them what they want, good and hard" event. Too many innocent people are going to be injured or killed to be looking forward to it. I'll probably laugh though and hate myself a little bit.
They started it.
Michael Berube' ( who I always confuse with the guy that sounds like Sinatra) wrote a very good piece. Not actually a feel good piece, but he sees a practical way forward from this mess. Much like Roy's thoughtful columns from last week,
I know today at some point, I'll be dealing with someone, tilting my head and nodding along to some bullshit, as one does, when I will suddenly begin to fantasize about a wire attached to their scrotum , connected to one of those big 6 volt batteries like your grandpa used to use in his flashlight.
Rapists, white supremacists, conspiracy nuts (not to imply the names don't fall into overlapping categories). Who could have predicted revenge against the country would begin immediately?
The first time around, seeing how many people couldn't bear even saying his name reminded me of 1980s stories that Romanians privately referred to their despots as only "He" or "She." Melanoma's Einstein visa was a flashback to world-renowned scientific genius Elena Ceausescu. This, especially, made me think of the illustrious Elena. https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/85smsp/ivanka_trump_cosplaying_as_a_scientist/
My sister tried finding anyone else who'd noticed the similarities. That led her to some posts by Tamar Wyschogrod, who'd lived in Romania while her pediatrician husband studied AIDS there, early in the '90s. In 2018 Wyschogrod wrote about the Ceausescu connection, comparing Romanian orphanages from hell to official US policy of kidnapping immigrant children.
Holy Mother Of Venus! Guy's got Iron Crosses tattooed on his chest, and HE'S going to be Secretary Of Defense?! Not even trying to hide anymore. Can't wait until Red Staters die of easily preventable diseases.
Oh, and Drumph is going to try the generals that got us out of Afganistan for treason. Here come the public executions - Jesse Waters must be having to change his pants by the hour.
How so? Looks like the Iron Cross medal to me. Yes, it references the Crusades, but I think that's what Schikelgruber had in mind....
ETA: OK, Hindenburg and Prussia, my bad, should'a done my homework (it was nagging me). (Odd the paperhanger would go with a Prussian symbol....oh yeah, for the generals, duh). Point stands IMHO, based on the Teutonic Order, but shithook from Fox don't know that.
Was just listening to an episode of Straight White American Jesus that covered this; the thing is the Jerusalem Cross, a symbol of the Crusades and a Christian Nationalist dogwhistle.
C'mon, Chafe, that trans thing is so mid-November. The pipin' hot take these days is that Harris failed because she kept sayin' the economy was GRRREAT! like some kind of Bidenomics Tony the Tiger, instead of speaking to THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE.
It's lefties (socialists, even!) who keep making this claim that she only talked about how good the economy was and never addressed peoples concerns about high prices.
I for one would like to say I wholeheartedly approve of Peoni's wardrobe pick in this installment, Roy. That is definitely an ensemble Peggy, er, Peoni would wear. The veiled pillbox hat is a bit much, but maybe she's trying it out now to see if she wants to incorporate it into her Inauguration outfit (shudder).
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"The veiled pillbox hat is a bit much" it's a new age of confident glamour!
I thought she was trying for "Jackie at the funeral."
Can we not all, all of us come together in agreement that this is just OOF?!
Questions, so many questions:
1) A pillbox hat must be named after a reinforced-concrete gun emplacement? Because all my pills come in bottles.
2) Back when women's hats used to come in boxes, weren't the boxes short and cylindrical, kinda like a pillbox? Why didn't they just call it a hatbox hat?
That's Steve – Outsidea th' Box!
and it's not even leopard skin
I agree, but I must say that although I only glanced at the pointy toe pumps for a second, my feet still hurt.
My daughter has always called that style of shoe “witchy toes”.
An apt nickname for Peoni.
Her pillbox hat is made from the skins of face-eating leopards.
The Edith Prickley of political commentators.
I liked the suit too, and Chafe's sport coat was a mere $425, actually within the means of most of us peasants. Well, some of us peasants ...
Look, what if Trump had picked competent people whose histories didn’t evoke disgust in the Americans who voted for Harris and the many more who couldn’t be bothered to vote but might not want tariffs on all the imported cars and TVs and kitchen appliances and clothing they charge on their credit cards to fill the emptiness of a life of endless drudgery? We might be in real trouble then!
Doesn't Buff wear shoes anymore? I thought going barefoot was for hippies. Seriously, why hasn't the show replaced him yet? Far right pundits are a dime a dozen.
Not many are as far (gone) as Buff, though!
My point exactly. There must be a pundit somewhere who agrees with Buff but is smart enough not to make death threats in public.
It must be a pretty solid contract.
Co-signed by a well-funded executor.
Til death or verified claims of sexual harassment do us part.
Thank goodness the media is working so very hard to sanewash picks like Kennedy. NBC Nightly News had a segment on him last week in which he was allowed to blandly assert he's "never been anti-vax."
This assertion was not challenged nor even given any context. Because it is clearly not the role of journalists to inform the public.
Information isn't profitable.
Good column!
Seems like things are setting up for a perfectly cromulent " Give them what they want, good and hard" event. Too many innocent people are going to be injured or killed to be looking forward to it. I'll probably laugh though and hate myself a little bit.
They started it.
Michael Berube' ( who I always confuse with the guy that sounds like Sinatra) wrote a very good piece. Not actually a feel good piece, but he sees a practical way forward from this mess. Much like Roy's thoughtful columns from last week,
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/a-reality-based-election-reckoning/
I know today at some point, I'll be dealing with someone, tilting my head and nodding along to some bullshit, as one does, when I will suddenly begin to fantasize about a wire attached to their scrotum , connected to one of those big 6 volt batteries like your grandpa used to use in his flashlight.
Big thanks for the link.
2 marks for 'as one does', which got me thinking that, in your context, every damn one of us does, or at least aspires to.
I keep thinking "Cabinet of Dr. Cagliari" for some reason.
Anyhow, this semester's course, Intro To Kakistocracy 101, is going to be. . .interesting.
Dr. Cagliari's cabinet was approved in the Senate by a 98-0 margin, with 2 abstentions: Bernie Sanders (Ind.) and Tommie Tuberville (Conf.)
Which one's the disembodied arm that grabs at you as you walk by? I'm thinkIn' Gaetz.
Jesus,Roy! The wire up the pantleg was a nice touch.
A little song, a little dance, a little wire up your pants...
So push the button, he's such a glutton for makin' whoopie (cushion)
Just waiting for Kari Lake to be nominated to something involving Election Security
Stress tester?
Chad-taster?
Voting machine amperage meter?
Ballot drop-off insides scrubber?
Brooks Bros mob inciter?
Jan 6 re-enactor?
Oh, you just KNOW that J6 re-enactor will become a thing. "This is an authentic period fire-extinguisher I'm throwin' at those cops!"
Dude. Attsa matta fo you?! You flyin' the upside down flag right side up!
Not a leopard-skin pill-box hat I hope.
The better to eat her face, my dear...
"UPRIGHT: Uh huh."
Is read in my household "Uh...Huh."
Rapists, white supremacists, conspiracy nuts (not to imply the names don't fall into overlapping categories). Who could have predicted revenge against the country would begin immediately?
The first time around, seeing how many people couldn't bear even saying his name reminded me of 1980s stories that Romanians privately referred to their despots as only "He" or "She." Melanoma's Einstein visa was a flashback to world-renowned scientific genius Elena Ceausescu. This, especially, made me think of the illustrious Elena. https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/85smsp/ivanka_trump_cosplaying_as_a_scientist/
My sister tried finding anyone else who'd noticed the similarities. That led her to some posts by Tamar Wyschogrod, who'd lived in Romania while her pediatrician husband studied AIDS there, early in the '90s. In 2018 Wyschogrod wrote about the Ceausescu connection, comparing Romanian orphanages from hell to official US policy of kidnapping immigrant children.
https://smokingtowardnewjersey.blogspot.com/2018/06/are-we-heading-toward-american-version.html Under Reich Minister for Umsiedlung nach den sud Miller, major updating will be needed.
From March 2020: Romanian orphanages from hell and HIV, compared to what obviously was about to become a COVID hellscape in the US. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-covid-19-response-a-troubling-echo-of-the-past/
Thanks to the same cause as in 2020, we'll be able to add Czar Brain Worm’s achievements in making preventable childhood disease great again.
Hilarious, as always. And Roy, you are giving Derek Guy a run for his money on the fashion front.
blushes!
Holy Mother Of Venus! Guy's got Iron Crosses tattooed on his chest, and HE'S going to be Secretary Of Defense?! Not even trying to hide anymore. Can't wait until Red Staters die of easily preventable diseases.
Oh, and Drumph is going to try the generals that got us out of Afganistan for treason. Here come the public executions - Jesse Waters must be having to change his pants by the hour.
*Technically* it isn't the Iron Cross, but it *is* a reference to The Crusades, I believe. It's MORON LABE shit at the very least.
I think the Deus Vult tattoo is the one that's got Republican senators rubbing their chins. Of course they'll end up voting for him anyway...
Voting for him? Please, we be recessing Congress to rubber stamp these flakes.
How so? Looks like the Iron Cross medal to me. Yes, it references the Crusades, but I think that's what Schikelgruber had in mind....
ETA: OK, Hindenburg and Prussia, my bad, should'a done my homework (it was nagging me). (Odd the paperhanger would go with a Prussian symbol....oh yeah, for the generals, duh). Point stands IMHO, based on the Teutonic Order, but shithook from Fox don't know that.
Was just listening to an episode of Straight White American Jesus that covered this; the thing is the Jerusalem Cross, a symbol of the Crusades and a Christian Nationalist dogwhistle.
The big cross with the cross in each quadrant is a Jerusalem Cross, which is big white nationalist symbol these days
I had no idea it was that explicit a shout-out. Good grief.
"Look for. . . the Moron Label. . ."
Male version of the Tramp Stamp?
Nah – it says we're fabled to make it in the USA!
Wouldn't that be a Trump Stamp?
"Isn’t that what the scientific method is all about? Compromise?"
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You spelled kompromat incorrectly.
Obey, peasant. You're in the Control Group now.
[scrounging 'round the attic, blowing dust off the unrecognizab]– – THERE it is!
I KNEW I'd need this Cone Of Silence again someday!
C'mon, Chafe, that trans thing is so mid-November. The pipin' hot take these days is that Harris failed because she kept sayin' the economy was GRRREAT! like some kind of Bidenomics Tony the Tiger, instead of speaking to THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/16/harris-campaign-working-class-union-economy
When the Republicans FUBAR the economy they'll be screaming "WhY dIdN't HaRrIs WaRn Us?"
She's SO DEVIOUS!
Handing back the country with all this fixed-up infrastructure, gotta be a TRICK.
I'm leaning more towards the screaming being about "why did Biden and Harris do this to us?"
As we all know, Trump can never fail, he can only be failed.
What a mistake we all made, electing Harris. Should have gone with Trump instead.
I mean, one of her VERY FIRST POLICY PROPOSALS was stopping price gouging, but, you know, COMMUNIST.
It's lefties (socialists, even!) who keep making this claim that she only talked about how good the economy was and never addressed peoples concerns about high prices.
Like, for example, this guy:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/18/harris-biden-democratic-party
That sounds very familiar! A paraphrase of Thomas Pynchon perhaps?