“What do you mean, ‘I have to stay here?’” the hat asked. It was humid in the Buenos Aires hotel room and his seams seemed bloated and tight.
“You have to stay in the hotel room,” Donald told his hat.
“But you’re taking him!” the hat wailed. The hair turned around a couple of times on Donald’s head and then settled in his usual spot.
“I can’t go all bald,” Donald said.
“He can’t go all bald,” the hair said.
“Put me in your suit pocket at least!” the hat pleaded.
“Secret meetings,” Donald said.
“Secret,” the hair agreed. “They check us for listening devices.”
“I’m not a listening device,” the hat said.
“But what if they confiscate you?” Donald asked. He drained the can of Diet Coke he was holding and dropped it on the floor.
“Maybe we should take him along,” the hair said contemplatively.
Donald crossed to his hotel minifridge and got out another can.
“Do they have Diet Coke in China?” Donald asked.
“Of course they do,” the hair said.
“Probably made out of fish or some shit,” the hat grumbled.
“If I ever go to China, I’m definitely bringing my own Diet Coke,” Donald said. He slipped the new can into his jacket pocket and walked to the door of the hotel room.
“Are you really leaving me here?” the hat asked.
Donald placed the TV remote on the bed beside the hat and said, “Just watch some TV, we’ll be back before you know it.” He donned his Tariff Man cape and stalked from the room, his hair cackling.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Buenos Aires traffic…
Jinping pulled the hat out of his coat pocket on his way to the summit meeting. “Speak to me,” he said, staring into the mirrored glass of the limo partition. “Speak to me.” The hat that read MAKE CHINA GREAT SOME MORE said nothing.
“TAR-IFF MAAAAN!” Donald declared as he leaped into the meeting room. The other G20 leaders stared at him, stunned into silence.
“Why isn’t anyone else wearing a cape?” he quietly asked his hair.
The hair said nothing, just waved a grim tendril at John Bolton’s mustache.
Tarriff Man!
Somebody light the Free Market Man beacon!
He just whispered back, “No”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVBCG6ThDk
Im watching the Bush funeral as I eat my lunch. The front row is the Trumps, the Obamas, and the Clintons, all in the same pew.
God bless whomever assembled that seating chart.
Some staffer is having a laugh somewhere.
Bill seems perpetually slack-jawed, breathing through his mouth. The one close-up I saw of Hillary, her eyes seemed kinda glassy. A look Im familiar with.
It’s the chardonnay…
It’s a state funeral, you stack the president and ex presidents in one area so that the Secret Service has an easier time keeping an eye on the crowds around them.
I like my theory better, that some glib plant did it just to be a dick.
However, your explanation does seem more practical.
I will only believe it is a prank seating chart if Melania is between Barak and Bill.
Melania no doubt feels safer next to Bill than Hillary.
Eh. They both smell like old piss, so it’s a toss-up.
But Bubba’s getting too old for his antics, while hillary could jab her with a poison needle while in the midst of a coughing fit.
Bill always seemed like that wealthy guy you’d meet in person and you’d be struck by his BO and breath.
You don’t want to have a hand in Hillary’s gom jabbar.
Wait…wait…are we talking about Hillary’s propensity for murdering people or her love of poon here?
I was talking about the trail of corpses.
Bill looks like my gross and disgusting and repellent and awful-human-being uncle, who, in his heyday, did his best to try to grope every female within arm’s reach.
*gag* *shudder* *vomit*
Wait, you said that *I* looked like you gross and disgusting and repellent and awful-human-being uncle.
I feel othered.
Well, if that’s what you heard…
Also, you have candy.
With Biden looking over her shoulder.
Still, pretty awesome.
+1 magic bullet
While that is a desirable (or not) side effect, it’s all about protocol and ego stroking.
Donald, Melania, Barry, Michelle, Bill, Hillary, and what little is left of Jimmy Carter. Nary have so many rogues, rapists and reprehensible ruffians ever been so assembled.
Ruh-roh.
So the orgy is after the memorial service then?
BARF…
How about the last time you, JW, and Swiss were over at our place?
This sounds like the setup for one of those “A donkey, a soccer player, a biker, and a cheap Tijuana hooker walk into a bar” jokes.
I am the donkey.
except, perhaps, when Thomas Jefferson dined alone
How will the Hat and Hair behave at the funeral?
MAKE CHINA GREAT SOME MORE!
Is this what the Chinese Hat looks like?
What? This isn’t some peasant’s hat. This is Top Man hat. It’s one of those tall regal looking hats. Which would also better allow for racial stereotypical portrayals of Asian teeth.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/04/democrats-really-do-love-republicans-when-theyre-dead/
The only good Republican…
OT: Which one of you was hardest hit by this revelations?
Or do you mean, *softest* hit?
OT: Which one of you was hardest hit by this revelations?
I’d say it was the perv doing the measurements that brought that average age down.
You mean Hillary Wang from this AM’s comment threads?
blackmath, Anchorage, United States, 3 minutes ago
This is shocking, horrifying and awful! I guess getting cancer from it can be pretty bad too.
Heh.
When Trump came in and was shaking hands, Hillary just stared straight ahead and refused to acknowledge him. Larf!
I have no love for her but I can see why. It’s petty but Trump along with Obama are two reminders of her failure to win the ultimate prize. Having to see them at every state function because she’s married to a former President has to sting.
I’d let it go
I hope there are thousands more of these occasions before she finally dies.
While I agree with the sentiment, I’d prefer she not be around for any more of them…
SF, you are a man that inspires me!
I especially want her to hang on long enough to see the first woman elected President is a Republican. No knife left untwisted.
If I were Trump, I would have just stood in front of her with my hand out until she was forced to shake it. The more uncomfortable, the better.
You know, it all is pretty funny. The conventional wisdom is to portray Mr. Trump as childish and irresponsible. And on some level, that may be true. But, these people, themselves can’t seem to behave beyond the level of a petulant high-school clique.
The front row is the Trumps, the Obamas, and the Clintons, all in the same pew.
Is the Ascended One ogling Melania?
If you mean Bill, of course.
If you mean Barry… don’t be silly he doesn’t like women!
Bary did let Michelle sit next to Bill. What sort of husband does that?
Don’t worry, Bill’s not interested in men.
OK, got a laugh out me.
OT: So after watching “The Creepy Line” I feel even better (if that’s possible) about dumping Google, Facebook and not using a smartphone. They are indeed forces of evil, HOWEVER, at least for now you have the option of not using them. I advise you to exercise that option. IMO, they already are more powerful than any government on Earth and, hell, going down the SciFi dystopian future, they may very well supplant government in 100 years. The documentary predictably prescribes regulation as the solution, and it’s pretty likely that they’re going to get their wish. I think that’ll cause more problems than it fixes; the only viable option is not using the service and waiting for some new and superior technology to come along. However, the Orwellian tech surveillance genie is out of the lamp and there’s no putting it back. If you really want true privacy, better to ghost from society and live off the land in Interior Alaska.
As an aside, the Lefties and Dems who have such a love affair with Silicon Valley because they see them as allies should be very, very careful. Just because they’re your friend today, they could so easily turn on you and any precedent you set to bludgeon your opponents could eventually be used to bludgeon you (see: Harry Reid’s nuclear option).
You could just get a burner and throw it away every 2-3 years and get a new number. Cheaper, too.
IMO, they already are more powerful than any government on Earth and, hell, going down the SciFi dystopian future, they may very well supplant government in 100 years. The documentary predictably prescribes regulation as the solution, and it’s pretty likely that they’re going to get their wish.
We need common sense
fascismindustrial policy.If you mean Barry… don’t be silly he doesn’t like women!
Tell that to the Danish Prime Minister
I think Michelle is gazing in a more, uh….’determined’ way at her.
I think I read somewhere that she just has resting bitch face. Believe what you will.
Looks to me like Barry is getting a look from Michelle that promises hell to pay, later.
and by “pay” you mean…
Good Lord that comment is loaded with so much Un-PC potential even I wont touch it.
May’s proposed vassalage agreement to the EU only makes sense when I remember she has always been a Remainer. The UK bargaining position was superior, as they needed the EU far far less than the EU needed them, and already had a grat many anglosphere countries (US included) waiting to trade with them. Even a slipshod negotiator would have gotten something other than a position worse than where the UK started. The only explaination is intentional sabotage, since a clean break with no agreement is less awful than what is being proposed.
*envisions rice paper laid on the floor of Parliament, with a wakizashi laying alongside . . . *
Oh, wrong (former) island empire. Too bad.
I wondered about all that. My reaction to situations where my position was utterly rejected and I couldn’t really help anyone was simply to resign.
If the kingdom later came to appreciate her, she could return then on those terms; otherwise, she was really always out anyway.
here’s what I was reading yesterday about May and Brexit.
. . . essentials drying up, travellers stranded, motorways gridlocked
Maybe one needs to read the rest of that edition to find the better examples, but this one suffices.
I don’t give a toss what the UK or EU does, but this is a funny argument: it’s essential to stay in the EU so that an international bureaucracy can “manage” what no government should be managing at all; I’m gobsmacked that a nominally market-centered newspaper doesn’t recognize this. It reminds me of the lousy devices Rand uses in Atlas to make her case: painting everyone in the most extreme colors and presenting no other reasonable alternatives so as to render her preferred narrative as the only plausible one; when progs do this, we rightly point and laugh.
The part of the article saying agriculture would collapse was particularly risible. When New Zealand dropped farm support and opened their markets their farmers adjusted and their sales increased. Maybe they could take a lesson.
Thanks> I forgot that better example where the self-declared pro-market newspaper argues in favor of protectionism:
We shouldn’t get out of the wrong agreement the wrong way because wrong policies will be washed away
The other fun (weekly?) part of the Economist is when they preach to Americans about our founding principles; for the Economist, freedom is a buffet, pick and choose which philosophies and histories one wishes to recall.
Well, I thought I had something in common with my leftie friends. I assumed they would be against state funerals for a President (republican).
But no, state funerals apparently are a necessity in any republic.
Cut off their pensions while we’re at it. We’ve entered a phase where all these shysters leave office and cash in on their influence and celebrity. Or they came into office with so much money that it’s irrelevant. Another Truman is highly unlikely. Tax dollars are going to support political activity.
Plus, I don’t really care if some guy who for some time held political power dies penniless.
I am still of the mond that an ex-president ant their family does not require security or offices or staff provided at the country’s expense. In fact, more or less everything being funded should cease when the inauguration of their replacement comes around.
All good ideas.
I was also challenged on my ideas on “a military salute and flag in your honor as a veteran.” All spending is good spending.
“No matter how bad you think the people in DC are, they are 100 times worse.” – Mark Levin former Chief of Staff for AG Edwin Meese
Working for Meese, he should know.
Has there ever been an AG who was not a mendacious POS?
No, but Reno and Meese were horrible even by AG standards.
Good God, look at Reno’s record before her appt. Ed Meese is a fucking saint compared to Reno. Come to think of it every person who held the office is a sunday school teacher compared to Reno.
Geez, way to lob a softball over the plate.
My contempt for Eric Holder is not exceeded by my contempt for any other AG.
That was part of my point. He would know.
We’ve beat this to death, but now even Wall Street is mimicing Pence
“Some men have voiced concerns to me that a false accusation is what they fear,” said Zweig . . . One, an investment adviser who manages about 100 employees, said he . . . thought about leaving his office door open, or inviting a third person into the room.
I tend to have all meetings in a glass room and seldom do one-on-one with anyone regardless of how they identify.
Christ, I was sure I had that link correct.
When porn actresses are on the metoo train, you know it’s jumped the shark.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/29/i-was-treated-like-a-piece-of-meat-adult-actress-waits-for-metoo/
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“Performers talk to one another,” he said. “This is a very incestuous group of people.”
“When somebody is doing something that is problematic, generally speaking, that person doesn’t stick around long, they’re going to get blackballed.”
they’re going to get blackballed.
Does this mean what I think it means in the porn business?
“This is a very incestuous group of people.”
I bet.
Of course, it says nothing about many women’s norms that Moonves manipulated at least 4 CBS employees under circumstances that sound transactional .
I don’t rationalize this away whatsoever, but we must admit that a lot of women think this sort of thing is better than trundling back to Kansas. If prostitution were legal, every time a slurp was exacted and the laborer tweeted how unfair it was that she didn’t get a supporting actress role for it on Arrested Development, the #MeToo would rain down like manna.
“Mr. Moonves ‘received oral sex from at least 4 CBS employees under circumstances that sound transactional and improper to the extent that there was no hint of any relationship, romance, or *reciprocity*'”
(Emphasis mine)
So if he went down on them after he blew his load, there’d be no case?
It’s that toxic femininity.
Uh huh. Rock solid strategy there, Lou. It certainly demonstrates the profound grasp of risk management that I would expect to see in a professional investment advisor.
The risk: a false accusation of sexual harassment.
The risk mitigation strategy: don’t be an asshole.
WhenIf one of my people brings me a risk mitigation strategy that does nothing to reduce the risk, they get told that they are here to manage risks, and if they can’t do that, then they don’t need to be here.Yeah, come on guys. The worst that can happen is for you to lose your career, professional standing, income, and ability to ever be employed again. So buck up and get in there!
Ruh-roh!
https://ijr.com/dicks-stocks-fall-rifles/
Wow, so all that bluster had nothing to do with principle?
The question remains, though: the next time I go buy a gun (not at Dick’s because I’m a judgmental, grudge-toting dick), what do I wear instead of team Bloomberg ?
http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l800/pict/221779504850_1.jpg
Hey Q, that’s on eBay? I want to buy one just to add encouragement for the guy who thought of it.
‘It’s inevitable that we’re going to alienate some consumers’
Then dont be political, dumbass. I am against gun violence too. The best way to end it is to have constitutional carry in every state; you know, follow the law.
The only reason they do this is because they think it will gain them new customers. Maybe it will – for awhile. And when the political winds change, suddenly they’ll find that “being political” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
To be pedantic, the reason is to raise profits. It’s possible they won’t gain new customers, but if they get rid of a low profit margin/high competition item while also shoring up the suburban mom demographic, making themselves more desirable destination for generally high spending group, they could come out ahead.
They are not going to come out ahead. They are going to end up in the unemployment line.
Descriptive is not prescriptive. They took a gamble and looks like they lost.
I generally favor this sort of thing: they should draw the folk they want, I don’t want to go where I’m not wanted, and neither side wants to consort with the other: fewer disappointments, misunderstandings, and discomfort all around. Post what you believe on the front door and let the chips fall where they may.
I’m the opposite. I don’t care if you secretly hate my guts as long as you sell me a product at a price I want.
I generally favor something else:
The old-fashioned belief that politics had no place in business. I want every business to be completely apolitical and agnostic on politics. I don’t want to hear about the cashier’s or the CEO’s political beliefs, ever. Trust me, they don’t want to hear about mine, either.
Let me retrench: I’m okay with it and its residue. If they want to have it out, it’s refreshing that the cards are on the table and everyone can vote with their feet and dollars
although it would be nicer if I didn’t hafta wade through a company’s agenda to enjoy its services.
My son goes the next step even: he will trade with anyone regardless of their politics, even pure enemies, so long as he gets good value.
The old-fashioned belief that politics had no place in business.
Completely agreed. I could accept it if it were a privately owned firm doing whatever the hell the guy who owned it felt like doing with his own money. But, most of these cases aren’t that. They’re publicly traded companies. To me, that changes the rules. You go public, it isn’t your company. You’re just an employee. And these stunts don’t serve the company’s owners – the shareholders. It’s a case of managers buffing their own popularity and social cache by passing around money that isn’t theirs.
The old-fashioned belief that politics had no place in business. I want every business to be completely apolitical and agnostic on politics. I don’t want to hear about the cashier’s or the CEO’s political beliefs, ever. Trust me, they don’t want to hear about mine, either.
IMO this works as long as the business isn’t being run politically. However, just like I want to foster an environment where people who run their business as racists and other bigots out themselves, I want people who run their business in politically/morally incompatible ways to out themselves. For instance, if a business donates to planned parenthood, I want to know so that I can avoid giving them my money.
To be pedantic, the reason is to raise profits.
Honestly, I’m not particularly convinced that that’s true. Are firearms really “low-margin”? That doesn’t sound like something I’d suspect.
New firearms are low margin.
New firearms are low margin.
Honestly, that surprises me. Thanks for the heads up.
It’s a market. The low prices we have today are tacit proof that the higher prices that we often knew in the past decade included some sort of scarcity premium; supply and demand were at play, although we have no reason to believe that the costs were doing anything other than coming down steadily. The margins today are ostensibly acceptable, and they have been better in the past.
That said, I don’t want in the business, and I don’t know if swoosh-plastered Chinese crap is relatively more profitable. Dick’s return on assets is trending steadily down , so they’re either on their way out or it’s a great time to invest.
I used to get emails from them, finally got around to unsubscribing the other day, vowing I would never buy anything from Dicks again. Under “reasons” I wrote in “CEO politics”.
I did the same thing, but wrote that I couldn’t buy from a company that was lobbying to deprive poor people of their civil rights.
I did that as well.
The hiring of anti-2nd A lobbyists by a business for the sole purpose of pushing through gun control legislation is crazy. Dick’s has essentially become a commercial arm of the Democrat party. The board must be smoking crack to allow that action.
The company will not reconsider its stance on gun sales at their stores, but it is uncertain if stopping the sale of hunting gear will help them grow.
I’m pretty sure dropping merchandise for an entire sport isn’t going to help them grow.
The hat that read MAKE CHINA GREAT SOME MORE
Trademark that shit and you could get some sales on CafePress!
From the sidebar of the Porn Star #metoo article.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/03/gay-wrestler-makes-homemade-porn-to-prevent-lgbtq-suicides/
I just… umm… ok.
Sure he did.
“Probably made out of fish or some shit,” the hat grumbled.”
Good line, SF
I often wish we could work out an endorsement deal with Diet Coke. I mean, I could talk about it a whole lot more for financial consideration. A WHOLE lot. Like, all the time, Coca-Cola…
French government’s regulatory burden has so retarded their industry that protestors are relegated to 200 year old, single-bladed, manually-operated woodchipper designs.
Stihl had no final solution other than to refer the barricadeurs to an Essen-based designer of community showers. Husqvarna officials were unavailable due to ice-racing season.
Whap!
Kennedy said Ocasio-Cortez lacks a working knowledge of basic economics, which makes it impossible for her to explain how her democratic socialist policies would work in practice.
“It’s the downfall of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, because it’s built on a foundation of yogurt.”
She said Ocasio-Cortez cannot explain why socialist economic policies would benefit the country because she doesn’t understand how money and wealth are created.
Spot on.
Not sure which “Kennedy” though. The one from the Reason podcasts, or what ever they were? Is she still at FOX?
*link contains a video which I will not watch.
I drink too much. Yesterday someone pointed out that the first step on the road to socialism is to ignore the concept of scarcity. I cant remember who it was but that really is the heart of it. I dont know where Cortez matriculated from with a degree in economics, I am too lazy to look it up and I have to go stir my black bean soup, but that school should have every staff member transferred to a groundskeeper/trash collector/ditch digger position, the infrastructure dismantled brick by brick and the ground salted.
Columbia. Her wealthy father shipped her off to Boston University.
*makes note*
Never ever ever, under any circumstances, hire anyone who graduated from Columbia.
Agreed.
Next we raise Wharton in honor of Tariffman!
There’s an interesting game going on around this one here. The left trumpets her as a risking star regularly which, along with her innate stupidity and ignorance, makes her a fun target for the right. Which then generates more stories from the left on how the right is supposedly obsessed.
In this instance, her retarded comment on Medicare was going to provoke the party leadership because it’s essentially calling them out, as well. If its so easy to pay for, then why haven’t they done it? Her regular drivel they’ll ignore while pretending that she isn’t a complete embarrassment.
I find her to be a fine politician. Democracy is stupid. This person is clearly not qualified to hold a position of any authority whatsoever, but is now a national figure because a few thousand NY primary voters chose her because her policy positions are the intellectual equivalent of the crappy Facebook memes your crazy and destined-to-die-alone aunt posts all day.
The truly scary part is that her fellow millennials just nod in agreement with every bit of mindless drivel that falls out of her mouth.
She’s on Fox Business and Outnumbered on Fox quite often.
If I were Macron, I would start to worry seriously! Haha! pic.twitter.com/yIvsMboPpa— Onlinemagazin (@OnlineMagazin) December 4, 2018
French government’s regulatory burden has so retarded their industry that protestors are relegated to 200 year old, single-bladed, manually-operated woodchipper designs.
Stihl had no final solution other than to refer the barricadeurs to an Essen-based designer of community showers. Husqvarna officials were unavailable due to ice-racing season.
Grifters dont know when they are pushing it too far. Macron is going to get a lamp post with his name on it. Al Gore is jealous.
My note was frivolous: there’s no coherent, workable agenda on either side. As much as I like France, I enjoy the pointless rivalry anyway: it makes even less sense than TastesGreat versus LessFilling.
Democrats are so smart they have trouble condescending enough that we rubes can understand.
She got one thing right.
And anytime you have to tell someone how *x* you are, it means you really aren’t.
Except she’s not telling people how smart they are. Which would be, not very smart at all. She’s telling them how smart they think they are. Which is, holy shit, look at the big brains on us!