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Every Sunday morning Carlos makes pancakes and café con leche for breakfast; this past Sunday, after he finished the coffee, I started to clean the espresso machine and noticed the hopper had no coffee grounds in it. At first I thought the grounds were stuck inside the machine, but no … it wasn’t that. Carlos had forgotten to put coffee in the hopper when he made the coffee and was going to serve steamed milk and hot water! I laughed hysterically and told him I would put it on my blog.

Later in the day, however, I’d forgotten the story and asked him to remind me of what had happened, which surprisingly he did, but then added:

“Oh, is someone getting old and forgetful?”

“Says the guy who forgot to put coffee in the espresso machine?”

Never a dull moment.

This Tuxedo Memory is from January 2017 right before we went to Miami for a long weekend and is entitled:

“This.That.

Tuxedo wanted to go and tried to stowaway in a suitcase but, alas, was unsuccessful.”

Every time we packed for a trip, or even a quick getaway, Tuxedo would pout and sulk, and then lay down inside the suitcase in the hopes that we wouldn’t seem him.

On the stand this week Michael Cohen recalled asking Hair Furor how Melanie was taking all the news of him schtupping the porn star and then paying her off and, ever the gentleman who clearly loves his wife, Hair Furor said:

“How long do you think I’ll be on the market for? Not long.”

He didn’t care about Melanie, only the damage the story would have on his campaign.

From my last job interview:

Interviewer: Are there any accomplishments from your last job that you’re particularly proud of?

Me: I’m responsible for ten new rules in the employee handbook.

Interviewer: That’s great! You wrote them?

Me: That’s not what I said.

And yet I got the job and I bet my boss loves/hates it every day!

A federal judge has rejected another request from former Hair Furor minion Peter Navarro to cut his four-month prison sentence short. Navarro is in prison for contempt of Congress after ducking a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the January 6 insurrection and asked Judge Amit Mehta to cut 30 days off his sentence in exchange for 30 days of supervised release.

Mehta said no.

Sorry, not sorry traitor.

The other day I read a story about Rudy Giuliani’s latest whine about The Big Lie and crying about his victim hood, and I went to Twitter, er, X, to post about it using my usual Rudy hashtag, #DrunkleRudy, to describe him. I also wanted to tag him so I went to his X page and saw this:

My day had been made; I felt almost as good as when the late Kirstie Alley blocked me.

Make this make sense: nearly one in five voters in battleground states say that President Biden is responsible for ending Roe v Wade, despite the fact that he supports abortion rights and that it was the three judges Hair Furor appointed who made it possible to overturn Roe.

According to pollsters, however, those voters are Hair Furor supporters AKA voters and are clearly less educated.

MAGAts are stupid? You don’t say?

Mitch Walker is an Australian model-actor with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, but Would You Hit It?

The Funny Papers

David Horsey, Nick Anderson, Marc Murphy, Drew Sheneman, Mike Luckovich, Darrin Bell, Kevin Kallaugher, RJ Matson, Jack Ohman, Michael de Adder, Clay Bennett, JD Crowe, Ted Littleford,

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Barack Obama, on _____ and this non-concession mess:

“We have gone through a presidency that disregarded a whole host of basic institutional norms—expectations we had for a president that had been observed by Republicans and Democrats previously. And maybe most importantly, and most disconcertingly, what we’ve seen is what some people call ‘truth decay,’ something that’s been accelerated by outgoing President _____, the sense that not only do we not have to tell the truth, but the truth doesn’t even matter.”

I miss the days when presidents didn’t lie … or at least they weren’t lying every single time they opened they fat Big Mac yap.

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Samuel Alito, Supreme Court Justice, attacking same-sex marriage in a hyper-partisan speech to the conservative Federalist Society:

 “You can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Until very recently, that’s what the vast majority of Americans thought. Now it’s considered bigotry.”

No, it’s not considered bigotry because you’re allowed to think what you choose. What you cannot do, and I would have thought a Supreme Court Justice would know this, is use your so-called religion to legislate against others since this is not a single faith country. But Alito seems to want to create laws and allow discrimination based on the religious beliefs of one segment of society,

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Peter Navarro, White House Trade Adviser who has lied consistently about the pandemic and _____’s response to it, is now lying about _____ winning that election a week ago …the one he lost in both popular votes and the Electoral College vote:

“We’re moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second _____ term. I think it’s really important before people’s heads explode here, to understand that what we seek here is verifiable ballots, certifiable ballots, and an investigation into what are growing numbers of allegations of fraud under signed affidavits by witnesses. My own view, looking at this election, we have, what appears in some sense to be, an immaculate deception.”

But, Peter, you goose-stepping lapdog, where’s the proof. Not just your flapping lips, but actual proof.

:::crickets:::

Fucking lying asshat.

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Mary T., Chris Cuomo’s CNN show to discuss her uncle’s loss, the Republicans who continue to prop him up, and why he’ll never run again:

“For the first time in his life, Donald is in a situation he cannot get out of. He’s never won anything legitimately in his life, but being on the winning side of things has always been so important to him, that he’s willing to lie, cheat, steal, use other people’s money, power, influence to get the win. That can’t happen now. So, he’s in a state of terror, he’s in a state of rage, and he’s in a state of total helplessness right now. This [GOP goose-stepping] is the awful part of this. He’s capable of anything. However, he should have been rendered completely irrelevant by now. Whether he concedes or not, it doesn’t matter. It’s up to the Republicans to say it’s over, we’re moving on. As long as they don’t do that, they continue to give him power. They continue to give him the ability to rile up his base and other people who voted for him. It’s an incredibly dangerous situation. They’re making an incredible miscalculation here here by pretending that they can control this monster that they’re unleashing upon us. [But] he never put himself in a position where he can lose like this again, first of all. Secondly, it would mean for four years that he is playing essentially a supporting role, which will be very difficult for him to sustain. And you know, most importantly, in four years he will be the same age Joe Biden is now. However, Donald is a very unhealthy person. He has a terrible diet. He doesn’t exercise. And he has, you know, psychological disorders that continue to go untreated. So, I don’t even imagine that he’ll be able to run in four years. Plus, the fact of course he may be looking at serious charges being brought against him.”

I agree with her, but it’s that last line … ‘he may be looking at serious charges being brought against him’ … I like the best.

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Mark Zuckerberg, saying Steve Bannon doesn’t deserve to be banned from Facebook after calling for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci:

“We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate certain policies before we will deactivate your account completely. While the offenses here, I think, came close to crossing that line, they clearly did not cross the line.”

I was banned … I was banned …from Facebook for 24 hours for saying Americans are dumb, but Bannon gets a pass on calling for the murder of Fauci.

Fuckerberg.

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Nicholas Connors, conservative activist who worked on Lindsey Graham's 2016 presidential campaign:

"I worked for Lindsey Graham's 2016 presidential campaign as his national director of ballot access and delegates. As part of his senior staff, I spent one-on-one time with Graham advising him on different political initiatives related to getting him on every primary ballot and securing delegates for the Republican convention. I worked for him because I saw him, at the time, as a man of moral clout who was unafraid to speak his mind and who would be a good guide for the American people. Needless to say, I was wrong."

Lindsay was lost when McCain died and had no one to cling to so he went after _____ and has become his little bitch boy.

Sadly, he doesn’t see how pathetic he’s become, but I can’t wait to see him turn when _____ is finally gone.

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Jake Tapper, CNN ” State of the Union” host, mocking attempts by _____’s lawyers in those election fraud cases:

“It’s been, frankly, embarrassing. No evidence, unprofessional, desperate. Increasingly _____ campaign lawyers seem to realize being involved in fact-free desperation efforts to overturn the results of a free and fair election might not necessarily enhance their resumes. On Friday, nine cases from _____ and his allies intended to attack and undo President Biden’s victory in key states. nine cases rejected or dropped—nine. So, what now? Well, now the president of the United States is literally embracing a deranged conspiracy theory that millions of votes were changed using software. The problem here, a group of national, state, and private election officials issued a statement Thursday promoted online by the cybersecurity czar at the Department of Homeland Security with this sentence bolded: ‘There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,’ unquote. The problem with Republican officeholders arguing that President _____ has his right to present his evidence in court is that the president’s efforts do not have anything to do with evidence. They have to do it with hearsay and rumor and insinuations and lies and conspiracy theories. Once these efforts have been rejected by every court, outgoing President _____ will likely continue to make them. How long is the Republican Party going to continue to defer to unhinged mendacious desperation led by the gang that couldn’t sue straight?”

Damn Jake! Nailed it.

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ISBL Asshat of the Week: Peter Navarro

White House trade adviser—and why he is suddenly _____’s expert on COVID  and hydroxychloroquine is beyond me—Peter  Navarro could be the ISBL Asshat of the Week almost every week because of the idiocy that dribbles from his lips, but last week he took it to a whole new level.

Appearing on CNN last week with Erin Burnett to talk about the merits of hydroxychloroquine—which has already been disproved by the FDA—Peter Navarro said this:

“All right. Let me say this to you, OK? I reach out to all your viewers. Scott Adams — you know Scott Adams, right? He’s the guy who wrote the Dilbert cartoon. He did a beautiful 10-minute video on Twitter, and the thesis of the video is that CNN might be killing thousands because of the way they’ve treated [hydroxychloroquine]. So, I would just ask, I’ll let Scott Adams’ video be my defense on this.”

Yes, a comic strip writer is his expert on a COVID-19 cure, but Burnett was not having it:

“Can I just say something? I find that to be offensive because he’s a comic strip writer. I just said that because I want to be clear. I just said Dr. Fauci, Dr. Brett Giroir, and Dr. Deborah Birx.”

And when Navarro continued to present hydroxychloroquine as the cure-all, Burnett remined him one more time:

“Peter, first of all, on a basic level, you’re an economist, not a scientist.”

And that’s when Navarro snapped and revealed the real reason is this drug’s pusher:

“Let me tell you why I got involved with this. I got involved with this because as a Defense Production Act coordinator I’m literally sitting on 63 million tablets, 63 million tablets, of hydroxychloroquine that would help possibly four million Americans stay alive. And so I’ve got that stake in the game.”

Yes, he’s pushing it because our government already bought and paid for tablets that we have since discovered don’t work.

We wasted money, we wasted lives. All because an economist wanted to play doctor, and, perhaps, I don’t know, I’m just guessing because this is the _____Administration, maybe he made some coins off the sale of 63 million tablets.

Peter Navarro. The ISBL Asshat of the Week.

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Anderson Cooper, CNN, blasting _____ for his asshatted assertion that the U.S. is “in a good place” when it comes to COVID-19:

“[W]e’re in a good place? Those are his actual words. I didn’t actually believe it when I first heard it, but it’s on tape. California, Hawaii, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma and Texas on Tuesday shattered their previous daily record highs for new cases. The biggest jumps occurred in Texas and California, the two largest U.S. states, with more than 10,000 each. [But] the man whose every decision is based on what will get him reelected, what will energize his base and appeal to people’s most primal fears, is saying that governors and school officials don’t want schools open because of politics, because it benefits them politically. … There is no political benefit keeping schools closed and kids upset and parents angry and parents unable to work because their kids are stuck at home. Oh, yeah, politically that’s going to serve you really well by doing that. Even as new modeling from the University of Washington today forecasts 208,000 people in this country may be dead of COVID-19 by Election Day. Which the president still does not seem to think is all that bad. Because he is still repeating the same falsehoods as ever about testing and mortality, which fell for a while, but is once again sadly, sickeningly, ticking up. … We’re so deep down a well of lies it’s hard to realize how dark this is.”

The Occupant of the White House is so desperate not to be seen as a loser in November that he is willing to watch people die.

And if Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen can be let out of prison because of the horrors of COVID how is putting children back in schools considered safe?

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Peter Navarro, White House economic advisor and asshat, saying—without a stitch of evidence—that the Chinese Communist Party “spawned” coronavirus in a lab and then sent infected citizens to “seed” COVID-19 in the U.S:

“They spawned the virus. They hid the virus. They sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals over here to seed and spread the virus before we knew. The dateline is November. They spawned the virus, probably came out of the biological lab. For two months, they hid the virus from the world and the possibility of a pandemic, behind the shield of the World Health Organization. While they did that, they vacuumed up the world’s protective equipment, including 2 billion masks. While they were preventing any domestic travels from Wuhan to Beijing or Shanghai, locking down their transportation network, they freely sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals on aircraft to go around the world. …They deliberately allowed Chinese nationals to come to the United States, Italy, and everywhere in between, who were infected, while they were locking down their own transportation network.”

How is it that these so-called officials can blatantly lie about the virus? And, let’s say China did create the virus and spread it around the world… please explain how the rest of the world has flattened the curve while ours skyrockets.

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Adam Perry, hot gay Broadway actor and dancer, on suffering from symptoms of COVID-19 four months after being diagnosed:

“It’s quite terrifying to be honest. There’s nothing like the feeling of not being able to breathe. It’s not like getting the flu or a cold virus, where you start getting better after a few days, and your trajectory is on the way up. With this thing, I would feel better for a few days, and then it would just come and smack me again. In the very beginning, I had two days of symptoms, and then I felt like a million bucks for three days, so I thought I was off the hook, I thought I had beat it, but then it came back with a vengeance. I’ve been doing eight shows a week for 15, 20 years. I’ve been doing eight-minute tap dance numbers. My lungs have always been great. But now the capacity is not the same, and I’m just praying daily that they’ll get back to normal and I’ll be able to do those things again. I cried watching the news … Cases are spiking. The president makes jokes about coronavirus. People shame others for wearing masks. The country is making it a partisan issue. It’s not a partisan issue, it’s a human issue, we have to take care of each other. It really is about teamwork with this thing, and we all have to come together, wear a mask, socially distance for as long as we can until there’s a vaccine, because this thing has an infinite variable of outcomes for people. There’s short term, long term, and we just don’t know, so it’s just really important that people take care of each other, and I just really don’t want other people to have to experience what I experienced.”

From the mouth of a victim … listen.

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Laura Ingraham, stoking fear because she’s a White Supremacist and that’s how they roll:

“Some folks are still trying to pretend that all of this mayhem will stop if we just let the Democrats have the White House. Well, we have the Democrats in power in Atlanta, in Chicago, in New York, in Baltimore and beyond and beyond. What’s happened? So, this thinking is foolish and naive. The Democrats have shown they’re utterly unwilling to restrain the hard left from seizing property and committing violence. And as for the culture wars, why would the radicals stop when they think they are winning? So, ignore the folks who say that it just gets better when we let the Democrats have more power. The only way this situation gets better is for Democrats to lose, and lose so often that they are forced to apologize for their relentless slandering of our nation’s history, and by extension, the majority of our citizens who still unapologetically love this country and still believe that it’s worth celebrating.”

People like Ingraham and Carlson and _____ stoke fear and hate in this country and then point the finger at those trying to fix the problem.

People like Ingraham and Carlson and _____ are the problem.

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John Kennedy, GOP Senator from Louisiana, saying Americans should build a fallout shelter if Joe Biden wins the presidency.

 “Well, the vice president says he will transform America. He will. And the American people will pay a fearsome price. His foreign policy is hugs and hot cocoa for America’s enemies. If he’s elected, my advice to you is to build a fallout shelter. Build a fallout shelter. You’ll need it. Weakness invites the wolves. His domestic policy, he wants you—he wants all of us to surrender our money and our freedom, every bit of it, to Washington.”

Perhaps we can all hide in the bunker _____ uses to hide from scary people?

Siddown, asshat.

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Bubba Wallace, NASCAR drive, asking Americans to meet hate with love after _____ falsely accused him of carrying out a "hoax" involving a noose found in his garage stall:

“Your words and actions will always be held to a higher standard than others. You have to be prepared for that. You don’t learn these things in school. You learn them from trials and tribulations, the ups and downs this crazy world provides. You will always have people testing you. Seeing if they can knock you off your pedestal. I encourage you to keep your head held high and walk proudly on the path you have chosen. Never let anybody tell you [you] can’t do something! God put us all here for a reason. Find that reason and be proud of it and work your tails off every day towards it! All the haters are doing is elevating your voice and platform to much greater heights! Last thing, always deal with the hate being thrown at you with LOVE! Love over hate every day. Love should some naturally as people are TAUGHT to hate. Even when it’s HATE from the POTUS. Love wins”

HATE from POTUS! Preach, Bubba.

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_____, Racist-In-Chief, n Confederate Flag:

“My stance is very simple: It’s freedom of speech. You do what you do. It’s freedom of speech. NASCAR can do whatever they want, and they’ve chosen to go a certain way, other people choose to go a different route.”

But you said it wasn’t Free Speech when Kaepernick took a knee, so it appears that it’s only Free Speech to _____ when it’s also Hate Speech.

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Trevor Noah, The Daily Show, mocking _____’s ‘Obamagate’ lie in which he accuses a real president of a crime but won’t say what that crime is:

“That’s just weird. According to _____, Obama committed the worst political crime in American history. But _____ won’t tell us what the crime is because it’s so obvious that you don’t even need to ask. Even though, everyone needs to ask. _____ is treating Obama less like a criminal, and more like they’re in a relationship and _____ feels like Obama messed up … [imitating _____] … ‘If you don’t know what you did wrong, well I’m not gonna tell you … My friends were right about you, never date a Leo!’”

That’s the _____ MO; put out a lie and tell people he knows, but he’s not gonna tell you.

Less presidential and more fourth grade bully.

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Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, criticizing former President Barack Obama for his criticism of _____:

“I think it’s a little bit classless, frankly, to critique an administration that comes after you. You had your shot, you were there for eight years. I think the tradition that the Bush [presidents] set up—of not critiquing the president who comes after you—is a good tradition.”

Ironic that a man who proposed sending no financial aid, or medical supplies to Blue States is calling anyone else classless.

Obama called _____’s response to the coronavirus “an absolute chaotic disaster” ,,, which it was and is … and expressed concern about Billy Barr and The DOJ’s decision to drop charges against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, saying it was a move that puts our “basic understanding of rule of law…at risk.”

Take a gander in the mirror, Bitch McConnell; that’s what classless looks like.

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Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee Chair, ripped Bitch McConnell for saying Obama “should have kept his mouth shut” instead of criticizing _____ in a private call:

 “I’m sure Mitch is aware that a grown ass black man who happens to be a former president has agency to speak his mind on how his successor is managing this crisis, especially since his successor has yet to keep ‘his mouth shut’ about him. And ‘classless’?”

Mitch is a pandering goose-stepping party over country fuck America lowlife.

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Bryan Adams, Canadian rocker, putting forth the China Virus lie of social media, as part of a caption to his song “Cuts Like A Knife”:

“Tonight was supposed to be the beginning of a tenancy of gigs at the [Royal Albert Hall], but thanks to some f**king bat eating, wet market animal selling, virus making greedy bastards, the whole world is now on hold, not to mention the thousands that have suffered or died from this virus. My message to them other than ‘thanks a f**king lot’ is go vegan. To all the people missing out on our shows, I wish I could be there more than you know. It’s been great hanging out in isolation with my children and family, but I miss my other family, my band, my crew and my fans. Take care of yourselves and hope we can get the show on the road again soon. I’ll be performing a snippet from each album we were supposed to perform for the next few days.”

Fuck off, you racist hack. You’re pissy because you aren’t making coins, and clearly your bank account is more important than human lives …as it is with racists.

Adams, when Twitter dragged him for being a racist asshat, apologoized, saying:

“Apologies to any and all that took offence to my posting yesterday. No excuse, I just wanted to have a rant about the horrible animal cruelty in these wet-markets being the possible source of the virus, and promote veganism.”

Um, Bryan, you can do that without the racism.

Just sayin’.

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Peter Navarro, White House trade adviser, ridiculing the media’s coverage of the staggering 14.7% unemployment rate caused by the COVID-19 pandemic:

“That was a pity party yesterday on the Sunday shows. This is not the Great Depression. Anybody who thinks this is the Great Depression doesn’t understand either history or economics. [_____] built the strongest and most beautiful economy before the virus took hold.”

I guess 33 million people out of work is a pity party for a fucking one-percenter.

And Peter, it matters not what ____ did before the virus—and let’s be clear, he inherited a good economy—it matters what he’s done since…and that’s the fuck up, asshat.

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Rand Paul, going after Anthony Fauci at this week’s all-GOP Senate hearing on the coronavirus crisis.

“Shouldn’t we be at least be discussing what the mortality of children is? … It’s not going to be zero but it almost approaches zero. Between [the ages of] 18 and 45, the mortality was 10 out of 100,000. … I hope that people who are predicting doom and gloom [about opening up various economies around the nation] will admit that they were wrong if there isn’t a surge because I think that’s what’s going to happen. As much as I respect you, I don’t think you’re the ‘end all,’ I don’t think you’re the one person that gets to make a decision. We can listen to your advice but there are people on the other side saying ‘there’s not going to be a surge.'”

Ah, yes, it’s true, there are people on the other side who say there isn’t going to be a surge, but they are doctors or scientists or medical professionals, they’re all GOP asshat who want to economy to return so their traitorous inept racist rapist leader can win an election.

Who cares if children die as long as ____ gets a second term.

PS Lockdown hasn’t been good to Rand; he looks like the Unabomber.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, replying to Rand Paul:

“First of all, I have never made myself out to be the ‘end all’ and the only voice of this. I am a scientist, a physician, and a public health official. I give advice according to the best scientific evidence. … You use the word ‘we should be humble about what we don’t know.’ We don’t know everything about this virus, and we really better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children. Because the more and more we learn, we’re seeing things about what this virus can do that we didn’t see from the studies in China or in Europe. For example, right now, children presenting with COVID-19 who actually have a very strange inflammatory syndrome, very similar to Kawasaki syndrome. I think we better be careful, that we are not cavalier in thinking that children are completely immune to the deleterious effects.”

Huh. He sounds like he knows what he’s talking about while all Rand Paul can do is stomp his feet and whine about dead children not being that big a deal.

Who do you choose to believe? The man who wants to stop this mess, or the man who doesn’t really care if children get sick and die as long as the nail salons open.

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