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Well folks, not to repeat myself, but...shit be cray.
The news continues to roll out like it was being written by John le Carré, chained to radiator in David Cronenberg's basement, subsisting entirely on moonshine and Sour Patch Kids.
Reeling from yesterday's tropical grade shit show, we were grateful to wake up to relatively little new breaking nonsense. Oh sure, the security detail of a visiting autocrat beat the living snot out of some American citizens right in Washington, and the Shart House didn't seem to mind, but shit like that isn't even gonna land on page six when you're competing with Putin and leakers and piss hookers.
The day was actually mostly quiet. TOO QUIET, you thought to yourself, terrified to say it out loud lest you conjure a push notification alerting you that our President had ordered an invasion of Portugal, because he couldn't find old episodes of Harry and the Hendersons streaming anywhere and Steve Bannon told him there were bootleg DVDs for sale in Lisbon.
The Hairplug That Ate Deceny gave the commencement speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. It was kinda fun to watch him all pissy and listless, struggling to read fancy words like "scourge" off the teleprompter for a bit, but I got bored and shut it off, which means I missed the part where he started whinging like Tonya Harding about how In All of Human History Ne'er Was A Man So Cruelly Mistreated Especially By the Media Which is Fake and Also it is Unfair That My Daughter Won't Let Me Touch Her Butt, Boo Fucking Hoo. He's so fragile. He's white and tiny and fragile and he melts away when facing the tiniest bit of heat. Like a snowflake. Yeah. Hey, somebody should make that a thing, "snowflake."
We had a laugh when Shrieking Canker Sore Alex Jones lost a fight with Yogurt, and had to tell the whole world what pathetic liar he is. The courts have been super mean to Lexie of late, prolly because all judges are lizard people or cucks or perhaps even Lizard Cucks, but it sure is fun watching assholes lose, ain't it?
Further schadenfreude was dispensed when the story broke about the GOP candidate in the forthcoming Montana special election owning a stake in a company that's accused of paying off ISIS. Yes, THAT ISIS. Mike Pence is out in Montana campaigning for a dude who owns stock in a company that gave money to ISIS. Anyway, how 'bout them Mets?
Also Robert Fisher, State Rep in New Hampshire, resigned in the wake of the revelation that he founded the "Red Pill" subreddit, which is like the hair catcher in your shower, except instead of your pubes it gets clogged with dickless man-children who can't handle watching women think and talk and have jobs, while they're too busy screaming racial slurs at strangers on Xbox Live to understand why their lives aren't awesomer.
We found out Il Douche appointed Sheriff David Clarke to a high level post in the Homeland Security department, possibly because Sebastian Gorka was tired of consistently being labeled Most Evil Fuck Amongst This Cadre of Evil Fucks, because Sheriff Dave is Stone Cold Evil, famous for such smash hit singles as "Advocating Violence Against Anyone Who Disagrees With Me," "A Mentally Ill Man Died My Jail Because We Didn't Give Him Water For a Week and Without Water You Die," and the timeless "Also a Baby Died in That Same Jail Literally a Baby Because We Denied Medical Care to a Woman in Labor WE KILLED A FUCKING BABY" and this monster is the kind of fellah the Marmalade Shartcannon believes should be in the federal government. While Sheriff Dave announced how happy he was to join Team Shart, the hiring doesn't seem to be official just yet, so maybe there's hope.
And then right about Happy Hour, Rowdy Roddy Rosenstein popped up and said "Hey you guys, what've you been up to today? Did you have a nice lunch? Didja see that thing with those romper shorts things for guys? I think they're weird, but wear what you like, amiright? Oh, also I just appointed the former head of the FBI as the special counsel to investigate Shart Garfunkel and all his Russian buddies. SHIT ON MY REPUTATION, WILL YOU YOU MOLTEN SHERBERT GLOB? HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES? ROSENSTEIN OUT!" and he strode away shooting his middle fingers in the direction of the oval office like they were pistols and he was a cowboy, it was actually super cute.
Robert Mueller ran the FBI for twenty years, and stood up to the unconstitutional fucks in the Bush administration and knows his shit and for an extra nut punch to the Candycorn Skidmark, is buds with Jazzy Jim Comey. Basically he's the precise mathematical nightmare scenario of a special prosecutor, if you happen to be a certain over-tanned cheap crook who shall remain nameless. Rod apparently didn't tell the President or his Loyal Huntin' Dawg Beauregard about this until he'd already signed the order, and half an hour before he told the world. 118 anonymous sources inform me that the president "Pissed himself, cried, and began sucking his thumb."
We also learned from WaPo that Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy and however many other congressscum were talking about how they thought Putin was paying Trump waaaaaaay back last summer when skies were blue and Presidents didn't haphazardly give state secrets to Russian spies. The real kicker was that when WaPo called these scuzzbags up for comment, they were all indignant and cocky and "What a fake gnus lie, are you serious?" until the reporters said "No there is literally an audio recording of this conversation do you want to change your bullshit story?" and they went "Ummmmmmm...would you believe we were maybe joking around as Ryan and McCarthy are renowned for the humor, dude, Paulie has a tight five on starving single mothers to death," and the world said "No, and also the fact that you'd lie about something so petty means we can cite this story any time you tell us anything for the rest of your lives at THAT, you shits, is motherfucking FUNNY."
Oh, and back when we were young and innocent, remember when Sally Yates told us that she spent the waning days of her Acting Attorney Generalship waving her arms and saying "Hey Fuckheads, that Michael Flynn jag is no damn good and works for foreign powers and has probably broken some not-insignificant laws?"
WELL, a late-breaking NYT scoop reveals that long before AAG/Super Ninja Yates gave the heads up, FUCKING FLYNN HIMSELF TOLD EVERYBODY HE WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR BEING A FOREIGN AGENT AND SHARTBOY FUCKING HIRED HIM AS THE SHEEPFUCKING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ANYWAY.
Fuck. Can we impeach him for not being able to understand the entirely predictable consequences of literally anything? He's like Lennie in Of Mice and Men, only instead of crushing small animals to death, it's Democracy.
(As a fun side effect, this story seems to be the first one that snares Mike Pence in a big lie, don't fantasize about changing them Oval Office curtains just yet, you Puritan fuck.)
It also turns out that during the transition, Flynn worked to influence military decision-making in a manner that benefited Turkey, the very nation that WHOA HOW WEIRD happens to be the one that Lil' Mikey was foreign-agenting for (for half a million bucks) without telling anyone. SERENDIPITY I GUESS.
Anyway, the King of the Netherlands revealed that he has also been secretly working a side gig as an airline co-pilot for 21 years.
That's totally fucking true, by the way.
All of this is true. Sleep tight, fellow inmates in this asylum we call...America.
underpants
(182,766 posts)tblue37
(65,319 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Me neither
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)and Sour Patch kids...". I am so cribbing that one!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)cry baby
(6,682 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)There is no "mt" iPhone typo I can't friggin fix
Sancho
(9,067 posts)babylonsister
(171,056 posts)alterfurz
(2,474 posts)Rude Pundit-worthy!
heaven05
(18,124 posts)flying rabbit
(4,632 posts)C Moon
(12,212 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)>............I'm gonna die............
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Ferret's shit be epic.
Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)Yesterday alone there were at least 5 massive Trump stories that in normal times would have been big enough to dominate the news cycle for weeks. The bomb shells are dropping so fast they are diminishing each other.
Total insanity.
irisblue
(32,967 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,645 posts)of Art Garfunkel. Using the name (even "disguised" of one of the finest voices in American rock over the last 60 years as a descriptor of Trump is beyond the pale.
orangecrush
(19,522 posts)Carry on!
dalton99a
(81,450 posts)Actually very very beautiful.
tblue37
(65,319 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,186 posts)Damn Dude/Lady
Wished I had just found ya so that I could read all the past posts for a while. It's been a pretty impressive month of Ferret post toasties
Kali
(55,007 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)sheshe2
(83,735 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Too damn funny!
Raster
(20,998 posts)...
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Keep 'em coming, You know we need the REALITY CHECK!
eleny
(46,166 posts)k&r.
TheFerret
(629 posts)Workin' up a blog, hope to be live soon...ish!
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,583 posts)We calls 'em like we sees 'em.
Hekate
(90,642 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I could get addicted!
nolabear
(41,959 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)Someone up-thread already mentioned "The Hairplug That Ate Decency," but I have to give it another shout-out.
I wish I could remember all the names TheFerret comes up with for our idiot-in-chief. I am howling in laughter.
Keep it up, TheFerret. Reading your posts is like having dessert, over and over and over. Delicious.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)You look up 'win' in the dictionary, and you come six spots before Charlie fuckin' Sheen, my dawg ... or ... wait, what the hell is a ferret anyways?
A rodent?
Well, whatever it is, it's BADASS, and as I say, clearly made up of Grade A, Prime, Bad-to-the-Bonafide WIN.
Keep On Keepin' On, Brother (or sister, or gender-ambivalent being, or whatever)!!!