Archive for September, 2024

The Transcript is Out

September 11, 2024 By: Half Empty Category: Uncategorized

For those who DVR’ed the Great Debate last night, but can’t bring themselves to watch it again (like me), do I have some good news for you: ABC just provided a transcript of the entire 90-minute exchange between, TFG, Comma-La and the ABC moderators.

I saw the whole thing at a watch party at The Salon from start to finish, but some key exchanges got by me. Like when Alfredo at the Dairy Queen stood up in front of everyone wildly gesticulating about what TFG had just said.

“Put out? Did he just say that Kamala put out?”

Everyone looked at him like he’d just eaten a cat.

But now we know that what Alfredo says he heard was what was actually said:

“FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t know. I don’t know. All I can say is I read where she was not Black, that she put out. And, I’ll say that. And then I read that she was black. And that’s okay. Either one was okay with me. That’s up to her. That’s up to her.”

Oh. My. God.

What did TFG mean by that? Because anyone who was alive before 1980 knows what it means for a female to “put out.”

If a woman “puts out” in geezer-speak, it means she is of loose morals.

It means she is “easy”. Oh, sorry, by “easy” I mean, she requires little persuasion to engage in sex.

That’s what he said. And that’s what Alfredo heard – and no one else. Until now.

People tend to dismiss what TFG says off the cuff, and when caught, Donald often dredges up the tired old school playground retort: “I was being sarcastic.” But what else could he have meant?

On another but related subject, you can commemorate your survival of 90 minutes of lies, obfuscation, and incipient dementia by going here to get your pair of Trump Debating Socks.

They’re only $18 a pop. For only $15.99 more you can buy a tiny comb to brush his golden locks with. It’s found nowhere on the website, but it’s like the In-N-Out Secret Menu – if you know, you know.

But there is no truth to the rumor that if you buy all of TFG’s Digital Trading Cards at the scandalously low price of $99 he may send you a square inch cut out of one of these socks that he was secretly wearing on his own bare feet at the debate last night.

He may not be much of a debater, but man, that guy could sell a ketchup Popsicle to a lady wearing white gloves in the middle of August.

An Apology

September 11, 2024 By: Nick Carraway Category: Uncategorized

About eleven years we moved into our current home. The neighborhood borders on a field that is currently unused. They did build a new neighborhood on one side and so the wild life that lived there had to relocate. We occasionally see raccoons, possums, pigs, coyotes, and even the occasional alligator.

This presented problems for our cats at the time. They were indoor/outdoor cats that had been pretty safe at our previous home. This changed in the new neighborhood. Three of our cats went missing within the span of about a year. Two of them were sickly. One of them we were quite certain just ran away to die on her own. The other was suffering from a likely bladder infection, so we thought the same had happened to him. However, the third was a perfectly healthy cat that had grown close to our daughter. We thought it was highly unlikely that he would have run away. We suspected foul play.

Maybe a I should say fowl play. Around that time we noticed than an owl started to perch on our roof. We called him “Owlie”. In a house with as many as four cats he just seemed like another family pet. Yet, we couldn’t get past the stories. Supposedly, owls have been known to swoop down and take smaller cats and dogs. We immediately suspected Owlie.

Needless to say we don’t allow our cats outside anymore. It’s just too dangerous for them. We do have a 100 pound Rottweiler/lab mix that should be able to fend off Owlie and any of his friends. Those include coyotes that bay at night and occasional pigs that look for food in the yard. He is naturally proprietary about our home and has adopted the cats as members of the family.

Without any warning Owlie left us. We had naturally assumed that the motives were sinister. We no longer let our cats out and the dog is too big to go after. So, we assumed he went to a new house that had cats roaming around. Maybe he flew south for the winter, but I don’t know if Owlie does that sort of thing.

Our thinking evolved as we saw the other wildlife. Maybe an alligator was quick enough to take care of Owlie. Maybe one of the coyotes took him out in a titanic battle between fowl and varmint. Maybe Owlie flew too close to the feral pigs . I suppose the state of nature provides for endless possibilities. Either way we had be casting aspersions on Owlie and all of his animal friends to everyone we knew. We warned them about their pets and the impending danger that these “undocumented” animals obviously brought to our neighborhood. They were bringing death, disease, and property damage with them. Sure, I suppose some of them were nice animals, but most came from deranged insane asylums for wayward beasts.

As it turns out, Owlie and his furry friends were likely victims of human migrants in search for food. I have to admit that I’ve never seen migrants perusing the local greenbelt for food sources, but maybe they do it at night. Maybe it was one of the many workers that came through the neighborhood to mow the common areas or trim the trees. Maybe it is damn dirty migrants posing as hard working contractors and repairmen. We are onto their dirty little secret. They are hunting down Owlie and his friends.

We’re sorry Owlie. We hardly knew you and we blamed all of this nasty death and destruction on you. You were likely a victim yourself of nasty migrants in search of food. The liberal media doesn’t want you to hear about this. They want you to believe Fluffy ran away or got lost. They want you to believe that Fluffy may have encountered a wild “undocumented” animal. It is pure scapegoating. They are all victims of the cycle of migrant/pet violence. Do better mainstream media. We expect more from you and wherever you are Owlie, we’re sorry.

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Owned

September 10, 2024 By: Half Empty Category: Uncategorized

So I lost the Bingo game. But it was not my fault. For some reason, my dog started barking at TFG, and I missed a square. (She has only barked at the TV once before when she saw Toto pulling the Wizard of Oz’s curtain aside).

There is little more to say about this lop-sided debate that hasn’t already been said by Taylor Swift.

So I won’t because right down the street, right now, my Haitian neighbors are putting on an awesome barbecue celebration ( I’m on the Left Coast, so the sun sets here almost last). The main entree, of course, is Felis domesticus.

They cook a mean Calico.

Let’s PLAY Debate Bingo!

September 10, 2024 By: Half Empty Category: Uncategorized

Hey Kids!

Let’s have some fun today and play Debate Bingo!

It’s FREE!

Since the debate tonight isn’t going to actually affect the election at all, we can at least have some giggles watching it. The Salon has lovingly stolen these 4 Bingo cards from some website or other and is providing them to use for tonight’s Presidential Debate. 

It’s Easy! All you have to do to play is download and print the four Bingo card images you see below, get four Sharpies (the preferred tool to sign checks to porn actresses and alter hurricane tracking maps), pop the popcorn and uncork that bottle of cab that you’ve been saving (or drop a couple of “funny gummies” if it’s legal – or nearly so).

When you hear Harris or TFG say something that’s shown in one of the squares, take your  Sharpie and mark the square. Five in a row, column or diagonally and YOU WIN! 

What you win is strictly up to you and your friends, but I suggest a buy-in of at least a Hamilton. Toney players might want to bump it up a bit and pitch in a Franklin each, but that’s your call.

Enjoy!

Where to watch? Apparently any channel you want except for QVC – they have marcasite rings to sell.

 

Debate Prep 101

September 09, 2024 By: Half Empty Category: Uncategorized

In order to do some debate prep of our own today, let’s hone our skills at spotting a lie. In this case, however, the challenge is to spot which of the nine quotes listed below made by actual human beings were uttered by TFG, and which (at the risk of violating Godwin’s Law) were made by Adolf Hitler.

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.

When I recognize a concept as correct, I not only have the duty to convey this to my fellow citizens, but moreover the duty to eliminate contrary interpretations.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law which will include long term prison sentences so that this depravity of justice does not happen again.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Now the truth is that all but one of the quotes listed above were that of Herr Hitler. 

Just messing with you.

Lichtman Prediction Is Out!

September 09, 2024 By: Half Empty Category: Uncategorized

Down at The Salon this morning, Juanita Jean challenged her customers to listen to Dr. Allan Lichtman’s Presidential Prediction video. So I did, and you can as well.

See it before The Debate tomorrow. Or after. It doesn’t matter. Lichtman’s prediction is based on his 13 keys model, and not ONE of them entails how a given presidential candidate does at a televised debate.

There, I said it. The debate won’t turn a page. It is, as advertised by websites with phone numbers that charge $3.99 per minute, “For Entertainment Purposes Only.”

On the other hand, I just had to find out which one of the past 10 presidential elections did Lichtman get wrong? So I looked it up.

Al Gore. He got it wrong with Al Gore.

Lichtman got that one wrong because one of his keys doesn’t take into account a 5-4 Supreme Court decision that overturns an election.

Do better, Allan.