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Author: Thoughts On The Dead (Page 107 of 1031)

A Partial Transcript Of Donald Trump’s Border Security Meeting

(Read this first so you know I’m not making this bullshit up.)

“Everyone come in, everyone make themselves the most comfortable they’ve ever been. Oval Office! Probably the best office in the world. The one I have in Trump Tower is a magnificent office, but this one might be better. Might be better. Of course, I had to re-decorate. The drapes were all me. Melania consulted on the rug, but I picked out the drapes. If I was gay, I’d be a great interior decorator. Not gay, though. Okay, where’s General Kelly?”

“He quit months ago, sir.”

“General? Where’s my General?”

“He’s not in your phone, Mr. President. Stop looking there.”

“General?”

“He’ll be here. Kirstjen, you are doing a terrible job on the border, just the worst job anyone has ever seen, and many people have told me this. My very good friend Sly Stallone called the other day, and about most things he was very, very complimentary, but not the border. Then he said Yo, Mr. President. You know, like he said to Adrian.”

“Mr, Stallone’s input notwithstanding, sir, we are making progress at the border.”

“He usually fought a black, but in one of them, he fought a Russian. Better he should fight the black. More money fighting blacks.”

“Applications for migrant status is down by ten percent.”

“Applications? We’re wasting paper on these animals now? And you know they’re all stealing the pens. Do we provide clipboards, too? Tell me that, Miss Homeland Security: are we handing out clipboards at the border? They will take the clipboards, and they will turn the clips into knives. These people are knife-people! You’re killing me!”

“The applications are done on computers, sir.”

“Lou Dobbs is right about you.”

“I have no idea how to respond to that.”

“We’re gonna nuke the border.”

“What now?”

“I have that power as President. Many people don’t know that, but I have enormous power to nuke whatever the hell I want. All the way across the border, we’re gonna nuke. We warn first, but we’re gonna nuke. We’re only warn in English, though.”

“Mr. President, maybe this decision needs to be thought through.”

“The American people, the real ones, they didn’t elect me to think. They elected me to know.”

“Okay.”

“And I know we should nuke the border. It’s so easy. No one realizes this, but it’s so easy. I figured this out, and we can do it so easy, it’ll be so beautiful that the entire world will be standing and cheering. We’re gonna nuke, whole border, all the way. Texas and Nevada and wherever, straight line. Leaves a huge ditch, maybe even bigger than the Grand Canyon. A lot of people agree with me that it’ll be bigger than the Grand Canyon. And we’re gonna do lava.”

“Lava?”

“We’re gonna fill Trump Canyon with lava.”

“You’ve already named it.”

“Oh, yeah. Trump Canyon. And we’re gonna get the hottest lava available. A lot of countries have sub-standard lava, honey. Japan has weak lava. It wouldn’t even singe you. Our lava’s gonna be great, can’t swim through it at all. Most of those people can’t swim in the first place, but we’re still gonna do the lava.”

“I just don’t know if any of this is physically possible, Mr. President.”

“Lou Dobbs says it’s a go.”

“Again, sir, notwithstanding. The logistics alone would take several months, if not years, to work out.”

“What’s to work out? We nuke, then the lava, and put in the chimps. Easy!”

“Chimps?”

“Face first! First thing a chimp goes for is your face. Then your balls. Face, then balls. Chimps go for the soft bits. Nasty, nasty creatures. Kinda remind me of Roy Cohn. Anyway, the chimps go in the lava and pick off any Mexicans that make it that far.”

“Wouldn’t the chimps burn to death?”

“Lavasuits!”

“What?”

“The chimps wear lavasuits. Sweetie, this is so easy. I don’t know why you’re having trouble with any of this.”

“I just don’t know if ‘lavasuits’ are a real…dear God, am I really having this conversation in the Oval Office?”

“No one has a better office. I saw What’s-his-face’s office in Saudi Arabia, the kid, the one who had the other guy killed, whatever-his-name-is. You’ve never seen anything like this. Falcons! They all got the hoods on, they’re majestic, the whole thing, falcons, amazing. Not tall. The head Arab, the one I talked to, we got along so wonderfully. Great office. Falcons.”

“Sir?”

“Tariffs.”

“What?”

“We can do a tariff. We tariff the border.”

“Well, first of all: I’m the Homeland Security Director, and so I don’t have anything at all to do with tariffs; and, second: you can’t tariff a border, sir.”

“Ebola. Let’s do an Ebola. You approach the border from the Southern side, and you get Ebola. Bing bang bola. Not gonna lie, that was Stephen Miller’s idea. I love my Stevie. Stevie, tell Kirstjen your other idea for the border.”

“Immense machines of pain. Built to trample and rend. Imbued with the mind of the Sheltered One. My spells are nearly complete, but I need $6 trillion.”

“I love my Stevie. Kirstjen, sugardrop, is that in the budget?”

“No, sir.”

“I ran on the border! This is how I beat the very corrupt Crooked Hillary, who was so corrupt. Rudy Giuliani told me that Chelsea Clinton punched a cop in Budapest, but you never hear about that in the very biased media. I am maybe the most perfect President in the history of the country, but you’d never know it from the media, which is very biased. We have to close off the border, because if you don’t have a border, then you don’t have a country. This is my thing, the border. Purge?”

“I’m sorry, purge?”

“We do a Purge. The whole border. All of it gets a Purge.”

“Are you talking about the movies where all laws are suspended for one night each year?”

“Yeah. But for good. Permanent Purge. And then you let the Second Amendment types take care of the problem. Everyone’s happy, very easy. I’m gonna do a Purge.”

“Sir, you do not have the authority to declare an area of the United States law-free.”

“Obama made murder legal in Chicago.”

“I have to push back on that, sir. He did not.”

“Are you calling Lou Dobbs a liar?”

“Isn’t it time for lunch?”

“That’s the first smart thing you’ve said in this meeting.”

(Steal Your) Face/Off

The brilliant Nick Paumgarten writes a remembrance of Hunter in the latest New Yorker; how does it compare to mine? Let’s see:

WRITING: Wonderful, both. Tie.

ADJOINING CARTOONS: Nick’s – wry. Mine – nonexistent. Nick wins.

RICHARD BRODY’S BEARD: Nick – Most likely has had to pick nits and berries out of it, whereas I have been blocked by Mr. Brody on Twitter. I win.

HOW MUCH MASHA GESSEN? Nick – too much. Me – not enough. Push.

PAYMENT: Nick – Received some.for writing his piece. Me: Was not even reimbursed for the Retsina.

You win again, Paumgarten.

 

Blues For Challah

  • Touch of Oy Vey.
  • Feel Like A Momzer.
  • U.S. Jews.
  • Morning Jew.
  • Cumberland Jews.
  • Let Me Sing Your Jews Away.
  • Stella Jew.
  • It Hurts Me Jew.
  • Ramble On Grandma Rose.
  • Althea (as sung by Al Franken; I don’t wanna talk about how they treated that man; it was a shonda).
  • Me And My Uncle Shushy.
  • Dark Star of David.
  • That’s It For The Other Frum.
  • One More Shabbas Night.
  • Queen Esther Approximately.
  • And We Bid You Shalom.
  • Mason’s Children, Who Never Call.
  • Boca-down Palace.
  • Deal.

Yoakum If They Can’t Take A Fuck

“Your motion was never the same after Stottlemyre got through with you.”

“I am not Dwight Gooden, Bobby.”

“Ah. I’d like to tell you about a dream I had.”

“Last night?”

“In your green room. I floated from my body and all throughout the studios of Sirius XM. I was looking for my favorite station, which is Raw Dog Comedy.”

“I wouldn’t have guessed that.”

“Stand-up needs to be savage. I need it raw.”

“Okay.”

“But I couldn’t find it, and I wound up in Jimmy Buffett’s station. Awful friendly in there. They’re up for shots.”

“Shots and yelling and no pale, hairless shins. That’s the Buffett place.”

“And, uh, then I thought I was having a stroke, but it turned out to be Kpop.”

“Those Kpop fans are downright un-American. We got our own boy bands here.”

“We’re in danger of falling behind in the Boy Band Race.”

“There’s a Boy Band Gap, right. Bobby, the Dead played a lot of country music over the years.”

“Kinda. ‘We played a handful of country songs a lot’ would be the more accurate phrasing. We meant to learn more cowboy tunes, but one thing led to another and then Garcia died. We once got halfway through Blues Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain at rehearsal, but Billy got bored and bit Ramrod and, you know, that was that. I think we started playing cock rugby after that.”

“Cock rugby?”

“It’s basically rugby, but your cock’s more involved. Fast paced.”

“I’ll bet.”

 

An Important Announcement About The Comment Section

Moderation in all things, but especially Comment Sections. It is not a forest, the CS, overgrown and willful and carpeted with death and rot, but a finely-tended garden, one where the bushes are doing shit bushes do not usually do, and there’s maybe a gazebo or two. Let a CS go without pruning for a week; chaos.

Not here, Enthusiasts. I am draconian; I am draculean; my skin is thinner than my patience. No foolishness in the Comment Section! There are ground-rules for a society, and that’s one of ’em. I am, however, willing to negotiate.

Starting immediately, these are the new pricing packages for the Comment Section:

BASIC – STILL FREE Not being a dick is still free. Post videos, pictures, whatever. You can point out shit I missed, or correct dates. But you can’t be a dick at all.

JUNIOR MAFIA$20 You can be a dick to me. (Non-Trump)

JUNIOR JUNIOR – $25 You can be a dick to me. (Trump)

SENIOR SPLATTER – $50 You can be a dick to another Commentator. Fifty bucks a pop.

GRAD LEVEL – VARIABLE You can be a dick to Commentators who have visited the Donate Button. Whatever they sent in, it’ll cost you triple to be a dick to them.

All prices are final, and will be billed to your credit card weekly.

 

A Mexican, A Jew, And Jerry Garcia Walk Into A Bar…

Men shouldn’t wear white pants. Jeans, slacks, sweats; whatever.

OR

Holy shit, Garcia’s not smoking.

OR

People often forget that Santana is 5’3″ at best.

OR

Oof, fruit plate.

OR

Wait. I think that’s a health salad. This is Marin County in 1978, and that was ground zero for health salad.

OR

When the Nazis orphan you at the age of five, you’re allowed to be pissed off the rest of your life.

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