"I’m a financial analyst, sir. We’re a financial services firm" is one of the best iterations of "Sir, this is a Wendy's" I've heard in ages, lol.
In response to the Harris plan, expect torrents of anti-trans and anti-immigrant messaging from the Trump team, not to mention more accusations Democrats control the weather after Milton hits. The GOP have literally no kitchen table policies that people like, so they can only respond with an amping up of culture warring and woo-woo nonsense.
I mostly see the ads through Spectrum News and YouTube, and now it's all "Illegals gettin' sex-changed on YOUR money!" One of the YouTube ads features a guy named Brian, he's from Oconomowoc, he's a welder OF COURSE, they even show him weldin', "I work hard for my money..." and, well, you know the rest.
Even the short ones where it's just him talking into the camera asking for money, it's all attacks on Harris. Sometimes he'll go on for a minute about how awful Harris is, and then remember, "Oh, send me some money." Which is funny, because on YouTube after some fixed amount of time a "Skip" button show up, and you'd think any professional ad-maker would be sure to get the ask in before the Skip. Obama has a YouTube ad that's just "Send Kamala and Tim some money" and it ends right when the "Skip" shows up. You know, like they wrote an actual script for him timed to go just 15 seconds, and he kept doing it till he hit his mark. Like people who are capable of developing and carrying out an actual plan. Crazy, huh?
Aside from the ads being wrong factually, I'm always struck by the entitlement felt by conservatives that they and they alone should get to dictate how their tax dollars are spent. Wouldn't we all like that privilege? And wouldn't absolute financial chaos follow if we were granted it?
I'm convinced it all goes back to that first paycheck. You're a teenager, you did the math in your head and know how much you're getting, then you look at the check and it's less and you say, "Oh, fuck, I forgot about the taxes." And then normal people shrug it off and get on with their lives, but certain people NEVER get over that, and they carry that RAGE with them the rest of their lives.
Yeah, they never take the next logical step: don't pay taxes and have fun building your own roads and bridges, performing your own safety exam on every single morsel of food you eat, filtering your own water, etc. etc.
I don't know why Musk hasn't proposed that the entire federal budget be put online, with a little checkbox next to each line item. Anything that doesn't get clicked by more than half the population gets axed. Then, after a trial run, we shut the entire federal government down because only 1% of the citizenry actually logged in and clicked on anything.
He was just a chump in knee pants when I first proposed the build-your-own budget process of tax deployment. My version accounts for all the mandated tax amounts, so if you wanna spend your hard-earned bucks on beaver drops (look it up!), and the program is already on the list (well, it used to be) then boom – your $23.44 will put one beaver on a plane headed northwest any day now...
And if you do not choose your own tax adventure, the amount you owe gets put toward some default fund previously agreed upon...
And the process happens one year before the implementation, to allow for matching budgets to funding, while also including a rainy-day fund for dispersal as needed for unexpected expenses not otherwise budgeted.
I've spent at least half an hour thinking about this over the last 25 years. Therefore I am firmly convinced we can DO this, people!
Given that my taxes are far less than any Federal spending program, I pretend that my money goes solely to the stuff I like. I once got one of my nieces pissed at me when she was complaining about Federal money going to a friend of hers to help buy food for the friends' kids. I gave her a penny and said that covers her contribution to her friends' aid for the next 30 years. That pissed her right off
See, Elon HAS done his own "research." Or he thinks he has. After 10/7/23 the melding of rightwing antisemitism with rightwing pro-Israel/Netanyahu sentiment has been something to behold.
I thought of the Archer episode where they had to protect Torvald Utne. It’s also the episode with Jessica Walter barking, “Everyone shoots the chippie!”
(If I was a federal contractor acting like this--say running a server room for Northrup Grumman--I would not only have been fired, I would have been *jailed*, and rightfully so, because I'd be a security risk.)
Does the fact that I laffed to the point of gasping, at "an enormous amount of green slime" mean that I'm as juvenile as I fear I am? It does, huh. Okay, then.
"I’m a financial analyst, sir. We’re a financial services firm" is one of the best iterations of "Sir, this is a Wendy's" I've heard in ages, lol.
In response to the Harris plan, expect torrents of anti-trans and anti-immigrant messaging from the Trump team, not to mention more accusations Democrats control the weather after Milton hits. The GOP have literally no kitchen table policies that people like, so they can only respond with an amping up of culture warring and woo-woo nonsense.
I mostly see the ads through Spectrum News and YouTube, and now it's all "Illegals gettin' sex-changed on YOUR money!" One of the YouTube ads features a guy named Brian, he's from Oconomowoc, he's a welder OF COURSE, they even show him weldin', "I work hard for my money..." and, well, you know the rest.
And I have never, not once, seen a positive ad for Donald Trump. I don't think they make them.
How could they make them? Conservatives rarely show much imagination outside of creating AI-generated masturbation fodder of Trump with six-pack abs.
Even the short ones where it's just him talking into the camera asking for money, it's all attacks on Harris. Sometimes he'll go on for a minute about how awful Harris is, and then remember, "Oh, send me some money." Which is funny, because on YouTube after some fixed amount of time a "Skip" button show up, and you'd think any professional ad-maker would be sure to get the ask in before the Skip. Obama has a YouTube ad that's just "Send Kamala and Tim some money" and it ends right when the "Skip" shows up. You know, like they wrote an actual script for him timed to go just 15 seconds, and he kept doing it till he hit his mark. Like people who are capable of developing and carrying out an actual plan. Crazy, huh?
For some ads on youtube, no skip button appears, but you probably have to pay more for that sort of ad
"Send 'im straight to the skip!" is the sort of ad any Brit would endorse. It is one of Britain's (few remaining) charms.
“Jacking off my ideology”
Aside from the ads being wrong factually, I'm always struck by the entitlement felt by conservatives that they and they alone should get to dictate how their tax dollars are spent. Wouldn't we all like that privilege? And wouldn't absolute financial chaos follow if we were granted it?
I'm convinced it all goes back to that first paycheck. You're a teenager, you did the math in your head and know how much you're getting, then you look at the check and it's less and you say, "Oh, fuck, I forgot about the taxes." And then normal people shrug it off and get on with their lives, but certain people NEVER get over that, and they carry that RAGE with them the rest of their lives.
Yeah, they never take the next logical step: don't pay taxes and have fun building your own roads and bridges, performing your own safety exam on every single morsel of food you eat, filtering your own water, etc. etc.
puttin' out yer own fires, flyin' yer own weather balloon, shootin' yer own bad guys – oh, wait...
I don't know why Musk hasn't proposed that the entire federal budget be put online, with a little checkbox next to each line item. Anything that doesn't get clicked by more than half the population gets axed. Then, after a trial run, we shut the entire federal government down because only 1% of the citizenry actually logged in and clicked on anything.
He was just a chump in knee pants when I first proposed the build-your-own budget process of tax deployment. My version accounts for all the mandated tax amounts, so if you wanna spend your hard-earned bucks on beaver drops (look it up!), and the program is already on the list (well, it used to be) then boom – your $23.44 will put one beaver on a plane headed northwest any day now...
And if you do not choose your own tax adventure, the amount you owe gets put toward some default fund previously agreed upon...
And the process happens one year before the implementation, to allow for matching budgets to funding, while also including a rainy-day fund for dispersal as needed for unexpected expenses not otherwise budgeted.
I've spent at least half an hour thinking about this over the last 25 years. Therefore I am firmly convinced we can DO this, people!
Given that my taxes are far less than any Federal spending program, I pretend that my money goes solely to the stuff I like. I once got one of my nieces pissed at me when she was complaining about Federal money going to a friend of hers to help buy food for the friends' kids. I gave her a penny and said that covers her contribution to her friends' aid for the next 30 years. That pissed her right off
All those supervillians! I can't keep up!
Yeah, and they’re all the goobers in the 1970s Justice League of America. Oh no, it’s… uh… that one… well, I’m sure it’s bad the way they’re cackling…
Attempting for all of them to keep track'll
Require a scorecard 'bout just how they cackle
Their various minions
All have their opinions
And some secretly dream of applying a smackle
I’m sure I shouldn’t have laughed at “we’ll put some blood on her doorpost” nearly as hard as I did.
See, Elon HAS done his own "research." Or he thinks he has. After 10/7/23 the melding of rightwing antisemitism with rightwing pro-Israel/Netanyahu sentiment has been something to behold.
"The Negress"
Ol' Roy's never much been one to pull his punches .No siree!
Please see my clip below. 😂
That is hilarious!
Oh c'mon, you'd have us believe he's that composed and dignified?
When I hear the word Negress, I can't help but flash back to this ... 😂
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxsc1CbCy9kPeq4OGzTij58sfwtfM383lQ?si=xycOc6Med851g_Ys
"One question, Fantasia -- who the fuck are you?"
I won season Threeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 🤣
(Never being an Idolater I don't know who these people are. "American Idol/stay away from meeee/American Idol/Sister let me beeeee")
I thought of the Archer episode where they had to protect Torvald Utne. It’s also the episode with Jessica Walter barking, “Everyone shoots the chippie!”
You had me at “National Basketball Organization”.
That one slipped past me, the whole thing is so full of gems.
Is that like the old XFL?
Beats me!!
No the old NBA was the NBL and BAA
Stop following the sportsball, sheeeple!
NO!
BAA!
"Save for my midriff, which is why it showed in the photos."
The drip? Strictly SPRY CASUAL
Ragdoll physics buggy since patch 14.28
Super vulnerable to crits, wait for the leap
Exploit now before the inevitable hotfix
Melt this boss with gutshots, reload for uber drops
(If I was a federal contractor acting like this--say running a server room for Northrup Grumman--I would not only have been fired, I would have been *jailed*, and rightfully so, because I'd be a security risk.)
Fire ALL the people who run the servers! Let the servers run themselves! What could possibly go wrong?
Exactly. They're built to serve! What's the problem?
Let 'em get by on tips.
Excellent. A Two-New-Words post!!!
Does the fact that I laffed to the point of gasping, at "an enormous amount of green slime" mean that I'm as juvenile as I fear I am? It does, huh. Okay, then.
Yeah, pretty much.
Bloody hell...
Points for Negress and Kaffir.
The Hugo Drax stuff is gold, Roy, gold!