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CPRM

CPRM

Organic troll farmer.

219 Comments

  1. Drake

    The random PP slide transitions are the classiest.

  2. kinnath

    Excellent

  3. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    The mid-90’s Geocities vibe is the height of classy

  4. The Other Kevin

    The spelling errors! I’m sure you had to work hard to make it look like someone didn’t work hard.

    • rhywun

      And “Click Here to Add Text”

      ??

      • Count Potato

        That was my favorite 🙂

      • MikeS

        #metoo

  5. DEG

    “Buffalo heads can’t melt steel beams”

    🙂

    • UnCivilServant

      Have you not met the psychic buffalo?!

    • Grumbletarian

      Prolonged LOL

  6. Sean

    Shut up and take my money!

    Lols.

  7. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Congrats. You’ve just secured a consulting contract with XYZ Corp. Your point of contact will be Joe Schmoe in middle management who will make certain all of your recommendations are implemented and provide reporting to the executive suite on the success of it.

    We are certain that Joe will accept this punishment appointment with joy in his heart.

  8. Trigger Hippie

    “Buffalo heads can’t melt steel beams”

    *nods sagely*

  9. ron73440

    Biden used the pandemic to get money for Big Pharma. That should have been Donald.

    I liked that one, although the ever worsening spelling made my eyeball twitch.

  10. Timeloose

    slide transitions usually indicate an attempt of style over substance. Good call there, the hat is all about style. Nice bike image on the last slide.

  11. juris imprudent

    About as meaningful as the powerpoints I routinely see in the day job.

    • Gender Traitor

      ::suffers flashback to prepping huge PPT presentations, complete with links to other presentations, for all-staff meetings at huge engineering center in the ’90s. Old facial tic comes back::

      • UnCivilServant

        Powerpoint Poisoning is a tragedy, folks.

      • Mojeaux

        I use PowerPoint when I’m giving a presentation… *sad trombone*

      • Gender Traitor

        I became convinced engineers were unable to communicate without them.

      • UnCivilServant

        You should see what gets churned out when technical types resort to visios.

      • Gender Traitor

        I maintained that engineering center’s org chart with Visio, IIRC. If printed in a standard 12 pt font, its dimensions would have rivalled the AIDS Quilt.

      • juris imprudent

        No, no – just give us a whiteboard and we’re fine. It’s fucking management that can’t present an idea without PPT.

      • UnCivilServant

        That only works if you’re in the same country as the people you’re trying to talk to. Or if you set up a camera. Or have a fancy web-enabled whiteboard.

      • R C Dean

        Hey! As a member of management, I, er, never mind. Carry on.

      • Fatty Bolger

        lol. I remember you could almost hear the inward groans around the conference table, when somebody started setting up a PPT presentation.

  12. juris imprudent

    So, OT, already. Interesting read on inflation, and the quote below on the psychology of money.

    “The fact is, [bankers] made the loans,” Hoenig said. “They made them in an environment of incredible optimism in terms of asset values.” By “optimism,” Hoenig was referring to something called “inflation expectations.” The bankers expected asset prices would continue rising indefinitely, and that very expectation fueled demand for loans, which in turn caused the price to rise. “And that, really, was in part the fault of a decade of too-accommodative monetary policy.”

    Oh yeah, he’s talking about the 70s era inflation above.

    Hoenig believed that there would likely be no going back if the Fed unleashed quantitative easing in late 2008. Just like the 1970s, the Fed might end up keeping money too easy for too long as it tried to juice the job market, chasing short-term gains as it piled up long-term risks.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The amount of mal-investment is huge.

      What cannot continue forever, will not continue forever.

    • Lackadaisical

      * looks at housing prices*

      Nothing to see here.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Part of that is supply. Between labor, materials, and the sluggish response of localities (inspectors and zoning boards), construction has been slowed way down.

        That doesn’t mean there isn’t a bubble, but it’s not like 2007.

        This time around, the bubble is the currency. And that’s really bad news.

      • Jerms

        My wife and I have been thinking about investing in a rental property in North Carolina sometime next year. Do you guys think its not the ideal time to buy right now?

      • juris imprudent

        We just got our mortgage at 2.875 – that’s hard to beat. We also got a pretty good price on the property – which I think is the key. If you can find a somewhat under-valued area. The VA stretch of the Blue Ridge was more attractive than the NC side (unless you get really far from freeway access).

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s a damn good rate. Who did you deal with?

      • juris imprudent

        Rocket – relatively painless.

      • Fatty Bolger

        If you’re talking about annual rentals to somebody who lives there, consider very carefully before you do it. All public sentiment is for the renter, and none for the owner. Can you afford to be without income on the property for a long time? Can you afford to rehabilitate the property if somebody trashes it?

      • Lackadaisical

        You’re absolutely right, but it’s still hard to tell how much is currency vs. lockdown vs. Materials vs. bubble.

        All I know is the prices can’t keep rising like this, unless the currency completely craps out.

    • R C Dean

      The slip from “asset values” to “asset prices” is . . . unfortunate.

      Not mentioned: interest rates are higher than inflation rates when loans are made. Interest rates take into account both default risk and inflation risk. So those bankers were probably less excited about inflationary growth of asset prices, than they were the whopping interest rates they were charging.

  13. Lackadaisical

    Everyone needs to go read KSuellington’s news report on Jerms in the A.M. links. Hilarious.

    • Jerms

      Yes. Yes it was.

  14. Not Adahn

    My former Boss’ boss’s boss used to write her emails in purple comic sans. Apparently in Taiwan there is no stigma to the font.

    She was also extremely fond of animated sparkle effects in her .ppts

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      oh good god

      • R C Dean

        *makes note to add animated sparkle effect to my next .ppt*

        I can see it now:

        New Developments in Federal Fraud and Abuse Laws *sparkle*

      • Lackadaisical

        Sounds like it’d make a dry topic more interesting.

    • Sean

      No unicorns?

    • Nephilium

      Several of my overseas coworkers use colored fonts and backgrounds. It’s still not as bad as the guy who would host conference calls with Christmas music playing in the background year round.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ve been tempted of late to see what reaction I’d get if I just let my music play during a technical bridge. I was specifically leaning towards Tukayyid or Rylanor’s Last Stand to see if anyone got either reference.

    • UnCivilServant

      Colored fonts as baseline text and animated sparkles?

      She should have been banned from touching a computer ever again.

    • Animal

      Wait – how can there be a stigma to a font?

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s because of the types of users it got associated with during the early days.

      • Animal

        Seems kind of, well, petty.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Not if you worked for an engineering firm and had to read technical documents in stupid, unreadable fonts.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        +1 Wingdings

        (Sütterlin?)

      • Animal

        If it’s illegible, I get it. But, not knowing what that font was, I opened Word and looked at it. It’s… not really illegible, although it’s a bit odd.

        Now the weird colors and effects, yeah, that’s well to the left of annoying.

      • Not Adahn

        See also: Eternal September

      • Rat on a train

        Fraktur?

      • MikeS

        Nein!

      • Not Adahn

        Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif casual script typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation. It is a non-connecting script inspired by comic book lettering, intended for use in informal documents and children’s materials.[1]

        The typeface’s widespread use, often in situations for which it was not intended, has been the subject of criticism and mockery.[3]

      • MikeS

        It looks like a sign in front of some 8 year-olds who are playing fireman.

    • DEG

      AARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!

  15. juris imprudent

    W T absolute F???

    According to surveillance footage as described by officials, Abel exited his father’s pickup truck and opened the door to the convenience store, firing his gun several times and striking the victims. He got back in the truck, which then fled “at a high rate of speed,” GPD said in a press release.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Cain was unavailable for comment.

    • slumbrew

      There’s certainly a problem with children being raised without fathers.

      Sometimes that would be an improvement.

    • rhywun

      JFC.

  16. Rat on a train

    Looking through some 2022 changes:

    California death certificates will offer a choice of “nonbinary” in marking the deceased person’s gender.

    Voters in all statewide elections, regardless of whether they signed up for absentee voting, will receive a ballot in the mail. Those who still want to vote in person can do so by surrendering the mailed ballot at a voting location.

    The first could reduce dead voting but the second makes up for it.

    • R C Dean

      The first will increase dead voting by creating an inconsistency between the death certificate and other documents.

      Those who still want to vote in person can do so by surrendering the mailed ballot at a voting location.

      This assumes they ever received the junk mail ballot. This is real-life disenfranchisement in action. If you don’t get one (for whatever reason, wink wink), you don’t get to vote.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        This assumes they ever received the junk mail ballot. This is real-life disenfranchisement in action. If you don’t get one (for whatever reason, wink wink), you don’t get to vote.

        ???

      • Rat on a train

        Our records show you already voted by mail. Too bad. Maybe next year.

      • Rat on a train

        The first will increase dead voting by creating an inconsistency between the death certificate and other documents.
        Like California verifies voter rolls or identification.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Bullshit. “You” get to vote. Just not yourself.

        You being defined as whoever stole your ballot from the post office*.

        *Of course they will steal it at the source, no way they would be ambitious enough to walk the postman’s route and steal directly from the mailboxes.

    • rhywun

      Even NY defeated vote-by-mail. Not that Kathy isn’t looking for an end-run around the voters.

  17. Brochettaward

    DIsliked. The Bro-ffensive has begun.

  18. Ghostpatzer

    Bild back suckier”. So, JOOOOZ!!?11!
    Thanks for the yuks.

  19. juris imprudent

    Well, this is interesting.

    However, he said, his hospital has seen a lot of kids test positive for Covid without necessarily showing symptoms or getting sick.

    “We test anybody who’s admitted to the hospital for whatever reason to see whether or not they have Covid, and we’re definitely seeing an increase in cases. However, we’re really not seeing an increase in children who are hospitalized for Covid or in the intensive care unit for Covid,” Offit said.

    [bold added]

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      LIES!!!!

      LIES!!!!

    • Rebel Scum

      We test anybody who’s admitted to the hospital for whatever reason

      Gotta maintain that casedemic, baby.

  20. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The government wants to control you and your choices, part eleventy.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/mn-board-of-medical-practice-requesting-files-of-patients-prescribed-ivermectin-doctor_4184636.html

    A Minnesota family physician who is being investigated for the fifth time in the past 17 months by the state medical board for statements related to COVID-19, says the board is now requesting to see medical records of his patients who were prescribed ivermectin.

    I’m sure that the fact that the doctor is running for governor has nothing to do with it.

    • Rebel Scum

      Doctor-patient confidentiality must have gone away with the concept of getting a second opinion.

      • R C Dean

        Medical boards have always been able to get patient records to investigate a doctor. Kind of hard to, without them.

        Medical board investigations are always, or nearly always, triggered by a patient complaint regarding their own treatment. I wonder who complained about this guy? Not one of his patients, I bet. I guess the medical board can start an investigation on its own motion, so to speak, but I’ve never heard of it.

        In any event, an investigation based on public statements strikes me as way outside their remit, and a blatant 1A violation.

      • UnCivilServant

        Who are these medical boards and how often are they violently purged of ideologues?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well this crazy doc actually is running for governor. If he wins, maybe you will get your wish.

        The statists on those medical boards better hope to doG that he doesn’t get elected. I’d love to see the purges of medical boards by the Dept of Health.

    • DEG

      He was also involved in some of the pushback against Lil Rona Panic Restrictions.

  21. Jerms

    Thanks CPRM. Funny stuff. Just tested positive for the vid so Im gonna be stuck in my room for a while. Anyone have any recommendations for something to watch on Tv/Netflix. I like a lot of the true crime type of stuff. Thanks in advance.

    • Lackadaisical

      True crime? I see you really are getting what you deserve. 😛

    • R C Dean

      If you can find it on a streaming service, I like “American Greed”, which is about con men. Interesting scams, and interesting perps, most of whom are quite intelligent and could have done just as well without being criminals.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Might have to check this out. I love a good con.

      • UnCivilServant

        Con men are up there with pickpockets in the class of criminals for whom there is no punishment too panful or adequite for their crimes.

      • Nephilium

        Most long cons require the mark to want to get something for nothing, and then resort to the sunk cost fallacy to keep it going.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have a special hate for liars.

        Just because you can’t con an honest man, it doesn’t mean I hate them less.

      • Timeloose

        There is the Polka King. Sort of a pyramid scheme/con. Great movie as well as the documentary.
        Jack Black in the role he was meant for.

        https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5539052/

      • Ghostpatzer

        This. It’s not so much that I love con artists, who don’t tend to care who their victims are, it’s that some of their victims deserve what they get and watching them get their comeuppance is great fun. The Sting, for instance, Leverage, and so on.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::thinks of elderly CU members conned out of life’s savings by fraudsters. Decides to believe in Hell::

      • juris imprudent

        If you’ve never seen House of Games, I think you’d enjoy it.

      • slumbrew

        Seconded.

        I dig Mamet.

        I’ll also recommend “Heist” and “The Spanish Prisoner”.

        And, shit – TIL he wrote “The Edge”, which is a great movie.

    • kinnath

      Squid Games

      Arcane

    • Ghostpatzer

      Good luck, fellow reprobate.

      Watching Grantchester on Amazon, British vicar partners with detective to solve murders in a small village. Pretty cool. Also there is a Leverage reboot, also on Amazon. No Timothy Hutton but mildly amusing. For comic relief there is always cable news

      • Nephilium

        Technically the Leverage Redemption is on IMDB’s streaming service, which is integrated into the Amazon streaming service. The IMDB service also (last time I checked) had Fringe available, which is a really good sci-fi series featuring pulp science.

    • Timeloose

      Did you ever see the documentary on the game show win loose or draw? The story focuses on a guy who figured out the pattern for the game and exploited it greatly.

      • Jerms

        Ive heard the story, but havent seen the documentary. Press your Luck I think.
        The one with “No Whammys!”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Resident Alien was pretty funny.

      A second season is coming out end of January. Too bad you will be just another corpse in a giant pile of Rona victims.

    • Sean

      Tacoma FD.

    • l0b0t

      If you haven’t yet seen it, The Seven Five, a doc about the 75th Precinct in East New York, Brooklyn and the most corrupt cop in NYPD history*.

      *I tend to think there are far worse actors out there, but Mike Dowd got caught; hilariously, it was Nassau County cops who busted him.

    • Ted S.

      10 Rillington Place seems to be available for free on Amazon if you have a Prime membership.

  22. Rebel Scum

    In other fake power point news.

    The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol has obtained a trove of electronic messages from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, including an email referring to a PowerPoint suggesting Trump could declare a national security emergency in order to delay the certification of the results of the 2020 election.

    The revelation is the latest indication that Trump and his inner circle, including his allies in Congress, were very actively and very aggressively trying to overturn the results of the election, which Trump lost handily.

    The PowerPoint presentation, which spanned 38 pages and was titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN,” was part of an email sent on Jan. 5, the day before the attack on the Capitol. The email pertained to a briefing that was to be provided “on the hill.” Hugo Lowell of The Guardian tweeted slides from the presentation on Thursday detailing a conspiracy theory-laden plan for Vice President Pence to install Republican electors in states “where fraud occurred,” and for Trump to declare a national emergency and for all electronic voting to be rendered invalid, citing foreign “control” of electronic voting systems.

    1) Fear the Drumpfler Nazi!
    2) “handily” is a funny term for “by 50,000 votes across five states that all had irregularities galore.”

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Remember, when “their guy” won, all that mattered was popular vote, not Electoral College votes.

    • Sean

      2) “handily” is a funny term for “by 50,000 votes across five states that all had irregularities galore.”

      Yuge red flag.

      • juris imprudent

        What was the vote total in ’16 in the key states that put Trump over the top? Around 75,000 in 3 states.

      • Sean

        Trump reached another 10.1 million voters in 2020.
        He had the highest share non-white votes for a Republican candidate in 60 years.

        GTFO out of here with the leaky pipes and suitcase ballots.

        If gun show demographics are any kind of barometer, Dems have a serious issue coming up.

      • juris imprudent

        There was definitely sketchy shit in 2020, but it was also close – as was his victory in ’16 (which when he expected to lose he had prepared to blame on it being rigged).

        The partisan bullshit, on both sides, about winning handily, mandates, rigging and collusion make me want to permanently stop voting and bitchslapping the shit out of anyone trying to shame me about it.

      • l0b0t

        “The partisan bullshit, on both sides… make me want to permanently stop voting and bitchslapping the shit out of anyone trying to shame me about it.”

        Welcome to the party, pal.

  23. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    Two days ago (the last day for which COVID data was available), Alberta shattered all records for daily positivity test rate for COVID, at 29.88%. 

    We got this. Totes under control.

    • Lackadaisical

      Just gotta lockdown a little harder.

  24. Rebel Scum

    We’re all going to freeze burn drown.

    The essay by Jeff Goodell, titled “‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All,” states that cracks and fissures in the Thwaites eastern ice shelf suggest the Florida-sized ice mass “could fracture like a shattered car window in as little as five years.”

    The West Antarctic ice sheet “is one of the most important tipping points in the Earth’s climate system,” Goodell asserts. “If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it opens the door for the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet to slide into the sea.”

    “If there is going to be a climate catastrophe, it’s probably going to start at Thwaites,” Goodell writes, citing Ohio State glaciologist Ian Howat.

    The climate catastrophe is always just a few years away.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      I can hardly wait. It’s -28° Celsius (-18° Fahrenheit) on the back porch right now.

      • Ghostpatzer

        If you get to -40 you don’t need to specify the scale.

      • UnCivilServant

        You got to -40 Kelvin? I’m impressed. How did you get the atoms to slow down after they’d stopped?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Science, I heard it from Fauci.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Gave them a govt job?

      • juris imprudent

        ^ This guy gets it – a govt job sucks all energy not just from the person with the job, but from everyone they interact with.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well go to your front porch then!

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Needs more Robocop.

    • Not Adahn

      Why couldn’t we have gotten one of the cool technodystopias?

      • UnCivilServant

        Because we’re not that lucky.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      (in a whisper) Hoors!

      • Not Adahn

        I’d settle for soma and feelies.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If I was a midget/dwarf/little person I’d be shouting from the rooftop about how demeaning the “get boosted” slogan is to me and “my community”.

      Not because I’d believe a word of it, but just as a lark to see if I could get them to take me seriously.

      * I’d also be pushing them to start using “Little Persxn” for my community

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Sorry, but I was catching up on the ded morning lynx and saw some of you commenting on the old tradition of the VP being the loser of the presidential election.

    You so called people went on and on about the entertainment value of Trump being Biden’s VP, but none of you even thought about the fact that if Hillary had been Trump’s VP there is no way he would have made it to 2020.

    • Sean

      Never accept a Big Mac from Hillary.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Never accept a Big YUUGE Mac from Hillary.

        FTFY.

    • Lackadaisical

      Oof, think of all the ties he’d be breaking in the Senate, just in the other direction. Damn.

    • R C Dean

      Since the White House exists mainly to provide comedic relief from the machinations of our rulers, I think Hillary being Trump’s VP would have been just perfect. As would Trump being Biden’s VP. Romney as Obama’s VP would have just been sad.

      • Sean

        Romney as Obama’s VP

        Gayer than bathhouse sex.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That would have been even sadder/meaner than when Trump had Romney over for dinner and then didn’t give him a cabinet position.

        Why does Romney get kicked around so much? He has all the right opinions.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Who wants to tell him?

    #LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans “You can’t handle the truth.”

    • Not Adahn

      If you reply to him with “go forge some more documents Kenneth,” do you get autobanned?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      (As if testimonies were ever as dramatic as that movie! Maybe RDJ Jr during his breakdown.)

    • slumbrew

      I don’t even know what that’s supposed to me. Can’t handle the truth about what?

  27. UnCivilServant

    Nothing’s going on. Why am I even at work?

    Oh, right, saving vacation days.

    • R C Dean

      I’m the only one in my office. Finally. Thank God.

      The holiday week(s) are when I try to burn down my backlog of bullshit. This year, for some reason, everybody has been in a frenzy until today.

      • rhywun

        The problem is I don’t want to do any of the backlog of bullshit. I think I’ll goof off for a few more hours and then wrap it up.

      • rhywun

        Sigh, I dragged myself to the work laptop for a scheduled 2pm and nobody showed up.

      • Swiss Servator

        My 9AM cancelled at 8:58.

  28. Ownbestenemy

    Western, whole packer brisket is still 4.99/lb. It’s choice but wrapped in a prime bag.

  29. slumbrew

    The hot sideline reporter at the SC/NC game eating mayo from the jar is strangely arousing.

      • slumbrew

        First I’ve heard of it – how does it compare to Hellmann’s?

      • slumbrew

        I have enacted my own labor (sort of):

        https://www.ourstate.com/mayonnaise/

        Duke’s is definitely creamier. It doesn’t perch gelatinously on the knife blade, like Hellmann’s does. A plus. Duke’s is definitely yellower, a more suspect color than Hellmann’s vanilla-white. A minus. Taste yielded indefinite results, so out came the blindfolds, and noses were put to the test. I didn’t even allow the subjects to hold the respective jars under their own noses, because the shapes differ. No cheating. And the main difference, very simply, lies in the aroma. Duke’s is tarter, with a more distinctive, almost vinegary, smell. Hellmann’s is more neutral.

      • rhywun

        It doesn’t perch gelatinously on the knife blade, like Hellmann’s does. A plus minus.

        FTFY

      • UnCivilServant

        Agreed. If it slides off the knife or dribbles off, as the case may be, it’s more difficult to apply where it’s needed when making sandwiches.

    • Lackadaisical

      Did she get a bunch of mayo on her lips?

  30. Drake

    Just got off a call with hospital lab director. Lab is barely running because so many (fully vaccinated) employees have covid. Meanwhile there is a line around the parking lot of people waiting to be tested for covid.

    • Sean

      *facepalm*

    • Rebel Scum

      If only critical thinking was still a thing.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *derp*

    • Fatty Bolger

      Can we start putting quotes around “vaccine” and “vaccinated” now?

  31. Rebel Scum

    Good.

    Only 160 firearms that the Liberal government prohibited more than a year and a half ago have been deactivated or surrendered, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

    The government originally estimated that its ban, which toook effect on May 1, 2020, would apply to 90,000 to 105,000 firearms in Canada.

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has long promised to create a buyback program for the weapons.

    • slumbrew

      In a just world, they’d put “buyback” in scare-quotes every time. Alas.

    • Not Adahn

      Tee hee.

    • Rebel Scum

      “Making it mandatory for owners to sell banned assault weapons back to the government for destruction, or have them rendered inoperable at the government’s expense,” is second on a list of seven gun-related priorities for Mendicino.

      “I will happily sell to the government any firearms I purchased from the government, eh.”

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        My long gun isn’t on the banned list, but I’ve found it quite vexing to be in public fora in Canada with dumbasses loudly proclaiming “Ha! My rifle, which is a {fill in specifics of make/model here} isn’t on the list! Suck it, losers!,” only to have someone else with more sense point out that the braggart should STOP PROVIDING TPTB WITH MORE INFORMATION THAT THEY CAN USE TO BAN THEIR RIFLE, TOO.

        Damn idiots.

  32. Pope Jimbo

    News you can use!

    If we all kidnap each other’s orphans on July 1st, we are in for big tax deductions.

    • Gender Traitor

      -1 Red Chief

    • Sean

      They stole my idea about taxing stolen goods.

      I demand 10%.

      • Lackadaisical

        If I bribe someone and the value is over xx dollars should I send them a 1099?

      • Lackadaisical

        More importantly, is that a deductible business expense?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I was talking with someone who had a mother who did taxes and she had a client who was embezzling $$$ from their employer. Her client reported the embezzled money on their taxes because they didn’t want to have a beef with the IRS too if they ever got caught.

        My mom did taxes too, but she never had a client like that. Probably because she was married to a probation officer.

      • slumbrew

        I think maybe it’s Tres Cool who said he knows of a drug dealer who declares all his income (he’s a “contractor”) in order to avoid IRS troubles.

      • MikeS

        Good idea.

        /Al Capone

      • pistoffnick

        I demand 10%.

        WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, JOE BIDEN?

    • Urthona

      Been there

      • slumbrew

        I haven’t. Yet.

        We’ll see what Father Time has to say about it in the years ahead.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If she doesn’t like it, she shouldn’t have married a government spokesman.

  33. mikey

    Needs moar phontz!

  34. slumbrew

    Now waiting to see the SC coach get doused by mayo

    • Pope Jimbo

      Fighting Game BuCockkes!

      • slumbrew

        Mayo covered Cocks

      • slumbrew

        Oof, the mayo bath was rough to even watch.

      • MikeS

        lol

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        Replying to
        @FOS
        with a side of CTE

      • slumbrew

        They clocked him in the back of the head pretty good.

      • Not Adahn

        Why does he have a hat on? The whole point of a mayo bath is to get your hair nice and shiny.

      • Swiss Servator

        Two ladies trying to hoist that mayo tub need to LIFT MOAR!

      • Sensei

        OT. I’ve got an article that should be good to go whenever works b

      • Swiss Servator

        Scheduled. Tuesday 1/4/22 at 1100 Glibs time.

      • Sensei

        Thx!

      • rhywun

        Ugh mayo is not supposed to “pour” ?

      • slumbrew

        They mentioned it was watered down to make it more pour-able.

      • rhywun

        Ah OK. Carry on

    • R C Dean

      Brown announced a sponsorship for his car from LGBCoin, a cryptocurrency with “no intrinsic value” that’s attempting to profit off of the slogan.

      No currency currently in circulation anywhere in the world has “intrinsic” value.

      Love the “LGBCoin”. I wonder how many wokesters will buy it, thinking LGB stands for, you know, the thing.

    • Gender Traitor

      The NBC reporter interviewing Brown on the track apparently thought the fans were chanting “Let’s go Brandon”…

      She knew exactly what they were saying.

      • R C Dean

        I don’t blame her a bit. She was just trying to save the interview and cover the profane chanting in the background. I actually had the TV on the race at that moment; I couldn’t hear well enough to know what they were actually chanting, so I thought it really was “Let’s Go Brandon” – it was his first win and all, and I think he might have been kind of local(?).

    • rhywun

      Now, it’s nearly impossible to have any sympathy for Brown after his delayed embrace of the meme.

      Yeah OK whatever, Yahoo. ?

      • MikeS

        Yeah, that whole paragraph had me rolling my eyes:

        Now, it’s nearly impossible to have any sympathy for Brown after his delayed embrace of the meme. He can’t both be the victim of circumstance while also attempting to capitalize on those circumstances. And by taking his sponsorship, he’s clearly choosing to capitalize on the slogan before it fades away.

        Why the hell not? He isn’t getting any other sponsorships (possibly because of the meme) and he needs money to pay for the car. Twenty bucks is twenty bucks.

      • Sean

        I completely respect him for trying to play it cool.

        Him fully embracing it as a giant middle finger to the people who tried to cancel him? Fucking epic.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Why don’t you go fuck yourself, Tommy?”

        (@ author, not subject)

      • R C Dean

        He was completely a 100% innocent bystander. Literally. And his career is being wrecked for it, by assholes like the people who wrote that article.

        He isn’t getting any other sponsorships (possibly because of the meme)

        Oh, there’s no doubt in my mind that’s why his sponsorships “mysteriously” dried up.

        What’s he supposed to do? Just say, “Welp, I guess there goes my dream of being a big time race car driver”? This was literally the only option left to him. Assholes (like the people who wrote that article) drove him to it, and its his fault?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Brown announced a sponsorship for his car from LGBCoin, a cryptocurrency with “no intrinsic value” that’s attempting to profit off of the slogan.

      Oh, that’s going to piss off a certain set of activists.

      *chuckle*

      • MikeS

        Yup. The Ts and Qs are gonna be pissed they got left off.

    • Ted S.

      Cool link, bro!

  35. Gustave Lytton

    https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-new-york-bill/fact-check-new-york-state-assembly-is-not-voting-on-a-bill-on-jan-5-2022-to-indefinitely-detain-unvaccinated-people-idUSL1N2T61WR

    Handwaved away is that this asshole keeps reintroducing the bill every year, as thought it’s on some sort of auto renewal plan rather than he (or his staff) is doing it. Also handwaved away is how this “fact check” is being pushed through outlet after outlet. The version I saw was attributed to the AP. Judging by the reaction, it’s seems quite possible this was going to be used as a vehicle for what the conspiracy nut jobs were claiming it was for but got nipped in the bud.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I believe that authoritarian POS just got nominated for an ambassadorship.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Dude, that poor bill is never going to make it to the floor for a vote if you people keep paying attention to it.

      Just trust us fact checkers and stop getting so nosy and looking at actual bills in the hopper.

  36. Sean

    • Sean

      #fail

      L O L

      • Ted S.

        I think the first post was better. :-p

    • MikeS

      How did you get a completely blank comment through? Kudos.

      • slumbrew

        Really impressive, in its own way.

  37. Trigger Hippie

    OT: Self Indulgence/Rant/Raging Douchebag/….who cares.

    I no longer find any of this interesting. The best I can muster at this point is boilerplate comments designed to go along to get along with people I mostly like. I’m not displaying any intellectual courage here. Yeah, we agree that a small, legally constrained government via a heavily armed public will curtail the consolidation of central power…good fucking luck with that.

    As the old saying goes: Money and Power will always find each other.

    What’s the overreaching point of this post? Fuck me if I know. I lost any will to to tie this comment into a coherent thought five minutes ago.