Donald Trump Is Not Attending John McCain’s Washington D.C. Funeral
“Why can’t I go to the funeral?” Donald whined. He was sitting on the Presidential Shitter and watching Fox and Friends.
“John didn’t want you at the funeral,” the hair said.
“Why not?” Donald said again, the whine settling into his voice like a badly-tuned radio station.
“He didn’t like you,” the hair said patiently. He had explained this already, multiple times over the last few days.
“You beat Hillary and he didn’t,” the hat said, perched on the Presidential Shitter Paper Dispenser. He tore off another square of the luxurious bum wipe and chewed it.
“Hillary,” Donald said scornfully. “I used to be friends with her. She used to be so nice. Bill and I…”
“Oh, God, no…” the hair began.
“Please, Donald, please, just, no,” the hat began.
“Spit roast her,” Donald continued blithely. “She was a hell of a piece of ass. And Bill was just so much fun.”
“Next, on Fox and Friends,” the TV chirped, “Has CNN infected the nation’s strategic reserve of frozen yogurt? Yes! Yes, it has! Steve Ducey reports.”
“Donald, stop. Just stop,” the hat moaned.
“She let me piss in her…” Donald said wistfully. “Most hookers charge you extra for that.”
“DONALD!” the hair screamed in agony.
Donald smiled to himself and watched the commercials run on the TV. “Gold coin?” he asked. “I’m on a gold coin?”
“Yes. There are a bunch of companies selling coins with you on them,” the hair said.
“I want one! I want one! I’m on a coin!” Donald said excitedly, squirming on the Presidential Shitter.
The hat carefully spat a wad of chewed toilet paper at the hair and missed. He pulled off another square and began to chew it grimly.
“How much is it worth?” Donald asked.
“It’s not real money, Donald,” the hat said around his wad of paper.
“Not real money?” Donald asked. “It’s a coin! Coins are money!”
“It’s a commemorative coin,” the hair said tiredly.
“I could use it to buy McDonald’s on the way to the funeral!” Donald said.
“Commemorative coin,” the hat said. “Like a plaque or a memorial.”
“One Donald’s worth of McNuggets, please,” Donald said proudly, miming going through the drive-thru.
“It’s not real money,” the hair tried again.
“I said ‘ONE DONALD’S WORTH OF MCNUGGETS!’” Donald yelled. “These damn speakers never work.”
The hat spat another wad of toilet paper at the hair. It hit Donald in the shoulder and fell to the floor.
“Stop doing that,” the hair said tiredly.
“This toilet paper tastes like shit,” the hat replied.
“Yes, you can get a coin. No, it isn’t real money. No, you aren’t going to the funeral,” the hair said.
“Barry and George are going,” Donald said sullenly.
“Make sure to join us later in the week,” the TV said breathlessly, “For the Fox News Special, John McCain: Funeral for a Traitor.
“Barry and George were invited to speak,” the hair said. He glared at the hat as it tore off another square of toilet paper and began to chew it.
“Barry and George and Bill and George get to do everything,” Donald pouted. “I bet even Jimmy goes.”
“Mike is going, too,” the hair said.
“Mikey? Mikey gets to go?” Donald whined.
“Ghost Goes To Funeral,” the hat intoned spectrally. The half-chewed toiler paper fell out of his bill and dropped to the floor. He began to laugh so hard he followed it down.
“Is Mike Pence really a g-g-g-ghost?” Donald asked the hair in a frightened whisper.
“Yes, Donald,” the hair said seriously. “He really is.”
Piss in her what? This will bother me all day.
Sucking chest wound.
It’s like a mad lib no one wants to play.
One of those gaseous lesions that grow on her shoulders SF told us about before. I am picturing sort of a fountain now.
Rose Hill billing files.
Her secret colostomy bag.
The bag was nowhere near as disquieting as her secret mumu dialysis pump.
We’re probably talking about the same thing.
Her secret mumu colostomy pump.
Yoinks!
Crotch beak?
Might be that hood hiding her…
Never mind.
You went there. Spit roast. You’re lucky I don’t have animated GIF powers.
“This toilet paper tastes like shit,”
Profound.
Ya beat me to it.
I searched for Mike Pence ghost and found this:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/optical-illusion-mike-pence-picture_us_578b58efe4b0867123e1970a
People are dumb.
At least you didn’t search for “Hillary Clinton Spitroast” (Shudder)
Why would you do that? Masochism?
Rule 34 is the entropy of human psychology; everyone KNOWS it’s constant and inevitable, but no one truly BELIEVES it.
What’s Donald going to be doing as the Funeral happens? I hope that is next chapter.
Another fundraiser rally for vets, I hope. Maybe he won’t even have to be shamed into cutting the check this time.
If I had to guess, a rally in West Virginia.
Golfing
Followed by some take out Veitnamese springrolls.
But deep-fried with well-done steak in them, slathered in ketchup.
I love the word “slathered”. You could “slather” me in anything and I’d probably be happy.
Careful. Remember who wrote this post.
Anything?
Within legitimate literary common sense. For example, you don’t slather someone in scabies.
Aqua regia?
Hillary’s crotch beak juices?
That’s gonna hurt… HCL and H2SO4 right?
Miracle Whip?
Posted late in the links, but on topic here: KDW takes on the effort by Democrats to memory hole a segregationist Democrat by valorizing McCain.
“Spit roast her,” Donald continued blithely. “She was a hell of a piece of ass. And Bill was just so much fun.””
Coffee. Through. The. Nose.
Imagine what was going through her head.
I’m thinking piss.
Well. If I ever need to kill an inappropriate boner I now have a weapons grade anti-viagra to use.
^^^THIS^^^
Aneurysm during an office meeting is a hell of a way to go.
“ONE DONALD’S WORTH OF MCNUGGETS!”
That’s what, a 40 piece with no dipping sauce?
Ketchup.
Certainly not sweet and sour. It’s very high end. Well, Mcdonalds high end.
Dollar menu for me. Are you rich or sumptin?
I pay for 2 extra containers of Sweet and Sour to dip my fries.
Hillary’s gunt juice?
Dude.
WUT?
Hot.
Remember that Szechuan sauce they did? I don’t know if they just added LSD to sweet and sour but that was the shit.
No. There was never any Szechuan sauce. You must have been imagining it.
JFC. Overton window BS. Both of them deserve a spit roasting.
The McCain funeral party has more dinosaurs than Jurassic Park.
Christ, she’s obnoxious.
I got the distinct impression that she was receiving direction from the producers as the interview progressed. She was switching tactics.
CNN is fake news.
First Comment: “She’s an insufferable airhead”
Response: “I would still cum on her face”
Concur. On both counts.
And follow up by woodpeckering her….
Again, I find it hilarious that the left are all over McCains dead decaying ballz. All it does is just reinforce how disingenuous and hypocritical they are. If a known serial killer of nuns and babies comes out tomorrow and says something bad about Trump, the leftist media will lionize the serial killer as a hero.
Her behavior is a perfect example of exactly what he is talking about. She refuses to let the man state his opinion without trying to correct him with simple assertions. I think the phrase is ‘mendacious cunt’, yes?
She’s just trying to redirect him into criticizing Trump, apparently that’s her job, it’s what it means to be a journalists. No interest at all in what they guy has to say. Are you going to criticize Trump or are you a Nazi!? That’s the entire segment.
Is that prog-splaining, journo-splainging, or woman-splaining?
Boy she is irritating.
Heh, he said cleavage and she had to a double take to the ear piece to see if he has talking about hers.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that caught that.
“What did he say!?!?!”
Dear UN climate con-men,
You forgot to put on your mask this morning.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/08/29/un-appointed-climate-science-team-demands-the-end-of-capitalism/
Watermelons. The extreme right made that up. They’re totes not red on the inside.
Also, I suppose then this silly demand of theirs is met, they’re going to sit in the dark and starve along with 90% of the rest of us?
No, no. see, the 5B people least like them just need to die. They think Thanos is a pussy for only killing half of everyone in the world.
Well, it’s nothing new, I can remember many times I’ve heard leftists advocate for a world population not to exceed 500 million. They didn’t comment on how they are going to kill off 6.5 billion people. But I assume that ending capitalism and fossil fuels is one hell of a start.
That part is icky.
And they always assume it will be other people that need to be offed..
I have repeatedly told people that complained about overpopulation to start with themselves and their kids. You should see the look you get from them.
I’ve never met a lefty who is not totally convinced that if we could only get worldwide socialism controlled by an oligarchy of elites, that they will be among the chosen ones. Only wrong thinkers like those deplorables will starve or get the bullet. When they’re up against the wall, they’ll be the most shocked person ever.
“When they’re up against the wall, they’ll be the most shocked person ever.”
This is why I always conclude that no matter how much credentialism they can produce to shore up their credibility, most, if not all, of the totalitarian leftists are totes cool with that shit, and all because they think it will be others getting screwed, that they are dumber than a sack of rocks.
“When they’re up against the wall, they’ll be the most shocked person ever.”
That’s how you know they are completely delusional. Or too young and naiive to know how the world works.
Layoffs at the office today. I was in a meeting with a co-worker in my office on the phone with other project people at HQ. Meeting is done, I go take a shit. I come back 5 minutes later and my co-worker sees me and says “It was fun working with you.” Not 5 minutes after discussing the next step in the project, he gets shitcanned. But it wasn’t a shock to the two of us, we’ve seen it before. A surprise maybe, but not a shock. The shit usually goes down on Mondays. The idea that any of us is safe from the firing line really is delusional – escaping it is a matter of luck and good fortune, nothing more.
From the comments:
Stop telling the truth, you denier!
Watermelons should be forced to have that comment tattooed on their foreheads.
They should be forced to heat their homes and get their drinking water the same way they demand everyone else do.. I bet you they won’t agree to that..
Are you kidding me? I can imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth when their iPhone won’t power on.
But “THEIR I phone is ONLY charged with electricity from renewable sources.. they know they are the consumers of that 5% power generation, and that is that!
It’s sort of like the smugness of the Prius drivers. My car runs on 100% renewable energy!
Umm, you know that charger gets it’s power from a coal fired power plant?
Not my car, it’s all green!
It’s more and more likely to be a natural gas power plant these days, so ah HA! Check. And. Mate.
NO!
Their house only gets energy from renewables. They know so because they attended protests to make that so…
The dumbest sack of shit in the world in a green in an air conditioned office.
Rapid economic transition requires proactive governance – markets cannot accomplish the task
Markets don’t typically cause mass starvation/misery and/or murder people en mass, so…
Tesla is the new Chipotle.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/29/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-reignites-pedo-guy-cave-diver-controversy.html
It gives people uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea?
A little bit, yes.
His board needs to give him a clear choice: stop talking or step down.
Don’t stop him. This is beautiful. “Damn, I would’ve sued me.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: of course porn actresses are not immune to rape. But the circumstances surrounding their career choice stretch credibility to the limit.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/29/i-was-treated-like-a-piece-of-meat-adult-actress-waits-for-metoo/
Furthermore, uber popular cam girl does first foray into “mainstream” porn and then bails and starts crying #metoo! seems just a bit too convenient.
Whatever.
Wait you get paid to have people plow you while it gets recorded and sold, and your complaint is that “they” treated you like meat? What was the problem? Drug habit too expensive to hold a regular 9 to 5 job? Cause I am sure nobody held a gun to her head for her to do what she did..
Maybe she just sucked (euphemisms I know) at pr0n and so decided that her quickest alternative to fame is to jump on that victim wagon.
I absolutely think this is about fame and attention. Like Alex said, she literally performs sex acts for a living and complains about being seen as “a piece of meat”? That’s either serious, diagnosable delusion, or just flat out lying to try and get attention. My money’s on the latter. Why continue in the skin biz when you can make more money and get more adulation by being a professional victim and an “activist”. I expect her autobiography to be released any day now.
If she is really clever, she’ll be running for US Senate soon, touting socialism. I hear that’s all the rage.
She’d fit in well with all the rest of the whores.
Good grief. The Post actually used the phrase “porn industrial complex” – which would be funny if they were going for humor.
Since I am getting the creeps thinking about you Glibs thinking about the Donald peeing in Hillary, I am gonna go off topic and provide you with the UN telling us Climate Change is about getting rid of capitalism. Not surprised, since these people peddling this shit have never liked any sort of engineering solution but always demanded more marxism.
Dang Q beat me to it..
And provided a working link.
*psst, Alex…blame it on the unlucky 13th post*
13 is actually my lucky number…
huh. #metoo (honest)
I always think of 7, 10, and 13 as my lucky numbers. I don’t know why. Humans are weird.
I got married on Friday the 13th.
On purpose.
Ummmmm….
To be fair, there is no engineering solution, since the climate is mostly affected by the sun and the earth’s variable orbit. Since we cannot control those things, the only solution is to adapt to whatever the climate does. In a few billion years, the sun is going to toast us all. Until then, a massive comet or actual serious cooling instead of warming are probably our biggest threats, outside of us nuking the place.
You are correct that there is no engineering solution to a made up problem. However, if one takes these douchebags at their word that CO2 is the root of all evil, nothing produces energy with a lower CO2 output than nuclear. And today’s nuclear tech (look up Thorium reactors) invalidates all the usual bullshit they tell you why nuclear is not the answer (including the idiotic meme that nuclear power plants can go critical and cause a nuclear explosion). In a super advanced technical society one could even go so far as to entertain the notion that that advanced science would allow engineered solutions that harness/redirect the energy coming from the sun or after it is absorbed by earth’s system that lock up the majority of that energy coming at us (the oceans). But no, the answer has ALWAYS been bullshit green crap that have allowed billions of tax payer dollars to go to some selected few friends of the greens, and more marxism.
The thing that they most fear is unlimited cheap energy. That’s why I wish that fusion was still not just 25 years away. Because the massive pants shitting on the left would be the most epic ever. We could probably fuel the planet for a millennia just on their salty tears. Energy needs to be very expensive because otherwise the peasants will get all uppity and decide they don’t need saving by their Marxist overlords.
I think the salt would cause problems. You would probably want more pure water.
My orphans are working on it.
“The thing that they most fear is unlimited cheap energy. ”
What they fear is the freedom that cheap energy gives the individual. Cheap and unlimited energy would allow people to tell government to go fuck itself and move off the gird to do their own thing. It would also facilitate people’s free movement and hamper heavy handed government & government bureaucracy peddling entity’s attempts to control the narrative and sources of information they so desperately want to prevent people form having. For their own good, of course.
Chernobyl is really about as good as a Nuke plant accident can get. And that takes a combination of bad design, bad decision making, and communism to pull off.
It’s funny that the worst environmental disasters and abuses that I can recall all happened and continue to happen in communist or socialist countries. Note that I am talking about real disasters and not the stuff the usual suspects love to blow drastically out of proportion to create fear and doubt in the minds of the small minded, pro-marxism, envious crowd. You look at some of the shit the USSR did and you would truly need to worry, but hey these fucks are totally focused on shit with no real consequences like Three mile island, Fukushima, or how much CO2 cow farts produce.
Even the worst here are government. Hanford was worse than TMI.
Sure, its wikipedia, so it can’t be entirely trusted, but I don’t think there is anything controversial in that statement.
Yes, Hanford is bad. It was also the beginning of nuke plants. Build when people would go watch nuclear testing in the desert wearing a pair of goggles and street clothes. The tech has advanced just a bit over the last 70 years and gosh if we put the windmill/solar money into nukes, we probably could do better.
Or we could just base all of our reactors on the US Navy reactors. Never once have they had a leak*. I figure if we can turn out six for an aircraft carrier, we can turn out sixty for a good sized city.
*I’m sure some have been SCRAMed and it helps to have an ocean’s worth of relatively cool water to pump across the heat exchangers. But that’s the nice thing about building smaller units in parallel.
My college roommate worked at Hanford for five years after graduation in the clean up team. You will not be shocked to learn that a government and quasi-government bureaucracy can’t clean up ANYTHING. It’s now twenty years later, and Hanford is still a pile of mismanaged bullshit.
All of them have been SCRAMed. Repeatedly. Weekly. If nothing else for drills to practice fast recovery startups.
Now, unplanned scrams required a report to Naval Reactors, and they tended to be comparatively rare, but they happened. /shudders remembering a dual down caused by an emergency backing bell while transiting Admiralty Inlet
Any of y’all know anything about NuScale Power and their SMRs?
I have a business acquaintance that works there who is LinkedIn stalking me. if they are what they say they are, I think working for them would be terrific, but I don’t know enough about nukes to know if they aren’t just Atomic Tesla.
There are some security concerns with Naval-style reactors.
My dad worked on nuclear reactor research since the early 50’s, first in the air force and later at national labs.
The family went on food stamps in the early 70’s because the bureaucrats kept shortcutting the testing procedures. My dad walked out and said “I am NOT running an unsafe experiments. I’ve been doing this for 15 years and these new hires are taking entirely too much for granted. I have 6 mouths to feed and I am not jeopardizing their futures so a bureaucrat can make a budget bonus.” He started looking at private sector stuff, but with only military experience and no college degree he was nearly shit outta luck. Eventually the national lab relented and agreed to his safety demands because other guys started refusing too. Six years later Three Mile Island happened and the DoE was formed and came in and essentially went so crazy with the safety that research essentially stopped at that lab.
What I’m getting at is bureaucracy is at the heart of all these disasters. The only reason we don’t have many of them here is that enough of the peons put their foot down and stop the shit from happening. But the bureaucracy still grows and the peons find it harder and harder to stop all the mistakes.
Bureaucracies are not concerned with stopping any sort of tragedy, but in claiming that without them there would be even more tragedies, so they should be allowed to bloat and control everything. Lack of problems would mean they are doing their job but need more bloat. Just like a ton a would mean they need more bloat. Government programs and entities primary purpose will always be growing themselves bigger…
Pripyat is one of my pet interests, and I have always still been in favor of nuclear energy.
I could never understand why a couple of bad accidents based on bad engineering was objectionable to the left, who is constantly screaming about energy. But! Until this thread, I didn’t realize how freeing cheap energy would be, and why progs wouldn’t want it.
*sigh*
Keep in mind, that today’s generators are many times safer than the ones like Chernobyl.
“I didn’t realize how freeing cheap energy would be, and why progs wouldn’t want it.”
Depends on which progs you’re talking about. The useful idiot ones, or their users? The people you see protesting gas pipelines are useful idiots. They’re being used by green energy cronies to get themselves some more subsidies. They know they can’t stop fossil fuels. Only the useful idiots climbing trees at oil pipeline sites believe any of this crap.
It never was about energy, it was always about control. It wasn’t all that long ago that the watermelons were hawking CNG as the savior to the world’s problems. Now that many coal plants have been converted to CNG and America’s emissions have dropped like a stone, all of a sudden it’s the devil and only wind/solar is acceptable. Believe me, if ever there was a breakthrough that allowed solar to provide 100% of our energy, it would become evil the next day.
Controlling energy, like controlling healthcare, allows complete control over the population. The end goal isn’t even the destruction of capitalism (though most of the useful idiots think it is), it’s about Orwell’s boot stomping on the face of humanity for all eternity. Power for its own sake is the end goal.
When you are in the business of picking the winners and the losers, control is what’s important, and anything that undermines that control is disruptive.
Yep. Fracking was cool until it was affordable. Now it causes earthquakes or something.
An old, crusty guy I know had a bumpersticker that said, “more people died at Chappaquidick than Three Mile Island”.
And it was accurate.
That was a LaRouche bumpersticker.
Surprises me not a bit. He was one of two crusty old guys who were key to my small l libertarian conversion. Both were hyper-intelligent men who had grown up dirt poor and had no time for other people’s opinions on how they should live their lives. Guys who were both probably millionaires and both drove 10 year old or more trucks and changed their shirts when they felt like it. Which wasn’t every day.
SugarFree would be proud of that link.
Shit, is he dead, too?
Mistah Kurtz, he dead.
“The html… the html…”
You all have my blessing to jerk off to bad anime at home when my funeral comes. Just pour one for your homie and talk about driving gloves.
Can I jerk off to good anime instead?
Is there a difference? I hate anime.
It’s like JRPGs. I hate all of those. So I’m going on a mission. Why do I have blue and green spiky hair? I look like a fool! All of the sudden something pops out of the bushes and confronts me. What the hell is that? It looks like a cross between a hopping dayglo marshmallow and Pokemon. Am I supposed to be afraid of that thing? How hard can it be to kill that?
STEVE SMITH POP OUT ON YOU!
Will it be one of those gypsy funerals where they prop your corpse up in a chair at the wake?
We must be doing a good job of loading up the queue with submissions. My next article is scheduled and it is a long way out (a couple of weeks).
Makes it tough to be topical. I mean, the Reds might only be 30 games out by then.
They started 3-15. It has all been uphill since then.
Considering my article ends with the passing of the 18th Amendment, I don’t think there is any rush.
Oh man, a cliff hanger!
It is part 1 of 5. Now I have to try to end the other parts on a cliff-hanger too. I think I can do it.
Hmmmm…parts 2 and 5 have obvious cliff-hangers. I think I can make it happen with 3 also, but 4 is gonna be tricky.
Thinking aloud is underrated IMHO.
Most of my best ideas come from thinking aloud.
Careful..
This is a SF Hat & Hair post, and that word might have a totally different meaning there. Especially when the post is about Trump sitting on his royal shitter..
I always fuck up when I try to link to a tweet, so I’m gonna just copypasta:
Someone call the burn unit!
Dang! Don Jr. bringin’ the heat!
God damn he is a jackass, but that was a sick burn.
“I can’t wait for Donald Trump junior to flip on his father. That’s going to be awesome.”
She’d be a big hit at DU. That would get a lot of replies like ‘Trump is done this time! Mueller flips Don Jr!’. They’d be posting all the dancing bananas.
They think everyone is a shitbag like them that would do stuff like that. That or they really think Mueller – whom has avoided looking into any of the real criminal activity that went on before the 2016 election because if he had done any of that, he would have had to go after Obama, Clinton, Brennan, Ohr, Comey, Sztrok, and himself, just to name a few of the players involved in not just torpedoing an investigation about Hillary Clinton’s email server being a national security threat and a clear criminal act deserving jail time, and then rigging the election for Hillary, but using false propaganda to justify using government justice and spying entities like the FBI, DOJ, Homeland Security to run investigations against a political “enemy” (he was the opposition candidate) of the sitting administration – will somehow use all the power of the deep state to force Junior to sell out.
I think orangeman was right to call what is going on a travesty and a witch hunt, and the people thinking Don Jr. will be flipped seem to concur.
There’s literally been at least one post a day on DU ‘Mueller is circling the wagons!’ or the alternative ‘Mueller is closing in’ every single fucking day since this circus started. You would think they might start thinking… wait, I thought Trump was done last time? Maybe something is not really going to happen, again. But no, thinking is hard.
Reply to Don Jr’s sick burn:
See, this is why Twitter, Facebook, and Google have to ban people. Their comrades keep looking like damn fools. That’s no fun.
Which one of you wags is James Woods?
Thank you, SF. Through your efforts, I’ve been desensitized to horror to such a degree that I managed to eat my lunch while reading this.
And enjoyed both.
Hey, Tundra, you and/or the Pope free next Friday night (the 7th) perchance?
I think so! You gonna be in town?
RUN!
You are ready to Become.
Are you guys enjoying the Beto O’Rourke campaign as much as I am? The media and his supporters seem to have contented themselves with pushing the “he’s so dreamy” angle, and I really want to see how that plays out. Seems like a winning strategy in Texas, of all places.
https://twitter.com/DancesWithTamis/status/1034857986190000128
I’m just gonna leave this right here….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ossoff
Eh. Look at Rick Perry’s career sometime. The joke that was old in the late 90s when he was Lt. Governor and I was interning at the Capitol was “the tighter his race got, the tigheter his jeans got.” So I don’t exactly discount the “good looks win races” strategy.
Clinton sailed on a layer of McDreamy-ness. I have heard women gush about his looks and charisma.
Me? He looks like a creepy funny uncle, but maybe that’s because my creepy funny uncle looks like him.
Rick Perry — would.
I have no reason to believe that Bill Clinton is an alcoholic, but for some reason, he sure looks like one to me.
It’s probably the bulbous red nose, because that’s what I think too.
https://pics.me.me/sammy-hagar-is-68-years-old-bill-clinton-is-69-4512302.png
LOL. that’s amazing.
In fairness, being president is pretty aging on them all and I doubt that’s Hagar’s actual hair, but still, damn.
re: Beto, they’re trying to pull a Zoolander with him but with “extra diversity flair!” and I think the people it’s directed at are lapping it up, sadly. As we saw with Obama, style over substance wins a lot of the center and unaffiliated voters.
My favorite is the one comparing Trump and Clinton, who are the same age(!).
http://www.daysworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Trump-Bill-Clinton-300×218.jpg
Bill could be well served by doing a little bit more spray tanning like The Donald.
Sammy has “not being married to Hilary” going for him.
It can certainly play a role, but I think it’s bound to backfire when it’s done so explicitly as with O’Rourke. Perry might have squeezed into a pair of grape smugglers for a few campaign stops, but it’s unlikely he had throngs of adoring media following him around for faux-folksy biopics illustrated with artsy fartsy portraits.
Don’t forget the glasses.
Like these?
It’s actually the mugshot that got my attention.
Its the face you make when you know the charges will be dropped in court.
I guess if you’re going for a Mac from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia look to get your juices flowing, different strokes for different folks.
Euuuugh. Revit classes started this week. Hours of lectures on the UI. “Let me know if I’m going too fast.” Enough already! Start us working on a project, we’ll figure out what we need as we go along.
Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick – the IT director, who is retiring in two days, brought me aside and told me I was going to be reporting to the new employee (a woman about my age), who is just a project manager. I have more technical skills than her, and I’ve been with the company for 16 years.
I blame corporate diversity – ie they finally got a woman on our IT staff. This was the VPs wonderful idea.
I had to pull out the resignation card, saying I should always report to the IT Director, especially given the $$$-sensitive systems I run/support.
We’ll see where this goes.
My boss spent a couple of years trying to groom me to take over his job even though I had no real interest. Yet, I did apply for it when he moved on. A bright young lady who was born after I graduated from college got the job.
“Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick – the IT director, who is retiring in two days, brought me aside and told me I was going to be reporting to the new employee (a woman about my age), who is just a project manager. I have more technical skills than her, and I’ve been with the company for 16 years.”
Go in tomorrow in a dress and wig and wearing lipstick and say that your new name is Queen Humungus and you now identify as a lady . She’ll be reporting to you before the day is over.
Should be Lady Humungus, neh
That will work. And then after little miss thang is forced to report to xe, every time xe sees her, xe holds out a hand and says ‘kiss the ring, bitch, kiss it!’.
I used to work across a cube wall from a guy who was a drag queen on the weekends. For some reason that reminds me of him.
That’s a respectable hobby.
who is just a project manage
If she’s got the PiMP certificate, run. I’ve never seen anyone who wasn’t a successful project manager before PMP certification be successful afterwards, but I’ve got a pile of anecdotal evidence on PMPs being good at managing to never complete a project.
They’re supposed to manage a project. Not complete a project. I mean, how often do you hear about someone completing a team? They always manage a team. Same thing.
I was once told by a guy that fancied himself a great manager of managers, that managers didn’t need to understand the work the people they managed were doing: they just had to assume they were dealing with lying low-lives that needed to constantly be annoyed into doing work by demanding they do things faster to overcome their employee’s penchant for procrastination.
I knew then and their I needed to avoid the managerial track and to avoid managers that came from this school of management.
The nagging girlfriend school of management. “Let me see your phone.”
I’ve also had lots from the “pigeon” school of management. Fly in, shit all over everything, get everyone stirred up, then fly away.
Christ, what an asshole. That is not at all how good managers manage. He must be a nightmare to work for. Come to think of it, I fear this may be the new CIO’s management style.
I have a good one right now who thinks of himself as a delivery manager. Our one-on-ones consist of “do you have everything you need to do the work?” and “What can I handle so you don’t have to?” Occasionally, he’ll ask me “what didn’t you want to put down in black and white in your status update that concerns you?”
He would probably rather I was working on delivering product right now.
I figure my job as a manager is to help my peeps do their job. They do their job, they look good, I (as their boss) look good. Plus, as a bonus, the more they do, the less I have to do.
It helps to have really good employees.
I had a manager who ruled by fear for a few years. Most miserable years of my career. Fucker almost got me to quit but I stuck it out and he was gone a couple months later.
So close, but so far. he was half right. The proper prescription is to trust your employees to do their work, and learn enough to help support them. When I was a manager of coders and didn’t know the code that was my approach.
And here I’m going to be getting a new manager soon. Keep in mind, I’ve worked for the current company for about 6 months now, and I never met my manager face to face. I only had three 1-1 calls after the first week, and only one team meeting a week (which is on Fridays… at 16:30). There are advantages to being remote.
What kind of monster has a 4:30 meeting on Fridays? My offices are empty of management types by that time.
I’ve always thought the surest sign that you are working for a prick is a boss who sets a standing meeting on Friday afternoon.
It annoys me, but there are reasons for it. First, the company is global, and headquartered out of Denver, so it’s only us poor Eastern saps who get it at 16:30. Second, the big thing brought up in the meeting is the scheduled changes for the weekend, and the CAB meetings start at 15:30. This means that we couldn’t have the meeting before that time. At least Fridays are work from home, and the company I’m supporting has a strongly suggested policy of no-meeting Fridays.
Interesting process. I’d prefer to have changes for the weekend locked up and set, including any approvals, well before Friday afternoon.
Gustave: We’re supporting clients, so if they decide they need to implement a change right now and we can do it, that’s what get paid for. The CAB meeting is a daily meeting, and the Core CAB meeting is Tue-Thu, so most changes do get approved before hand. That’s not even counting the changes that come up due to issues, where we need to schedule a restart/reboot/patch after hours.
Yeah, I’ve completed projects – which of course is really just getting them to some sort of workable stage while continuing to work on them. Of course, I’m not a “project manager” nor do I want to be.
As someone who made a living doing as a PM for a while, but doesn’t have a PMP and has worked with those that do; god damn right.
When my dad retired, he had risen all the way to one of the chief officers at his company.
They asked him to head the search for his successor. He spent almost a month evaluating potential successors, and made his recommendation. The board said no, it has to be a woman.
Blatant affirmative action hires demean everyone involved, even if you pretend that it doesn’t.
I hope your dad told them he was done then and walked out into the sunset…
“Blatant affirmative action hires demean everyone involved”
This X a zillion.
Nothing would insult me more than knowing I was only hired because of what I look like/what’s between my legs/who I fuck.
Where’s your sense of entitlement?
A large number of people have no such hangups to cashing a larger check.
It’s going to be really great when diversity hires who went to a ‘everyone deserves an A’ woke U start making bridges and commercial aircraft. I’m never going out of the house again.
Reality is that the real technical people – the ones that keep the lights on – are more often than not passed up for managerial positions because it would impact their availability to solve problems. Especially the top level management positions that tend to be both political and amount to nothing more than 24/7 spreadsheet jockeying of statuses. Being responsible for a bunch of people that could care less about what they were doing, and having to fix code that came from offshore and was crap, turned me off to the managerial track. Even when managing technical people.
This is happening all over IT. And if it’s just project managers, then no big deal really. It’s when they start slicing technical staff who know how the business operates where it really gets bad. You can hire competent code monkeys but if you don’t have enough business intelligence on staff it’s not easy to find competent analysts. Shiny front ends only confuse then end users for so long before they realize the guts of the systems don’t work right.
My clients, though they may be woke, do not hire woke tech workers only because they are woke. That will result in very bad things. When you need to give your clients results, bullshit is a non-starter.
This is why you should love trails. Forcing these people to show how biased these AIs are – and as someone that has written them, trust me, you built bias into your AI if it starts acting with it – is key to undermining their business.
A related article that, I think as someone who has worked on only relatively simple algorithms, is a bit breathless. One of the examples they use is bail-setting algorithms. IF your goal is to consistently apply a bail standard to every defendant at a bail hearing, this is great. If you are more concerned with ruining people’s lives by setting a bail they can never post for unpaid parking tickets, it is a massive failure. And people are kind of talking past each other on these points. Obviously there are more subtle algorithms. What if your mortgage approval algorithm effectively prejudices people with the same work and debt histories because of their ethnicities? Have they just found a more complex way of racially discriminating or is it impartial? Hard question to answer. I’m against the FB disclosure. Build your own damn service if you don’t like how they sort things and figure out a way to sell it better than FB.
But Alex’s link points out that Facebook might just find it in their interest to welcome government regulation because that effectively makes competing with them that much harder.
Another reason I’m against it. Who would staff those oversight agencies but former FB and Google executives?
They might be thinking that way. But it could totally backfire on them.
I’m against the FB disclosure.
FB is only immune from defamation liability if the block offensive content “in good faith”. A double standard based on politics is going to kill that defense. Their algo is going to be exposed one way or the other when they start catching lawsuits for defamation that survive the first motion to dismiss and the plaintiff gets discovery.
It’s software. The last thing they want people to find out is how not-all-that-complicated it is and how much manual intervention goes on.
As I’ve said a couple of times before, I think we can take a pretty accurate guess at what some of the keywords or phrases their algo is based on. And it will not look pretty to a GOP congress when they get their hands on it.
And it will not look pretty to a GOP congress when they get their hands on it.
Or to a jury.
Don’t these sites already allow you to block people? As fucked up as it is enough people want to be aggrieved that they follow people they hate; giving individuals other ways to block content isn’t going to make any difference.
There will be no repercussions for any of this. Facegoogtwat have more money than Croesus and an army of lobbyists. They’re also firmly in the rightthink brigade. Hillary gave away the biggest secrets the government has to bad actors (something the Rosenbergs were executed for) and skated. You think a little suppression of wrongthink is gonna have any consequences?
The permanent bureaucracy will make sure that this comes to nothing.
Like I said, if Trump wanted to hurt them, he’d say he was dropping Twitter in lieu of Gab and tell his followers to do the same.
I wish I were optimistic that nothing will happen, but I’m not. What will happen because of these assholes is that the internet will get regulated by the feds and there is nothing good in there at all for most of us.
It’s 97 F here right now and humid. I just took the garbage out and went to the store and my t-shirt has wet spots all over it. Cold beer time.
Don’t lie. The wet spots are from reading Sugarfree’s story.
No wet spots have ever resulted from reading about the Donald pissing in Hillary’s something. If I said my thingy shrank like a frightened turtle, then you’d have an argument.
No wet spots have ever resulted from reading about the Donald pissing in Hillary’s something.
Beg to differ. Tears leave wet spots.
I went outside once yesterday. That was enough for me for the next couple days.