• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

This fight is for everything.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Economics / Free Markets Solve Everything / A Simple Request

A Simple Request

by John Cole|  February 7, 20141:21 am| 26 Comments

This post is in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Assholes, Sociopaths

FacebookTweetEmail

Just read AL’s story about AOL’s CEO, and I hereby request we use this picture every fucking time we talk about these sociopaths, because I am running out of four letter words:

Jump

Well, not really. I am living proof that profanity, much like peak wingnut, is a renewable energy resource.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Open Thread: CEO Tim Armstrong Earns His $12,000,000 Salary at AOL
Next Post: Late Night Open Thread: Amazon’s New Pilots »

Reader Interactions

26Comments

  1. 1.

    srv

    February 7, 2014 at 1:29 am

    Alan Arkin was delightful at SF Sketchfest tonight. And we all watched The In Laws again.

  2. 2.

    KG

    February 7, 2014 at 1:37 am

    Heh, that was my office desktop when I was doing mortgage fraud litigation back in the day

  3. 3.

    Jay S

    February 7, 2014 at 1:57 am

    Wait, you have a large supply of four letter words appropriate for this situation? I’m all eyes.

  4. 4.

    ruemara

    February 7, 2014 at 2:01 am

    There was a great atheist blog called “War on Faith”, run by a former Marine. That man could work in cuss words like a Picasso in oils or a Brancusi in marble. I have great faith in the renewable resource of servicemen with cussing. I learned so much from him.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    February 7, 2014 at 2:05 am

    As someone who eschews profanity (and also bemoans the dilution of its impact through its increasingly casual usage), my sentiments may be parallel but their expression would differ somewhat.

  6. 6.

    The Dangerman

    February 7, 2014 at 2:16 am

    Fuck, there’s still an AOL? Seriously, last time I thought of them might have been in the last millenium (when they were still sending me free disks to decorate my Christmas Tree).

  7. 7.

    JoyfulA

    February 7, 2014 at 2:27 am

    @The Dangerman: AOL bought Huffington Post and MapQuest.

  8. 8.

    John Cole

    February 7, 2014 at 2:35 am

    @The Dangerman: I’m still shocked that they survived sending me 2,000 coasters from 1995 to 2002. I mean cd’s to try me to sign up for aol and kill my OS FUCKING DEAD.

  9. 9.

    James E. Powell

    February 7, 2014 at 2:35 am

    @JoyfulA:

    AOL bought Huffington Post and MapQuest.

    But how does it make money?

  10. 10.

    hells littlest angel

    February 7, 2014 at 2:50 am

    @James E. Powell: Well, it also owns Radio Shack.

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    February 7, 2014 at 2:56 am

    @ruemara:

    Here’s the War on Faith blog you mentioned. Looks fun.

    He’s got a section called What the Fuck, which includes his epic rants (Attention: John Cole); another on Heathen Quotes, in addition to the expected Bible Quotes.

    “I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.”
    ……….Clarence Darrow

  12. 12.

    Ruckus

    February 7, 2014 at 3:05 am

    @ruemara:
    That is a great blog!

  13. 13.

    John S.

    February 7, 2014 at 6:33 am

    @hells littlest angel:

    So… How does it make money? LOL

  14. 14.

    ThresherK

    February 7, 2014 at 6:50 am

    @The Dangerman: My thoughts exactly: World’s pettiest tyrant determined to exercise total authority over the sinking ship of AOL.

  15. 15.

    Bjacques

    February 7, 2014 at 7:15 am

    I expect Malcolm Tucker from “The Thick Of It” and the spinoff movie “On The Loop” would have some choice words for this.

  16. 16.

    NorthLeft12

    February 7, 2014 at 7:22 am

    I have always enjoyed seeing that sign and picture. Brings a smile to my face every time.
    As an Engineer I appreciate the simplicity, directness, materials of construction, yes, I would go so far as to call that sign elegant in its overall design.

    The only negative being the impact of the message on the sensitve fee fees of the banksters/market manipulators/con artists that it is aimed at. Haha, no I could not say that with a straight face.

    I am sure some media apologist will point to this sign and claim that this was the start of the class war when the moocher mob ambushed the job creators.

  17. 17.

    eric

    February 7, 2014 at 7:30 am

    @NotMax: fucking A. what the fuck are you even fucking talking about. Shit.

  18. 18.

    Chris Rich

    February 7, 2014 at 7:58 am

    AOL is a poster child for the stupid. This idiot is still a CEO? I thought it went into some kind of receivership.

    Have people forgotten the stunningly stupid and unusual Time Warner deal where guppy AOL tried to swallow the Time Warner pickerel using leverage and speculation fever only to puke it out a few years later?

    If there were an Oscar Award thing for Grotesque Management Malpractice this pathetic Galt Clone would be a shoo-in.

  19. 19.

    SFAW

    February 7, 2014 at 8:02 am

    @James E. Powell:

    But how does it make money?

    They just hired a new CFO/COO/BFD, a Mr. M. Minderbinder, who has been known to buy something for 7 units of currency, sell it for 6, and still turn a profit.

  20. 20.

    C.V. Danes

    February 7, 2014 at 8:10 am

    @The Dangerman:

    Fuck, there’s still an AOL? Seriously, last time I thought of them might have been in the last millenium

    My thoughts exactly.

    What a way to motivate the workers of an irrelevant company to not be so irrelevant.

  21. 21.

    Mathguy

    February 7, 2014 at 8:54 am

    @ruemara: for my money, the Rembrandts of cursing are the Sou th Park guys. Cartman in “Bigger, Longer and Uncut” unleashes strings of profanity so amazing I still marvel at them today.

  22. 22.

    Paul in KY

    February 7, 2014 at 10:21 am

    @ruemara: The militery is certainly the big leagues, when it comes to cussing.

  23. 23.

    Mnemosyne

    February 7, 2014 at 10:58 am

    @Bjacques:

    Fun fact: the guy who played Malcolm Tucker is the new Doctor Who.

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    February 7, 2014 at 11:51 am

    @Paul in KY:
    I met a few really good practitioners in the military, after all swearing like a sailor isn’t a saying for nothing. But I learned my swearing in machine shops. Not all allow or have this trait but the one’s I liked did. Mistakes elicit the best streams ever. One could tell the size/severity of the mistake by the amount/creativity of the blue smoke rising. Alas I find that too many people are fucking pc these days and can’t seem to allow themselves the pleasure of a few invectives now and again.

  25. 25.

    different-church-lady

    February 7, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    @hells littlest angel: Damn. I’m gonna miss Radio Shack.

  26. 26.

    SteveinSC

    February 7, 2014 at 8:24 pm

    No, the only thing to do is not just repost the picture. The thing to do is actually Push one or two of the motherfuckers off the fucking roof…pour decourager les autres

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - way2blue - SINALEI, SAMOA—RESPITE EDITION—FEBRUARY 2025.  (second of five) 7
Image by way2blue (7/31/25)

World Central Kitchen

Donate

Recent Comments

  • Princess on Sunday Morning Open Thread: Dance Like the Whole Universe Is Watching (Jul 13, 2025 @ 11:01am)
  • lowtechcyclist on Sunday Morning Open Thread: Dance Like the Whole Universe Is Watching (Jul 13, 2025 @ 11:01am)
  • StringOnAStick on Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Daylilies (Jul 13, 2025 @ 11:00am)
  • Geminid on Late Night Open Thread: America’s Fascists Love Alligators (Jul 13, 2025 @ 10:57am)
  • Baud on Sunday Morning Open Thread: Dance Like the Whole Universe Is Watching (Jul 13, 2025 @ 10:56am)

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
No Kings Protests June 14 2025

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

Feeling Defeated?  If We Give Up, It's Game Over

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!