Meet Tommy Fisher.
His company spent millions to build a 3-mile border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Now, he needs to find someone to buy it. More @BW: https://t.co/JPg6mtWfmo pic.twitter.com/hbsVktqGaD
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) July 22, 2021
‘Patriotic’ North Dakotan builder decides to drop a few million putting together a ‘proof of concept’ eyesore that won’t do what it’s supposed to, but will murder butterflies and possibly lead to future diplomatic headaches.
He gets stiffed, along the way, by Steve Bannon.
Then Biden wins the election — and destroys our builder’s hopes of big-time profit and his name in the history books.
Where are the nano-violins, people?
Roger Moore
Unfortunately, the only suitable violin for this guy is too small to locate, even with an atomic force microscope.
piratedan
he can collect it and sell it in 1,2,3,6 foot sections to the “willing” and recoup his costs…. think of all of the virtue signaling that owning this piece of Americana would entail…. bleech
HypersphericalCow
I hate hating these people. Why should I? But they just want who make everything worse for everyone, including me and my own.
Raoul Paste
And I thought that owning a boat was a money pit. Jeepers!
NotMax
“Mr. Fisher, tear down this wall.”
;)
Mike R
Depths of republican stupidity and greed are bottomless. Should no longer be astounding, but man are they dumb. Imagine trusting Steve Bannon or any of the Trump Klan.
Baud
In a time when people are killing themselves to own the libs, this doesn’t seem so bad.
West of the Rockies
Wait, wait, I think I have a tear… no. Sorry, dude, all outta sympathy.
Who said, “She looked upon her shelf of fucks to give and beheld that it was empty”?
FelonyGovt
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West of the Rockies
@Mike R:
But Bannon is such a snappy dresser in his double polo shirts… that ruddy complexion and youthful-skin, that devil-may-care stubble… what’s not to like?
mrmoshpotato
Fixed.
What was the “proof of concept” – that stupid, racist walls can be built?
I’m still waiting for food prices to fall through the floor because all of the Trump trash is willing to pick crops, etc for free. Been waiting over 4 years.
NotMax
@piratedan
Cut a deal with Lindell to chop it up, cover the pieces in cheap fabric and market them as My Footrests.
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Cameron
Maybe Mike Lindell could help him market “My Wall” for $$/sq. ft. with “MAGA” drawn in Sharpie on each piece. ETA late to the party again.
Alison Rose
[insert Nelson Muntz “ha ha’ GIF]
Maybe his orange daddy will pay him for it. Ell oh ell.
NotMax
@West of the Rockies
Yuppers. The meter is not broken, it is fully functional.
zhena gogolia
TFG issuing a NFT — hilarious parody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehn4bcIS74w
WereBear
Sometimes I wish a wild rich person would be so taken by my life’s purpose they would spend a few million to further my goals…
But I suspect it would turn out to be the Rocky Horror version of Faust.
mrmoshpotato
@WereBear:
I wish to hear more about this rock opera version of Faust.
(Oh, I don’t have the funding – unless I win the Lotto tonight – but go on…)
dmsilev
@zhena gogolia: I’m sure this link has been posted before, but,
Revealed: the people who signed up to the Magacoin Trump cryptocurrency
MAGA cryptocurrency enthusiast pretty much is the Platonic Ideal of ‘sucker’.
HumboldtBlue
I posted this in a lathe night thread last night so I’ll re-post today cuz why the hell not?
Check this finger injury story out.
For the past three weeks or so I’ve been walking the neighbor’s dogs, two beautiful big strong girls, A and M.
Their mamas are small women, so after they asked me to feed and walk them over a three-day weekend while they were away, I kept at it because the dogs and my fat ass need the exercise.
We’ve worked on leash discipline (a big one, particularly when M sees a cat or a bird or A sees a pile of shit she’d like to roll in) and it’s slowly catching on.
Today it’s walking time, 1:15, I walk M, we get back and A is raring to go as always. We finish with her walk and then begin what I can only assume is the single greatest activity ever created on this earth — fetch.
A loves fetch the way I love a bowl and an ice-cold Pabst or the way current GOP members love being traitors.
We get to tossing the ball, and A is happier than if she hadn’t tried her mightiest to roll in the fresh pile of dog shit in the second alley over (and managed to get some shit on her leg and neck, the dumbass) and it’s back and forth, dust kicking up, leaping snatches of the bouncing ball until the time she missed and ran into the fence.
An aside — as I walked her through that alley she alerted to some movement and as I looked down I met the gaze of a homeless woman huddled beneath an overgrown bush, wrapped in a bag and I told myself that it was the need to control A I kept moving without a single second of human acknowledgement.
We get back and it’s ball time. Half a dozen tosses over the rhody in the back yard, half a dozen tosses under the rhody.
On toss 13 A is standing 12 inches from me as I lean down to pick up the ball for another toss. She’s all business, ball covered in spit and happy dog drool, mouth open, panting, excited for the next chase.
I grab the ball feeling it slip and slide in my fingers trying to find a grip on the slime and start my upward underhand motion to toss that sucker back over the rhody.
I come up strong, and my right ring finger meets her canine and slices me open nearly to the bone.
I knew it was bad, I’ve seen wounds as an EMT/firefighter, but that was MY finger and that was MY subcutaneous fat oozing out from the flow of blood.
Long story short.
Five hours later (Urgent Care didn’t wish to address the injury, so I was forced to the local hospital ER) I’ve got six stitches, 10 days of antibiotics and a hurting digit.
All from the toss of a ball.
Catherine D.
@HumboldtBlue: Oh dear! I have had lots of critter related injuries. My sympathies!
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
Chewtooth connection problem?
Recuperate well, and fast.
WereBear
@mrmoshpotato: Start with the musical Cats… no wait, I just remembered the movie.
Okay, now we have the production design for Hell on its way…
Snarki, child of Loki
That wall would be useful for putting MAGAts up against, y’know.
WereBear
@HumboldtBlue: The things we do… for love. May it only leave an interesting scar…
Redshift
@mrmoshpotato:
Phantom of the Paradise?
(Kind of a mix of Faust and Phantom of the Opera.)
HumboldtBlue
Yeah, this was a surprise, no nerve damage or ligament damage, just ugly gash.
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
working on it.
HumboldtBlue
@WereBear:
Let’s hope so. Means I can’t walk the girls for a few days so that sucks too.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mrmoshpotato:
persistentillusion
@West of the Rockies: WotR’, good but I prefer FOOF. Fresh Out Of Fucks.
WereBear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: What a cast on the album!
Kay
Tim Ryan is having a “fundraiser” for his senate campaign Sat AM at the UAW. I say “fundraiser” because it can’t be about the funds raised- he’ll get maybe 2000 dollars.
He must just like us :)
dr. luba
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: While looking for the Randy Newman version, I came across this: a German rock opera!
hells littlest angel
Has he tried getting Mexico to pay for it?
persistentillusion
@HumboldtBlue: I feel your pain. My last two ER visits were dog-related. I felt so dumb saying: Well, my 40 lb heeler pulled me off my feet because I wasn’t set. Eight stitches later my elbow was still unhappy and remains so 60 days later. The first visit involved teeth and we won’t say more.
If there’s ever a meet-up in CO, we could compare scars!
zhena gogolia
@dmsilev:
lol
persistentillusion
@HumboldtBlue:
Glad you don’t have nerve damage.
danielx
I am surprised Tommy Fisher hasn’t been in contact with TFG about this. If there is someone out there who can figure out how to manufacture cash out of a stupid investment…..
HumboldtBlue
@persistentillusion:
Dog accident victims unite!
Another Scott
@FelonyGovt:
Because there’s always a paper… University of Leicester:
There you go.
Hehe.
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@dr. luba
Can’t mention German rock opera without a cursory nod to Klaus Nomi. And another, more outré,.
;)
Ohio Mom
I did a little goggling on this character, thinking “Doesn’t he have any family members, maybe a wife, to rein him in?”
Apparently Tommy Fischer and his siblings inherited the construction company from their father; they’ve had a range of legal entanglements including tax fraud and EPA fines. One brother was sent to jail on child pornography charges.
So the answer to my question was No.
Gemina13
::ahem:: The Nanoviolin Quartet would like to inform you at this time that they are currently performing at Washington D.C., at the request of certain members of the Democratic Party, for one ::checks notes:: Kevin McQarthy, et al, regarding a “Congratulations, You Played Yourself” event ongoing through 2021.
Richard
What is it with these people and that stupid wall? It doesn’t work and we are the same people on either side. It is time to recognize that US and Mexico are inseparable. We are like family to each other.
Expatchad
@WereBear:
delosgatos
Metamage
@mrmoshpotato: It’s a concept piece that will soon be rationed out as 30 second zeitgeist bits on YouTube.