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You are here: Home / Politics / GOP Death Cult / Repub Stupidity Open Thread: People for Whom It Is Impossible to Feel Sympathy

Repub Stupidity Open Thread: People for Whom It Is Impossible to Feel Sympathy

by Anne Laurie|  July 22, 20216:40 pm| 48 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Immigration, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

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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?

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48Comments

  1. 1.

    Roger Moore

    July 22, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    Where are the nano-violins, people?

    Unfortunately, the only suitable violin for this guy is too small to locate, even with an atomic force microscope.

  2. 2.

    piratedan

    July 22, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    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

  3. 3.

    HypersphericalCow

    July 22, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    I hate hating these people. Why should I? But they just want who make everything worse for everyone, including me and my own.

  4. 4.

    Raoul Paste

    July 22, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    And I thought that owning a boat was a money pit.   Jeepers!

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    July 22, 2021 at 6:47 pm

    “Mr. Fisher, tear down this wall.”

    ;)

  6. 6.

    Mike R

    July 22, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    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.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    July 22, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    In a time when people are killing themselves to own the libs, this doesn’t seem so bad.

  8. 8.

    West of the Rockies

    July 22, 2021 at 6:51 pm

    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”?

  9. 9.

    FelonyGovt

    July 22, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    ?= greatly enlarged to show detail

  10. 10.

    West of the Rockies

    July 22, 2021 at 6:53 pm

    @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?

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 22, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    Meet Tommy Fisher – a racist, dumbass asshole.

    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.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    July 22, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    @piratedan

    Cut a deal with Lindell to chop it up, cover the pieces in cheap fabric and market them as My Footrests.

    //

  13. 13.

    Cameron

    July 22, 2021 at 6:58 pm

    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.

  14. 14.

    Alison Rose

    July 22, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    [insert Nelson Muntz “ha ha’ GIF]

    Maybe his orange daddy will pay him for it. Ell oh ell.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    July 22, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    @West of the Rockies

    Yuppers. The meter is not broken, it is fully functional.

  16. 16.

    zhena gogolia

    July 22, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    TFG issuing a NFT — hilarious parody.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehn4bcIS74w

  17. 17.

    WereBear

    July 22, 2021 at 7:02 pm

    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.

  18. 18.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 22, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    @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.

    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…)

  19. 19.

    dmsilev

    July 22, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I’m sure this link has been posted before, but,
    Revealed: the people who signed up to the Magacoin Trump cryptocurrency

    More than 1,000 people have so far signed up to the pro-Trump cryptocurrency magacoin, including conservative media personalities and Republican figures, the Guardian can reveal.

    The news comes after poor security configuration in a website associated with magacoin exposed the email addresses, passwords, cryptocurrency wallet addresses and IP addresses of users who have bought in to what its promoters describe as the “digital currency for the MAGA community”.

    The data also reveals that the lion’s share of the cryptocurrency so far produced has been allocated to the self-described creator of magacoin, a pro-Trump consultant who owns an LLC associated with the cryptocurrency, and a Super Pac associated with the same consultant.

    MAGA cryptocurrency enthusiast pretty much is the Platonic Ideal of ‘sucker’.

  20. 20.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    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.

  21. 21.

    Catherine D.

    July 22, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Oh dear! I have had lots of critter related injuries. My sympathies!

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    July 22, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    @HumboldtBlue

    Chewtooth connection problem?

    Recuperate well, and fast.

  23. 23.

    WereBear

    July 22, 2021 at 7:23 pm

    @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…

  24. 24.

    Snarki, child of Loki

    July 22, 2021 at 7:24 pm

    That wall would be useful for putting MAGAts up against, y’know.

  25. 25.

    WereBear

    July 22, 2021 at 7:25 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: The things we do… for love. May it only leave an interesting scar…

  26. 26.

    Redshift

    July 22, 2021 at 7:34 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I wish to hear more about this rock opera version of Faust. 

    Phantom of the Paradise?

    (Kind of a mix of Faust and Phantom of the Opera.)

  27. 27.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2021 at 7:35 pm

    Yeah, this was a surprise, no nerve damage or ligament damage, just ugly gash.

  28. 28.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2021 at 7:35 pm

    @NotMax: ​ 

    working on it.

  29. 29.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2021 at 7:36 pm

    @WereBear: ​ 

    Let’s hope so. Means I can’t walk the girls for a few days so that sucks too.

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 22, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Randy Newman’s Faust

  31. 31.

    persistentillusion

    July 22, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    @West of the Rockies: WotR’, good but I prefer FOOF.  Fresh Out Of Fucks.

  32. 32.

    WereBear

    July 22, 2021 at 7:55 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: What a cast on the album!

  33. 33.

    Kay

    July 22, 2021 at 7:56 pm

    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 :)

  34. 34.

    dr. luba

    July 22, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: While looking for the Randy Newman version, I came across this: a German rock opera!

  35. 35.

    hells littlest angel

    July 22, 2021 at 8:00 pm

    Has he tried getting Mexico to pay for it?

  36. 36.

    persistentillusion

    July 22, 2021 at 8:00 pm

    @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!

  37. 37.

    zhena gogolia

    July 22, 2021 at 8:00 pm

    @dmsilev:

    lol

  38. 38.

    persistentillusion

    July 22, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
      Glad you don’t have nerve damage.

  39. 39.

    danielx

    July 22, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    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…..

  40. 40.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 22, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @persistentillusion:

    Dog accident victims unite!

  41. 41.

    Another Scott

    July 22, 2021 at 8:39 pm

    @FelonyGovt:

    Because there’s always a paper… University of Leicester:

    This paper investigates the length of violin string needed for “the world’s smallest violin playing the world’s saddest song.” It is found that the length required for an E string is 0.0108m and a violin of this size capable of producing the required frequency is unlikely to be possible.

    There you go.

    Hehe.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    July 22, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    @dr. luba

    Can’t mention German rock opera without a cursory nod to Klaus Nomi. And another, more outré,.

    ;)

  43. 43.

    Ohio Mom

    July 22, 2021 at 9:09 pm

    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.

  44. 44.

    Gemina13

    July 22, 2021 at 9:36 pm

    Where are the nano-violins, people?

    ::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.

  45. 45.

    Richard

    July 22, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    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.

  46. 46.

    Expatchad

    July 23, 2021 at 6:03 am

    @WereBear:

  47. 47.

    delosgatos

    July 23, 2021 at 11:00 am

    1. Build fence.
    2. ? ? ?
    3. Profit!
  48. 48.

    Metamage

    July 24, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: It’s a concept piece that will soon be rationed out as 30 second zeitgeist bits on YouTube.

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