“So this is Kentucky?” Joe asked Finnegan as she maneuvered him through piles of rubble.
“Yes, Grandpa,” she whispered over the faint muttering of the captive press corps.
“What happened? Is it always this messy?”
“There was a tornado, Grandpa.”
He pulled her closer and she stumbled over a sodden photograph album. “Did any of these people vote for me?” he asked.
“I doubt it,” Finnegan said.
“You not helping him right,” Dr. Jill Biden growled and pushed Finnegan away.
“I’ve got you,” Dr. Jill Biden said, crushing Joe’s arthritic fingers, the swollen joints creaking. She pulled him toward the press corps.
“Walk like you’re the President,” Dr. Jill Biden hissed, trying to pull him out of his stiff-legged stagger.
“W-w-why…” Joe started to ask.
“Because you are the President.”
“I know that, dammit!’ Joe said.
“Don’t get upset,” Dr. Jill Biden said. She felt around in her coat pockets and popped a tasty Biden Treat into his gaping mouth.
“We’re going to need a minute,” Dr. Jill Biden told the press corps. They pointed their cameras at the ground and stopped their iPhones recording. They turned around and those with both hands free plugged their ears.
“They hate it when they have to do that,” Finnegan said, behind Joe and Dr. First Lady.
“As long as they do it, I don’t care!” Dr. Jill Biden snapped, loudly enough for a few of the reporters to flinch like whipped dogs.
“W-w-why…” Joe started again before Dr. Wife Biden popped another treat in his mouth.
“Tornado, Grandpa,” Finnegan said. She pointed at a field of rubble. “That used to be a candle factory.”
“I-I-If,” Joe said, his face bunched and red, “If they voted for Donald, then why did he d-d-do this to them?”
“Donald Trump doesn’t control the weather, dear,” Jillden M.D. whispered.
Joe’s protracted fart rumbled like distant thunder.
Is a Biden Treat like a Scooby Snack, only fortified with Geritol, Flomax, and dopamine ?
Something else too — notice the relationship between the snack administration and the jillpresentations.
“Why don’t you pass some time by playing solitaire?”
Wherther’s.
Succretts.
…the reporters to flinch like whipped dogs.
Stetler must’ve not been present, he’d be begging for more.
SimpsonsCPRM did it.That’s a great closing. Perfect, SF, now I will hear those sounds when Joe walks away from the press.
Sorry to go OT so soon, but I’m sitting an overview of a thing called TinyPulse. It seems pretty stupid – anyone have any experience with it?
“TINYpulse is employee engagement software…”
Hard pass.
I am getting dumber listening to this. But dropping out of the zoom is probably noticeable.
There’s a solution to every problem.
Merciful god, it was scheduled for an hour but is now over.
My manager’s manager used it for some surveys from time to time a couple of years back. It seemed harmless enough, no further data.
“Jillden, M.D.”
Darn your nimble fingers.
“Joe’s protracted fart rumbled like distant thunder.”
Another destructive storm brewing.
“It’s gonna be a wet one!”
You sure? I thought at least one of his kids, was… (((you know)))
Poor Joe….but given how close this is to reality, it kinda does make me think that Joe having Herr Doktor Jill push him out in front of the public is exactly what that piece of shit deserves.
He finally got to be President on his fourth try (with some fortification) and now the American public gets what it deserves by watching him shit himself in meetings with foreign powers, tell people that they need to get vaccinated in the event of a tornado, etc.
Everybody gets what they deserve…except those of us who just want to be left alone.
except those of us who just want to be left alone.
Wanting to be left alone is white-supreme terrorism.
Infliction of violence on those we aren’t busy serving even.
Like someone here said in reply to “I feel sorry for him.”
“I don’t, I feel sorry for us.”
Like my new avatar, fellow kids? Stole it from a WSJ commenter.
Can’t read it.
Crap. “Libertarians: diligently plotting to take over the world and leave you alone.”
Slightly easier to see:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/avatar_user_865_1639505986-160×160.jpeg
Diligently plotting to take over the world and leave you alone.
refresh, TH.
Dilute! Wet skin well! OK!
🙂
Poignant with a healthy dose of schadenfreude.
FJB.
This Joemala made feel bad for the POS from Scranton. On second thought, I had to take a left exit off the interstate with this asshole’s name on it last week, so I over feeling bad for him again.
He appears to be what they claimed Regan was during the last year or so of his presidency.
https://vimeo.com/540800315
Ronnie was never as bad as Brandon is on a good day.
“Princess David” in ’85 was not a high point.
“Diane”, great. Not to bag on the Gipper…
@ :44 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KffcbTtaqVE
He wasn’t that bad until at least 2 years after he left the Presidency – and when it got to that point, he stopped appearing in public.
I think his last appearance was at the ’92 convention.
GHS training. For some reason they tell me I’m required to evacuate during a fire drill. And these stock images are decades out of date. 4″ wafers and class 10k cleanrooms at best.
And I’mma giggling at the fact that the global standards are defined in whole degrees Fahrenheit/fractional degrees Celsius. But go ahead and believe that the world is based on metric.
Our fire evacuation training video is almost funny, though not intentionally.
Our CEO issued a video presentation of the state of the company. Pretty well produced overall, but they used stock footage of a bunch of people in European-style work and safety gear, none of whom are actual employees in our European facilities, as backing when he was talking about manufacturing. It was sort of disconcerting. If you’re doing an internal presentation, use footage of actual employees. We actually know each other.
“A factory is a factory, innit?”
/Professional CEO
It hardly matters because “you didn’t build that.”
hmmm, in many cases, I *have* actually built that.
Did they tell you to avoid smoking in the clean room and to use the on site smoking lounge?
Our training for the clean room protocol still has the guy eating a banana in his bunny suit….. It is not acceptable to eat in the clean room!!!
The requirement to re-take this shit every year is infuriating. Same stuff for the last 20 years. Sexual harassment, unsafe work place, IP protection, and other yearly training is a waste of everyone’s time. Once you take it at orientation there should be no requirement to take it again unless the laws change.
Nuisance litigation / vexatious litigants for ya.
For some reason, that reminded me of the time I had to go to the transplant department and tell the staff that under no circumstances were they to put their lunches in the refrigerator we use for organs.
Was it after that kid from Colorado got a baked potato put in his chest instead of the heart transplant he needed?
I LOL’d.
Because that would only happen in Idaho, of course.
Yeah, but he would be Orida in the end!
*narrows gaze*
Puns like that will make Swiss start to spudder.
“Why does my urine smell like Manwich?”
I’m reminded of a practical joke I once saw pulled involving a sample container, some apple juice, salt and a microwave.
I always like the WFH safety/distraction training we used to need to do once a year.
No. I do not have a radio or television in my work area. But I do have the internet, multiple monitors, and if worse comes to worse, my cell phone.
My workshop doubles as my home office, so I’m surrounded by sharp and heavy things, things that can make extremely loud noises, potential of extreme temperatures, tripping hazards, sharp corners, head-knockers, cutting tools, rotating machinery, and electrical hazards.
Jillden, M.D. — a new name, a new title. This portends something, but what? Stay tuned for next week’s taint-tingling episode.
Does a taint tingle after it has been repeatedly punched?
“Ill turn your taint into a t’isnt !”
It’s a
progressiondegradation.You retards, it is DOCTOR (all caps). Don’t forget it.
I like my taint withered, thank you very much.
/misses those guys
For the economist(s?) among us
Thanks, just wasted about a half hour hitting the Random button.
There are far worse ways to waste 30 minutes. Weinersmith’s politics don’t make him one of us, but his humor is spot-on for this place.
And now I’m hitting the Random button.
His ability to make me laugh out loud is impressive: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-04-27
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/death-8
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-08-15
This one got me:
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/2007-07-22
I LOL’d
I could see this happening.
I like how she controlled him with pain by crushing his fingers.
Yeah, and then gave him a Bidey treat when he behaved.
Riden Reats! Ranks, Roctor Rill!
Biden Bites is the street name for Ritalin.
Ok, I made that up, but it could be true.
I like it.
Caption Contest!
https://twitter.com/MBrassenstein/status/1470433175893651456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
“No, it’s $20, same as downtown.”
The heels on the whore go round and round, round and round, round and round.
“I’m smiling I’m smiling I’m smiling I’m happy I’m happy I’m happy….”
TFW you get the negative STD test.
“As long as they do it, I don’t care!” Dr. Jill Biden snapped, loudly enough for a few of the reporters to flinch like whipped dogs.
All too real.
That one got my wife asking “what’s so funny?”
So I showed her, she said “Sounds right.”
Serious question
Any known distilleries or breweries destroyed in the recent tornadoes?
Asking for concerned Glibs
Not that I’ve heard, but very little distilling happens on that end of the state.
Correction- very little LEGAL distilling happens in that end of the state.
Hope Dooley’s OK.
Nothing hit my newsfeed regarding breweries, and it’s local-ish to the algorithm (which also seems to think I care about new breweries opening in California)..
OT:
Crime hits the tony suburbs.
After two years of stupid BLM signs in the front yards of manicured estates, the rich people find out that criminals suck.
Can’t get that link to work
Works for me.
Raw: https://alphanews.org/victims-speak-out-urge-walz-to-stop-ignoring-crime/
Works on my home computer but not my work computer.
Some firewall issue.
Your flag decal wont get you into heaven any more.
A meme.
Bravo!
OT – I think I’ll just reach for my reading glasses. SImilar medication for glaucoma looks to be going for about $60. Plus you get to do this once a day and deal with whatever the long term issues using it are.
VUITY™ (pilocarpine HCI ophthalmic solution) 1.25%, the First and Only FDA-Approved Eye Drop to Treat Age-Related Blurry Near Vision (Presbyopia), is Now Available
Long term effects pictured
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/fa/a2/aafaa2bcc85712e0b031f79d2c48d16e.jpg
That’s so insensitive. You need to be aware of the Boss-Eyed.
I was expecting Wall-Eye from Hot Shots!
Too soon! Had regular eye appt yesterday to get a current scrip for new lens in my glasses. Eye doc progressively did more examination, sent me back to the initial exam room for another machine, and now have a peripheral vision test scheduled for next month. And additional scrip for reading glasses. Turns out looking at porn is making me go blind.
Kanji…
Giggle
FTFY.
So this is two weeks in a row without any retch-inducing SF prose – he’s up to something, just softening us up, isn’t he?
It’s been quiet.
Too quiet…
db – if you still around, I sent you a DM on the forum. I uh…aimed high for an idea we haven’t even gotten off the ground level yet.
Shoot high, aim low.
That better be Yes. I can’t watch right now because I’m in a meeting.
OBE, I’ll check it out.
I sent a reply; if you’re on the Zoom tonight maybe we can talk on that… Very interesting opportunity.
Occupy Cheesecake Factory.
On one hand it’s kinda dumb and private property and what not.
On the other hand, they are fighting against draconian covid decrees.
I’m conflicted on this one.
Maybe I should just hate everyone involved…
just hate everyone involved
Standard operating procedure.
Don’t hate the lettuce wraps!
Almost 30 years ago the wife and I would occasionally go to one of the original Cheesecake Factory locations on the beach in Marina del Rey. Thought it was great.
Last time we went to one in a mall in Jersey it just seemed like an expensive diner.
Something for everyone (so good for large and/or awkward groups). Also, a reliable source for salad in areas that don’t prioritize roughage.
And I remember when they had ads in their menus. Get your dog off my lawn…
I noticed the rabbi’s comment that the protestors were comparing the Holocaust to not being able to eat in CCF. No, they were calling the cops “nazis” and the good rabbi might recall that the nazis didn’t start off putting Jews in death camps either. It is a long slippery slope and must be defended long before one hits bottom.
The copyright to the Holocaust is guarded jealously.
If CCF were smart, they wouldn’t be pushing these rules except for being forced to do by The State.
Perfectly OK to support this protest IMHO.
Otherwise it will never go away. You have to start somewhere. Etc. etc.
Sydney Watson has an ugly holiday sweatshirt that’s on topic.
That’s one saucy Aussie.
She has a better one (IMO), but it was OT –
“Drink Eggnog, Fight Commies”
And since I’m pimping female YouTubers’ merch, here’s Bridget Phetasy’s Vax Passport T-shirt once again. Love that one.
Let’s go, Brandon.
Biden on 2022: “I want to tell my Republican friends, get ready bal, you’re in for a problem”
Love the first reply that he speaks like an iphone autocorrect.
“we need to stay unified”
Uniter in Chief.
At least now he is just specifically talking about his party and not the country. It is refreshing to hear the truth every now and then.
Max Headroom made more sense that Brandon.
He pulled her closer and she stumbled over a sodden photograph album. “Did any of these people vote for me?” he asked.
“I doubt it,” Finnegan said.
“You not helping him right,” Dr. Jill Biden growled and pushed Finnegan away.
This made me laugh.
“We’re going to need a minute,” Dr. Jill Biden told the press corps. They pointed their cameras at the ground and stopped their iPhones recording. They turned around and those with both hands free plugged their ears.
“They hate it when they have to do that,” Finnegan said, behind Joe and Dr. First Lady.
“As long as they do it, I don’t care!” Dr. Jill Biden snapped, loudly enough for a few of the reporters to flinch like whipped dogs.
Beautiful.
“I-I-If,” Joe said, his face bunched and red, “If they voted for Donald, then why did he d-d-do this to them?”
“Donald Trump doesn’t control the weather, dear,” Jillden M.D. whispered.
Jillden?
And who does control the weather?
I like the Biden Treats.
Jillden sounds too sexy.
Easy there, Hunter.
Poor Fruit Sushi.
He gets dunked on for pretty much every take now.
Does he mean immunized?
I had hope for him for a short while. Oh well.
I’ll defend Robby – there’s no inherent libertarian position w.r.t. the vaccines in and of themselves. “you’re going to wish you had gotten it” isn’t un-libertarian. “Everyone should be mandated to get vaccinated” would be, but that’s not what he wrote.
But he is insinuating that being unvaccinated is an absolute danger. At least how I read it.
I read it more as “you’re going to regret it” vs. “it’s going to kill you” but it’s semantically ambiguous.
Either way, there’s nothing un-libertarian about that statement.
Ill allow it. Just cause you are you and I am me.
If expressing “you people are fools if you don’t do X” is un-libertarian, I think I have to turn in my membership card. 🙂
I burned mine.
Relevant 😀
I agree, that stance isn’t libertarian or democratic or anything. It is opinion but is using the weight of his chops to push it.
I won’t join any club that would have me as a member.
If it was possible to die of embarrassment, me telling this to the VFW guy outside Tractor Supply would have killed her.
Oh, fuck yeah!
It is opinion but is using the weight of his chops to push it.
You saying Robby has chops might be the nicest thing ever written about him on this site.
I agree with this take.
I had Covid. I had bacterial pneumonia on top of Covid, which I hadn’t factored into my “Do I get the vaccine or not?” calculations. I think I still would have chosen to not get the vaccine as bacterial pneumonia can be treated.
Interestingly…. I think I got Covid at FreedomFest where I met Robby and offered to teach him how to change a tire. Note: I did not intend that offer as an insult, and told him as much. I wanted to help him out since I liked some of the work he did, especially that on the UVA non-rape case.
“bacterial pneumonia can be treated”
Here’s a little secret: covid pneumonia can be treated too.
FAA finally has stated they will request documentation for reasonable accommodation requests starting Jan 3rd. Dragging their feet? Or getting their ducks in order to do their firings….time will tell. At least my holiday season is secure.
There’s rumors that Gov Kathy is going to change the current NY mandate from “vax or test” to “shot or sacked”
I’m looking at my finances and trying to figure out where I can best find a new job when that comes down.
GlibIT Global
Where do I send a resume?
Well, I did mention that I aim big. If you build it, they will come.
Bye-Bye Bill already has a jab-or-fired order in place for Dec. 27.
Businesses were complaining about it in the paper today, his response was “Look at the website. The details are there.”
Needless to say, I will not comply.
I’m debating whether I should go on a tirade at the agency on my way out.
Or if there is any value in the high road in convincing people.
They are trying to run out the clock. I think this bodes well for you guys.
“U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak said on Tuesday it will temporarily suspend a vaccine mandate for employees and now no longer expects to be forced to cut some service in January. In a memo seen by Reuters, Amtrak Chief Executive Bill Flynn said the railroad would allow employees who were not vaccinated to get tested.
Currently, fewer than 500 active Amtrak employees are not in compliance. Last week, the railroad told Congress it anticipated “proactively needing to temporarily reduce some train frequencies across our network” because of the mandate.
Flynn said 95.7% of Amtrak’s 17,000 employees are either fully vaccinated or have an accommodation — and including employees with one dose 97.3% of employees are in compliance.
Amtrak cited a U.S. district court decision that halted the enforcement of President Joe Biden’s executive order mandating vaccines for federal contractors by January. “This caused the company to reevaluate our policy and to address the uncertainty about the federal requirements that apply to Amtrak,” the memo said.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-passenger-railroad-amtrak-suspends-vaccine-mandate-employees-2021-12-14/
I am starting to think that the tide is turning. Far too many groups are moving away from Vax mandates.
They love to toss this into their compliance …”and including employees with one dose 97.3% of employees are in compliance.” So they are not in compliance…you lying fucks.
Aren’t they also counting if an exemption has been applied for, that person is “in compliance”?
Yep.
It’s almost like the numbers are being pumped up for show.
Nah.
C’mon, man. Getting the jab is patriotic.
Biden on vaccine mandates: “What’s the big deal?”
Guess this, MF. (Yeah, that makes no sense either.)
If it’s not a big deal Joe, stop trying to force people to take it.
No clue
Haven’t got a clue.
This is part of why I dropped the traditional insurance (Obamacare plan).
I expect that they are going to try to use the subsidies as a lever to force vaccinations. Get the clotshot or lose your subsidy. And given how expensive those plans are without the subsidies, that can easily be a $25k tax hit.
Sigh… And remember NJ has high vaccination rates compared to other places.
A year into NJ’s COVID vaccine rollout, waning immunity is contributing to hospitalization rise
We aren’t far from seeing a complete change of attitude to “These so-called vaccines that Trump developed are worthless in protecting Americans from covid-19. Yet another fraud perpetrated on the American public by Trump. President Biden and Vice President Harris are working diligently to bring real vaccines to the American people by Oct. 2022.”
They’d have to suicide Fauci first.
Like it would be difficult with that odius little gnome.
So, we should nuggie him to death?
Really. There’s probably people out there that would turn his head into a fine pink mist from about 400 yards out in exchange for a bag of chips and a Pepsi.
No need. He’s what? 75? Time will do that soon enough. I just hope whenever it comes, it comes as a side effect of a COVID booster.
80. Spry fucker.
I can’t understand why he’s still working. I punched out first chance I got at age 42.
It’s about power with Fauci. He could have retired at 65 (or earlier) but he really is obsessed with power and controlling people and leaving a “legacy.”
Meanwhile my wife said she read an article where Murphy felt no need to increase COVID measures in NJ.
This also showed up in my reading list – ‘They’re sick of masks’: Democratic governors fight Covid fatigue
TW: Politico
I had COVID Fatigue in April 2020. I cracked early and ran away to SC in May 2020.
I wonder whether it’s waning immunity or the fact that they were developed with too much specificity and now the variants are getting around them. Keying in on the spike protein only seemed like a bad idea then and it seems like a bad idea now.
I am intrigued with how much Omicron mutated. There is some speculation that these little nasties have been circulating for a lot longer than two years.
But yeah. Get ready for the deluge of super expensive therapeutics.
Theraflu, some select vitamins, liquids and some rest will probably be what 99% of the people need.
Sure, but Pfizer and Moderna are in the 1%.
It’s not speculation – unless the drift rate (i.e. gene mutations) is now “speculation” when it’s contra the narrative.
Science is never allowed to trump the narrative. EVER.
Or the vaccines wrecked a lot of people’s immune systems.
Is it possible that the same shit that made people susceptible to the bug makes them susceptible to the bug-simulating
I know the shots are nasty, but I still know more people personally who have OD’d than died of either the ‘vid or the shot.
It’s not going to be “President Biden and Vice President Harris are working diligently to bring real vaccines to the American people” it will be the repackaged Ivermectin treatments that we keep hearing about. COVID vaccines and all the strident pro-vaxxers will act like they never were.
This.
I don’t know why that hasn’t been tried already, says double negative R.J. That would at least give them some kind of win.
Are they still pretending that it’s not mostly sick-already old people? Because the media seem to have quite carefully omitted that from all of their reporting over the last ten months or so.
OT- just saw a YouTube commercial for Reno 911: The hunt for Quanon.
It had a bunch of american flag wearing people on a cruise ship. None of the jokes were funny, but the best part?
Patton’s Oswald is in it!
Can’t wait to see it.
Oh man, it’s on the Paramount streaming network, so I guess I’ll miss it.
Qanon is so 2020.
*sigh*
I love the Reno 911 / State people. I’ll be sad if they went totally woke.
#metoo
I skipped as soon as Patton’s fat face showed up, but the stuff before that didn’t look promising.
Patton is in A/P Bio, and he is not bad.
I don’t think it went wolk.
But the best Patton Oswalt’s scene is the Filibuster from Parks and Recreation.
Oswalt was pretty good in the last season of Justified.
I was just about to mention that. Playing something of a sad-sack is up his alley.
The scene where he kept insulting the crook that was beating him up was great.
Some of his stuff is funny, but I’ve heard to many of his opinions, so him in a Quanon show is 99% guaranteed to be retarded.
Ex-McKinsey partner pleads guilty to insider trading in Goldman Sachs fintech deal
I have worked with many ex-McKinsey people. Some are good friends and some were the perfect example of book smart only.
The various exchanges and the SEC monitor this stuff closely. And writing calls two days before an acquisition is definitely going to be reviewed.
Thanks to Slumbrew for my afternoon soundtrack.
I’m 50/50 on Bowie. Half his stuff I really like and the other half I essentially have no interest listening to.
That doesn’t take away from his influence or talent and I’ve got like 8 or so of his albums.
People who take risks often miss the mark.
GBV puts out an album a week. Some is brilliant, some I will never listen to again.
Still, you can build some amazing playlists!
How can you not love “He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van”?
That and Ziggy are amazing albums.
This is my take also. But, my wife is a HUGE fan, so I have heard most of his work over the years.
His live show was the best I’ve ever been to, but my concert going is limited.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Wham
Bam
Thank you, Ma’am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD51cxqY_uQ
Wow. Cocaine is a helluva drug. Good song and all, but they were playing it at about 125% normal speed.
How to jump-start a Millennial.
Play this in the background.
No, no, no. It is Drumpfler that is fascist.
David Brody: Is there a word that describes what American society is today under this Biden regime? How do you see society today under his administration?
Rudy Giuliani: I really hesitate to say this. I hate to say it. I don’t want to say it. And it will make me feel very bad saying it but we’re a fascist country at this point. The administration is using and has been for some time fascist tactics.
Why hesitate to speak an obvious truth?
I understand hating to say it.
I hate to say, but this is textbook facism.
Whereas a prog’s definition of fascism is the same as a child’s definition of “not fair,” i.e. “anything I don’t like.”
Not to say we haven’t been under fascism-lite for decades, but what Biden is doing and proposing is the real deal.
ron, GT and rhywun are right: It’s not only the combining of the state with favored businesses, the really worrisome part is that the government is getting “private” businesses to perform quasi-governmental tasks. The government is blocked by laws from doing something? No problem. They simply get the vast majority of businesses to kowtow to their preferences, enforcing vaccine mandates, forcing credit/debit card issuers to withhold payments for those who espouse wrong think, etc., etc. Then, the left squeals that “they’re private businesses! They can do what they want!” conveniently ignoring the permeation of government throughout the entire apparatus.
I spent a few years working for this guy:
https://www.angelsword.com/about/the-artisans/
He dead now.
He was a huckster, a showman, a self-promoter, a scam artist, and legitimately talented. He was a cult leader in the Tiger King sense, preying on the outcast to get them to work for him for slave “wages” and making them dependent on him via company store tactics.
He was not a good man. He owes me $5000. I will miss him. I met my dearest and truest friends in his orbit. It is remarkable how such an asshole could draw such good people to him.
Two jobs ago, I met some of my dearest and longest-lasting friends. It was a small company, the owner was shady and a swindler and was cheating on his wife with the secretary. There was a question of missing 401(k) money. But the people I worked with were top-notch, very smart and just great individuals. I often thought of what amazing things we could have done if we had good leadership. Sometimes adversity will create great friendships.
I think that the trick in this case is he drew the notice of people who wanted to believe and had.. faith? risk tolerance? to take a chance. Some of the people never figured out what he was and ended badly. Others bailed out right away. And some of us were self-sufficient enough to not rely on him but stuck around because of the company of our fellow seekers.
I probably should have specified, he died last night — one of the friends I made back in 2003 who lives on social media reached out to me.
The knife community is full of that kind of stuff, sadly.
The late, lamented Dr. William Aprill once told me, “Knife people are pretty much the ‘gun people’ of gun people.”
Lol yes they are. There’s a guy, William… something that keeps popping up under different names/DBAs. Absolute fraud. But charismatic. Not as skilled as Dan.
I did some work for this guy 15-20 years ago: https://www.onestopknifeshop.com/
What you said is absolutely true.
The levels of shadiness in the NFA collecting/dealing community in the 1980s/1990s is legendary. Selling products that didn’t exist, taking customer’s money up front and then never delivering, screwing business partners, etc., seemed to be the order of the day in the past. It probably still goes on today, but the sheer size of the firearms business serves to cover the really shady back corners.
He owes me $5000.
You might have more luck getting that from his estate, if you’ve got paper to back it up.
I don’t know if my documents are sufficient. I honestly don’t know what is estate is going to be worth. I think he divorced his fourth wife a few years ago. He’s got a few kids, some estranged. I can’t imagine that his sales have been good since covid.
Debts get paid before heirs. You might think about pulling together what paper you have, finding out who his executor is, and sending it in.
And if his estate’s got any assets.
It’s got non-liquid assets. Inventory, machinery, a decent house on unproductive acreage that hasn’t yet been expanded out to to be worth anything (Driftwood TX).
Now, how many loans he’s taken out against those…
Mark Steyn mentions this short story written in 1909 called “The Machine Stops” in which people live in their own little underground hexagonal room with a chair and a small table, and their ever need is taken care of by The Machine. They communicate with other humans through “instant messaging” and have access to all info they need through the Machine.
They are only allowed to leave briefly if they apply for a pass and get issued a respirator so they can breathe above ground.
Rather a forward thinking story in some ways, and not a happy one. A little close to Lockdowns for comfort.
Here’s the wiki if you just want to read the plot summary instead of the whole thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
And Steyn’s article: https://www.steynonline.com/10285/respirators-and-egression-permits