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TL;DR NOT a valid excuse for ignorance.

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  1. shin0bi272 says:

    this document is 17 pages when printed on 8.5×11″ paper… if the congressmen cant read THAT (and that’s their job description) how the hell did they read the healthcare bill and the financial regulatory reform bill? both of those were over 2000 pages.

    • MrsQ: Philly Mom says:

      That’s why they hire flying monkeys to read propositions for them.

      (They’re also adept at throwing poo, which is a useful skill on The Hill.)

    • !starlord!!**!! says:

      You expect our legislators to READ the bills they vote on? What are you, crazy?! that would cut into their fundrasing time!
      BTW, no one had read the entire healthcare bill when it passed. and people were tacking on fatty porkish substance right up to the vote.
      Besides, people already knew it was really only the words “Death panels!!!! Tax increase!!!!” repeated 10000 times.

      • Whatever says:

        I wonder if I got elected as a representative if I could slip in something to a big bill that gives me boat-loads of money. Not my district, but me personally. I probably wouldn’t get re-elected, but with boat-loads of money who cares. I mean if they aren’t reading this stuff, what’s to stop them from just slipping in anything they want?

        • !starlord!!**!! says:

          If I manage the campaign to slander your oppon…Get you fairly elected, can I get 1% of said boatloads of money? We can set up a fake political action commitie to act as a front for it…Hide the cost in the actual bill as “Study the maiting habits of the marbled grouse yellowbellied moss muncer in it’s native habitat” to be conducted by the “MGYMM conservation group,” a fictional enviromental group you just *happen* to chair….
          Think it would work?
          Boy, have I studied local politics too long…

          • !Whatever says:

            I was just thinking of putting something in that requires 1% of all tax revenue to go directly into my bank account, but the taxes would be much better with your idea. With it set up as a non-profit we would only have to pay taxes on the portion we took as “salary”.

            • starlord says:

              Then you hire your actual company to conduct the “Enviromental research.” and since you are doing it for a non profit, tax free organization… I think you see where I am going with this. ;)
              So, do I get my 1% of your boatloads? Or do I just blow thw whistle on your whole corupt money laundering operation?
              (JK)

              • !Whatever says:

                I just noticed that we only have ! on half of these posts. Does that mean we are only half joking?

                • !starlord! says:

                  :D
                  nope! it was an oversight.
                  that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it, officer!
                  What? Extortion? is that what they call creative acounting errors now?
                  *Throws Ninjitsu! brand smokebomb*
                  *Presses “escape teleport” button*
                  well, that didn’t work! Exit, stage left, pontificating all the way even!!!

              • Mossad076 says:

                You already gave him the plan, he doesn’t need you anymore. BTW ignore the target on your back.

                • !starlord! says:

                  That’s okay. I didn’t need clone #76 anyway.

                • !starlord! says:

                  Also, being a Mossad operative, I would have thought you would have realized that was only about 1/8th the plan, and that if he accepted, he would have needed me a lot more than I needed him. Never lunched with anyone who works on K street, have you?
                  BTW, grats on taking out Sadam’s super gun designer, and making it look like the CIA or MI6 did it.

                  • E10 says:

                    Starlord,

                    You don’t know me, but someday I’m going to be a (get ready, sit down, this is gonna sound nuts) moderate senator who is going to actually try to do some good on the hill. Can I borrow some of the funds your clones will eventually get from Whatever to help with the fundraising? Seeing as the only way I can raise the money these days is to dance around a stage saying either Conservatives or Liberals are pure evil…

        • shin0bi272 says:

          “wonder if I got elected as a representative if I could slip in something to a big bill that gives me boat-loads of money.” nancy pelosi did. She got an amendment attached to a spending bill that got her husband’s company a 10 million or so dollar contract with the government… she is now worth over 17 million dollars. So did a congressman from PA. He got an amendment attached to a bill that gave millions to a company he or his brother owned (IIRC) and the company went under and they were still getting govt monies.

  2. Aramek says:

    Plus, the handwriting on it is simply atrocious!

  3. I Like Peanut Butter but not Obama says:

    PK’s gone green. Every tenth LOL is a recycled joke. **calls Al Gore**

  4. !starlord!!**!! says:

    twelve votes and it makes the front page?!!?! Hmmmm.
    Yet other ones have over thirty with the same rating, and don’t. Huh. Go figure.

  5. Dragonjek says:

    Ah, finally–something that can be UNIVERSALLY agreed upon.

  6. ff says:

    “TL;DR” usually means “I read your comment and disagree, but rather than posting an intelligent and witty reply, I’m going to say ‘tl;dr’ because I’m a sad little child incapable of a higher level of thought.”

  7. Dan says:

    People are certainly familiar enough with the first amendment to cite it even when it doesn’t apply, like Schlessinger citing it after repeating the n-word multiple times, or Wikileaks citing it against Amazon.

  8. Philip says:

    Actually, if you have to wade through 90% crap in order to even see if the actual message is valid or not, then TL/DR IS a valid excuse for ignorance. The point is that TL/DR can’t be used for things known to be important for the issue at hand – like the US constitution.

  9. Sandy says:

    It’s the first part of the test- if they can raise their hand and keep a straight face as they swear to uphold something they’ve never read, then they’re on their way to passing bills they’ll never read.

  10. BeatKenny says:

    Why use such unreadable font? looks like russian

  11. BonkBonkOnTheHead says:

    What the miscreants who voted for and signed that socialist abomination ‘Obamacare’ bill dont realize is that somebody slipped in a page (pg 2017) that requires immediate execution of those who voted for and signed it.

    Its time the Sergeant at Arms of the WH and Congress carry out ‘the law’ that all those miscreants didnt bother to read.

    • kurisu7885 says:

      Yeah, if that was in there it would have happened already. Quit telling us your sick fantasies about toilets and death.

  12. Bjorn says:

    until you made your comment stupid with the “obamacare” drivel (same stupidity i could hear, often word-for-word, from any conservative pundit), i thought you were making a jape at the constitution.

    it was, after all, the foremost piece of liberal thought at the time. it was an icon of the average person’s rights and power, shrugging off the yoke of oppression from the unjust rule of tyranny. the concept of revolution was so liberal people were scared of it.

    and now it’s used as a shining light for conservative thought. go figure.

  13. idk says:

    So what does tldr mean? I assume it’s an abbreviation or an acronym.


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