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Jeff Tiedrich - this week in stupid: July 13 edition
monday: a conspiracy of kooks, part one
Republicans never tire of cooking up the batshittiest conspiracy theories imaginable. check out their latest overheated fever-swamp dream: the World Economic Forum is censoring conservative voices on social media. I shit you not, these low-wattage glue-huffers actually believe this.
naturally, House Republicans have responded to this imaginary crisis by doing what they do best: wasting everyones time on a series of pointless hearings. they dragged a bunch of industry leaders down to the Capitol and harangued them with the dumbest fucking questions ever asked. exhibit a: Rep. Michael Rulli, Republican of Ohio:
my familys owned grocery stores since 1917, we have about 45,000 SKUs. a product I know really well, growing up, my mom favored Dove Soap. I dont think Dove Soap has been in my house for over fifteen years. we use Irish Spring now, and I was trying to think to myself, when is the last time I saw a Dove Soap ad? I am a conservative family, and I look at a lot of different outlets, whether its online or whether its TV or radio or everything you can imagine. I havent heard a Dove Soap ad in at least ten to fifteen to twenty years. so if I was responsible to my shareholders, and I had to go there and I had to answer to them, if Im doing the best job possible, for your words, the protection of the brand, youre using these extreme examples of situations where the brand might be associated with a freak situation versus a normal family of kids. we never see a Dove Soap ad.
what and I cannot put too fine a point on this the fuck? Congressman Goofus here hasnt seen a Dove Soap ad since who knows when, and thats all the proof anyone needs that that what? oh my god, now I have to lie down in a dark room until the veins in my forehead stop throbbing.
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Jeff Tiedrich - this week in stupid: July 13 edition (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
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BComplex
(8,898 posts)1. "I haven't seen any Dove soap ads"
That's just SO sad!!!!
Glorfindel
(9,874 posts)2. SKU
SKU stands for "stock-keeping unit", and it's a unique code that retailers assign to each product in their inventory. SKUs are usually made up of alphanumeric digits, but can also include scannable bar codes or QR codes.
Blue Owl
(53,761 posts)3. Mike Rulli is a numbSKUll
captain queeg
(11,591 posts)4. I read thru the post and when I finished all I could think is "and so?"
I started to reread it to see if I could make any sense out of it, then thought its not worth my time to try to figure out rethug thought processes.
Kali
(55,498 posts)5. Fidel Cancun
Harker
(14,608 posts)6. Next time you get a chance, please be sure to pass by a Rulli Brothers market
without buying anything.
Timeflyer
(2,471 posts)7. So, is there a Dove soap kink or fetish going on out there, or--what the heck?