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Molly Sargent's avatar

The remarkable contradiction is that, while so many of the current DOGE efforts are justified as "good business practice," much of what is being enacted would not be tolerated by corporate boards and paying clients. [You don't use an ice cream scoop to remove brain cancer.]

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

Humor and parody, he said.

Let's remember Ken White's Rule of Goats. If you fuck a goat "ironically" you are a goat-fucker.

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laurie Jurewicz's avatar

🫶🏻 he got what he deserved!

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Pamela Tinkham-Harms's avatar

This dude should visit Oradour sur Glane in France. It will change him forever

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Megan Macomber's avatar

"...an era that inflicted deep suffering on millions." Deep suffering? Deep SUFFERING?

How about DEATH? Have you heard about the DEATH, asshat? Or just the Schindler's List part?

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Goldfish's avatar

Between this and the footage of that woman being dragged out of a town meeting, it's hard, from the outside, not to consider Idaho a third world country at this point

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

It's the place where a politician said "Why don't you go back to where you came from" to a Nez Perce.

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JCfromNC's avatar

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“I’m a Christian, a Republican, a patriot, a successful businessman, a son, a brother, a husband, and a father,” he told Boise Dev. “I’ve learned today that some people will hate me for the first three or four things on that list."

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Fuck you, Tom. No one hates you for being a Christian -- unless you're one of the "Christians" who seem to completely ignore the teachings of the person your religion is supposedly based on. No one hates you for being a patriot -- unless you're one of those "patriots" who seem to hate everyone in your country that isn't just like you and whose loyalty lies more with your political party than the country. No one hates you for being a successful businessman, except possibly if you built your success by exploiting your workers and using your success to make sure no one else can compete with you.

Now, hate you for being a Republican? That one I'll give you, but maybe if Republicans hadn't spent the last 40+ years being as hateful as they can possibly be, other people wouldn't have that reaction to learning you are one.

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Bombay Troubadour's avatar

Is it even possible to be Republican and a true Christian these days?

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human being's avatar

Perfect response

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Eric Tompkins's avatar

*“I’ve learned today that some people will hate me for the first three or four things on that list."*

Typical. No one hates you for those things, snowflake. You degrade the meaning of those things by being a Nazi.

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tegrat's avatar

TBH his apology was at least not a nopology as most are, in the vein of "if I offended anyone..."

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Deborah Carey's avatar

If Hill really was a Christian, he would NEVER have done that salute. If you have to tell someone, first thing, that you're a Christian, then you probably aren't.

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BlueSpot's avatar

We don't hate you because you're a “Christian, a Republican, a patriot, a successful businessman, a son, a brother, a husband, and a father".

We hate you because you're a fucking Nazi.

Simple. Get it?

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Manic Pixel Dream Girl's avatar

“I’m a Christian, a Republican, a patriot, a successful businessman, a son, a brother, a husband, and a father …” He’s also a smoker, a joker, a midnight toker, and, sometimes, a space cowboy, but none of those seemed to help him evade responsibility like he thought the other irrelevant shit did.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Smilin' and sieg heilen' ... what could be more Republican in 2025?

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Suzie's avatar

No, Mr. Hill, you are just another Nazi!!

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

A good rule of thumb is if you're stupid enough to throw a Nazi salute in public, you're too stupid to be a CEO.

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WokeGrandma's avatar

I dunno -- I've encountered a lot of stupid CEOs.

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RRJKR's avatar

Yes, It's hard to say it was an accident. "Honest. I swear, I was just trying to swat a fly!!"

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Always Be Ithacating's avatar

Tom Hill, CEO of Engineered Structures – suppose for a minute you are, or love, or are related to someone the Nazis hated, persecuted, or murdered.

That list includes Jews, Slavs, Romani people, LGBT people, disabled people, and many other minority populations.

How fucking funny do you think your "recent attempt at humor and parody" is, you Christian, Republican, patriot, successful businessman, son, brother, husband, and father?

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