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Former Real World housemate and current Republican representative for Wisconsin, Sean Duffy, is taped complaining that he can barely survive on his $174,000 a year salary. “Go fuck yourself, sir,” say the ponies. PONIES!
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$174k isn’t really that much when you consider that he has to pony up for two residences. I understand why he’s chomping at the bit for a raise.
yeah….nope – still doesn’t compute
You actually don’t. I’m fairly certain that both parties offer wicked cheap places to stay while in DC.
He’s one of those fiscal conservatives who make a point of staying on a cot in his office when he’s in DC. So, no.
(also bits are champed at)
But…puns!
(taps microphone)
Is this thing on?
I took this photo of myself to show you:
Its tough being a white landowner, you guys
these guys get it
What does Bill the Butcher have to do with this?
Oopsie-daisy!
He should have gone into teaching. Everyone in the midwest (hell, in the whole US) knows that’s where the *real* money is.
“So Midnight’s issue is, he’s actually missing his hoof and his coffin bone…“
“So Midnight’s issue is, he’s actually missing his hoof and his coffin bone…“
“So Midnight’s issue is, he’s actually missing his hoof and his coffin bone…”
Every time I reload the Videogum page. It’s Chinese Pony torture!
I’m so sorry!!!!
No, don’t be. Pony torture is the 3rd best kind of torture. Right after the Puppy Rack and Kittenboarding.
Well, now I just want to get kittenboarded.
Hate to say so, but he’s right! How can anyone survive on just one paycheck? I hear Bill Gates gets 5, sometimes 6 paychecks! THAT’S how you get by.
He really needs to remember Genesis’ story of her sad childhood, in which she was jealous of the Smurfs and their Smurfberries, because they had FOOD and she didn’t.
Also, Montana and VAJ.
And awfulbeatpoet Jason and his crazyeyed girlfriend Timber.
God I loved The Real World in the 90s.
TIMBERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Also funny cause Sean was a lumberjack!
I had to google him to find out if he was on a season I watched, and was he ever! Definitely top three seasons. Anyway, I made a video about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1uX_orNZe0
Boston was so good. I had a huge crush on Jason. He’s ugly now though. I would no longer hit that.
Elka’s British boyfriend Walter? I’d hit that.
A quick google search showed that Jason looks more or less the same (and also runs some sort of TV casting business of sorts…?) and therefore: I would hit that.
Wait, show me what you came up with. Last I saw him a few years ago and looked like a hackie sack pot head that hangs out under a bridge. I can’t find any current pics of him!
Elka was my first reality TV crush. Actually it was the girl from Road Rules with the Marilyn piercing, but I don’t even remember her name so I guess we know THAT wasn’t Real. World.
Remember when Road Rules had to make a PSA set to “Jumper” by Third Eye Blind? That mission was like the complete encapsulation of the mid-to-late 90s to me. Radio-friendly alternarock and MTV shows.
(Sorry to be turning today into bunim/murraygum)
Elka was my crush too. Imagine how blown my 12 year old mind was when she started working at my local mall’s Body Shop less than a year after the show aired. So many bath salts purchased for no reason, I could have been getting high this whole time!
When I first read this post I thought it was talking about this guy.
Diddy beats me to the punch, again!
Weird. Those are the same two girls that help me pilot my private helicopter. Small world.
Keepin’ it relevent with Pony Day.
Boom. Pony’d.
Now I know what the “P” stands for.
It seems we’re all forgetting this simple truth: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems.
“I got 99 problems and my one paycheck is all of them.” – Sean Duffy
Poor guy. If only he could be part of some collective that had the right to bargain for better wages.
This is the true story of 99 strangers, picked to legislate in a lower house, and have their comments taped.
Find out what happens when house representatives stop being able to manage their own money and start managing the taxpayers’. The Wisconsin State Assembly.
“Poor guy. Hey, maybe we could all start up a collection or something.” – Japan
(joke premise blatantly stolen from one of FLW’s posts yesterday)
Actually, I blatantly stole this comment and posted it in the past. To my time machine!
Hey, asshole, I still know who Hitler is.
There was a mixup, and FLW went back in time and saved us from Hitler’s terrible art.
He has to drive a used minivan, people. USED. Oh the humanity!
It is very sad he can’t afford to rent a lamboghini.
lol
I was pretty sure that Sean Duffy wasn’t ever voted into office and also that he died, but then after what seemed like a long time, I woke up, and it had just been a dream.
I’m sorry, but I’m pretty sure you automatically forfeit all rights to complain about not having enough money when you have SIX FUCKING CHILDREN to support that you have created yourself. Either pay the price or BAG IT UP.
“Keep the child population down! Get your congressman spayed or neutered!”
Bob Barker is so wise.
According to TPM (I don’t know what that is), Sean Duffy has among his debt the following:
“Here’s a rundown of Duffy’s finances, from the 2009 disclosure form he had to file with the government: his family of 7 (wife plus six kids) is carrying between $250,000 and $500,000 in mortgage debt; between $50,000-$100,000 in student loans; between $15,000-$50,000 in credit card debt; and between $100,000-$250,000 in debt related to the family vacation home, a cabin not too far from his primary residence in Wisconsin.”
So, here’s a thought. Don’t have six kids. Don’t buy a vacation home. Cut up your credit cards. Can’t do anything about the first one now, of course, but the other two are within your control, Mr. Duffy. Live like us little people who don’t even make $150,000 a year (or $100,000, or $70,000…I won’t go on, it might be too upsetting.)
Excuse me while I am a nerd.
$174k is roughly $14,000 a month.
$500k mortgage w/ taxes, insurance, etc = $3,500/mo
$100k student loans = $650/mo
$50k in credit cards = $500/mo (assuming a 10%+ interest rate)
$250k mortgage (cabin) = $1,880/mo
That’s $6530/mo going towards debt. Those are minimum payments, and assuming mid-level interest rates (6.5% on the mortgages, same on student loans).
That still leaves you about $7,500 a month to spend on things other than debt and mortgage.
Tears.
You’re obviously discounting the young, male prostitutes. He is a Republican, after all.
I feel bad for/actually like Sean Duffy. I think his problems as a shortsighted, selfish senator are the result of a rough childhood or something(?) and he’s just no good at handling them, like a lot of people. Plus, he and his real world friends made some really good tv episodes. No bullshit.
This is my new favorite snowclone.
As both a Wisconsin resident and Pony Enthusiast, I am offended.
“Let’s take a step back here people, because I know I’m going to say something that I’m going to regret. Like the last 2 minutes of me talking. That’s probably going to come back to bite me in the ass. That whole thing how I sounded like I was having trouble getting by with $170K+… that’s probably going up on YouTube later. So I think we should all just take a biiiiiiig step back, okay?”
*Congressman Duffy points to the crowd*
“THIS WOMAN KNOWS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!”
this is horrible… but shouldn’t we all just be outraged that a former cast member of the Real World is an effing CONGRESSMAN????
Maybe he should sign up for Real World v. Road Rules Challenge: The Chambers (of Congress)
NAILED IT!
TPM: The Pony Metwork (Ponies are bad at spelling)
Someone is giving Gwyneth a run for her money.
Hyperlink fail: http://www.rachelcamposduffy.com/
You make fun, Gabe, but I think the Congressman has a good argument here. If I were to look in my refrigerator on a Friday evening and see only two beers (note: this never happens), I would consider myself “practically beerless”, soon to be LITERALLY beerless. So I think I would agree that the fact that the guy is down to his last two houses is really kinda sad. Though not as sad as a beerless refrigerator.
Here’s how you can help: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/food-and-clothing-drive-to-support-rep-sean-duffy
The French also had a method for helping out: http://www.theguillotine.info/how/print.php
This guy has been living off the government tit for a long time. Back when they picked people off the street to just live in a loft and find out what happens when people start being REAL.
I hate the fucking shit out of republicans
You can sympathize, Congressman Six-figures, but don’t you dare empathize.