Oblivious to the masses, his Honor rides in on his Harley wearing full regalia. Just another day in the life of an aristocrat. “Let them eat Corndogs”, he says with a wide grin.
Bruce rides his Harley in the parade. Diana boos and takes selfies with protesters. Lance sees how much it would cost if Bruce sponsored all the Lemon Shake-Ups. Goldberg writes letter about service in the Beer Tents. Comedy, 68 minutes
Born to Defile - Steppenwolf, Matt Genero, enhanced by VanillaMan
Get your mouth runnin’
Head out across Illinois
Labor should be indentured
And take whatever they’re paid
Yeah Brucie go make it happen
There’s Illinois’ dignity to debase
Fire all the civil servants at once
Then laugh in their face
He governs in smoke and mirrors
And heavy money thunder
Master of the hot wind
and Blagojevichian plunder
Yeah Brucie go make it happen
Campaign like you can’t lose this race
Spend millions of your pocket change
And lie through your face
Like a spoiled rotten child
You were born, born to defile
No one can count all the bodies
Your policies threw in a pile
The Flintstone’s Great Gazoo spotted at Illinois State Fair on what appears to be a union built Harley-Davidson…. Live reports state the years have been very unkind to the once Great Gazoo… Tape at 8
Bruce Rauner, solely responsible for 600 part-time, $10 an hour jobs at the State fair…proof positive he is turning the economy around, one protestor at a time.
“Worryin’ about protesters? Nah, they’re not comin’ after me. Most of them say they’re wantin’ to break the cycle of poverty - and man, this here ain’t no cycle of poverty.”
My dear departed bar owning father always said “Tough guys never have to tell you how tough or bad they are, just the ones who aren’t tough have to tell you”. My father’s quote recently came to mind with Governor Bronson’s ongoing rhetoric ….just an observation
That was the star of tne Regular Guy spots during the campaign.
This has been done. Tommy Thompson was the first, but that made sense, as Reagan had just rescued Harley with tough trade measures on Japanese dumping of big cc bikes.
- Relocated - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:25 pm:
Boss Hogg arrives for another day of governing.
- Downstate GOP Faithless - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:25 pm:
Not really a caption as much as I’m just over the regular guy thing…
- VanillaMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:26 pm:
Boss of the Hog
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:26 pm:
“Get the protesters in the background. I’d thought they’d never show… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:27 pm:
“Louder! Really taunt me! Yeah, yeah… You guys can do better… “
- VanillaMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:27 pm:
Money just can’t buy class, can it?
- sickntired - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:27 pm:
where do i find the time to govern?
- VanillaMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:28 pm:
Bruce Rauner rides in on his façade.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:28 pm:
“It’s too hot for the phony Carhartt, so wearin’ the vest helps… “
- IllinoisBoi - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:29 pm:
A touch of crass.
- chi - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:29 pm:
Don’t look left Governor! Never look left!
- Midstate Indy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:29 pm:
A true 1%er. Keep the wheels down, Brucie.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:29 pm:
Diana?! You’re suppose to be on my side, not with the protesters…”
- Tom K. - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:30 pm:
Early for the rumble with the Highpants Gang
- chi - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:30 pm:
“They’re standing right behind me aren’t they…”
- Team Sleep - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:30 pm:
“Governor, we need to talk about your flair. Fifteen is the bare minimum, okay?!”
- Albany Park Patriot - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:30 pm:
“I’d rather be on the coast of Croatia with my REAL motorcycle club.”
- chi - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:32 pm:
High Pants, the sequel to High Noon
- bluecollargal - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:33 pm:
Oblivious to the masses, his Honor rides in on his Harley wearing full regalia. Just another day in the life of an aristocrat. “Let them eat Corndogs”, he says with a wide grin.
- Skid lid - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:34 pm:
Ya …. I just got the training wheels off…. Ya these things cost like pocket change … To me anyway…Pretty cool huh
- Ghost - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:34 pm:
Once i get prevailing wages cut the roads will be open! Since no skilled worker will be able to afford a harley….
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:35 pm:
HBO - “Dad’s Home State” - Season 1, Episode 32
Bruce rides his Harley in the parade. Diana boos and takes selfies with protesters. Lance sees how much it would cost if Bruce sponsored all the Lemon Shake-Ups. Goldberg writes letter about service in the Beer Tents. Comedy, 68 minutes
- Jeff Trigg - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:35 pm:
They’ll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ‘em.
- Keyrock - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:36 pm:
Ain’t nuthin’ moderate ’bout this Harley!
- 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:38 pm:
Cheesy Rider.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:38 pm:
Rauner, thinking: Wow, I guess that can be a verb…
- Anon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:39 pm:
I made 63 million dollars last year therefore I can afford $61,000 steer’s and top of the line HD’s. Suckers…!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:40 pm:
The only thing genuine is the Harley(?)
- Jocko - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:43 pm:
Pigs (in the GA) get fat…hogs (in the Exec) get slaughtered.
- Abe the Babe - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:46 pm:
Yep im the guy that cant find money for autism but will easily fund motorcycle safety classes!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:47 pm:
“We’re doin’ it! I’m with you! Ma’am, that the wrong digit for #1…”
- ash - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:47 pm:
Sleazy Rider
- VanillaMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:50 pm:
Born to Defile - Steppenwolf, Matt Genero, enhanced by VanillaMan
Get your mouth runnin’
Head out across Illinois
Labor should be indentured
And take whatever they’re paid
Yeah Brucie go make it happen
There’s Illinois’ dignity to debase
Fire all the civil servants at once
Then laugh in their face
He governs in smoke and mirrors
And heavy money thunder
Master of the hot wind
and Blagojevichian plunder
Yeah Brucie go make it happen
Campaign like you can’t lose this race
Spend millions of your pocket change
And lie through your face
Like a spoiled rotten child
You were born, born to defile
No one can count all the bodies
Your policies threw in a pile
Born to defile
Born to defile
- archimedes - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:51 pm:
Bbbbborn to be Goverrrrrnorrrr.”
- @MisterJayEm - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:52 pm:
Leader of the PAC
– MrJM
- Luggie - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:53 pm:
Pretending to be a proletarian: You’re doing it wrong.
- downstate happy feet - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:54 pm:
Is his state police protection riding bikes also?
Funnel cakes for everyone.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:55 pm:
That noise you hear?
That’s me, not the bike.
- Linus - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:55 pm:
Have any of you guys seen a cop, a construction worker and an Indian chief?
- PublicServant - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:00 pm:
The governor suggests a more agile mode of transportation in order to more easily avoid all the people he’s kicked to the curb.
- AC - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:01 pm:
Yes, my Harley is Union made in the USA
- illinoised - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:01 pm:
I sold my Harley years ago after they turned into a yuppie thing. He looks more like a Segway rider.
- Percival - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:02 pm:
I may need a fast getaway.
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:04 pm:
From the 70’s Then Came Bronson:
“Goin’ down that long lonesome highway, gonna live life my way……..”.
- Skid lid - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:04 pm:
The Flintstone’s Great Gazoo spotted at Illinois State Fair on what appears to be a union built Harley-Davidson…. Live reports state the years have been very unkind to the once Great Gazoo… Tape at 8
- Just saying - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
They say big bike makes up for a little -ic-
Go be a governor
- Archiesmom - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:11 pm:
Do I remind you of The Fonz? C’mon, don’t I? Ayyyy!
- South Central - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:12 pm:
“I know, I know…I look tough, but I still want my security detail.”
- walker - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:12 pm:
Free rider
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:15 pm:
Rolling in with a ghost payroller
- Hey listen - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:16 pm:
Riding Dirty
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:17 pm:
Rolling blunder
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:19 pm:
The crowd looks feisty
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:21 pm:
About to jump the budget gap
- Tha missin g - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:21 pm:
MrMJ is usually my favorite but Linus wins.
- Da man - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:24 pm:
Republican MC
- Amalia - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:26 pm:
Born to be Viled.
- Luggie - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:26 pm:
The Harley and leather vest do not compensate for the creased mommy jeans.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
Governor’s State Fair to-do list:
Buy champion steer, check.
Get Speaker’s goat, check.
Preen like a rooster, check.
Ride in on a hog, check.
Now, if only I could get state revenue to multiply like rabbits…
- Archiesmom - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:37 pm:
In his head, it’s George Thorogood and the Destroyers, “Bad to the Bone.”
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:40 pm:
Goldberg’s behind me on a tolling motor
- Michelle Flaherty - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:42 pm:
Redefining the term “donor cycle”
- forwhatitsworth - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:42 pm:
Heading west to Sturgis! (Hope you stay there forever!)
- Pink E Kent - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
For bike safety?
No.
I just wore the helmet cause people keep throwing things at my head.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:46 pm:
- 47th Ward -
That’s dog gone funny.
“Caption?”
I guess I can only fool some of the people all the time…
- Phenomynous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:47 pm:
Bruce Rauner, solely responsible for 600 part-time, $10 an hour jobs at the State fair…proof positive he is turning the economy around, one protestor at a time.
- aufjunk - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:49 pm:
“Worryin’ about protesters? Nah, they’re not comin’ after me. Most of them say they’re wantin’ to break the cycle of poverty - and man, this here ain’t no cycle of poverty.”
- Austin Blvd - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:49 pm:
My staff developed an unbalanced budget for me to present?
I know nothing.
- Anon - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
A biker wanna be
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:52 pm:
“The fair is a money-been that way for years, it pays for itself… I’m hands on… Oh, don’t mess with my home… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:52 pm:
money-maker
- AnonymousOne - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:52 pm:
Ugh!
- just keeeees me fool - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:52 pm:
good old Bruce is heading out early to the IML convention. Its his favorite time of year… he looks even better in chaps
- Varoooom - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:56 pm:
That Governor Rauner has a great hog
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:57 pm:
When he decides to be governor, someday, this will look less forced…
- Mama - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 1:58 pm:
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 12:29 pm:
A good one Willy!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:02 pm:
“I can’t stop now, sorry, I have to make sure the TV cameras at the end see me…”
- Keeeees me - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
On the way to IML. just wait til he breaks out the chaps men
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:05 pm:
(Tips cap to - Mama -)
“The trashcan van? That’s a Capitol/TV Ad prop, not a parade prop… ‘Fire Madigan’… “
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:08 pm:
“Who wants to sign up for a free motorcycle safety lesson with yours truly?”
- jimk849 - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:10 pm:
squeezy rider
- Commonsense in Illinois - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:21 pm:
HEY LANCE!…WADDYA MEAN THOSE AIN’T OUR PEOPLE?
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
Home town biscuit eater
- Anon. - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
“Hey, governor, you got a bug on your windshield.”
BR: “Just like on the van - that’s not a bug, it’s a design feature.”
- Zoe - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:42 pm:
At least the sound coming out of the Harley isn’t just bluster.
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:44 pm:
Where’s my wing man?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 2:49 pm:
===Where’s my wing man?===
Wow, well played.
- lurker - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:13 pm:
OW- I know it’s been said before, but the HBO show comments are golden. I’d watch it. Thanks for the Friday afternoon chuckle.
- Skid Lid - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:19 pm:
My dear departed bar owning father always said “Tough guys never have to tell you how tough or bad they are, just the ones who aren’t tough have to tell you”. My father’s quote recently came to mind with Governor Bronson’s ongoing rhetoric ….just an observation
- Nickname#2 - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:26 pm:
Protestors: “Save the State…” Varooom
“Pass a…” Varoom
“Unions…” Varoom “…middle class work…” Varoom
“Don’t cut our health…” Varoom
- Ryan - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:28 pm:
Did I win the costume contest?
- stlguy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:38 pm:
Sorry, the van was being worked on in a union shop, so I had to bring this.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:44 pm:
- lurker -
Thanks. If only I could get the waivers…
- Jorge - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 3:56 pm:
“I love my union made Harley.”
- Wordslinger - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 4:02 pm:
Where’s the shaggin’ wagon, the van?
That was the star of tne Regular Guy spots during the campaign.
This has been done. Tommy Thompson was the first, but that made sense, as Reagan had just rescued Harley with tough trade measures on Japanese dumping of big cc bikes.
This comes off more as Dukakis in the tank.
- Linus - Friday, Aug 21, 15 @ 4:09 pm:
I have to agree with lurker: Willie, please — never, ever stop writing those HBO comedy capsules!