"I'm gonna run this like a business" he said menacingly, pouring industrial waste into your water supply
@cwebber "Oh shit they're forming a union, I'd better call ICE on them!"
@cwebber that's environmental pollution and it's too dangerous cause it causes drought, desertification and famine
@Joshua344 @cwebber Christine's comment was a joke, predicated on the contrast between Trump's meaning for that phrase--"running the country like a business" would mean efficiency, etc.; and Christine's simplified example of environmental and community destruction that many corporations cause, with the implication that Trump's businesses did the same.
@cwebber at least real disney cartoon villains could sing and had object permanence and sometimes even charisma and a sense of humor
@Viss @cwebber And they were animated instead of *re*animated.
@theorangetheme @Viss @cwebber "Real cartoon villains can sing and have object permanence" is going to be my slight paraphrasing of this amazing comment. And you can't stop me.
@guyjantic @theorangetheme @cwebber i mean, i know its not disney, but fern gully had tim curry singing as 'hexxus' the big bad in the movie who was all about deforestation and was practically horny for the big tree chopping machine. we dont get villains like that anymore

@cwebber

Buy a company
Make a letter stating you will make changes and bring in money
Keep running business
Layoff 1/2 to 3/4 of the staff
Have the remaining staff take on the current workload output
Make changes to office appearance (new carpet)
Showoff the company to investors and potential buyers about how much money you made (never mentioning you have fired staff to inflate numbers)
Sell the company to idiot thinking they will rake in as much money as you do
Golden Parachute Exit with suitcase of money
The new idiot buys company and repeats list

@cwebber That reminds me of a funny line from a National Lampoon movie.

Rich guy: "Let's settle this the way our ancestors did."

Kal Penn: "You're going to exploit me economically?"

@cwebber nuclear power plants, i'm guessing?
@cwebber "run this like a business" = "ignore externalities"

@cwebber @alice s/run/ruin/

There, I fixed it.