AdScam/The Horror!

What’s in a name?

Following on from my post earlier this week about Kanye West running for POTUS, word just in that he showed up for dinner at Der Trumpf’s Florida Palace of Vulgarity. He brought a couple of uninvited guests with him, including Nick Fuentes, an outrageous  anti-Semite, holocaust denier and racist who is one of America’s most prominent young white supremacists. Fuentes, who attended the bloody far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, is best known for running a white nationalist youth organization known as America First, whose adherents call themselves groypers or the Groyper Army. Never forget that I call Trump Der Obergropenfuhrer. Ya think maybe Fuentes reads AdScam?

If he does, he can fuck off!

Yes... It’s Friday...

Which means it’s time for T.G.I.K.M.F.

Enjoy...

“Full Self Driving” that isn’t!

Tesla Uber Fucktard, Elon Musk, tweeted Thursday that “Full Self-Driving Beta” is now available to any FSD owner who requests it. That includes FSD owners previously deemed not safe enough to use the system. However, despite its name, “Full Self-Driving” does not offer full self-driving but is a Level 2 driver assist system. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating FSD safety. Meanwhile the Justice Department is conducting a criminal probe of Tesla's self-driving claims. Is that title “Chief Twit” or “Chief Twat?”

FSD must work... There’s no one in the space suit!

It’s Thanksgiving in America.

So, today should we give thanks for the three mass shootings in the week leading up to it? As Zippy the Pin Head would say... Nah... It’s just another week in the country of 300 million people... And 400 million guns. I am speechless, so I might as well have another drink, before I clean my armory.

Good advice. 

Quote of the day.

Sounds ominous to me, but news today that R/GA is closing its vast Hudson Yards offices in New York and San Francisco on Christmas Eve (Great timing guys!) as part of a larger structuring under CEO Sean Lyons, it did at least provide us with a worthwhile quote. Not as hilarious as Herschel  Walker’s “Erection” quote, but not bad. “We are increasing our investment in travel so we can bring teams together in our physical locations, or wherever groups of R/GA people are based. (A bar bill in Atlanta is a better use of budget than an empty room in Hudson Yards.),” Lyons wrote. I’ll drink to that.

Merry Christmas.

More on the other George...

Monday, I did a post about the passing of ad legend George Lois the previous Friday at the age of 91. Today there’s a more flushed out version of my thoughts and reminisces about him on Britain’s best advertising site... MoreAboutAdvertising. Check it out. Treat yourself to a "Double George."

What a guy...

Ye says Yes for POTUS...

In the “You can’t make this shit up” category... News just in that Kanye West, or Ye, or Yeezy, or whatever the fuck his name is this week, tells us that he will be running for President in 2024 Between him and Der Trumpf 2024 looks like it will be a big year for losers. Don’t forget, he ran in 2020, but his campaign was best remembered for a bizarre rally in which he wore a bullet proof vest and broke down crying. Of the 12 states in which his name appeared on the ballot, West less than 60,000 total votes, including one from Tucker Carlson!!!

Douchnozzle... 

Why the ad trades suck...

Following my post earlier today about the passing of George Lois, I have checked all the ad trades, including Adweek and Adage. Not one of them has a mention of the death of this ad legend. Just lots of bollocks about data crap and plugging expensive conferences in exotic locations. Shame on them.

What the ad trades do best!!!

A legend just died...

George Lois passed away yesterday. One of the all-time greats of the ad biz, he created truly memorable work at DDB in the late fifties before becoming one of the founders of Papert Koenig Lois in 1960. It became the first ad agency with an art director as a principal. It went public in 1962, raising its fortunes and starting a trend. By 1967 it was a major agency, with $40 million in billings and clients like Xerox, National Airlines and Procter & Gamble. I used to see George all the time as I worked in the Seagram building with the Four Seasons restaurant on the ground floor. He would take clients there for lunch, during the meal he would draw layouts on the uber expensive tablecloth. After the meal the maître de would fold up the cloth, put it in a tube and have it couriered to the PKL offices. Final words of wisdom from George when asked about the current state of the ad biz... He told the magazine Creative Review in 2012. “What happened finally, is these terrible conglomerate, no-talent, so-called marketing monoliths started to buy up agencies, and you have five or six or seven holding companies  running the world, and if you’re part of them you’ll never be a creative agency. It just doesn’t work.”

Well said George.

Proof that Musk is a “Moran.”

So, Elon Musk has restored Der Trumpf’s Twitter account. Unfortunately, Der Obergropenfuhrer has told him to fuck off, cos he tells us that Truth Social traffic is going through the roof. Yeah, and if you believe that I’ve got a casino in New Jersey called Taj Mahal you might wanna buy.   

Everything he touches turns to shit.