Thought for the Day

[Stavros]

Well..., because we simply don't know - it somewhat comes down to what you mean as "dirty work". In rural areas it seems to mean manual, backbreaking field work; in urban areas - I would guess it means working in the low wage areas in a restaurant or (at some of it's worst) hanging around Home Depot hoping someone would ask you to help with their bullshit home construction project; in the suburbs it would mean doing the grunt work for a landscaper or being a nanny or housekeeper, with the added risk of being paid sub par wages under the threat of being fired.
So, if for the most part, those options went away...what would happen?

It was just a moment of annoyance with Buttslinger's indifference to the distinction between England, the UK and even Great Britain, as well as his flippant indifference to the most brazen crook and liar to occupy the White House. But the dog thrives on beig rude and offensive, as was the case with both his atttacks on 'the Squad' and Elijah Cummings, because it diverts attention away fom the creeping erosion of the economy under his watch and his own indifference to the hate and outrage that trails in the wake of his barking, which is itself the equivalent of him pissing in the mouths and shitting in the face of every American, every day, just to prove he can do it with impunity.

It means there is little substance in the debates the Democrats are having, because the staggering fact is that the States that do so can openly and proudly remove 14 million Americans from the electoral roll, and they are not 'racist' because most of those voters are Black, because the fact is that being Black does not make them real Americans, so why should they have equal rights? And which segment of American society is most vulnerable to the attack on Planned Parenthood? Yep, you guessed it. But the Confederacy is not about to re-introduce slavery, it would cost too much and is inefficient, so maybe they should take their current loathing the logical step forward and expel Black people from their country and 'send them back', if not to the US, to Africa. The dog's supporters would love it, and who cares if the economy tanks? This is identity politics with a vegeance, and vengeance is all it would be if it did not so undermine the idea of a democratic vote that it might make more sense not to bother in Alabama, just appoint the legislators by decree, a medieval formula for their medieval world of child marriage, where raped women who become pregnant become the accused rather than the victim, in whose womb a throbbing membrane has more legal rights than a citizen.

The point about jobs is that it cuts to issues such as immigration and welfare -why not cut all immigration to zero, and end all forms of welfare? Either Charles Murray or one of his supporters had a simple solution to 'welfare dependency' -'take away their welfare, and those people will get jobs'. Channel 4 News in the UK earlier this year reported from Indiana where there is a thriving trade in mobile home manufacture, to the extent that one employer welcomed increases in immigration to keep his business going. It begs the question, should they prefer a Black 20-year old from Baltimore or a 20-year old from Honduras, but would the Black guy move from Baltimore to Indiana, and would he be welcome there? I wonder if there is a sterilty in the mobility of labour in a country where it was its flexibiity that enabed it to survive depressions and recessions? Maybe Indiana should be forced to give jobs to unemployed Black youth from Baltimore and DC? But none of this addresses the future of work, it is just sticking a bandage on a festering wound.

And for all the chatter about jobs, where is the debate on work and income as it changes oover the next 25 years? When jobs and the economy become headlines to bark about, where is the debate on the dignity of work, and the dignity of its fair reward? The US is mired in staggering levels of household debt, the national debt is being added to by over $1 trillion every year, that potent symbol of individual power, the motor car, is entering a new world, but one where the vehicles of the future will not be made by an army of workers, or run on fossil fuels. I doubt the mounting problems will reach a critical mass at the same time, but I do know the dog doesn't care, as long as he gets his wedge, has adoring crowds, and can boast in one sentence that under his paws, the US will end the AIDS epidemics and cure child cancer. Yet there he is, barking about the radical left as if they were an existential threat to the USA. Margaret Thatcher once likened socialist state subsidies to the State using other people's money to reward failure -sounds to me like the dog rustling up $12-14 billion a year to compensate soybean farmers for losing the contracts due to his tariffs on China as pure socialism, but I don't expect the 'Squad' to get down and dirty in the same kennel as the dog, there's only room for one Mutt in the White House, the one that wags its tail when it sees the portrait of Kim Jong-un, America's new hero, to be loved and admired along with Mohammed bin Salman, the Halal Butcher of Arabia. 'Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia! And if you can't find him, Jamal Khashoggi will do!'

The US has lost any sense of dignity it might once have had. Gone is all the talk of rights, responsibilities and freedom. Health care in the US is a business because the US does not value public service. People like James Comey, John McCain and Robert Mueller can serve their country for the whole of their lives, only to be ridiculed and abused by a dog that has no concept of public service other than the US tax-payer shifting their dollars from their pockets to his. His supporters in Congress such as 'Moscow' Mitch (I don't even know where the epithet came from), are in violation of their Constitutional Oaths but nobody cares. The dog's supporter from the UK via Hungary (Sebastan Gorka) is worth looking up if you want a flavour of what it is like for someone who claims affiniity with the Marines to insult Robert Mueller, who did what neither Gorka nor the dog did, put on the uniform and fight for their country. The language is debased to such an extent you wonder if the US is suffering from an epidemic of abuse. I have never known a man claiming to be President to spend so much time humiliating and abusing Americans, mostly because they don't like him! Now he swears in public and has started making that gesture with his hand which most people know, at the same time as most people assume he spends most of his spare time wanking to internet porn when he isn't barking on his twitter feed.

Is the US finished now? What happens if the lenders want their money back? If the way we all work changes and those not prepared now are left behind and in ten years time are out of work, and permanently out of work? Some will shrug their shoulders and say, it's just a terrm or two, and then he is gone. But the damage the dog is doing to the US is going to last, because the myth of American unity is broken, one segment of the country hates the other, and regards the Constitution as a scrap of paper that prevents them from doing what they want.

Perhaps nothing better expresses the dog's nihilism than the manufactured 'spat' with Iran which merely perpetuates a 40-year war with Iran that has seen the US so far lose every battle, doomed as it is in the Gulf to lose another. None of this is necessary, but with the abandonment of any control by the US and Russia on the development of new nuclear missile systems, are we seeing the slow but certain steps to their use on the battlefield? Is it Shakepeare to whom we must turn and that bitter speech about 'this bleeding piece of earth' where Caesar, 'with a Monarch's voice' cries 'havoc' to 'let slip the dogs of war'?

And who wins this war, and who pays for it? And what is the point of working if the only person who benefits is a dog that pisses in your mouth, and shits in your face?

[buttslinger]

Once again, Stavros, nice Post-Graduate thesis, now let's get down to Junior High School.
Death is not the end of Life, we distill life down to our own individual fate. And now the fate of the Nation is down to Individual One. It really is a Twilight Zone episode. I don't have to look up Sebastian Gorka, he is on the Sean Hannity show every night, when he's not performing at children's birthday parties as "Count Yorka, hypnotist and magician."
If you want to understand Donald Trump, don't look at the facts available, look to the Ocean of the Unknown and dive in. Trump is treading water with a noose hovering over his head. He's making this shit up as he goes. If your world is not Great Britain, Whales, Scotland, etc etc etc, if your world is Butthole, Kansas, born and raised, graduate of Butthole High, checkout clerk at the five and dime.....that is the world. Everyone you know in town agrees that the problem is the STRANGERS living in that house at the edge of town. And MONEY, of course.
The USA has the weapons to destroy the entire World many times over, that makes us #1. You break it you bought it. If what you know makes you cringe, think of all the stuff you don't know. Sometimes we lose a Nuclear Weapon, or accidently drop one on North Carolina. Obama has a 97% approval ratings among Democrats, Trump has a 90% rating among Republicans. Sometimes I think they just elected anybody that could match the Love those hippie libs have for THE BIG O. It's human nature, you trash the other side for doing something this week, then next week you do it. John McCain was every bit as bad as Trump 11 years ago, now I can't wait for Trump to be hung from the mast of the USS John McCain.
If the Democrats run on racism they'll lose. Boston and Chicago are every bit as racist as Montgomery and Selma. Jesus is White in the USA. Jesus is still White even if he isn't. Every American is just a lottery ticket away from being a big shot like Trump. Anyone can be President. That was a good thing until Obama got elected.
We won't know the full Trump Effect until ten or twenty years down the road, I probably won't be here. In the US you need to earn about 100 grand per year to live a life not dominated by money worries. That puts me solidly at THE LOSER TABLE in the Jr High Cafeteria. For most Americans Trump is a guy on TV. You can't expect the average American to understand the World's problems, putting them all in a Pandora's box is easier. The World has treated the US like a Criminal Enterprise for decades, just as it relies on it for World Peace. Well, now we really are a Criminal Enterprise, with a madman at the helm, a crooked Judge as AG, and a Senate full of backstabbers. How ya like us now?
If it took us a Bush to get an Obama, if it takes darkness to appreciate the Sunrise, nobody knows what comes next, except for the Secret Cabal that controls everything. Their first rule? Keep your mouth shut.
Nothing in any of my posts is as ridiculous, garbled, and pathetic as one episode of the Sean Hannity show. Nothing explains the Trump Presidency better than one episode of the Sean Hannity show.

[buttslinger]

When I was a kid in Sunday School, sometimes a guest speaker would come talk to us, one was a Detective who chased Bank Robbers. They always got their man, always after all the money was gone. I think that's what we're going to get. Four years stolen, never to be replaced. I think we have a pretty good idea about what happened, Trump happened, and we're all going to suffer for it for a long time.

[Stavros]

I want to buy an island, not necessarily one with vast deposits of rare-earth minerals, but at least a pleasant climate, some good food, and of course, an opera house. So not Greenland -but where? Any suggestions?

[buttslinger]

Have your Travel Agent book a trip to Jeffery Epstein's pedophile island. fantasy island.
I told my psychologist once that if I had 8 million dollars, I wouldn't consider myself sick anymore. He said "no, buttslinger, you'll still have problems"
But I don't think so. Problems like the best physical trainer in town? Problems like the best dieticians and cooks in town? Problems like the hottest masseuse in town, Problems like a house I love and all the opportunities that open up when you have enough money that you don't have to answer to anyone?

Sick or not, these guys lead lives 100% better than mine. Guilty of being poor. I plead it everyday.

[filghy2]

I want to buy an island, not necessarily one with vast deposits of rare-earth minerals, but at least a pleasant climate, some good food, and of course, an opera house. So not Greenland -but where? Any suggestions?

You're obviously not a forward-thinker like the Donald, Stavros. Global warming will probably turn Greenland into a fertile place with a pleasant climate, while all those tropical islands will become sweltering hell-holes. Perhaps his climate change denial is really just a real estate huckster's ploy?

[Stavros]

If the President uses the Emergency Powers Act to order US firms to remove production from China, will it also apply to the production of goods made for the Princess Royal, or will she be exempt from the ruling?

[filghy2]

Yeah, so much for the party of free enterprise and limited government. Where are all those principled Republicans who complained that Obama's use of executive orders was an unconstitutional and tyrannous abuse of executive power?

[broncofan]

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/e...posts-1.487622

More from the party of "we don't hate Jews just the money-grubbing zio Khazar pigs"...

Congratulations to British Labour (and its supporters) on your 5th Holocaust denier among party officials. For a scandal that involves "Israeli partisans crying wolf" over anti-Semitism there sure are a lot of Holocaust deniers. This one apparently didn't get any mainstream coverage because people have been desensitized to it.

When the Labour anti-Semitism scandal originally started I was willing to give the party the benefit that maybe there were a lot of anti-semites in the party and they were trying to do something about it. After watching people be called "bastardized Ashkenazi khazars" by Labour accounts with lots of followers and seeing leadership that can't call it out except in the most general terms, I think it's something Labour helped create.

[Stavros]

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/e...posts-1.487622

More from the party of "we don't hate Jews just the money-grubbing zio Khazar pigs"...

Congratulations to British Labour (and its supporters) on your 5th Holocaust denier among party officials. For a scandal that involves "Israeli partisans crying wolf" over anti-Semitism there sure are a lot of Holocaust deniers. This one apparently didn't get any mainstream coverage because people have been desensitized to it.

When the Labour anti-Semitism scandal originally started I was willing to give the party the benefit that maybe there were a lot of anti-semites in the party and they were trying to do something about it. After watching people be called "bastardized Ashkenazi khazars" by Labour accounts with lots of followers and seeing leadership that can't call it out except in the most general terms, I think it's something Labour helped create.

You can't damn the entire party because of one CLP Chair, but it her case is hopeless, not least her pathetic excuse: "Ms Collins claimed she had shared the articles to "create an interesting discussion" rather than to express her own opinions."

And not just Labour- the Brexit Party sacked its first Treasurer for his anti-Jewish slurs, and at least two of its MEPs "have appeared on an internet radio show that promotes Holocaust deniers and antisemitic conspiracy theorists."
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com...-report-finds/