US Presidential Contenders

[Yitzi]

That article is a good example of just why [Sleezebag] is doing so well. People in this country
have a fond remembrance of the times when we had freedom of speech and association.
Political correctness is communist cultural marxism.

If only we had a candidate who was anti-political-correctness and willing to describe the system how it is, and didn't have [Sleezebag]'s flaws...

[vonbach]

If only we had a candidate who was anti-political-correctness and willing to describe the system how it is, and didn't have [Sleezebag]'s flaws...

Agreed. At this point I'll take what I can get.

[Buster's Uncle]

Now, that's a little more like it.

Perhaps rudeness invites rudeness?  My alternative is to throw the hat on and start phrasing my wishes in the imperative and mentioning the "B" word.  I'm trying to work with you instead.

[Lorizael]

People in this country
have a fond remembrance of the times when we had freedom of speech and association.
Political correctness is communist cultural marxism.

Someone doesn't remember McCarthyism...

[vonbach]

Someone doesn't remember McCarthyism...

Yes I do. MyCarthy was right. Most of the  were communists.
Just take a look at today, communists are in charge.

[Green1]

[Sleezebag] is doing well because, frankly, he is a no bull[poop]type of guy. He was a businessman whose already unique ego has been incubated by show business. That is refreshing to the average Joe who believes the myth that the game is somewhat fair and even they can be "THE MAN", if only they believe hard enough. Good wage slave.

Unfortunately, he is also a racist and mysogonist [sphincter]. He also has a habit of talking big crap but doing nothing. He had a big hoopla in New Orleans about a tower there. Ten years later, nothing there but the "coming soon" sign. Ditto for the aquarium in Biloxi. I am not sure sometimes which orifice all this crap spouts from if I did not have his dead animal looking toupee for navigational reference.

And.. do not get me started on his immigration deal. Throwing up a Great Wall of China did not work well for the Chinese. It will not work on the border. But he could always use immigrant labor like I am sure some of his contractors before shipping them to the other side of the wall.

Not sure the whole "cultural marxism" thing. I thought making sure everyone was okay was a good thing last I check. Oops... no wait. Only the Chosen Ones can have things like housing, food, and medical care. But, you can sure have your guns and Bibles. And, I suppose you can not be a special rich snowflake or use the delusion that Average Joe can actually be the guy and do the crap you don't want to if you don't have unemployment and being thrown in a ditch if you get sick to "motivate" him. Yeah, the Mexicans are smart. the farmers are abusive, low paying jerks. But, due to exchange rates, a few years at 7.50 USD an hour you can buy a house south of the border. It would be like Canada having plentiful, monotonous, anyone qualifies jobs for 40 USD an hour. Durn straight a lot would be crossing any kind of border for that if the only jobs in the US were being pimped out by Ronald McDonald or Labor Ready.

[Buster's Uncle]

LANguage.

True, but still.

[Lorizael]

Someone doesn't remember McCarthyism...

Yes I do. MyCarthy was right. Most of the  were communists.
Just take a look at today, communists are in charge.

(1) There's very little evidence that anyone McCarthy accused of being a communist was, in fact, a communist. (2) Being a communist is not against the law. (3) McCarthyism was a period when the government actively attempted to censor speech and stop freedom of association. So, you know, my irony-meter just broke.

[Green1]

Being a communist is not against the law.

True. But in my neck of the woods, we actually have wingnuts that believe sincerely that the Constitution should only apply if you are Christian, rich, and preferably some kind of business owner. Thank goodness lunatics like Bobby Jindal (governor of LA) did not get traction.

I try not to go all conspiracy theory, but there are powerful wings of the RepubliCAN'Ts that I think seriously aim for the goal of a cheap, uneducated workforce and anyone who "questions" or engages in "unsanctioned" capitalism like drugs that compete with BigMed like selling pot should be locked in slave plantations. And, anything like public transit or even Planned Parenthood free clinics for STD tests is being "unAmerican" and needs to be replaced with a "free market solution". In other words: ass, grass, or cash. But, take these pills that doc charges 300 USD for instead.

[Buster's Uncle]

[winces]

[Green1]

[winces]

Oh, come on BU. You know you want to see Donald [Sleezebag] and Bernie Sanders in a steel cage.

It would beat the same tired Clinton/Bush oligarchy trend of the last decade or so.

[Buster's Uncle]

No, I want the Pig banned from public, and agree with what you said, if not all your terminology.

-But language aside, you come close to a dynamic tension I see in the system that drives 90% of everything in our system.  The gub'ment basically wants to make us slaves.

Thing is, the Bossmen want to make us slaves, little basically about it.

-And the smart citizen playing the smart play, seeks to encourage the gub'ment to keep the Bossmen off us.  It's one of the things gub'ment is actually good at, when it's inclined to do it's job.  -Of course, we don't want either brand of teh Man to ever completely win, for what's to stop the victorious side from getting on with the enslaving?

[Green1]

But the gub'ment is only a facade. The actual leaders themselves have little impact on us, all in all.

There was a famous New York chef named Anthony Bourdain that once said "never be a chef for a restaurant that has the owner's name on the front of the building." The problem is, if you are rich, you do not necessarily have to have social skills or even care. If your wealth requires someone with that, you hire someone with that ability. They don't like it, you fire them. Some worker offends you at the Hilton? Call the manager and have them make the worker face homelessness because you have money and the employee was not subservient. You have zero need to be insightful, compassionate, or even care as long as you smack down anything that threatens you and don't mess up too bad.

We don't have to wait to be enslaved because many of us are already there. Just because there are no tanks and soldiers out, does not mean you are not being occupied. If that was not the case, tell me. Where are the cops? They are in the working class neighborhoods inprisoning folks by the thousands enforcing laws I know the people themselves would never approve of. You never see them at the country club frisking folks even though just as much crime is in the 'burbs. And, worse, enforcing laws the general population does not like.

The country is like the restaurant Bourdain was talking about. The business owners make the rules and have the lobby. And, even if you wake up and realize you outnumber them, they can adjust things to make it irrelevant.  The "Gub'mint" you speak of is just a head on a TV screen to sell Tampon commercials.

But, I still believe it is possible to create pockets of sanity. But that requires a huge paradigm shift from where we are now. We need to seriously reconsider how we handle property and resources. And "He who has the gold" many times do not have the best interests of folks at heart. Sometimes they even have contempt. But, those who benefit the most won't like it.

Best we can hope for is compromise and try to maneuver to more favorable places, if those options are not blocked off.  But, dwelling on this kind of stuff you can not control only leads to madness and a victim mentality. Still, it is fun to comment on the dog and pony show.

[Buster's Uncle]

That last sentence is certainly something Uno has been talking about.

[Yitzi]

No, I want the Pig banned from public

That would be a horrible precedent.