But we know better, don’t we?
Another annoying clot of lies and misdirections, designed to bring anger to those who don’t know the facts, or don’t read carefully. Long time readers know what this is all about – I carefully take the mail apart so all my friends can have a good laugh at it.
This time around I’m actually having to take it apart and reassemble it, as it’s a bunch of pictures. For most, maybe even all of them, I’ll have a reaction. Maybe one will even be approving! Here we go:
Funny how he looks demonic when he says that. Heck, I don’t even actually know if he said that – whoever he is. But it’s actually the most interesting of the lot, because there’s a few bad assumptions. Let’s talk about them, and I will promise that none of the other entries will be as long as this – none of them are as interesting.
- People are lazy and won’t work if they don’t have to. If we exclude retired types and infants from those to , how many reading this would raise their hands and agree that most wouldn’t work. Yeah, really think about that. Sit around and watch the telly (sorry, my Arts Editor has me watching Dr. Who and I can’t help myself) all day? You really think that? Yeah, there’s only a few hands up now, and those who are being stubborn need to read this post, which describes Universal Basic Income (everyone gets a guaranteed income in lieu of some getting welfare), and some minor applications of it – and how it enables people to work, only at what they wish to work at. Sounds like heaven to me (sorry, Dr. Who tends to be a bit hyperbolic in his passions. I’ll try to stop now). Shaking your head in disbelief? Go read that post.
- Even more interesting is the idea that if we do nothing, nothing will happen. As if the social net of you knowing me knowing Mary knowing Glen knowing John doesn’t exist – and nor do the usual jealousies and envies of people who have too little But they do. And, let’s be honest, most poor work two or even three jobs to stay above water; in my experience, it’s only the faux-entitled that get crabby about not being the regal rich. But those working those three jobs sure get crabby when they make no progress, when it turns into four jobs and a couple of kids and, hey, didja hear the CEO of Home Depot was just stepped down and got a $200 million pay package? Yep, that happened in 2009. Meanwhile, old Mabel’s interviewing at the gas station for the night shift, she says she doesn’t need to sleep no-how.See, these situations remind me of Russia, about the time the Romanovs abruptly went under. No food, no prospects, and suddenly riots break out. All that human potential because… well, they had problems with the crops and corruption. What’s our excuse? A little outrage because our Reps have determined we should be helping the poor and, honestly, the churches haven’t the reach or the information to do it properly?
The flag represents the idealization of your country. If the current government is going to shoot you right at the port you come in to, why would you want to go back? It’s easy to see loving your country but hating the government. The GOP did that every day for 8 years, no? Hell, that’s the position this sniveling manipulator of an author has taken, now hasn’t it? Either that, or he just plain hates America.
Several web sites I surveyed indicate ol’ TJ said nothing of the kind. Some even said, No, TJ never said that. I think I’ll classify that as a lie until someone can show me different. That’s the big out and out lie of the mail, expended on TJ – a sentiment he’d be unlikely to express. He’d be far more wary of monarchies and, perhaps, radical Revolutionaries (think France at this time period).
Favorite habits of the GOP, and if you think that’s flippant, go examine the fiscal behavior of the GOP dominated Congress during the Bush years – or the recently passed tax change bill, or even this agreement to avert the imminent government shutdown. Then there’s the endless GOP-initiated wars, money-till-busting military budget, Senator Tom Price (he who seems to have manipulated pharmaceutical companies to his benefit) … Still, the anti-government flavor of this quote is disturbing in itself, because, unlike Rome, the American government is OUR government. You don’t want to see endless wars, etc? Don’t elect the GOP, and proctor the Democrats. It’s our government, not some monarchy, so we need to examine our candidates, only vote for those who are acceptable (voting the Party ticket, whether it’s the oliphants or the asses is how we got into this mess), and be willing to honestly proctor the winners. Given the record of the two parties since 2000 (I’ll go back to 1990, even, although it doesn’t mean much, given the passage of years), I think the Democrats have earned the right to foul things up.
The mistake of stripping context. Several other weather events, such as steadily warming temperatures, other hurricanes, higher CO2 concentrations, etc, add the necessary context to look at that last hurricane and state that while it may have come regardless of CC, CC made it worse.
Call it a false call to common sense.
Hillary kicked butt in the Benghazi hearings. Who can’t remember a damn thing?
Jeff Sessions. You should see the hearing he’s had regarding the Russia investigation. You think if they’d shown him his wife, he’d say he couldn’t recall who she was. Seriously.
But I do find it interesting how the Republicans are still desperate to run against… Hillary Clinton. The next Presidential campaign should be very interesting as the GOP candidates desperately try to run against…. Hillary Clinton. I wonder, once she passes away, if they’ll try to resurrect her into… zombie Hillary Clinton.
But I know my reader didn’t twitch when he saw some half-wit’s words in Kermit’s mouth. Right? Too smart.
Well, look at that – it’s true, Billy-boy did say that. So what? Is Buckley God or something? He wouldn’t even be considered a Republican in today’s environment – they’d run him out for being too liberal. You don’t think so? They ran Senator Richard Lugar out of office, one of the brightest and most respected Senators of the 20th century, because he was no longer conservative enough. Bill would be a proud independent these days.
Goodness, the things you learn doing research – Buckley endorsed a legal ban on tobacco. Wow.
You WANT to see her rapping her husband’s knuckles and telling him what to cook for dinner? But, seriously, why the love for your vanquished foe? Is it too hard to spatter mud over someone new?
The definition of DREAMER is someone brought into America illegally at a very young age and now grown up. Kick them out of the United States now, and they’d have nowhere to go, no familiarity with anywhere – but here. Mental disorder? Please. It’s compassion. You know, the stuff they’re supposed to teach at church?
Here’s some classic misdirection – it’s not the liberals or Democrats or progressives clamoring to rewrite the Constitution.
It’s the conservatives. Shaking your head? Here’s just one story among many on the subject. It’s not even possibly fake news, because you can go look it all up. It’s all of legal record.
And the propaganda there is a lovely sentence, isn’t it? Gets the reader stirred up, as the Constitution is about as sacred as it gets, outside of a religion.
Except a few conservatives hate it. I can guess why, but I’m tired of writing. So, sure, get stirred up – and then consider who really wants to take away your Constitution, your Bill of Rights, and all those other things that have made this country one of the finest the world has ever seen.
And, if you’re a GOP voter, or even a member – just how far right has GOP gone to even consider such an option? To throw away a system of proven worth, for private, selfish reasons. What have you to lose if the Constitution is slipped into a back-alley garbage can – and the amazing GOP marketing machine rumbles into life to tell you that life with the Constitution was a horrid nightmare of skittering monsters, of immigrants slitting everyone’s throat, and that the authors of that Constitution were really all pedophiles.
You don’t think that won’t happen? I hope you’re right. But I’ll be betting against you on that one. If they can call one of their own an ISIS supporter, they could easily call Ben Franklin a pedophile.
And when, pray tell, were guns made into people? That’s what this goof wants you to miss.
If you like it to be a bit more tangible, a gun sitting around unused isn’t worth much. An immigrant, however, is working his ass off, picking fruit, hauling garbage – a number of jobs that Americans won’t take are filled by immigrants. Be glad of it, else your supermarket’s produce section might be a lot smaller. Or more expensive.
Ah, another false analogy, energetically beaten to a pulp. Brings life to the world!
Criticism is how institutions are improved. Or do you think happy faces are the only way we know things are good?
Easy. The poorly educated are less productive. Society derives far more benefits from investing in them. Indeed, it raises the question of why tuition rates keep going up. Why should society get the free ride of all the benefits that college graduates bring them? And, I assure you, it’s quite a lot. Conversely, what do we lose when someone looks at tuition, shakes their head, and heads off to clerk at the convenience store?
I’ve written on this subject before. The misdirection lies in believing only the potential student will benefit from college education. Society? Never comes up. Oh, it’s brought up, but it gets ignored.
Someone should do a study, but then everyone who hoards their cash against the day they die would scream that it’s All. Fake. News. Because that lets them not help further society. It’s hard to touch and feel, but in reality, college grads help society.
Well, another round of kicking a poisonous snake in the mouth is over with, and I hope you played along with me. This email was meant to roil you up, but I hope your roiling has been directed at the truly deserving target.
The author of it.
