Former Fox host Eric Bolling in defending the wage gap between CEOs and labor once pronounced "labor doesn't innovate!", which would have come as a great surprise to Thomas Edison's employees.
If labor does not innovate, how come most companies have a proviso that anything you create or invent while working for them is the property of the company?
WOT but just been listening to Slapp Happy this fine day, ("Michaelangelo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGW_7r6AGhA ) and it occurs to me that his depiction of God giving life to The First Man on the ceiling of the Sistine should feature Adam with an erection, or at least a chub. Too bad I can't "Ask Dobson".
I wish people would not just mention Wilson's meager pro-labor record and leave it at that, just as I wish people would stop talking about the Fourteen Points without putting them and their enormous shortcomings in context. The idea might have been noble, but the implementation was a direct cause of an even bigger and more destructive war.
Likewise when it came to Labor. Wilson was a virulent racist, who did quite a lot to reinvigorate official and violent racism into twentieth century America. And there's little doubt that the divisions caused by racism did far more harm to the labor movement than any mildly pro-labor acts of the Wilson administration.
If we fail to remember things like that, then we,'re doomed to be ruled by plutocrats forever.
"Among the people who tried to meet with Wilson at Versailles after World War I to press for his own nationalism in southeast Asia was a young man later known as Ho Chi Minh. After Wilson blew him off, Ho found another nation to be his mentor. And Americans never felt blowback from that ever again, that’s for sure."
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You know, they say that your life changes forever at events like the following: Your high school graduation day, your wedding day, birth of a child, a major promotion, etc. I'd also say that your life changes forever, sometimes, in the simple, everyday decisions that we make. Like, one evening, you're bored, and you plan on watching cable tv that night. Your best friend calls up, and invites you to dinner and drinks at your favorite watering hole. You say sure, why not??/? While at said watering hole, you meet a new server, and you decide that you want to get to know this person better. Twenty five later, you're married to this person, have a kid or two, and you're wondering why the voice command on the remote control isn't working while getting to y'alls favorite Hulu show.
Can you imagine what would have happened if Pres. Wilson took the time, got over his racism, and actually met Ho Chi Minh at Versailles??/? Just meeting him could have changed the time line in ways that we can't even begin to imagine. Would Vietnam even gone back to the French after WWII??/? Would Ho Chi Minh even become Uncle Ho, much less be a "Founder" of modern Vietnam??/? Would there even be a Vietnam War for America, much less a Pol Pot in Cambodia??/? Somewhere in a another multiverse, this is playing out. This would also be a great idea for a movie or a Hulu miniseries.
Sir orders all Native Hawaiians rounded up and deported to Hawai'i. Sir orders all Native Alaskans rounded up and deported to Alaska. Sir orders all Native Americans rounded up and deported to America.
Interesting!
Well, what do you expect of a nation whose motto has long been, "I got mine, so fuck you."
Very interesting & informative.
😅 FUN FACT! Unscramble the letters in 'TRUMP' and you get 'PUTZ'! 🥳
I got: "Release The Files"
Wholesale (not retail) grocery prices jumped 38% last month.
(David Parkman Show, 2hrs ago, youtube)
Soon at a store near you.
already at stores near me
"Somebody has to make the sacrifice" -- but MAGA never say for what.
Former Fox host Eric Bolling in defending the wage gap between CEOs and labor once pronounced "labor doesn't innovate!", which would have come as a great surprise to Thomas Edison's employees.
If labor does not innovate, how come most companies have a proviso that anything you create or invent while working for them is the property of the company?
WOT but just been listening to Slapp Happy this fine day, ("Michaelangelo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGW_7r6AGhA ) and it occurs to me that his depiction of God giving life to The First Man on the ceiling of the Sistine should feature Adam with an erection, or at least a chub. Too bad I can't "Ask Dobson".
I wish people would not just mention Wilson's meager pro-labor record and leave it at that, just as I wish people would stop talking about the Fourteen Points without putting them and their enormous shortcomings in context. The idea might have been noble, but the implementation was a direct cause of an even bigger and more destructive war.
Likewise when it came to Labor. Wilson was a virulent racist, who did quite a lot to reinvigorate official and violent racism into twentieth century America. And there's little doubt that the divisions caused by racism did far more harm to the labor movement than any mildly pro-labor acts of the Wilson administration.
If we fail to remember things like that, then we,'re doomed to be ruled by plutocrats forever.
"Mankind was still learning"
"Among the people who tried to meet with Wilson at Versailles after World War I to press for his own nationalism in southeast Asia was a young man later known as Ho Chi Minh. After Wilson blew him off, Ho found another nation to be his mentor. And Americans never felt blowback from that ever again, that’s for sure."
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You know, they say that your life changes forever at events like the following: Your high school graduation day, your wedding day, birth of a child, a major promotion, etc. I'd also say that your life changes forever, sometimes, in the simple, everyday decisions that we make. Like, one evening, you're bored, and you plan on watching cable tv that night. Your best friend calls up, and invites you to dinner and drinks at your favorite watering hole. You say sure, why not??/? While at said watering hole, you meet a new server, and you decide that you want to get to know this person better. Twenty five later, you're married to this person, have a kid or two, and you're wondering why the voice command on the remote control isn't working while getting to y'alls favorite Hulu show.
Can you imagine what would have happened if Pres. Wilson took the time, got over his racism, and actually met Ho Chi Minh at Versailles??/? Just meeting him could have changed the time line in ways that we can't even begin to imagine. Would Vietnam even gone back to the French after WWII??/? Would Ho Chi Minh even become Uncle Ho, much less be a "Founder" of modern Vietnam??/? Would there even be a Vietnam War for America, much less a Pol Pot in Cambodia??/? Somewhere in a another multiverse, this is playing out. This would also be a great idea for a movie or a Hulu miniseries.
Counter-factual propositions are fun, but lack real utility.
Get Tarantino on it!
Great article. Thank you I would be happy to add your upcoming book to my labor history library
IF HE KEEP ON CRIMING, LEVEE GONNA BREAK
A few years ago Sir could hold it back with a finger, but now Sir's entire body is wedged into the crack...
Sir orders all Native Hawaiians rounded up and deported to Hawai'i. Sir orders all Native Alaskans rounded up and deported to Alaska. Sir orders all Native Americans rounded up and deported to America.
Mangle America Grind America.
Wilson was more pro-labor, as long as the laborers weren't black.
Speaking of pissed off capitalists...
"Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/nick-clegg-silicon-valley-self-pity-wealthy-men
Alexandra Petri, now at the Atlantic :
How I Came to Be in the Epstein Files
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/trump-epstein-files-tale/683674/
Dang, now I *have* to subscribe.
No you don't. Try this archive - https://archive.ph/a3SYf
Thank you!