OT: Dammit. I took my hair down to give it the traditional morning brushing and there's just too damned much of it. It's grown down to my waist and I'm damned near sitting on it again.
Next week I'm going to load up on pain meds and muscle relaxers so I can go to the salon, get a cool shag haircut and donate most of these auburn locks to a wigmaker.
The US labor movement has been completely laundered from the teaching of US history in American public schools. The only reason I learned about it was through Peter Seeger –––> Woody Guthrie ---> IWW ---> Scott Nearing ---> Eugene Debs ---> and so on. How do kids learn about it now?
It's a bold strategy. To stop investigations into monies he's been given by felons and crypto billionaires by stepping down as an MP, only to run to become the MP again.
I've got ancestors who were part of organized labor in the upper East Tennessee coal mines. I've wondered if any of them ever met Mother Jones.
My great-grandfather was a barber, magistrate and state legislator from coal mining country, and for the era and region, rather liberal. He passed years before I was born, but my grandparents though I had "a lot of him in me".
So much of history boils down to cheap labor and the ruthless exploitation of it. And the 'end of history' is bullshit, because this is ongoing, with immigrant labor currently a defining political issue in both America and Europe. The solution, organized labor, somehow retains the status of an embattled minority, even though it is potentially almost everybody. And of course, the idea of a workers party is universally denounced as the ultimate radicalism.
oops! went to school. By age 8 she was working a short hoe weeding tobacco rows. Children were preferred for this as they didn’t compact the soil as much as an adult would.
Years ago I was in a tool supply store looking at a wood/metal drill set when I still
actually did shit. Next to me a big ole man was looking at routers. He opened a pack,
and tried to pull one out but couldn't. They are sharp so you have to be careful and really want one. He says to me "Who the hell has fingers that small to put them IN the pack ?!" I looked where they were made and said "Kids in China."
He just looked at me, put down the pack and walked out.
Billo the clown dragged his now ex-wife down the stairs by her hair and then tried to use his Vatican connections to have her excommunicated for alienation of affection in their marriage.
Only thing I want to hear again from Billo the clown is when he hollers out in his final moments while being dragged downstairs by the devil, and the devil decides it should be livestreamed for all to see, and says “FUCK IT WE’LL DO IT LIVE!”
I would have liked to see Joe Biden's image come true, the time he said that if he and Assface were in high school he would have taken him behind the gym and beaten the hell out of him.
Killing Empathy, the latest book about killing stuff not written by Bill O’Reilly. Also in this series: Killing Journalism and Killing My Career With a Loofah.
Mary Mary "Mother" Jones has long been one of my primary heros. It is past time for people like us to follow her inspiring example and raise some necessary HELL in order to protect these precious children.
"Well, we needed their small hands to reach into the manglers , didn't we"??
OT: Dammit. I took my hair down to give it the traditional morning brushing and there's just too damned much of it. It's grown down to my waist and I'm damned near sitting on it again.
Next week I'm going to load up on pain meds and muscle relaxers so I can go to the salon, get a cool shag haircut and donate most of these auburn locks to a wigmaker.
The US labor movement has been completely laundered from the teaching of US history in American public schools. The only reason I learned about it was through Peter Seeger –––> Woody Guthrie ---> IWW ---> Scott Nearing ---> Eugene Debs ---> and so on. How do kids learn about it now?
I was a red diaper baby, so this stuff is all canon to me.
Even the Ronald McDonald franchises in Texas loves using children to cook food using hot cooking oil because they make Happy Meals so happy.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2023/07/26/central-texas-mcdonald-s-restaurants-accused-of-violating-child-labor-laws-
OT:
My Mom and I are going to drop off some things at the church. Thank you. :)
OT:
All fascists are stupid and evil.
Nigel Farage is resigning his MP office in Clacton and then running again, which will trigger a by-election.
I do not like fear and hatred of immigrants.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn0v9l9x0g8t
It's a bold strategy. To stop investigations into monies he's been given by felons and crypto billionaires by stepping down as an MP, only to run to become the MP again.
They're also all morons. How they ever win anything is beyond me!
Morons get to vote.
I've got ancestors who were part of organized labor in the upper East Tennessee coal mines. I've wondered if any of them ever met Mother Jones.
My great-grandfather was a barber, magistrate and state legislator from coal mining country, and for the era and region, rather liberal. He passed years before I was born, but my grandparents though I had "a lot of him in me".
Wobblies of the World, UNITE!
.
"Belgium unites to enjoy national team’s World Cup success over USA and Trump"
(pomme frites with mayonnaise . . . sounds weird but it's kinda fried potato salad, so I am told)
I love the optimism at the end.
So much of history boils down to cheap labor and the ruthless exploitation of it. And the 'end of history' is bullshit, because this is ongoing, with immigrant labor currently a defining political issue in both America and Europe. The solution, organized labor, somehow retains the status of an embattled minority, even though it is potentially almost everybody. And of course, the idea of a workers party is universally denounced as the ultimate radicalism.
Those pyramids, castles, cathedrals, buildings, and walls, didn't build themselves.
It was those busy space aliens.
A fact.
Even though lots of plutocrats like to pretend that it did ... since they refuse to perceive their employees as people
Tobacco fields of North Carolina are a personal touchstone. A family matriarch, My Great-Great Aunt Viola never went to sc
My Gram grew tobacco.
oops! went to school. By age 8 she was working a short hoe weeding tobacco rows. Children were preferred for this as they didn’t compact the soil as much as an adult would.
Years ago I was in a tool supply store looking at a wood/metal drill set when I still
actually did shit. Next to me a big ole man was looking at routers. He opened a pack,
and tried to pull one out but couldn't. They are sharp so you have to be careful and really want one. He says to me "Who the hell has fingers that small to put them IN the pack ?!" I looked where they were made and said "Kids in China."
He just looked at me, put down the pack and walked out.
Hey, he asked.
That’s too bad, my imagination composed a world where one never went to South Carolina in spite of it being just south…
I drove down to Myrtle Beach once. Once. Once in the state a number of confederate battle flags were noticed.
My family is from there. It's a strange and terrible place, but quite beautiful. And haunted.
I was thinking Civil War haunted relics
it's at least tangentially related-
smile at smol kid discovering stuff.
https://www.theautopian.com/why-babies-are-completely-obsessed-with-wheels-and-tires/
Awwwww, that’s so funny, little kids, man.
Ahahahaha it had to be David Tracy's kid!
Pointing with both hands!! Too cute!
“Dems are bad at messaging. And they always insult voters!”
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Bill O’Reilly Slams Struggling Americans Who Are ‘Yowling About High Prices’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bill-oreilly-slams-struggling-americans-who-are-yowling-about-high-prices/
Billo the clown dragged his now ex-wife down the stairs by her hair and then tried to use his Vatican connections to have her excommunicated for alienation of affection in their marriage.
Only thing I want to hear again from Billo the clown is when he hollers out in his final moments while being dragged downstairs by the devil, and the devil decides it should be livestreamed for all to see, and says “FUCK IT WE’LL DO IT LIVE!”
𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐’𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳. 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘺𝘴, 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚&𝘗, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥 & 𝘗𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘵. 𝘔𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 40% 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴?
𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 4% 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. 𝘚𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵. 𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴. 𝘎𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧. 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵.
Live in the real world, people!
Good grief.
Stick to what you're good at, Loofah Boy - like asking HOW DA MOON GET DERE?
man born on third base berates the poors and tells them to bat home runs like he did
That's just brainwashing and propaganda --
all built on that "small loan of a million dollars from dad"
😑🙄
Not everyone made millions being a blowhard sex-pest you fucking decomposing shitbag.
Oh, and uh, fuck you Bill. Your boy said he'd bring prices down on day one. If he kept his fucking promises, maybe people would have money to invest.
The real world for most people...
"I got to work an extra 20 hours of overtime this week so that will help us catch up."
"The car needs tires and brakes"
Yeah seriously.
"Credit card bill is due"
"Car insurance bill turned up"
"Time to renew the house insurance"
"It's tax day"
You have a spycam in my apartment?
Man Mystified by Tides, Moon Says “Live in the Real World”
I once met a dude in a bar (shock) in SF who knew Bill O'Reilly from Harvard and got in to a fist fight with him in Penn Station.
Bill-O ran away after getting chinned.
He likes to play up his height and talk in that bullying tone. Fake ass tough guy.
Like Dump.
I would have liked to see Joe Biden's image come true, the time he said that if he and Assface were in high school he would have taken him behind the gym and beaten the hell out of him.
It was hilarious. This guy was a lawyer and there was no way he was joking. He said Bill was nearly crying.
Fake-ass motherfucker.
Yay, That Guy!
He’s still alive? Not dead yet from an overreacting bile duct or a fauxrage stroke?
Who?
That loofah guy
😄
"Are you poor? Just buy stocks! You know, with the money you don't have."
-Bill O'Reilley
Killing Empathy, the latest book about killing stuff not written by Bill O’Reilly. Also in this series: Killing Journalism and Killing My Career With a Loofah.
Bill O'Reilly is invited to haul his smarmy Red ass directly to Hell.
Jaysus I'm ashamed to share Irish ancestry with this miserable, insufferable fucking prick.
I invite him to pog mo thoin.
I get really tired of hearing how Democrats have abandoned the middle class. Just fuck off with that shit.
Republicans have NEVER cared about the middle class.
Mother Jones is someone else to get honored with a postage stamp.....
Come back, Mother Jones--we need you!
Mary Mary "Mother" Jones has long been one of my primary heros. It is past time for people like us to follow her inspiring example and raise some necessary HELL in order to protect these precious children.
To hell with the kids, I want cheap t-shirts and trucker hats
(C) Every R politician
from Chiiiinahhh
You know, where Elaine Chao just disappeared into