Oligarchy It Is Then

The cable installer came home and set his tool bag down by the door, turned to his wife sitting on the couch and said, "Well it's started. The racism."

On the television, the news was on. The future President saying "They're the enemy of the people. I'm going to have my FCC shut them down."

She hit the mute button and asked "What happened?"

Cable Man replied, "One of my co-workers. The customer refused to let him into the house, said 'You're gonna get deported in a couple of months.'"

"So wait", she asked, "dude wants his cable set up, it's all scheduled and he canceled because the installer..."

"Yep, looks Mexican". He said,
and continued,
"You know that the cable company is owned by the same company as the news network you watch. When the Infrastructure Bill that expanded coverage opportunity and gave me job security gets axed, I may be out of a job. Or else the new Attorney General decides to break up the conglomerate under anti trust claims, and the install part gets handed to some favored loyalist, I may be working for an oligarch."

"Wow. Just like Russia huh. Oligarchy it is then."

a reply to: FullHeathen

This has appeared to be an evolving condition for as long as our republic has been in existence. There were many who wished it so back then and those like them have been with us ever since. I think that they have finally convinced enough of us who will suffer under their system that they can be ''above the salt'' if you will, and enjoy the privileges that go with it. Sooner or later though this beast will gobble us all.

"Above the salt" is an idiomatic expression. It was created in medieval times based upon the seating at a noble table. Salt, which was one of the most valuable and treasured spices of the day, was placed at approximately the mid-point of the long banqueting table. The lord and his family sat toward the head of the table or "above the salt," while the servants sat toward the foot or "below the salt."

a reply to: FullHeathen

Sh!tlib fan fiction is hilarious.

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: FullHeathen

Sh!tlib fan fiction is hilarious.

Coping mechanism.

I have seen a few of these anecdotes pop up over social media too.
It's a form of virtue signalling... 'I told you i was on the right side, even though we lost'

a reply to: FullHeathen

Nice!:

a reply to: BingoMcGoof

This has appeared to be an evolving condition

Speaking of evolution:

I wrote a story back in 2017, inspired by Richard Spencer's(founder of alt-right) fondness for calling people cucks*, and Rep. Steve King's “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”

The story was set during the late '80s. A was an ammo reloader who had just sold 150 44 Magnum rounds to friend B. B was a big fan of radio personality Rush Limbaugh. A was talking about how his cousins had married Mexican women and had Mexican looking kids, so that a photo of a family reunion would look more brown than white.

So B then holds up his 44 Mag revolver and asks "You want to go clean up your family tree?"

Any way, I posted the story on a sort of social media platform in 2017. It got removed because it had the word cuck in it. And former Rep. Steve King got publicly shamed and removed from office. But that was 2017. I wonder if the word cuck is enough for this post to get removed now?

*The word cuckold derives from the cuckoo bird, alluding to its habit of laying its eggs in other birds' nests.

a reply to: UKTruth

It's a form of virtue signalling... 'I told you i was on the right side, even though we lost'

Yes. That is it exactly.

The safer, more cowardly way, to virtue signal is in writing on line rather than out on the street with a mob carrying signs and yelling at armed National Guard troops.

a reply to: JJproductions

Morning.
Thank you very much.



Shoot! I forgot to add the music.

a reply to: watchitburn

Inspired by seeing South African Elon Musk(richest man in the World) dancing on a political stage, then hearing that he was on the call to Volodymyr Zelenskyy from the "white house in waiting" Mar-a-Lago.

a reply to: FullHeathen
In my experience, it always seems to be white liberals that assume that most Hispanics working on construction sites are illegals. Or in AC work, plumbing etc.. etc..

I even had this conversation with an angry liberal co-worker a couple of weeks. I asked them how would you know they are illegals, did you confirm with the foreman that the company does not do E-verify here in Florida? I mentioned that my wife's uncle owns a construction company and did a couple of years of builds here in Florida. He does not hire illegals, utilizes E-verify for all potential workers. Also made sure any sub-contractors were in compliance. 9 times out of ten, if illegals are working construction or roofing, they were picked up by a small time white guy who already has shady practices such as corner cutting and routinely over budget and late and its usually just a house he is screwing over a senior on.

A couple of liberal people I knew told me last year construction was going to suffer with new laws to crack down on illegals. We were told our nannies would disappear, our farm workers, our construction, landscapers, plumbers and pool guys. None of that has happened, and it has been well over a year. Buildings have been completed, lawns continue to be trimmed, tree work gets done, toilets are getting fixed.

One has to be a truly horrible racist to believe entire industries full of Latino/Hispanic folks are all just illegals. And it is the liberals that I hear this from the most.

a reply to: worldstarcountry

Implying what? That if Liberals didn't exist then racism wouldn't either?

Since Bingo got us into looking at etymologies, I looked up the word "Racism".

racism (n.)

by 1928, in common use from 1935, originally in a European context, "racial supremacy as a doctrine, the theory that human characteristics and abilities are determined by race;" see racist, and compare the various senses in race (n.2) and racialism. Applied to American social systems from late 1930s.

"This meaning of Nationalism in no sense implies any consent to the doctrine of Racism, which holds that unity of racial origin is the main principle of unity for civil society and that the members of each ethnical branch should properly aim at grouping themselves together into so many national States. Although it is desirable that strongly-felt national aspirations, which often depend on community of race, should be satisfied, as far as this may be compatible with justice, Racism or the Principle of Racial Self determination, as it has been called in recent years is a materialistic illusion contrary to natural law and destructive of civilisation." [James Strachey Barnes, "The Universal Aspects of Fascism," London, 1928]

Etymology Online

James Strachey Barnes (1890–1955) was a theorist of British fascism, member of the Partito Nazionale Fascista, and a friend of Benito Mussolini, and founder of Centre International des Études Fascistes (CINEF) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hmmm. I don't think Fascism is considered to be Liberal in most contexts.
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But I dodged the issue of documented vs undocumented immigrants. What can I say?

Ah shucks! I'm just a small town wanna be writer whose first job at 12 was in an avocado grove owned by a rich golf expert who designed a better golf club and got rich on the patent royalties. He owned the grove as a tax write off.

But hey, RINO Reagan did the whole 1987 Amnesty that made millions of undocumenteds eligible for documents.

I'm used to working around both type of immigrants, doesn't even hit the top 5 on issues list for me come voting time.

Now that I'm retired, I guess I'm not entitled to an opinion maybe.

a reply to: FullHeathen

and yet, white liberal Americans are the ones who show their racism more openly than anyone I have ever encountered in my life. Just to get better context, I was a delinquent in high school, a teenage nightmare. The demographic that initially pulled me into such a life were my white liberal friends. I say liberal because these were the same kids that denigrated Christianity, poked fun at Republicans and George Bush especially, and loved to defend criminals in the news. I just enjoyed the chaos we were part of. These kids were always the ones making n-word jokes and often idolizing neo-NAZI culture. I quickly shifted to hanging out with black, Cuban and Puerto Rican delinquents instead, as this actually helped me make money as opposed to the white boys who were just in it for vandalism and mayhem.

Over time, and many encounters with the law later, I decided I was probably a brainwashed impressionable youth making lots of improper and incorrect life choices. I chose to hang out with more conservative adults who themselves were often raised by conservative parents. lots of focus on Church and family and disdain for crime and criminals. They never cracked racist jokes with me, but did often portray an almost evolutionary distrust of non-Christians, especially Muslims. Clearly they still had prejudices, but were based on faith and religious choices rather than ethnicity and skin color. Of course there are going to be examples and annecdotes in all groups of people. But simply in my experience, most of the racial assumptions and prejudices typically come from Liberal leaning people. It is usually they that claim so many job industries with Hispanics will be decimated by cracking down on illegal immigration, which can only allude to some belief that most Hispanics are some form of illegal. it is the only conclusion I can draw from so many examples I have been exposed too.

The Cable guys by the way work for American telecommunications companies. Why would this company bypass working permit requirements and verification processes to hire a guy that can be trained quite easily from a legal pool of unskilled/lightly skilled workers? Cable installation while somewhat technical, takes not much training to figure out. Strangely enough, lately the cable workers around here seem to be some kind of Slavic, often Ukrainian. Has me a bit concerned considering Ukrainians keep a kill list for critics of their government and anyone dissenting from their governments official narratives.

What I am saying is, claims about a decimated workforce are coming from liberals, not conservatives. And it seems to stem from a racist assumption that Spanish speaking workers in many industries are mostly illegals. Kind of silly if you ask me, and somewhat bigoted at the very least.

a reply to: worldstarcountry

It makes you wonder why liberal congress has sat on their laurals and done nothing to increase the amount of work visas allowed.....it's almost like they don't want to fix the problem.

a reply to: worldstarcountry

I think I see now:

To you the customer must be a Liberal,

whereas, I had a MAGA enthusiast in mind for the customer.

Oh well, that's what happens in story writing and reading; unavoidable I'm afraid.
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Speaking of crime and punishment:
I'm just lucky that Proposition 184 "three-strikes" law didn't pass 'til 1994 with overwhelming 72% in favor, or I could have been singing "I Turned 13 in Prison Doing Life Without Parole."




But seriously, the story is more about Oligarchy.

With South African Elon Musk as unofficial co-President, in charge of most everything but "black gold", he could have cable banned and all airwaves going through Starlink. Or have all EVs banned except Tetras. His net worth jumped up $20 Billion already in the first days after the election, only costing him $130 Million investment.

a reply to: FullHeathen

It would be so great if all cable was banned.

As for Starlink , it’s the future regardless of who’s president. Mobile network companies are going to be out of business… or much smaller than they are now.

I say bravo.