The op-ed you wrote in the Wall St. Journal was the single most glaringly ABHORRENT thing I've read since MEIN KAMPF!
Let me point something out... something that you are OBVIOUSLY oblivious of, apparently...
YOU WERE BORN RICH, YOU SPOILED, BLUEBLOOD FUCK!!!
YOU are the new public face of “Affluenza”!
You have ABSOLUTELY no idea how the other side lives, so don't come to me talking about your “principles,” because YOUR (completely soulless, immoral, anti-ethical) “principles” don't mean a fuck to me.
You have CORRUPTLY PURCHASED governments on all levels, all the way down to SMALL SCHOOL BOARDS!
You pump your oil all over the world's lands and waters.
You pay POVERTY WAGES at your corporations.
You work to KICK people who are already down.
You (and your shitty brother) are the most morally and intellectually corrupt individuals since MOUSILLINI!
You may have billions in (several) banks (many of which you hide so you don't have to pay your fair share on them, you thieving fucks), but with regards to your behavior, you're completely and totally ETHICALLY bankrupt!
You worship Ayn Rand, because you feel it entitles you to have no conscience about the things you do...
Well, why don't you be more like John Galt...
… and just...
… fuck off...
… go away...
… leave...
… we don't want you OR your shitty companies...
… just take your money and fuck off...
… seriously.
You (so-called) “Libertarians” are supposed to believe that “your freedom ends where mine begins,” but with your corruption of the nation's governments, you have shown that you actually don't agree with that. You seem to think that you can do whatever you want to THE REST OF US, but that we can't have anything to say or do about it.
To put this into context, you fucking hypocrite, this means you are essentially saying “Your freedom never begins because mine never ends.”
If you TRULY believed that, you would just take your shitty money, build your own shitty island, and keep to yourself, sustainably, so you don't have to rely on anyone else.
Instead, you take everything you can from everyone else (yes... I'm saying YOU'RE the “taker”), and walk all over everyone else to do it.
So, here's my proposal...
Do it... just go fuck off to your own island... leave society... take your shitty brother with you, so you can yacht between each others islands... and leave the rest of us the fuck alone...
… or else...
Google the date “14 July, 1789” for more info.
Here's a hint:
You've NEUTERED our government's ability to act against you, by buying enough of it off... but THE PEOPLE are pissed... your tyranny won't stand much longer... THE PEOPLE won't allow it.
So, in closing, allow me to sum up my commentary thusly:
-You're a fucking narcissist.
-You're a fucking Blueblood.
-You're WORSE than that "Affluenza" kid (HE only killed FOUR people... you're responsible for
THOUSANDS)
-Fuck off.
-Go away.
-Leave.
-You're a fucking hypocrite.
-Fuck off.
-Picture of a guillotine.
Our Supreme Court has dissolved into a pathetic catastrophe.
Yesterday's blatantly CORRUPT decision regarding CORRUPTION was another abomination from a Court I have entirely lost faith in.
John Roberts' writing of the decision was reminiscent of the graven messages left by the “Lipstick Killer,” William Heirens.
Heirens had a compulsion to kill, that he couldn't control. He was given the nickname “The Lipstick Killer,” by leaving messages on the walls of his victims' bedrooms written in lipstick, reading “For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself.”
Here's what I mean by that...
John Roberts wrote the decision HIMSELF. In it, he basically said that in order to prove corruption or bribery, you have to PHYSICALLY CATCH money changing hands ON VIDEO, in order for it to be confirmed as corruption.
“Justice” Roberts, though, must have gotten this little tip from the Koch brothers, when he spoke at one of their anal-tongue-cleansing seminars (loosely billed as “conferences”). He would have NEEDED that tip to deal with a guilty conscience, seeing as how he was about to make SEVERAL decisions in their favor, while completely ignoring the Constitution.
Let's be honest, though... there are more people in SCROTUS than JUST Roberts, who is actually SMALL POTATOES when you compare his corruption to that of “Justice” Uncle Thomas.
We should have known this guy would be an insufferable, worthless douchebag during the Anita Hill hearings... but the problem is, we have too many other insufferable, worthless misogynists in America, who decided that she must have been lying because she's a woman. Honestly, that's the ONLY reason he was confirmed. He's a misogynist, and he appealed to all the other American misogynists.
Before becoming a “Justice,” Thomas was a Corporate Lawyer for Monsanto. Since then, he has never recused himself from judging a Monsanto case, and has found in their favor EVERY FUCKING TIME!!! I should say, though... what do you expect from the company that used to make AGENT ORANGE for use in Viet Nam? Obviously, they have no conscience; and neither does Thomas.
Thomas' wife, Ginny, is very politically active in the Tea Party, takes some of her paychecks from the KOCH BROTHERS and other billionaires, who her husband conveniently finds in favor of every time one of them appears before their court.
Thomas has also been caught cheating on his taxes... not reporting all of his income... not reporting parts of his wife's income... more evidence that he doesn't want to get caught being corrupt!
I would take a stab and say that “Justice” Thomas is THE SINGLE MOST CORRUPT SUPREME COURT “JUSTICE” IN AMERICAN HISTORY! Furthermore, I would argue that there is plenty of evidence to back up that claim.
If the Supreme Court were “Alice in Wonderland,” “Justices” Alito and Scalia would be Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. I've always seen these two failures of American Education as interchangable. I've never known them to disagree with each other, and they have the common sense of DRYER LINT, whilst maintaining the intellectual consistency of RUNNY SNOT!
Basically, these two are Theocrats masquerading as “Justices”. They only believe that ONE religion exists, and that ONLY THAT RELIGION should be granted protection under the law; and that NO other religion matters, because it's not a “real religion,” because it's not what THEY believe.
They are BOTH Creationists, who, as we all know, are absolute fucking morons, with no critical thinking ability whatsoever!
Great... two Creationists sitting on the SUPREME FUCKING COURT... yeah... THAT'S what we need... people with an absolute absence of intellectual integrity... THAT'LL do this country good...
Creationists are archaic, moronic IDIOTS, who have NO BUSINESS being ANYWHERE NEAR law... but we have TWO of them on our HIGHEST COURT (and more than a few on the CONGRESSIONAL SCIENCE COMMITTEE... but that's another rant)!!!
Friends, allow me to make a suggestion... one that goes back to two specific points in our history as a Nation; the writing of the Bill of Rights, and the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The history of our planet has shown that when money stays in one family for a few generations, they start to think that they're BETTER than everyone else! When they get this bullshit, inflated sense of superiority (otherwise known as "Affluenza"), they get it in their heads that they can just buy the government out from underneath us, because they're somehow more deserving of rights than the rest of us clods.
We saw it during Slavery... we saw it during the robber-baron era... we saw it during the Great Depression... and we've seen it at it's worst in the last 40 years.
With the levels of corruption that we've seen at all these times, the time has come to say "Enough is enough" and realize that this is a cycle that will only continue, unless it's addressed as the human rights issue that it is!
Therefore, without further ado, here is my solution to the problem of the tyranny of the wealthy!
I hope you agree, and that you take this to heart as a way to improve our Nation.
If they won't play nice, then we have to MAKE THEM play nice!
text:
WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, having formed a great union, deem these Amendments to the Constitution to be necessary. As the first Bill of Rights addressed the right to be free from tyranny by the government, it has since shown necessary to also address the tyranny of the wealthy upon the poor.
1. Every man and woman of working age has a right to a job that pays them a living wage.
2. Every man, woman, and child has a right to health care, a home, healthy food and clean water.
3. No executive position shall pay more than one-hundred times the annual salary of the lowest-paid position under their charge. Executive wage increases must be voted on by the workforce.
4. No corporate entity may use legal representation of greater expense than that of the person suing them.
5. All workers have a right to arbitration for unjust firings.
6. Privately-run enterprises that are deemed to be “predatory” can be shut down and their assets seized by the United States Government.
7. The right of the people to be free from persecution by their employers for what they say and express themselves in their private lives.
8. The right of the people to know what information is gathered about them by corporate or non-profit entities.
9. The right of the people to be free from Corporate Monopolism.
10. The top twenty percent of the wealthiest individuals and businesses may not lobby Government at any level.
Well, there you go... was it everything you were hoping for? Does this look like 10 things that will address the problems that we currently face? Is this radical enough? Is this TOO radical? You tell me...
Allow me to put the views presented in this piece into context. This may sound strange, but some of the best advice I've ever heard came from the movie, “Team America: World Police”.
(transcript)
“I hurt people... I'm a dick!”
“Well, bein' a dick ain't so bad. See, there are three kinds of people; Dicks, Pussies, and Assholes! Pussies think everyone can get along, and Dicks just wanna fuck all the time without thinkin' it through; but then, you got your Assholes, Chuck. And all the Assholes want is to SHIT ALL OVER EVERYTHING! So, Pussies may get mad at Dicks once in a while, because Pussies get fucked by Dicks; but Dicks ALSO fuck Assholes, Chuck! And if they didn't fuck the Assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your DICK AND YOUR PUSSY ALL COVERED IN SHIT!”
in the grounds of the modern political climate, as I see it.
I'm going to start with the obvious one...
Republicans are Assholes. There's no other way to put it. They ONLY care about the rich, and fall just short of a mantra of “FUCK THE POOR!” They think that they're superior to everyone else because of their religion, their position in society, and their... well... whiteness.
Yes... I'm just going to say it...
The Republican Party has become a White Supremacist Party, regardless of whether or not they realize it or want to admit it! I don't hear anybody denouncing it... not anymore... I don't hear any calls for decency in the party... all I hear coming from them is,
“If you're not JUST LIKE US, then you don't deserve rights! You can't vote! You can't get any help from the government (unless you're rich)! No Faggots allowed! No non-Christians allowed! No Mexicans allowed! No Darkies allowed (exceptions made for Uncle Toms)!
You must express Nationalistic sentiment at all times! If you're not wearing at least one article of clothing or jewelry with the American flag on it, you're ANTI-AMERICAN! Dissent is treason!
ONLY OUR religion matters! All other religions are PHONY! You MUST worship OUR religion, or you're not an American!”
Theocratic White Supremacists are Assholes! Republicans are Theocratic White Supremacists, so that makes them Assholes!
Next group:
Democrats are Pussies.
Not only do they think that everyone can just... get along... they don't understand the concept that
“Respect GRANTED is for respect EARNED!”
So they just let the Republicans get away with all their name-calling, lies, and absolute lunacy and stupidity; believing that they're acting like the “adult in the room.”
Here's the thing, though...
If they want to be the “adult in the room,” then their job, as the adults, is to discipline BRATTY TODDLERS, if their parents have left them in control! If their parents aren't around, then it becomes YOUR DUTY to see that their parents are informed as to their misbehavior! If their parents let them keep doing this destructive, antisocial behavior and throwing hissy-fits when they don't get their way, then you have to DISCIPLINE THE PARENTS!
Pussies WANT to be the “adult in the room”, but they're too chickenshit to act when they need to! All the time they should be ACTING, they sit there waving their finger, saying,
“Now, now... children... settle down... stop throwing things... that's not very nice... please behave... would you do it for your brother? No? Please calm down... if we work together, we can clean the house... I know you don't wanna help, but I need you to... that's not very nice; why would you say that about me... OUCH! NO BITING!... can we please focus on this? I know you want cookies, but you can't have any right now... settle down... settle down... gosh, why won't you settle down?... that's not very nice...”
All the time, the Pussies don't realize that the parents have given the toddlers COCAINE, and they'll NEVER settle down until they completely crash... and you can FORGET about a nap (for you OR them)!
So, if we have a proliferation of Pussies and Assholes in our Government, where the fuck are the Dicks?
There are a few Dicks... but nowhere near enough to ACTUALLY make a difference.
I would consider Dicks to be people like Alan Greyson, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders... but of those three, only one has the unabashed balls to call things what they are.
Alan Greyson, during the Health “Care” Reform debate, brilliantly and honestly said,
“This is the Republican Party's plan for Health Care:
Step one is, DON'T GET SICK...
… but if you DO get sick...
… the Republican plan is to DIE QUICKLY!”
See what I mean?
Now THAT took balls! THAT'S the kind of Dick we need more of!
Slap the fuckers down... call them out and make them defend themselves! Make them prove you wrong! Say it STRONGLY! Say it LOUDLY! If you have to break a few arms and hurt some feelings, SO BE IT! If that's going to hurt someone's feelings, then maybe that's because YOU'RE RIGHT!
Here's what the Pussies don't realize...
You may not like that, but that doesn't make it any less true. We're violent, barbaric, meat-eating, gun-collecting, “shoot 'em if yer wronged”, cage-fighting worshipers of sadism and war. Our entertainment and our history is all you need to prove that fact. Bear in mind, the second we honkeys set foot on Plymouth Rock, we were a nation bent on white Christian privilege and war. The first things we did as a Nation were wipe out the Native Americans, bring slaves from Africa, burn witches, force Christian imperialism on the indigenous peoples who decided not to fight us, and then went to war with the country that largely funded our pilgrimage from Europe...
As for our entertainment, look at the most popular movies and television shows... most of the popular movies come with an R rating (and even the PG-13 movies can be pretty heavy-handed... consider “The Ring”). We produce a lot of movies that glorify our past wars and warriors. Television is FILLED with violent images and concepts, all across the spectrum of our viewership. What were the most popular toys when I was a kid? GI Joe. He Man. Transformers. We program war into our children from the earliest ages, and continue all through life. There should be no surprise that we grow into violent adults.
I'll never deny that I personally consume these things, myself... I watch some of the most violent horror and action movies out there... from Peter Jackson's early work, to James Wan's. I'm no stranger to disturbing imagery, and quite frankly, I enjoy it. What you have to consider is, in that regard, I'm part of a HUGE majority of Americans, who consume and enjoy violence just as I do.
So, if you sit there and cosmetically scrub every phrase to make it as “unoffensive” as possible, walk on eggshells to try and make people like you, and let the other side bully you without making noise about it, then you're only going to attract MORE PUSSIES LIKE YOU, and nothing will get done, because the Pussies are too afraid to take any truly effective ACTION! They'd rather sit there and get SHIT ON by the Assholes!
My advice to anyone who may be seeking to enter the CLUSTERFUCK we call our “Government,” here you go:
1. Don't be afraid of offending people who NEED TO be offended!
2. Call a bigot a bigot... a liar a liar... a Calvinist a Calvinist... a Theocrat a Theocrat... and an Asshole an Asshole!
3. Don't let the Pussies soften your words!
4. Use more “Emotional” words. For example, call it “WAGE THEFT” rather than “income inequality.” “Theft” promotes anger, while “inequality” promotes pity, which many barbaric Americans see as “whiny.”
5. Avoid using words that instil pity. Stick with words that trigger and promote anger and ire!
6. Make your own waves and ride them into shore!
7. Stand up for yourself!
8. Exploit their weaknesses! This means hit them in the 'stupid' button... they're not that smart... really... they're not.
9. Here's a valuable phrase: “How much were you paid to say that?” Ask this EVERY TIME they disparrage the poor, promote the oil industry, bash Obamacare, deny climate change, or mention “over-regulation”!
10. When they talk about Abortion or Gay Marriage, recite the first ten words of the First Amendment: “Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion!” Then, POINT OUT that these are the FIRST TEN WORDS of the FIRST Amendment, and that if they haven't read that, then they probably haven't read ANY of the Constitution (because they haven't)!
11. If they say they should be elected because they're a Christian, recite this part of Article 6 of the Constitution:
“No religious test shall ever be required for any office or public trust under the United States.”
Then, point out again that they haven't read the Constitution!
12. NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR BEING STRONGLY WORDED! Apologies are ammunition, just like irresponsible comments! If your opponent is offended that you would openly call him an Asshole for BEING an Asshole, then DOUBLE DOWN AND MAINTAIN COURSE! People WILL respect you for it!
These measures will net you a national audience, a lot of eyes, a lot of donations, and a lot of votes!
… or you could run as a Pussy, and forgo the people who WANT AND DESERVE a hard-headed, unabashedly blunt, unapologetically honest BADASS for their Representative or Senator, who, if they do these things, will speak for a lot more of America than JUST the Pussies (which is actually a MINORITY in America, but not in the Democratic Party).
Thanks to the Pussies being pussies, the Assholes are basically holding the nation at a standstill...
However, thanks to the Pussies, the Assholes aren't COMPLETELY shitting all over us...
… so, I guess...
The Pussies are causing constipation in the Assholes, but the Assholes are causing constipation in EVERYTHING!
I realize I haven't written for a while. I've been trying to branch out my talents and techniques, to encompass a broader variety of mediums. I hope you've enjoyed my recent offerings.
So, dusting off the ol' cobwebs, I thought I'd share the most recent mental query loop I've been stuck in.
I'm often very
frustrated and conflicted between my beliefs, my thoughts, and
reality. Sure, I realize that EVERYONE has these conflicts... that's
what makes up half of our existence on this planet! Through a series
of questions, I will demonstrate my current prevailing enigma...
then, maybe someone ELSE can contemplate it as well, and I don't have
to suffer this alone.
Question #1:
Is it ever ok
to advocate for the death of someone (this includes capital
punishment and/or murder)?
Question #2:
There are
LEGITIMATE threats to society, due to lack of Psychological and/or
Psychiatric treatment. Sometimes, they snap and shoot up movie
theaters, malls, or schools. These people will never be
re-introduced into society, and will likely only go on to kill more
people in prison. Is their life as precious as yours or mine, if
they are going to spend their life taking your life or mine?
Question #3:
Some of the
most mentally deranged people are also the WEALTHIEST people. They
use their money to ensure that the rest of the “unwashed masses”
never see a dime. This is one of the effects of the recently coined
term, “Affluenza.” These people are entirely destructive to
society, and likely have no chance at rehabilitation. This is
something that they WILL pass on to their children, further
contributing to the problem. What should be done with them?
Question #4:
Given the
political power these wealthy people have, it's likely that they will
never see a courtroom for their crimes. If they DO somehow see a
courtroom, they'll just pay a fine and continue to do what they are
doing. This does NOTHING to solve the problem. If our Government
and courts have been so deeply corrupted by the neutering money of
the wealthy, how can we trust them to hold the wealthy to any kind of
accountability for what they have done to us?
Question #5:
Given the level
of corruption of governments (notice the plural) and destruction to
society and the environment, which threatens us all, is this a matter
that the World Court should take on as “Crimes Against Humanity”?
Question #6:
If our
governments CAN'T act, and the World Court WON'T act to hold these
people accountable for their crimes, including slavery, treason,
global wealth theft, racketeering, bribery, extortion, and class
genocide (their unwillingness to allow the poor the dignity of
medical assistance, food, or basic needs by actively fighting against
it while seeking greater wealth from the governments for themselves,
IS a genocide of the poor!), at what point does it fall upon the duty
of the PEOPLE OF THE WORLD to exact their justice from these people?
Question #7:
If the people
were to do such a thing, what would justice be? Some form of
“People's Court”? A tribunal held by the MASSES, rather than the
courts they've corrupted? What good would that do, if we have to go
through the Government and Courts to uphold any verdict?
Question #8:
Even if “the
people” find these corrupt bastards guilty, their banks still have
to be garnished. There would be no way to hold them accountable.
What then?
Question #9:
Consider
Bastielle day... the French Revolutionaries stormed the Bastielle,
freed their friends and families who had been unfairly imprisoned,
and then raided the Aristocracy and beheaded every rich asshole they
could find; after which balance was restored to the distribution of
wealth. But consider this... there were no BANKS back then!
Everything was handled through precious metals!
Given the
prevalence of banks in today's world, beheading the wealthy ruling
elite really wouldn't accomplish anything more than kicking their
fortunes down to their Affluenzic, worthless blueblood kids, and we
face the same problem again. The only difference would be, the
wealthy would protect themselves better, because they can afford
better walls and landmines.
Result: nothing
gained; problem potentially escalated. Wealthy get worse and more
indignant. Hunger Games is created to give poor people SOME hope.
So, if our
Governments CAN'T act, the World Court WON'T act, our own tribunal
would accomplish NOTHING, and assassinations would only make things
WORSE...
We've seen it
time and time again... profit over life... many of us have lived it,
ourselves... and now, a pattern repeats itself.
We all remember
the tragedies associated with these companies; yet, we fail to make
the simple connection linking them all...
Not a single
one of them thought enough of their piddly employees or neighbors to
ensure their safety. When it came to improving conditions, they
bought their way out of it with bribes to Congress by means of
“lobbyists”... and their greed cost human lives, and continue to!
These bribes
lowered standards and reduced the numbers of regulators to the point
that they were too swamped to do their job...
… and now, in
Texas, we have a SPECIAL case, in that Rick Perry BRAGS about the
deregulation that's “bringing businesses to Texas.” First of
all, the VAST majority of jobs that have moved in are MINIMUM WAGE
jobs! What fuckin' good is that going to do for a father of two?
Minimum wage...
do you realize what 'minimum wage' ACTUALLY means??? 'Minimum wage'
means,
“... well, we
WOULD pay you less, but we can't... you're really only a peon...”
… and, given
the fact that businesses can get away with almost ANYTHING in Texas,
minimum wage jobs are moving in, because employers KNOW that they
don't have to give a shit about their employees there!
Do we REALLY
need any more evidence that these douchebags don't give a fuck about
the lives of ANYONE else??? They all knew the risks their employees
and neighbors were taking, and they simply didn't care... as long as
it saved them a few bucks.
Consider
this... employer abuses now are as high or higher than they were...
(are you ready for this?)... during THE GREAT DEPRESSION!!!
Yes, there it
is again... the Depression... we've seen it in relation to worker
compensation, wealth distribution, and reckless Wall Street
behavior... and yes... working conditions.
They wanted
child labor. They fought a minimum wage. They fought a 40 hour work
week. They fought against safe working conditions. They fought it
all, because it was eating into their paychecks... and they're STILL
doing it today!!!
The upper
echelons of the business world have become entirely held by
sociopathic blue-blood narcissists, and THIS is what we get for it!!!
You can't even call what we get “table scraps” at this point...
we get the “pity” pay...
“Here you
are... now, go away before you get your 'poor' on me... and don't
touch the pool... I'd hate to have to drain it... stay on the
plastic, please... off the carpet...”
So what if a
few of the lost little lemmings die... there are SO MANY of them...
and they just keep making more... they're so CUTE!
Don't you get
it yet??? That's how they see us!!! If they didn't, they would have
the conscience not to do the things that have taken the lives of so
many of the people. If they actually DID care about their employees,
they would actually put SOME effort into making safer conditions for
the people who make them their fortunes!
Business these
days is run like a slaughterhouse. For every one slaughtered,
there's another cow coming right in behind to fill the exact same
position. So, why take care of them, when they're so easily
replaceable?
For a long
time, they only paid people enough to keep them from bitching. These
days, they don't care how much people bitch... you'll take what you
get and you'll LIKE it, or you'll get FIRED for bitching when you
should be working!
Employers have
us by the balls, because they KNOW it's a shitty economy out there,
and they KNOW that you HAVE TO take it, because you'll just get more
of the same shit for less money at the next place that tricks you
into joining their ranks with silver-forktongue promises without
telling you that you have to be there ten years before you get a
nickel's raise.
But is anybody
in Washington talking about this??? FUCK NO!!! Why??? Because “We
the People” don't have a LOBBYIST!!!
Wanna know the
fucked up thing???
WE SHOULDN'T
HAVE TO HAVE ONE!!! That job SHOULD be filled by the ASSHOLES WE
ELECT!!!
At what point
does corporate “lobbying” get recognized for what it is...
corporate oppression?!
My friends,
we've been placing our efforts in the wrong places.
Many of us
recognize this for what it is... a silent class war.
We tried to
make a change with “Occupy”... but sights were set too high. We
were attacking the wrong first target.
If you want the
advantage, you first take out the infrastructure with which they arm
themselves, so that when they're out of ammo, they're just out; and
they can't fire any more shots.
Considering the
fact that their ammunition is the money that's flooding into
Washington, the first target should be the LOBBYING FIRMS; not the
banks, themselves.
The banks are
soulless. Asking them to change their ways is no different than
asking Charles Manson politely to abandon “Helter Skelter”...
which is why you have to take down the “Manson Family” first!
So, what we
SHOULD be doing, is making it as hard as possible for these lobbying
firms to conduct business! Every time they have a meeting, someone
should be RIGHT THERE with a microphone and a video camera!
Those assholes
should be shadowed the same way the Paparazzi follows Britney
Spears!!!
In fact, TMZ,
I'm tired of your shallow, exploitative bullshit! Why don't you
direct your efforts somewhere that's ACTUALLY productive for society!
Why don't you start following the assholes that might be committing
FELONIES, rather than the people who might at some point commit a
'nip-slip?'
I don't give a
FUCK about 'who got fat,' or about who's pregnant with who's kid, or
who's cheating on who...
NONE OF IT
MAKES A FUCKIN' DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD!!! IT'S NONE OF OUR FUCKIN'
BUSINESS!!!
You have
so-called “journalists” who can find out that J-Lo has a mosquito
bite on her ass from three miles away, but you can't use that same
team to expose the lobbyists and Congresspeople for the douchebags
they are??? Come the fuck on... do the right thing for a change...
then, maybe... JUST MAYBE... America won't be seen as the shallow
assholes we've become to the rest of the world...
In fact, the
shitty jobs FAR outnumber the “decent” jobs... and I don't think
I'm alone in saying that... I know a lot of people who have floated
from one miserable experience to another, hoping to find something
where they just feel valued in one way or another; only to find
themselves repeatedly in a place where they just get shit on all day,
for shitty pay, with a shitty boss, and shitty customers, and shitty
conditions, and a shitty atmosphere, and absolutely no recognition
for good work... you get the point...
… which begs
the question... what exactly DEFINES a “shitty job?”
Well, let's see
here... some people might see it as the job, itself... cleaning
port-o-potties or outhouses, for example... or cleaning up
blood-splattered crime scenes... or cleaning roadkill off the
pavement...
Some people
might see it as bad working conditions; be it safety or climate
related.
Some might see
it as a job where there's no chance of advancement.
There are those
who might suggest it's a hostile work environment; maybe you work
with an ex; or maybe you just work with a dick, or a few dicks; or
maybe it's because you CAN'T KEEP YOUR DICK IN YOUR PANTS.
Some might say
it's a job with shitty pay, or a job where you're not paid what
you're worth.
Some might
compare it to “Fight Club” or “American Beauty.” You know...
a job where you're miserable just because the job is a bad fit for
you... you just hate what you do.
I've had all of
these scenarios... some where I had several of these issues at once.
I've had shitty
bosses that screamed in my face for taking five seconds to hang up my
coat, after clocking in AHEAD of time.
I've had jobs
where the company was so big that nobody had any kind of voice.
I've had jobs
that would really be better positioned if they burned to the ground.
I've had a job
where “part time” was 39 ½ hours; but you were still expected to
work as many as 84 hours a week (seven twelve-hour shifts), if the
deadlines called for overtime (translation: they didn't have to pay
for benefits... cheap bastards).
I had a job at
a movie theater where we had a RAW SEWAGE LEAK behind the concessions
stand. I was wading through three inches of shit and piss while
serving popcorn, candy, hot dogs, nachos, and soda to people who
wanted to save a few bucks by going to a “value” movie theater.
Then, they decided to vacuum up the mess with a shop vac (with a
frayed power cord), and told us all to get back to work before the
9:00 rush.
I had a job
where I was getting paid EIGHT DOLLARS A DAY, working FULL-TIME!
(fuckin' telemarketing... I'll never do THAT again...)
… and that's
just scratching the surface...
The common
theme: the people at the top didn't give a shit about any of the rest
of us. The size of the company didn't matter... one of them only had
about 150 employees. But while WE were just scraping by, the
douchebags who ran the company were gallivanting around the world
collecting their rare hunting trophies from every continent (which
had their own HOUSE... yeah... a whole HOUSE... just for their
hunting trophies... every room made up to be a different continent...
doesn't it just make you sick?).
They hide
themselves from us in their gated communities and on their yachts.
They go places where they don't even have to look upon the poor.
They isolate themselves completely from us, so they can maintain
their delusion that they're better than the rest of us!
Mitt Romney's
47% comments (and really, the entire tape) illustrates this fact in
spades. They simply don't see us as humans at all. They see us as
rodents and cockroaches. They see us as scavengers, who are always
trying to take from the REAL humans... (that being the rich, of
course)
… and you
know what?
… they're
right (in a way)...
… we're NOT
humans anymore...
… we're
something MORE than 'just' humans...
We're not SOFT,
like them... we haven't been PAMPERED our whole lives... we don't
have the cleaning staff, or the cooks, or the drivers, or the
butlers... we do OUR OWN work! We clean OUR OWN houses! We cook OUR
OWN food! We drive OUR OWN cars! We maintain OUR OWN lawns! We
shovel OUR OWN walks and driveways! Those wealthy fucks are SOFT ASS
PUSSIES because they've never actually had to do any WORK!
WE possess
COMPASSION... something they lack entirely. We possess HUMILITY! We
possess the HUMAN qualities that THEY DON'T!
Here's the
fact, people...
We're the ones
who've been hardened by our work!
We're the ones
who've earned our muscles and callouses the HARD WAY; rather than in
some cushy gym!
We're the ones
who endure the harsh conditions in the warehouses, and in the
factories, and on the roads!
We're the ones
who've taken EVERY STINKIN' PILE OF SHIT they've shoveled at us, and
WE'RE STILL STANDING!!!
That shows that
we're resilient... It shows that we can't be stepped on that easily!
We need to USE
that resilience to CRUSH THESE FUCKERS!!! We need to show them that
WE'RE NOT THE INSECTS THEY THINK WE ARE!
Why am I
writing this?
Why am I saying
all the things I've said 10,000 times before?
Why am I
repeating all this again?
… because I
want a better world...
… because I
see the powers that need to crumble... and it's not the government,
as many have been deceived to believe...
… it's the
shitwaffles that are CONTROLLING government!
To solve ANY
problem, it's best to attack it DIRECTLY at the root; and my friends,
the root is all that dirty money that's being shoved at the people we
elect by sub-human, narcissistic, worthless, elitist, fuckers with
bank accounts that could be featured on an episode of “Hoarders!”
… and WE'RE
the ones that have to do it! They're not just BUYING government;
they ARE government! You can't seriously expect the rich to regulate
their own income, can you???
Then again, why
not? I mean, we allow Monsanto to regulate itself, and oil companies
to regulate themselves, and banks to regulate themselves... I mean,
they have members on all the regulatory boards, so I guess we DO
expect them to regulate themselves... wow... they're doing a REALLY
shitty job...
WE have to take
the initiative to fuck 'em! WE have to do it, because nobody else is
gonna!
If you haven't
seen the movie yet, I highly recommend it! Simply put, it's one of
the greatest movies I've ever seen (as well as Quentin Tarantino's
best work), and had the same impact on my perception of the world as
“Schindler's List” did, all those years ago.
For those of
you who haven't yet seen the movie and who want the basic synopsis,
read on; but understand that I will be discussing parts of the movie
that might tell you more than you want to know. If, however, you
HAVE seen the movie, please either bear with me, or jump ahead to
where I start to make my point.
“DjangoUnchained” is the story of a slave who comes into the employ of a
German-American bounty hunter, in order to identify certain specific
bounties he wants to collect. The two enter into a pact. Django
(the slave, played by Jaime Foxx) agrees to help the bounty hunter
find the men he's after, and the bounty hunter agrees to help Django
track down his estranged wife (who had been sold to another
plantation), once the winter months have passed.
This movie is
an exquisite example of Quentin Tarantino's ability to simultaneously
tell an amazing story and shock viewers with harsh reality and extreme
violence. The script and it's portrayal are equally engaging, which
makes the three hours you're sitting in the movie theater pass as
quickly as a commercial break.
The Academy
Award given to Christoph Waltz, while appropriate, fails to
demonstrate the captivating nature of both the character and the
performance of the character. I hold this character and
corresponding actor in the highest regard. I believe that his is one
of the greatest performances in cinematic history.
… but I'm not
here to talk about the movie, itself...
I'm here to
talk about the movie as a reflection of society and history... I just
wouldn't be “me” if I didn't put it into a greater context, now,
would I?
Perhaps I
should include a little personal context, as well...
This movie held
a very personal meaning to me, because I know slavery from first-hand
experience.
I was held as a
slave by my ex-wife for over four years (of the six and a half that
we were together). Until I saw the treatment of the slaves in the
movie, I failed to fully see the reality of my own previous
situation. While sitting in that movie theater, I found myself
confronted by ghosts of my own past; which may have had an impact on
my own personal feelings about the movie.
Aside from my
own history, I also saw frightening correlations to modern American
society, as well... things that angered me... things that disgusted
me... echoes of the past that are re-visited in the modern future.
Let me put it
this way... rich, white assholes haven't changed much. They still
seek to own slaves; and the fact of the matter is, they've been
widely successful in doing so; with a few caveats. Let's be honest,
here... the only thing that's changed is the fact that slavery isn't
confined to one race anymore. If you've been working for one of the
corporate giants that rule America, then you are either one of the
slaves, or you're one of the slave masters (if you're one of the
executives in charge of these criminal enterprises).
I don't think a
lot of the people in the workforce realize that fact. I don't think
a lot of people realize that they, themselves, are slaves to the
billionaires and executives who have the ability to simply buy our
government in order to change the laws to fit their own narcissistic
whims.
Where's the
proof?
Well, let's
start with the lack of balance with regards to wealth distribution.
The rich keep getting richer, while the rest of us are drowning. The
executives get raise after raise, and massive bonuses, and other
benefits that they don't seem to think they can afford the rest of
us. Their wages have gone up while ours have gone down... that says
to me that we're doing all the work while they're reaping all the
rewards of our work...
… sure as
fuck SOUNDS like slavery to me...
We're
threatened with termination if we get sick...
We're
threatened with homelessness if we lose our jobs...
We're
threatened with disease and death because our meager wages can't
afford visits to the doctor...
We're
threatened with termination if we speak up about what we perceive to
be problems in the workplace...
… so, if our
very existence is threatened by the way these douchebags run their
companies, and we have no choice but to bow to their narcissistic
whims, and our lives are in constant jeopardy due to their lack of
accountability regarding working conditions, and we have no voice as
to the way things are, then doesn't that make us all slaves?
Yep, it does.
Sure, it
doesn't FEEL like it; because we DO have the freedom to live where
and how (to a point) we want, and we do receive SOME pay (however
insufficient). But the wages we receive aren't really very different
than the cost of upkeep for the slaves owned by the honkey plantation
owners before the Civil War (as adjusted for inflation). They still
reap all the benefits of our labor, and we get little more than we
need to afford basic housing and food... but no more than that.
Maybe our
employers CAN'T whip us or beat us; but they would, if they could...
gotta keep us peons in line, you know. Believe me, I've had more
than a few jobs where I knew the bosses wanted to hold us hostage to
their greed (American Web Printing, I'm looking at you)!
So, when a
company decides that they DO want to be able to beat their workers
into submission, then they just move their operation overseas
somewhere that WILL allow them to do so; as seen by Apple (and other
technology companies like Hewlett Packard), with regards to their
manufacturing operation at Foxconn factory in China.
… all of
this, just so you can have your shiny, new iPhone... don't you just
LOVE the injustice you've bought just so you can stay current in
technology?
Now, they
couldn't get away with treating their laborers that way, here in
America; so they had to go somewhere that WOULD allow them to do it.
Doesn't that say something about how THEY THINK we should be treated?
Doesn't that just show the malice that they feel towards all of us,
whom they deem to be “beneath them?”
Want another
example? How about the garment factory in Bangladesh, who made
clothing for Wal Mart, Sears, Disney, and other American retailers?
Apparently, Wal
Mart doesn't think that their employees deserve such basic things as
EMERGENCY EXITS in case of a fire... I guess emergency exits are
simply not “cost-effective” expenditures. The factory's ownerdidn't even know that there weren't any fire exits, until they were
faced with the fire and all the people dying around them as they were
trampled and burned alive. What a compassionate asshole... he must
REALLY care about his employees, huh?
Either way,
American corporations prove, time and time again, that they really
don't think their employees are worth a shit. They don't seem to
think that we're human beings, deserving of reasonable lives. They
don't seem to think that we're worthy of being viewed as actual
“people”... which demonstrates the fact that they view us as
SLAVES! If they saw us as PEOPLE, then this shit wouldn't happen!
Getting back to
my point about “Django Unchained,” there was a pivotal scene near
the end, where Leonardo DiCaprio's character (Calvin Candie); who ran
the biggest plantation in Mississippi, called “Candieland;” posed
the question as to why the slaves didn't rise up and overthrow the
white people. He pointed out the fact that white people were vastly
outnumbered, and nobody could possibly LIKE living in slavery, so why
didn't they rise up?
His
physiological explanation was racist beyond ridiculosity; but the
question, itself, was valid. Sure, there were a few slave uprisings;
but nothing successful until the Civil War. In truth, things didn't
improve for the slaves unless they jumped on Harriet Tubman's“underground railroad.”
It seems to me
that there was both a lack of ability to organize (primarily because
the slave owners went to great lengths to keep them from
communicating with other plantation slaves), and a deep-seated terror
as to the consequences if a rebellion was unsuccessful (which was
entirely warranted, as only white people could own guns; the Second
Amendment was put in place, in part, to allow for enforcement of such
laws by militias of racist crackers with guns).
Putting this
back in a modern context, I beg the question...
… well...
Why DON'T we
overthrow the slave lord billionaires, bankers, and executives?
Are we blind to
our own plight? Yes... most of us are.
Are we afraid
of the consequences? Some of us are.
Are we lacking
the organization? ABSOLUTELY!!!
In Part 2, the
answers; the pressure WE can apply; the knowledge we need to share
and spread to make the bastards FEAR US; like they SHOULD!
Just like slave
times, there are a SHITLOAD more of US than there are of THEM... the
only things they have more of is money and ego; neither of which can
out-scream hundreds of millions of pissed-off, disgusted,
bloodthirsty slaves seeking freedom from their untouchable masters!
I'll tell you
how we can not only unseat them from their positions of power; but
take every stolen penny back from those bastards and throw them
behind bars where those soulless shitwaffles belong!
… but it all
starts with the understanding that we are nothing more than ants in
the billionaires' ant farms! The sooner we understand that, the
sooner we can take the bastards down!
