barneypiccolo

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago

MAGA Morons are fantasizing that all these new high-paying manufacturing jobs will be coming back, but thats not the plan.

The new factories will be sweat shops without safety/ health/ environmental regulations, paying minimum wage (or less, if they can end it). They will primarily rely on teenage child labor, using young people who are desperate for jobs after all the fast food jobs have been automated.

Thats the Sociopathic Oligarchs' dream.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When the war comes, he'll just have a draft, and replace all those trained, experienced soldiers with green, involuntary, draftees.

Its almost like he wants to lose to the Russians and Chinese, but that couldnt be possible. /S

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Wealthy investors know to buy on the dip.

Of course that's assumming that there will be a quick recovery. If this bullshit sends us into a depression, they may have outsmarted themselves.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Another interesting example is a story by singer and Gershwin scholar Michael Feinstein. When he was a teen, he fell in love with George Gershwin's music, and discovered that his brother, Ira, the legendary lyricist who supplied the words to most of George's songs, lived nearby.

He went to Ira's house and knocked on the door, and introduced himself. Ira was happy to talk to the kid about he and George's old songs. During the conversation, Ira opened up the piano bench, and it was filled with old manuscripts in George's hand of totally unknown songs that had never been published.

Feinstein ended up being the annointed by Ira as the unofficial Gershwin scholar, and he later recorded many of those unknown songs.

He also told this story on NPR's Fresh Air:

In 1982, there turned up in Secaucus, N.J., at the Warner Brothers Music Warehouse, which is the place where Warner’s kept all of their stock of their published music that they would sell. Suddenly somebody who was working in that warehouse, a guy named Henry Cohen (ph), found these boxes and boxes of music that looked like manuscript material of not only George Gershwin but of Victor Herbert and Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Schwartz and Cole Porter and Vincent Youmans and on and on and on. And we were called - we, being Ira Gershwin, for whom I worked in 1982 - he was - what? - 83 or 84 at that point. And they said, there are these manuscripts of George's here and lyric sheets of yours, and somebody better come and look at them. And Ira said, oh, no, that stuff was destroyed long ago. There’s - that’s a mistake. So he sent me to look and see what was there only because of the insistence of the folks in New Jersey, even though Ira was convinced that we would find nothing. And it turns out that I found, amongst all these boxes, 87 original manuscripts in George Gershwin's hand plus copies of scores that had been lost for 50 and 60 years. For some reason, they were all there, and it turned out to be one of the greatest musical theater discoveries of the century.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

He absolutely believes he's a genius who has thought of this solution to our economic problems that NOBODY else has ever considered, because nobody is as smart as he is. All this talk of how wrong it is only proves to him how much smarter he is. His tariffs are so innovative, even the most intelligent economists don't get it.

But he does, because he's the most intelligent human to ever exist, and he is thinking way above them.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are going to let the protests grow. By next summer, there will be massive protests about all sorts of bad stuff. Just pick your issue, there will be a protest for it. Most cities will have multiple mass protests over multiple issues simultaneously.

HitlerPig will encourage his RedHats to stir up some standard street violence, then send in the authorities to quell the violence with ferocious lethal violence. Many will die.

He will use that to justify Martial Law and suspend elections for the first time in American history. He can't afford to allow the House or the Srnate to flip, and give the Drmocrats control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

A few years ago, a researcher started going through a large stack of dusty old music manuscripts in an east European archive, and discovered an unknown work by Stravinsky, over 100 years old. I wonder what was in the rest of rhe stack.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Now's the time to buy. The wealthy know this, that's why HitlerPig is doing it. He's done the same thing each month since his inauguration. It's deliberate market manipulation.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 32 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Booker was auditioning to replace the cowardly, weak, simpering weenie Chuck Schumer. He needs to leave the Senate in disgrace, and let AOC take his seat, and have Booker take his position as Dem Leader. I'm no fan of Booker, but nobody else is strong enough to step up.

Fuck that creep Schumer. I'll never forgive him for stabbing Al Franken in the back.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

He already submitted an "economic analysis." He said the country is going to "boom."

Now the MAGA Senate can vote for it in good conscience.

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