May 12 Open Thread: Maryland Peckerwoods Threaten Civil War
The ignorant will always be with us, but I’ll be satisfied when they go back to being ashamed of it. As it stands, “Ignorant and Proud of It” is the order of the day, as a bunch of stump-jumpers in Maryland’s Calvert County dmonstrated with this billboard, which basically threatens that if a political solution to ending this bastard presidency is pursued, they will resort to violence.
Why this is a story I don’t really understand: A White House apparatchik said in a meeting that John McCain would be dead soon, which is nothing but the statement of a fact, but cable news has turned it into a two-day-long cudgel with which to beat a White House full of insensitive people who have said much worse.
Voters who thought Trump would “drain the swamp” might be among America’s stupidest. Nobody who has ever gone to Washington to reform it, starting with Andrew Jackson and continuing to the present day, has ever changed its self-dealing culture; Trump voters are merely the latest saps in a 200-year-old long con.
With Third Way Democrats on our side, we don’t need enemies. Mark Penn, the pollster who steered Hillary Clinton’s 2008 candidacy into the ditch, took to The Hill to complain that we don’t know who is paying Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer. The hypocrisy, it burns.
A fascinating Democratic primary is shaping up in the Pennsylvania congressional district around Allentown. Three candidates — one a centrist, Clinton style white woman, one a Sanders-style black minister, and one a white guy who’s really a Republican — are vying for the nomination, and this HuffPo story about the race poses the question of which sort of Democrat can win in a Trump-leaning district.
Ignorance has real consequences. Just ask the folks interviewed for this article about the H-2B “guest worker” immigration program by the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. They voted for Trump, mainly because they heard in his vague promises what they wanted to hear. Now they’re facing bankruptcy because they can’t find American landscape grunts who’ll work for $17 an hour. This should surprise precisely nobody. Remember, one of the chief justifications for slavery was that white people couldn’t (read: won’t) work in the climate of the South.
Whenever I hear “We can’t find workers for these jobs.” I always finishe the sentence “…for what we want to pay.”
Trumpers really are idiots. it is similar to the “We can’t raise minimum wage or prices will go up.”
Morons.
Just heard about this. So, Chris Schell, CEO of Schell brothers was caught with over 20 unlicensed electricians(i use that term loosely)on his housing projects. It would of been higher, but a passenger van drove through a cornfield to get away from code enforcement. So, he gets hit with a $9k fine (that will teach him) and what is his response? he goes to Carney saying that he has a backlog of houses and needs the unskilled labor to get his projects done. Well the Electrical Examiners board doesn’t like that because they want people who know what they are doing so houses don’t burn down or people getting shocked. Well, I guess 5 years of schooling and OJT to become an electrician is overrated…
Carney’s answer? He plans on firing the president of the Electrical Examiners board June 1st.