Shouldn't have even opened the doors for the pigs. Not to mention engage in a conversation as if they deserve any decency. Boot them off your doorstep, immediately.
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On one hand I feel a bit for this guy. He knows it's bullshit as much as she does. But on the other hand, he's still doing it for the pay check so fuck him. It's gotta be degrading. But it's amazing what people will ignore to maintain an appearance of stability.
Making worthless widgets for corporate overlords for a paycheck? Sure, I sympathize. Taking other's livelihoods, safety, and comfort so you can have your own? Nope.
The problem is. When it comes to authoritarian states of any flavor, capitalist or otherwise. It all starts to become the same thing. Where were the resources for the widgets unfairly extracted from. And how exploited are the ones making them. But absolutely yeah.
Yep. Was it Marx — "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism"?
Tangent but maybe not actually Marx:
The phrase has been around in political circles and on the internet for decades, and it doesn’t appear to have a single originator. It is widely believed to be an amalgamation of ideas from Karl Marx, simmered down into a phrase that people can easily remember.
I have negative sympathy for him. As in he should suffer for working for fascists and enabling fascism.
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There should be trials, and when they're found guilty of sedition and treason, they should rot in prison.
That human thumb is Secret Service?
looks like they're using ICE's hiring standards
The only prereq for SS now is that you can stand to be locked in an airtight vehicle for extended periods with the human rotbag. Even his "wife" can't stand to be in the same car as him.
hurk.
huuuuuuuuuuuur
Of course...a desire for action taken through the legal system (at least implying due process) and of which she has she zero control over is categorized as a "veiled threat". Meanwhile there's actual sitting republicans suggesting that brutalizing or even killing protesters is cool but lol no that's not a veiled threat! That's freedom of speech! It's so pathetic.
I want to see their trials too. All of them.
Secret Dinner Service
Secret Service are the chillest of all the services.
NGL, I know there's a ton of hate for everything government at this time, but I worked with them decades ago when I did union stagehand work setting up for Presidential debates.
They aren't particularly motivated by politics, since their two main tasks are protecting money (figuratively via fraud crimes and literally in the sense of maintaining awareness of currency supplies when its transferred around the country or the globe) and politicians and foreign diplomats.
Many of them get called up for duty protecting people they may personally loathe, and they do it nonetheless.
God knows I saw some of that in action with how the agents treated the college kids that were running the various campaign events.
To wit: We're setting up at one stop and the managing director is some 24 year old poli-sci major with ZERO understanding of safety and security and even less of stage construction, set design and dressing ("No.. move this here.." and then 20 minutes later.. "No.. move that back and put the other piece there..." and by this time we've spent nearly double the amount of time as normal to set the stage and press risers and are ready to kill ourselves in frustration..) and the agents are telling us how far to put up stanchions and what exists must be kept clear, and we're doing it and in comes the kid all hot and bothered saying "..No, no no.. this isn't right.. THEY - the candidate - wont' like it this way, they want a grand entrance.." and the agent stares them down and says, "I don't care what they want, this is what it is going to be.."
All the candidates campaign managers - Republicn or Democrat - acted this way. Miserable shits. They were getting their marching orders from the politicians themselves. It sucked.
So it was was delightful to see them get taken down a few notches by Secret Service. Also on another setup for Obama, one of our lead upriggers - a notorious drunk - got similarly frustrated in a similar situation and threateed to get a gun and start shooting.. Within earshot of a TV news crew. Half an hour later Secret Service shows up and the BA (business agent) for the Local pulls us all together to "get the story straight" to tell the agents, and I cut her short and said.. "Nope.. He's a drunk, we're pissed at the idiots running this setup and I'm not lying or distorting what he said.." And she kinda agreed and we all just vented at the agents about the campaign managers and that yeah.. uprigger is a massive dick and a raging drunk and miserable - we all are - but we want to ge this done so Obama can come in and speak.
They went to his house and talked to his wife and asked if there was a gun in the house and she replied she'd made him sell the pistol he'd bought a few years earlier. He was put permanently off the political jobs and sent home. (I knew his wife and I can only imagine the firworks when he got home AFTER he'd spent the remainder of the day drinking himself blind at the Elks Lodge he was a member at.)
Secret Service.. man, they could have been waay bigger dicks than they were (and they were totally ok), and seeing the shit they put up with from the politicians directly, was an eye opener.
They are different than what one expects, that's for sure. NGL, Secret Service are the last people I'd be worried about, they're never unprofessional. (which at time boggles the mind as they're often treated like shit by the politicians who can be fucking ungrateful..) They aren't ICE.
Personally I'd love to see a Trump trial or even better, Steven Miller.
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He was shocking chill and backed off immediately when she pushed back. That's surprising.