Midnight Meme Of The Day!
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Happy Labor Day!
Let's not forget that too many of our fellow citizens have lost their jobs this year due to the cavalier psychopathy or sociopathy of those in Washington who work for wages paid out of my taxes and yours, even if we no longer have a job. As I write this at the beginning of the Labor Day Weekend, such lowlifes as those in the White House are touting a just received August jobs report that says the citizens of America gained over 1 million jobs last month. However, decent, moral people would not try to pass off American citizens going back to their jobs after months of being shut out of their workplace, as having gotten a "new job," especially when we are still 20,000,000 jobs in the hole if one bothers to look at the 40,000,000 jobs lost this year. Really, not even a "similar" job or one at reduced pay shouldn't count as a new job either. It's cynical and disingenuous to the max to not provide an honest context, but, republicans in Washington are known to say, "I really don't care, do you?" Yeah, Mr., Miss, or Mrs. Repug, I do care. Go ahead and call me a Marxist, a trouble maker, or whatever your favorite word of the week is but you, Mr., Miss, or Mrs. Repug can just go fuck off!
I obviously chose tonight's meme because it reminds me that, as the school year begins, our teachers are facing a new danger this year; not one brought about due to the increase in violent weather due to ignored climate change dangers or the failure to act on gun safety issues, but because the mass murderer in the White House and his accomplices willfully chose to ignore the dangers indicated in early coronavirus reports that they had in their possession as early as December of 2019. Now our teachers are being asked to face yet another threat to their lives and the lives of their students and their families. Not only that, but our teachers are not even being given so much as an extra dime of hazard pay.
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 12:01 AM
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Celebrating Labor today? Only it's demise as an independent political force.
Labor Day has become such a sad joke. Labor has little power, and neither of the presidential candidates is going to do anything to boost the rights and power of organized labor.
I am of the opinion that we only still have Labor Day so that corporate ameriKKKa can rub our faces in the fact that we have no power, and are hardly in solidarity with each other to do anything about it. They trot out their captive labor leaders to lamely extoll the virtues of Labor and all it has done for American workers. They just forget to say anything about when the last of these benefits was achieved, nor any mention of how many have been lost while Labor leaders did nothing.
Labor Day has become a good way for corporate goons to know who gets to enjoy their special attentions for the next year. How is Chris Smalls making ends meet now that Amazon has attempted to assassinate his character? Think corporate ameriKKKa will ever give him another job?
Enjoy the day, workers. In a few years, this holiday will probably be gone.
8:32, It doesn't look to me that Noah is actually "celebrating."
What makes you think that Noah was the only target of my comment? Millions of workers -especially those backing Trump destroying their means of support- ARE celebrating Labor Day without having a single clue as to what the day once meant. A few of them are likely to read even these comments.
Noah is lamenting, just like 8:32. The latter was agreeing but augmenting... and venting a bit.
me too:
Let a teacher refuse to kowtow to the clergy and politicians, and teach truth about science or (gasp!) slavery... they should be flogged.
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