Oh, gawd. That would be so horrible for so many reasons. I avoided that dumb game show the first time around because I thought he was an asshole since the 80s and had to still listen to stupid water cooler talk about the latest show.
Imagine if they were able to manage that being the only show on television. No streaming, no Youtube, no Plex, etc…just nothing but the shitty game show that made morons think he’s a “businessman”. 🤢 🤮
Could you explain what they have said about little dark age?
The right wing is just a bottomless, needy well of grievances.
They have just been soooo very butthurt about losing the gay marriage thing and Obama being black while being President. It drove them crazy, it still drives them crazy.
And so, as revenge, they are going to wreck as much of this country and harm as many people as possible (including their own financial situation) while sky-screaming. How they were harmed by any of the above things, who the fuck knows, but not being considered the center of the universe is clearly enraging them to do very irrational things.
I so very wish there was a recording(s) somewhere of Pedonald queening out to someone he thinks should be “doing something about” the people all making fun of him on television.
If my anecdotal experiences with so many conservatives is any indication, they love to fall back on the argumentum ad baculum logical fallacy when it really comes down to it.
I honestly think that Rush Limbaugh got all his dumbfuck dittoheads talking about the ad hominem thing so they’d overlook just how often they like to fall back on logical fallacies of all kinds. That and maybe a preemptive strike over the inevitable fat jokes.
But seriously, I grew up surrounded by many, many angry rednecks who’d usually fall back on “I’m right, and I’ll beat you up if you don’t agree”.
Pedonald is doing a version of this at the national scale - “agree with me/praise me or shut up”.
Isn’t it weird how people like Pedonald cannot just, uh, change the channel?
They don’t want anyone else to have the option of watching the show.
I remember how much the cons pretended to care about this so-called “cancel culture” they were going on and on about, but never had any actual evidence for?
Well, more funding for sure.
I’m sure if the people that started Conservapedia largely because they were incensed about the academic versions of dates [1] that didn’t center their little book club - CE/BCE - had much more funding they’d have the same level of conspiracy theories and racism.
[1] In their own words:
Conservapedia, launched on November 21, 2006, is a conservative, family-friendly Wiki encyclopedia. It was founded by teacher and attorney Andrew Schlafly with the help of several students from his fall 2006 World History class. In May 2008, Schlafly and some of his homeschooled students appeared on the CBC news program The Hour (see: Videos on Conservapedia).
When a student handed in her paper using the date-markers “BCE” and "CE” from Wikipedia, Schlafly realized that Wikipedia, despite its claim of neutrality, contained bias against the achievements of Christianity and conservatism. Other occasions of liberal bias, including the reversion of factual edits about the 2005 Kansas Evolution Hearings, led to the creation and launch of Conservapedia.
Emphasis is mine to highlight just what fucking snowflakes we are dealing with here. I’m sure fElon’s motivations have a very similar snowflake quality.
Makes sense that Pedonald, who has always had accusations all his life of being mobbed up, is doing things like this.
I just never really understood anyone that could sit there and listen to what the cons and Republicans say and do and what their aims are and then think any of that lines up with red letter stuff from “the” bible.
But I’m thinking a lot of conservative xtians are not really readers, despite all their talk of “the” bible.
Maybe the visas should be tailored to only that, then. Or come up with a specialist visa meant entirely for that.
As is, they are also used by IT bros…
She might want to heed Michelle Obama’s warning…
The original (presented) heart of the visas were to pull in some of the best and brightest of other countries to fast track them to become Americans, thus bolstering the output of America.
I think if you’d ask most (non-racist) Americans about this, you’d probably get a willingness to find some way to get exactly that kind of result. Seems like a win-win all around, except for corporatists only looking at next quarter’s profits.
The underlying rationale seems well-founded - there are smart people everywhere, how can we get entice some of them to come here and work for us? Hell, whether it was true or not, that used to be very much America’s brand, too.
Unfortunately, the charade and exploitation that is where the H-1B very quickly ended up is very much our brand, now, too, and that just sucks. I’d love to find a way back to that original idea and find a way to live up to it…
It’s more about mashing up “Pedo” with “Donald”.
Pedonald is threatening Colorado with unspecified “harsh measures”; it might be that someone in Colorado caves to this asshat even if I’m sure most of Colorado’s citizens want her to serve all of her term under Colorado’s watch.
This is the least shocking thing about their squabble.
Gee, I wonder why they cancelled the jobs data, too.
I’ve been working decades in IT and for decades I’ve heard fraudulent claims from companies saying that they cannot find local talent. That’s nonsense.
And knowing that companies have been shedding workers for some time now after over-hiring during Covid and hearing how long it is taking for people (in some cases, people I know) to land new jobs is an indication that there should be plenty of people to hire within America without resorting to H-1Bs.
I think there are lots of options that could be explored. One is if these are for truly research types of things, maybe keep a smaller amount of the visas, but only for that. And make it easy for them to become full citizens if they wish. Make it easy for them to float between entities (corps, universities) so that they are truly free agents in the marketplace, etc., even if they don’t opt for citizenship.
Another would be to find ways to fast-track truly rare talent right to a path to citizenship that is not tied to an entity at all. Or maybe it is, but for maybe three months as a trial run, then they are full citizens free to work for anyone (or not at all, or go to school again), and vote, etc…
But as for stacking the deck for corporations with lots of compliant cheap labor to be used in IT and engineering, keep American workers in line, and drive down wages…nah.
The supposed aims and the rationales given for the H-1B are easily punctured the minute you ask - wait a minute, if these are such precious commodities that cannot be found here, why the fuck would we send them packing in 3 to 6 years? Why wouldn’t we do everything possible to entice them to stay and become full citizens? Surely they’ll end up starting up businesses of their own, etc…it’s truly the American dream. Why are we subbing a 3 - 6 year gig for the American dream, FFS?
Except - none of them were actually canceled for anything, were they? I don’t know of one instance of some con asshole being cancelled.
From the hysterical way they were going on about it, there was some Democratic arm of the government taking cons off the air, off Facebook, off Twitter, and…this is just not a thing.
But they DEFINITELY want it to be a thing for anyone that even bothers making fun of their stupid movement and their leader slathered in makeup.