27 December 2023

Ode to the Sub-GED Class

To anyone paying attention, it's clear that wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024 continues to bet on the sub-GED class to come through, yet again.

Now we find that he's out to poison the blood of the electorate by seeing to it that knuckledraggers without any education or identifiable skill will get paid as much as teachers or accountants or coders. All of whom do have education and skill; well, may be not so much for coders. But you get the idea. Idiot Brown Shirts will rule.
But Mr. Lighthizer dismissed studies critical of Mr. Trump’s tariffs, describing them as biased in favor of free trade and arguing that inflation had held steady during the administration. He also said that while efficiency, profits and low prices were important, the priority should be encouraging more manufacturing jobs for Americans without college degrees.
Well, no one who's had at least high school econ would believe that China, et al, pays extra on their exports. It's the American consumer, of course. There's that great line from "The Usual Suspects"
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone.
Studies have decided that imports are a net benefit to the sub-GED knuckledraggers from all those Asian locales.

The Orange Jesus may well be convincing some of the sub-GED crowd that he's on their side (Not!), but it's fur shur that no one else is biting. Of course, the sub-GED crowd is rather large in many/most/all of the so-called Swing States. As mentioned in these missives a few times, Sleepy Joe 'won' by 7,000,000 votes, but he squeaked by with 5-digit margins in those Swing States. And much of that 7,000,000 difference (~5,000,000) came in California. Another reason the Electoral College was a sop to the slave south.

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