Friday, September 15, 2017
Expanding Left
-Thoroughly! Fried chicken and fiery speeches
-Heard you complained no fois gras!
-That’s effete stereotype! When I got the mike
I gave them one joke playing to it, but told
them, firmly, we must make common cause
against Fascist Republicans.
-Went over?
-Many smashes on back after!
-You like being with the boys, no? And…is it…
all girls at work?
-You could say that.
-Anyway, Junk Yard Dogs, the Republicans!
-The milder ones.
-They really fight for the cause!
-Yeah, comforting the comfortable, and
afflicting the afflicted.
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Labels: Democrat, Fascist Republicans, Labor, Republican
Saturday, February 14, 2015
The Good Republican
Lies?
Rhetorical exaggerations I admit to.
And flourishes. Old-School there, I’m afraid.
You point especially to my Labor Day speech.
And scathingly see me as Republican, of course,
thus avowed enemy of the working person.
Some are, and very clearly. Ask them, they’ll
tell you. They love to! Wallow in their own
poisonous spit!
And you claim that we’ve destroyed unions?
Lots of factors have militated against unions,
though we’ve been the most important.
But I’m, individually, very Pro-Labor. I believe the
present dynamic is sick, and toxic to the country.
I believe, mostly, in a strong safety net.
The billionaire supplies his own, hedging his bets.
The worker bets his labor, and must be allowed to
hedge also.
Why haven’t you heard this before?
A hand clamps my mouth, known as Party.
If they turn off the cash spigot, I lose.
And, as the wilfully naive Supreme Court has
allowed obscene amounts, I can’t fall behind.
Hey! Everybody’s job contains terrible contradictions
and anomalies. Why should mine be different?
They’ll smear me RINO?
They can do much worse!
“Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.” ?
And some horrible, dreadful, degrading things they are!
Why don’t you hear more from me? Why don’t I take
more of a stand?
Politics is incremental. And the parties have even blatantly
switched in history. If we live long enough, we’ll see
Republicans as the liberal party, and Democrats as the
stick-in-the-mud, and thoroughly despicable, Conservatives.
When I can fight, I will. When I can’t, I’ll talk the crap they wish.
A sort of partial and quite unsatisfactory answer?
That’s me. And you. And everybody.
Hey! They hanged Nathan Hale! “My only regret is that I have
but one life to give to my country.” Tremendous!
But he wasn’t always that Nathan Hale.
Labels: anti-labor, Conservative, Democrat, Emerson, Labor, Labor Day, liberal, realpolitic, Republican, Safety Net
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Mistakes named for workers
Examples:
-Almost Marlowed the entire bunch
but Grumpy came up with a fix.
-The new kid Grumpied the makeover
work, first thing I give him. But, he’s bright.
He'll catch on.
The newest foreman, Hodge, wasn't immune.
He ruined a small lot before his elevation.
And now he, even, refers to the same mistake:
-Let's everybody be careful on that big job!
I don't want any Hodging!
When Marlow died, we thought we should
desist in his case, but habit took hold and we
still kept labeling that particular screwup
after him.
Grumpy pronounced -It's his memory forever.
-A mistake? sneered Hodge.
-We're human. He stays with us this way.
The question persisted: Why did Marlow die anyhow?
Grumpy opined that he was too happy.
Labels: blue collar, errors at work, Labor, shop wit, shop work
Monday, September 01, 2014
Labor Day!
-Yeah, and every vicious Righty hater of working people
will suddenly find a union member in his brutal tribe.
“And my cousin, Hipp Eskew of Bakers’ Union Local 97,
has given many a delicious cake to all sorts of celebrations!”
-It’s miraculous!
-I don’t know. Look in a family you don’t know whatever
you’ll find.
Labels: Capitalism, hatred of working people, Labor, Labor Day, Union
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Another Brace of Operators
-My Congressman needs your Golden Negro!
-There's a fee.
-Always, but let's be reasonable.
-What's the mission?
-Accompany him to black districts, where
Republicans reflexively despised.
-He can do that, and then to Hispanic if
you want. As a labor leader he negotiated
contracts in Spanish.
-Pinch me! Is this heaven?
-About the opposite, really. Why we love it!
-But what are his actual politics? He seems to
have started as a Lefty. We don't want the media
proving it's all Academy-Award presently.
-He's far far right of Generalissimo Franco.
-Who's that?
-Spanish Civil War?
-Can't be bothered. Got our own.
Labels: black, Franco, Golden Negro, Labor, Negro, Republican, Spain, Spanish Civil War
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
NFL
Players want share
of additional funds
owners earn or extort.
Their retort: Uppity! Not,
too PR savvy for that.
Labels: Annals of Capitalism, Labor, labor negotiation, NFL
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Without Parallel
Conservative Brits moderate-
ly happy to be at 10 Downing
again. But forced to deal with
minor party to rule. True nit-
wits here seeing exact parallels to
Republicans and Democrats now
fight ignorantly on the plain,
cyber that is. Experts, though, claim
Conservatives closer to temperate
Dems. And Labor simply off our chart.
At any rate, loads of do-nothings
not brought aboard as venerable
Civil Service runs things, regardless,
knowing the levers forever and where
the bodies have been buried, properly.
Labels: British election, Civil Service, Conservative, Labor
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Celebrating Labor Day
Many GOP solons brag a-
bout their union membership
before catching gravy train. So
they’re anti-labor presently,
which followers see as wising up,
but merely involves changing
another coat.
Many GOP solons brag a-
bout their union membership
before catching gravy train. So
they’re anti-labor presently,
which followers see as wising up,
but merely involves changing
another coat.
