I regret I never used that phrase in any of the stories I wrote in my newspaper days. Bravo, Michael
Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times.
He is exactly right about the 'Spirit-ualization' of the airlines, especially United. Fortunately for me, my travel patterns have changed and I won't have to fly United any more. Not such good news for Hawaii tourism, however, which still depends a lot on United.
It makes you wonder whether American business managers understand who gives their businesses money.
Although I believe that good ol' 'Murican racism accounts for about 98% of Trump's electoral success, I also believe that a part of his personal -- as opposed to his policy -- appeal came from his habit of stiffing people who he hired. Democrats, who believe in an honest day's pay for an honest day's work, thought those stories would hurt him.
What they didns't get was the boiling rage of the American consumer who has a choice of buying crap from China or other crap from China, and if it breaks on the second use, there's no one to complain to. Or, if it's a service business (like his cable provider), he has to endure the humiliation of complaining to a brown person in India who speaks 'Murican with a lilting accent and reads from a script and is prevented form actually doing anything for him.
What the individualistic 'Murican wants to do is to tell all those businesses that don't give a hoot about him or his satisfaction to stuff it, he ain't payin'. Of corse, he's afraid to do it. Credit rating and all.
But he likes to watch Trump do it.
But he loves to see Trump do it.
Although I believe that good ol' 'Murican racism accounts for about 98% of Trump's electoral success ...
ReplyDeleteThat, right there, is why progs came out of this election looking like the nasty, hate filled, hysterical losers that you are.
It's been interesting watching the Trumpeters trying to deny the racism. The Internet never forgets, though.
ReplyDeleteEverybody knows and knew he is a racist. If they voted for him, they either liked that or didn't care.
You know what, Harry. You are right. You just keep boiling down the election to a single point. You progs keep defaming everyone who disagrees with you. Keep ignoring the plethora of reasons not to vote for Hillary! Don't pay any attention to how the down ballot races went, nor how many governorships and state legislatures the GOP holds. And don't, whatever you do, think about the endless self-congratulation in anticipation of the GOP sinking like a greased safe.
ReplyDeleteBecause, after all, it is working so super for you, isn't it?
BTW, from Trump's campaign website, here this that horrible no good very bad racist on African Americans:
ReplyDeleteIt is my highest and greatest hope that the Republican Party can be the home in the future and forevermore for African-Americans and the African-American vote because I will produce, and I will get others to produce, and we know for a fact it doesn’t work with the Democrats and it certainly doesn’t work with Hillary.
When I am President, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally, and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself: does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child in America?
African-American citizens have sacrificed so much for this nation. They have fought and died in every war since the Revolution, and from the pews and the picket lines they have lifted up the conscience of our country in the long march for Civil Rights. Yet, too many African-Americans have been left behind.
No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton’s policies than African-Americans. No group. No group. If Hillary Clinton’s goal was to inflict pain on the African-American community, she could not have done a better job. It’s a disgrace. Tonight, I am asking for the vote of every African-American citizen in this country who wants a better future.
And at the end of four years I guarantee that I will get over 95% of the African-American vote. I promise you. Because I will produce for the inner-cities and I will produce for the African-Americans.
America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton who sees communities of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.
Just exactly what you'd expect from a racist.
Read this, from which I took the above quote.
ReplyDeleteIt's from a progressive.
When you are done, maybe you will reconsider Although I believe that good ol' 'Murican racism accounts for about 98% of Trump's electoral success ...
Although I doubt it, because religious fanatics such as you have extremely powerful fact antibodies.
OK, I read that and you know what, I never heard anybody call Romney a racist, although it may have happened. I don't read much of what you call prog material since I am a New Dealer.
ReplyDeleteI have mentioned this before but you seem not to make distinctions.
The only leftward attack on Romney in regard to race (that I know of) came from people who referred back to Mormonism's antiblack heritage; but that actually worked to Romney's advantage (to anyone who cared to investigate) since Romney could show he was part of the revisionist wing that changed the church's official doctrine.
So I am not overimpressed with the political savvy of whoever wrote your screed.
Nor am I overimpressed with boilerplate from a campaign website when we have video of Trump inciting racist attacks on black persons at his rallies.
I am impressed by the overwhelming support of the country's most virulent racists for the Trump movement. I respect their expertise in sussing out who is a racist.
If you want to know what an actual prog thinks about this, here's the prog's prog:
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/11/jon-stewart-donald-trump?mbid=social_facebook
I disagree with him.
There is a yuuuge difference between thinking that Democratic policies have been unhelpful (or worse) for colored people (a belief that is easy to debunk) and embracing the out-and-out racism of the tea party (Trump's original base) and the dogwhistling racism of the mainstream Republican party.
Or, as I put it in a comment at Wonkette about whether Trump's chief strategist is an antisemite:
Hmmm. If Bannon does not hate Jews then he sure has put one over on all the Nazis who patronize his business because they think he does.
It is not a guilt-by-association implication to suggest -- as I am suggesting right here -- that these guys can be considered the experts in figuring out who hates Jews.
So, yeah, I have thought this over and I conclude that just about every Trump vote came from someone who either liked his racism or didn't care.
Funny story:
Trump's father attended my best friend's bar mitzvah; his father and Trump's father did a lot of business together, so much so that he calls Trump's father by his real nickname (Harry) rather than Fred as people who did not really know Trump senior think he was called. He detests everything about Hillary Clinton. He supports all or most of the Republican economic policies. His wife, a big Clinton supporter, "lost" his mail-in ballot so he couldn't vote for Trump. He told everybody he was voting for Trump.
The day before the election, he told me: "I can't vote for Trump. I just can't do it."
The reason is what he considers Trump's antisemitism.
There is a yuuuge difference between thinking that Democratic policies have been unhelpful (or worse) for colored people (a belief that is easy to debunk)
ReplyDeleteEvery syllable you typed was offered without evidence, which means I can ignore it without a shred of regret.
(Jon Stewart -- he was the one who used the c-word on Sarah Palin? He's a court jester, funny, but a fool.)
Oh, and since the progressive twitch is to defame every one who doesn't agree with them, and that plan is working out ever so super special for you, then I guess you don't need a plan B.
That's fine by me.
Ooops. Accidentally deleted a para.
ReplyDelete... easy to debunk.
Of course it is. Because schools run by progs are doing so wonderfully for black children. Because single party government is working out so super for Detroit, Chicago, et al. And, after all, there is nothing more super better than destroying the nuclear family. Of course, it is easy to debunk that, because ever since the Great Society, education, cities, and families have been extra special wonderful for blacks.
You are beyond satire.
I never heard anybody call Romney a racist.
ReplyDeleteReality isn't dependent upon your ignorance.
Easy to debunk. I thought I'd use the example of airline pilots. The number of black pilots has increased 8-fold since 1976.
ReplyDeleteCuriously, while looking that up I found this story that I hadn't run across before:
An interesting incident happened in 2011 on an America Airlines flight, the declared conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter refused to stay on board a Miami to New York commercial airline flight after learning the pilot was a black woman.
Nasty woman
I thought I'd use the example of airline pilots. The number of black pilots has increased 8-fold since 1976.
ReplyDeleteBovine excreta, Harry. Which is exactly what that statement is worth without providing evidence.
An interesting incident happened in 2011 on an America Airlines flight, the declared conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter refused to stay on board a Miami to New York commercial airline flight after learning the pilot was a black woman.
Bovine excreta, Harry. Which is exactly what that statement is worth without providing evidence.
Yawn.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what I have come to expect at Ranting the Odious: grand pronunciamento, followed by crickets.
ReplyDeleteRe: Ann Coulter..
Just when I think you have gotten easily nasty enough, you get even nastier.
Another addition to Harry's Big Bulging Bag o' Bollocks.
Don't you get tired of being found to be a liar?
The point was that a few years earlier tat story -- true or untrue -- would have been beyond imagination.
ReplyDeleteA few years earlier than when?
ReplyDeleteOh, and to be perfectly clear, your hateful imagination made you a perfect target for a right good punking.
And still waiting for explanation of this: The number of black pilots has increased 8-fold since 1976.
crickets
ReplyDeleteI had to re-read the thread to make sure I included "Harry's Big Bag o' Bollocks."
ReplyDeleteBecause the internet never forgets.
If you want to demonstrate that there were black women airline pilots before the Great Society, be my guest. Knock yourself out
ReplyDeleteI have no idea where this load of bollocks -- If you want to demonstrate that there were black women airline pilots before the Great Society, be my guest. Knock yourself out came from, but never mind ...
ReplyDelete... still waiting for explanation of this: The number of black pilots has increased 8-fold since 1976.
You might try reading my posts and commenting on what I have to say. If you want to post on a different subject, you have your own blog. I am not obligated to respond to your attempts to change the subject; although if the change opens an interesting topic, I might
ReplyDeleteYou might try reading my posts and commenting on what I have to say.
ReplyDeleteThat warranted a keyboard destroying spit-take.
Let's review the thread, shall we?
I kicked things off by suggesting your characterization of roughly 45% of Americans as racists amounts to a self-inflicted wound.
Your reply: they are racists.
My reply: okay, that is working super fine for you.
(So far, staying on point.)
Then I offer evidence contradicting your assertion Trump is a racist (which you offered without evidence, as is your wont). And more evidence — from a progressive Trump hater — that accusations of Trump's racism are over-egged and self destructive. Sill on topic.
Your response: tar Trump with the support of a tiny, tiny fraction of Americans, and follow it up with a series of completely evidence free accusations, and a quick invocation of Godwin's Law — always the prog goto when the argument is slipping away.
I wonder at your characteristic lack of evidence, and ignorance.
Your comeback: two staggeringly off topic, but true-to-form evidence free free facts. One of which was you pulling yet another Malheur: getting totally punked. But that's okay, apparently RtO is perfectly fine with trafficking in defamation.
Followed by repeated attempts by me to get you to back up anything, even one thing, you spewed out.
And your latest response: criticizing me for not commenting on your post, or what you have to say.
FFS, man, can't you comprehend a thread on your own blog?
I am not obligated to respond to your attempts to change the subject …
Hey, I have an idea: quote me on where I changed the subject. Surely, it can't be that hard.
The tea party is not a tiny, tiny fraction of Americans.
ReplyDeleteI am not obligated to respond to your attempts to change the subject …
ReplyDeleteHey, I have an idea: quote me on where I changed the subject. Surely, it can't be that hard.
Annnnnddddd: crickets.
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