Buying from China

Well then, what's one to think of when it comes to Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnel's wife? Her father is one of the 1% of that good 'ol CCP that we're being warned about, owning one of the largest shipping companies in the world, and once busted for transporting cocaine. 

Family of hers are all over Mar-a-Lago, getting past security to gain and peddle influence. 

As Transportaion Secretary, she steered about 25% of government business to Kentucky at the expense of the rest of the nation, with the help of a former McConnell staffer, who now works for Chao's department.

And then we have that Russian Oligarch, Dmytro Firtash, who's building a multi million dollar aluminum plant in Kentucky, all the better to leverage policy with.

And these criminals represent a side of this country that's perfectly fine with it as long as it's what they think and believe is their side winning.

Insert big sad here.

All the best,
Nonoise

To say employees are a commodity harkens back to the slave trade, which is still a basic underpinning of our present situation. To assign a certain "value" is incredibly arbitrary when one factors in who is assigning that value. 

It also assumes that we are all just islands, alone and aloof in this nation of over 330 million, which is farce. We are a community, down to our genes.

Back then it was good teeth, a strong back and if you could breed that got you ahead. Commodity indeed. I think we are not only past, but beyond that, unless one has drank too much cruel-aid, rationalizing their way through life.

All the best,
Nonoise

I just love it when people decry socialism as if it were communism lite. 
The richest among us employ socialism all the time, at every opportunity, as long as it serves their purposes. And, it works wonderfully, which is why they decry it when the rest of us even think of using it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_for_the_rich_and_capitalism_for_the_poor

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/11/trump-offers-socialism-for-the-rich-capitalism-for-everyone-else

As for who's closest to actual communists, one need not look any further than the right wing in this country. They party and travel with them, take in and launder their mob money, make lucrative business deals with them, and seem to take advice on how to run the country from them.

If the emperor is wearing any clothes, it's most likely a Kosovorotka and a Katuz to hide his balding pate.

All the best,
Nonoise

So it's all about owning the other side. Some are still in high school. Rush was a repeat drug offender with about 2,000 violations in just 6 months, using that "hillbilly heroin", that led to his going completely deaf. He was investigated for over 3 years before getting off with a lenient sentence. I guess it pays to have connections in high, right wing places.

His undocumented housekeeper made all the trips for him and vanished after the story broke. He should be serving a long sentence and this is the guy you're proud of? 

That whole charade was a disgrace, and a perfect example of the continuing improv act that's been going on for the last 3 years. 

All the best,
Nonoise

That "right man who came down the escalator" defrauded America on a wholesale basis for his entire life, contributing to it's demise, and continues to do so as we speak.

But please, by all means, go ahead and burn a candle at your shrine to him.

All the best,
Nonoise

Both of those articles appear to get their facts from the same source and look like ad copy. Must be a slow news day. None of the jobs mentioned are actually happening being that they are all "planned." Good luck with that.

A deeper look into real "manufacturing" jobs occurring reveal that about 80% of them employ 5 people or less. These are mom & pop businesses, like boutique soap makers. 

It makes for some great headlines and gives one a false sense of hope that we're finally turning that corner.


All the best,
Nonoise

Pick any discipline and you'll find a gaggle of scam artists, con men, grifters and shady characters on one particular side, and they have this uncanny knack of drawing in dupes, marks, schmoes, and suckers.

Just a few days ago a mother lost her child to the flu. She followed a group of anti vaxers on facebook who told her that all she needed was breastmilk and herbs and to forgo her Rx for Tamiflu. 

The site she was on is ran by some asshole who has no dog in this fight as he doesn't have any kids but sells anti vaxer crap to the unwitting and ignorant. That kid would still be alive if her mother had half the brain of a jackass.

All the best,
Nonoise

Well, that link has a link that disputes the bioweapon claim:
https://www.wired.com/story/wuhan-coronavirus-snake-flu-theory/

All the best,
Nonoise