Republicans Fucking are not Better at the Economy.

 Republicans are bad for the economy. Beyond rational doubts.

It boggles my mind how anyone can believe Republicans are better at the economy.  No matter how well I understand on an intellectual level, the capacity for delusion among puny earthlings.  I still don't get it, emotionally.   Not only does someone have to ignore decades of recorded facts, and the mountain of data.  But for most of the fools who support or are members of the GOP?  They have to deny the reality of their own lived lives.

This is not a post about The OWL, however

 I did find the article I will post about on her blog.  She,  the OWL, posted the conclusion.  As if she sort of agrees with it.  I do not.  I got notes.

MagaBabe drag experiment

In a nutshell, the first person account is pretty much what I chose for my link text.  Young anti fashionista, East Village immigrant Brit donned a Maga Babe costume and makeup, and reached a mind blowing stupid conclusion:  I am calling out the bullshit because her youth and ignorance made her believe the ordinary was non conformist.

"I’m moved by a strange affection for the Magababe — if not as a political entity, as a person. In liberal youth culture she is a genuine radical: she doesn’t care if the cool kids hate her. She is unapologetically sexy and feminine; her president is in power and so is she. Though her values are not mine, I respect her brashness as the ultimate non-conformist."

I am calling out the bullshit because her perspective is so narrow and tiny.  To my cusp of Gen X mind, she seems to be so stuck in her identity and "tribe" that she doesn't seem to get the point.  In the world of business, working in offices, being a relative  fashion conformist is the rule.  

Ever heard of dress codes?

My first career was in performing arts.  I worked for a year at a theatre that did a lot of classical music performances.  If I was on call to do any on stage in front of the audience, work like moving chairs and music stands, I had to dress like a businessman.  If the work call did not require that, I dressed like any other not business person;  jeans, t shirt, kicks.  And I always had a folding knife in a belt holster.  The rule in NYC was if you were in the "trades" you were allowed.  I spent a year at the CBS main building, but as one of the facilities staff.  I wore a uniform that was color coded so people would know which department I was from.  After that  I worked as a paralegal, evening shift, at a white shoe, corporate law firm.  I did not have to wear jacket and tie, but there was a dress code.  No jeans. No t shirts.  No sneakers unless all black and not at all fancy looking.

I will stop there.  The article is interesting to me more because what we learn about the writer's mind, than the experiment.  She is so young.  And has such a tiny understanding of the world and the people in it.  And the rules of fashion in the workplace.  And in NYC there are still many many people who show up to work, following a dress code.

Remember the line about dressing not for the job you currently have (at your office.)  Dress for the next higher job that you want there.  That world yet and persistently endures.

The Meme. And Other Thoughts.

 

I am not a marxist, nor even a declared socialist.  But I am an anticapitalist, because that shit sucks.  I don't believe it can be eliminated merely by government,  I sincerely believe that technology has to get to a point where capitalism no longer is a viable part of human society.

That being said.  I am still frustrated with a friend.  Who, despite my telling her I have worked on litigation involving the retail food supermarkets' supply chain, not only at POS but distributors and even specifically all aspects of the meat industry, poultry specifically.   So I have spent about 4 maybe more than 5 years of my life reading those people's internal corporate documents.  She still refuses to accept that food deserts are a real thing.

No matter how many times I said, based on my experience in reading internal corporate communications and other documents, I know for a fact how much a handful sort of monopolistic corporate entities control the distribution system.  In other words, the market?  Hell, never mind the fact that a few monster-sized supermarket holding companies own the majority of well-known regional and national bigger-name chains. 

She just would not accept the plain fact.  If you live in the wrong neighborhood (without a car?)  You are fucked.  Meaning your choices are limited, and your power as a consumer is non-existent.

But that is how capitalism works guys!  

Liar Liar! Nazi Pants on Fire!

 

So I was watching an annotated clip from Abby Phillips' CNN panel show.  and as an aside.  The format is part of the national problem.  Either seriously and in real time fact-check the domestic nazi's lies, or you are too substantially validating the communicated lie.

Anyway.  The lie that was being repeated in this clip.  That drug dealers are terrorists.  I bothered to search.  And unfortunately, the specific statute that allows the Federal government to designate terrorists is written recklessly too broad.   And the current administration is taking advantage of that.

Unhinged from objective fact, and reason, and rationality, is how I describe what they are doing with calling ordinary drug dealers terrorists.  See below, how International law defines it.

Big difference.

I am reminded of the Apartheid era issue over the South African law criminalizing being a communist.  Whatever they said was evidence of being a communist, was evidence of being a communist.

Fascism, plain and simple.  

Most Blatantly Racist Blog from the OWL

 Would she be making this much stink of it were white asses? 

The way her brain functions.  SMH.

Is Overuse of AI a Sign of Being a Moron? How About Habitual Shallow Thinking?

 The owl is still using the racist AI.  But that is not the point of this post.  She has bought fully in, at least says she has.  There is the theory that CBS actually didn't cancel Colbert's late-night show because of political pressure.  The argument is that if they really wanted to shut him up, why did they give him 10 months to stay on air?

That is sophistry:

Sophistry refers to subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation that appears plausible but is often misleading or fallacious. It originated from ancient Greek philosophers known as sophists, who were skilled in rhetoric but later gained a negative reputation for their questionable reasoning methods. Merriam-Webster Wikipedia

And morons fall for that shit.  

Here is the problem with that moronic argument.  I will start with the truism, that two or more things can be true at the same time.  Going the next level up, false choices are false.  We don't really know all the possible reasons that went into the decision.  Failing to allow for the possibility of more than one thing being behind the decision, is moronic.

Next is the human limitation point.  Humans tend to fucking suck at, as in having pretty much no ability to read other people's minds.  

And I will end on the Aaron Burr point.  From the musical, one of that character's lead songs is the one where he sings about wanting to be in the room where it happens.  If someone wasn't in not only what ever real or virtual space where the decision was made, one was not in the room where it happened, so at best is just guessing.  Which humans suck at.

Any of a number of explanations could be the truth here.  Personally, I immediately guessed the gloves would be off for the remainder of the show's run.  And I watched last night, and was quickly proven right.  There was a show of solidarity with the other late-night hosts being in the studio audience.  Jolly good fun!  However.  Since we don't know what happened in the room.  There could have been some deal where network brass greed to capitulate to the political pressure.  And bargained for the timing, hoping Colbert would go out in a blaze.  

I will leave it there.  Yes, I used to work at CBS's hq.  40 years ago.  So any manager I could have known then is long gone now.  But I can easily imagine some of the lawyers and network brass thinking . . . . be careful what you wish for bitches.  We do this TV thing for a living.

 

Part Deux. Do You Want People

 To believe you are a Nazi sympathizer, lady? 

Despite the notorious scandal of the  nazification of Grok's coding.  The Owl is still posting about using it. 

I can't even construct an appropriate comparison.  I can recall the famous old one about buying Playboy magazine for the articles.  Implying that the person isn't even looking at the nude girly pics.  But that doesn't quite work.

Some asshole who has been called out for white supremacist racist bullshit.  Has a social media site he owns. He is the true boss.  And that platform has an AI that is in house.  At least in the, from, somewhere in the boss's house.  And not for the first time, the AI has spewed racist shit.  But this time it went full nazified? 

And the little old lady blogger blogs about the story.  And then goes back to blogging about still using the nazified AI?

Reach your own conclusions about Althouse.  I have.