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Month: February 2018

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A message from the Handicapper General’s office

Feb 12, 2018 J. Kb 2 comments

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery has unveiled the official portraits of the former President and First Lady.

Barack Obama

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Michelle Obama

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The United States Handicapper General, Ms. Diana Moon Glampers, would like to remind you that Barack and Michelle Obama are beautiful, that Barack Obama was a great president, and the artists tried their very best. 

Failure to acknowledge that is in violation of the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and will be dealt with swiftly and harshly by the agents of the Handicapper General’s office.

Thank you and goodnight.

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Stupid business consultant

Feb 12, 2018 J. Kb 4 comments

Sometimes I get YouTube recommended videos that I don’t know why the YouTube algorithm picked them for me.

This is one of those.

Yes low rent David Hasselhoff, millennial are the worst, fuck that Trevor guy.

Good thing you bill yourself as an “expert on finding, engaging, and keeping great employees.”

Wonderful, inside the box, no critical thinking analysis there, sure was worth the money.

Maybe there is another way to look at the Trevor situation.  I’m not saying Trevor’s entirely right, but maybe a smart man could see the point he’s trying to make.

I’ve worked hourly. Some shifts are easier than others.  Some shifts the line is out the door and you are running around like you are on fire.  Some shifts the store is empty and you putter around wiping stuff down to keep busy.

I’ve worked on assembly lines.  Some products are easy to assemble and you make a day’s quota with time to spare.  Some products are more complex and you bust your ass to meet quota.

Seems odd that both shits or both assemblies pay the same hourly wage?

Especially if the busy shift or the complex assembly makes more money for the business.

It’s almost as that model of employee pay says “we pay X for your butt to be here doing some minimum effort.  If you put in any more effort, and we make more money, it’s no benefit to you.”

Maybe a smart business consultant would realized that younger people really feel that we should be paid more for our effort than our time.   Corporate pay scale system sucks for the employee who busts ass and is great for the one who drags ass.  Why work any harder than you have to if additional effort generates no additional reward?

Because that’s what way it always has been?  Good job old man, how’s the buggy whip factory business doing or have you moved on to ice delivery yet?

If the employee/employer relationship in a capitalist society is “I agree to give you my labor in exchange for money” than shouldn’t there be a better metric of the value of that labor then hours spent at a particular location?

When I worked late night in a convenience store, the big fight was between 3rd shift and management.  Management didn’t see a lot of sales receipts so didn’t think 3rd shift was valuable.   Because 1st and 2nd shift were busy with customers, it was 3rd shifts responsibility to break down all the food service equipment (hot dog rotisserie, nacho machine, coffee machine, etc) and clean it, clean the bathrooms, mop the floors, etc.  That was a lot more gross and laborious a job than just standing behind a counter taking payment.  But management didn’t  take than into account and so they had a hard time retaining 3rd shift employees.

Maybe suggesting that employers come up with a better way to compensate employees for effort and accomplishment instead of just tie served would be what a smart business consultant would do.

But what do I know, I’m just a lazy millennial who has been foreman on two assembly lines, not a guy with PowerPoint and an mic in a convention center lecture hall.

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The Olympics and the NFL

Feb 12, 2018 J. Kb 9 comments

The Olympics delegation is supposed to represent America to the word.

Boy-howdy is it doing that in spades this year.

Back in Rio in 2016, the US Olympic delegation selected Michael Phelps to be their flag bearer.  Why?  Because it was his last Olympics before retiring, he was hugely popular, and he had won the most medals of any Olympic athlete in history.  He was a winner and the pride of America’s summer team.

There were people there who though that Ibtihaj Muhammad should have been the flag bearer.  Why?  Because… she was the first Muslim woman to compete while wearing a Hijab.  She’d never won an Olympic medal before, because this was her first Olympics.  She was pretty much unknown to the American people.  She is also an Israel hater.

But she’s Muslim and that better count for something in the current year (of 2016).  So when Phelps was picked for flag bearer, CNN thought that Phelps should have passed the honor to Muhammad because he’s a rich white man and she’s a Muslim woman.

Muhammad got her revenge through, by saying how “she didn’t feel safe” in America – the same country that paid for her training and sent her to the Olympics – because of anti-Muslim sentiment.  She lost the vote for flag bearer, she needed more victim status.

It was embarrassing is what it was.  In 2016, the Olympics was still about the success of the athletes.  But social justice was closing in on its heels fast.

Only two years and the election of Donald Trump later, the Olympics have become a social justice shit show to make the 2017-2018 NFL season look like and episode of All In The Family.

The only thing I know about the 2018 winter team is how diverse it is.  Fuck if I know how good they are or if we are favored to win any medals.

Erin Hamlin and Shani Davis were both nominated to be flag bearer.  Hamlin is retiring this after this Olympics so this is her last chance to bear the flag.  Davis is the first black athlete to medal in the winter games.  The vote was a tie.  They flipped a coin, which is according to the rules.  Hamlin won.

Davis decided to boycott the opening ceremony and not come out with the rest of the US team.   He pissed and moaned to the media how it’s Black History Month and he should have be picked over a white woman 

Now Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson has gotten involved and wants a more social justice way of picking future flag bearers.

Who gives a shit about the skills or appeal of the athletes anymore.  We have officially made the Olympic flag bearing pick an oppression Olympics.  Great.

If 2016 was embarrassing, this is God damn embarrassing.

What else do I know about the Olympics before they even started?

Oh yeah, openly gay figure skater (which is a redundant statemnt) Adam Rippon decided to snub a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence.  This was over Rippon believing the myth that Pence funded gay conversion electroshock therapy.  Woopie Goldberg on The View backed Rippon in this saying that it would be like a Jew meeting with a Nazi.  Because we all know that Pence ordered gays be dragged from their beds at night and taken in box cars to death camps where there were gassed.  Oh wait, that never happened either.

Fellow gay athlete Gus Kenworthy decided to send a Tweet to the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Who. The. Fuck. Cares?

I’ve been hearing this since 1991.  Will and Grace is in its 9th season.  Being openly gay is so mainstream it’s boring.  If you want media attention for your non-conforming sexuality you need to be a transgender, kindergarten, drag queen.

I have no idea what event Kenworthy is competing in, but I know what his sexual proclivities are.  I guess if he fails to win a medal he can fall back on victim status to get TV interviews when he returns to the US.

Thanks Olympics.  You are off to a disinterring start.

Fast forward the Olympics actually starting.  No more pregame show, this is the real event.

The Left, never having met a Communist dictator they didn’t love, immediately fell in love with Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, and the North Korean Minster of Propaganda and Agitation.

She gave VP Pence a dirty look and they all went “Squeeeeee!”

https://twitter.com/ToplessTopics/status/962187574272868353

https://twitter.com/modasilva/status/962217830182735872

CNN decided to go full Walter Duranty on her.

You’d think it was Trump and Pence that were starving millions of their people to death, imprisoning countless Americans in work camps, torturing American citizens, and that the Kim family was standing up against that.  But since these are Progressives, the defenders of Freedom are bad and the mass murdering tyrants are cool.

The North and South Korean teams came in united as one.

Pence did not stand for the united team.  I don’t blame him.  Over 33,000 Americans were killed and 90,000 Americans were wounded helping South Korea from being “united” by Kim Il Sung.  We still spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to defend South Korea from the North.  A united team is a thumb in our eye.

Personally, I’ll never own a Hyundai, so after that I wouldn’t care if Trump pulled our troops out of South Korea.  Fuck ’em.  Let’s see how the South Koreans and their $30,000 per capita GDP like having their economy redistributed by the NORKs and their $700 per capita GDP.  Maybe a little starvation will make them more appreciative of our sacrifice.

The Left jumped on Pence for being a “hypocrite” for not standing.

This from a United States Senator.

Then from the peanut gallery.

https://twitter.com/snipy/status/962063931878424576

A multi millionaire black man, raised in a privileged white household, took a knee protesting the National Anthem of a nation that gave him the opportunity to succeed, on a social justice crusade is exactly the same thing as the Vice President not respecting the Olympic team of a tyrannical dictatorship that has threatened the United States with nuclear attack.

To the unthinking, Trump hating, Left, of course it is.

The media’s desire to take Kim Jong Un balls deep didn’t end with the dictator’s sister.  There was nothing but fawning for the entire show that the country put on.

We can’t forget Duranty’s own New York Times.  If you thought they loved Stalin, just wait until you see how much they love NORK dictatress glaring at Pence.

A woman who has ordered the mass murder of her own people is charming.  A mild mannered VP and former Governor from Indiana is the evil one.

Michel Moore, who for some reason thinks he is still relevant, got a very tiny and impossible for him to see, boner over what we saw as an anti Trump opening ceremony.

The whole thing so far has been a total dumpster fine of progressive honesty.

The very people who should be representing the best of America can’t focus on winning Medals because they are busy in front of the camera wanting victim points for racist coin flips and their penchants for man-on-man ass fucking.

The media has demonstrated their absolute love for despotism.  Knowing deep in their hearts that being propagandists for despots is easier and more financially rewarding than actual journalism.  You can’t be called “fake news” by the leader when Dear Leader is feeding you the news, and if someone else calls you “fake news”  Dear Leader will send his secret police to have them shot.

NORK Ministry of Propaganda: America sucks, North Korea is awesome, we hate Trump/Pence, and a united Korea is great.  

US Liberal Media: Hold Our Beers!

In a way, this cluster fuck is an honest representation of America, this is the best that deep Blue, Progressive America has to offer.

I’d say I can’t wait until this is over, but then I’m going to be hammered by every media outlet with interviews from our strongest and fastest gayest and blackest how how discriminated against they feel in America and how great it was being that close to North Korea.

Maybe for the 2020 Olympics we should send two delegations, one from “Trump’s America” and the other from “Progressive America” so at least those of us who are proud of our country and care about actually winning on merit and effort, can be represented too.

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Media: “People hate us because Trump!”

Feb 12, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 2 comments

No, we have an amazing amount of contempt for you because if garbage like this:

You assholes are literally celebrating one of the most brutal dictatorships on Earth just because you sick need to stick it to this administration. You are celebrating the people who arrested and tortured American tourist Otto Warmbier for 17 months and left him in a vegetative state before sending home to die.

You assholes are celebrating the country that is such a nasty shithole of a dictatorship that Ji Seong-ho had to escape in crutches to fucking China to survive.

 

You are cheerleading for the sister of an asshole who has the children of the country he is running dying by the truckload of starvation.

So dear Media People, tell us why we should adore you? You make up stories and side with genocidal families because the people in fly-over country had the guts to upset the apple cart and have somebody you did not approve elected as President of the country.

Only one Media stood up and reminded the lot that what they were doing was wrong:

Dear New York Times et all: When Buzzfeed literally sets a much higher moral bar than you, the “serious” media, you know you have descended to the bottom of the political sewer.