Jedi Guy
Jedi Guy's JournalFood for thought from one of my customers today...
I'm a supervisor at an HVAC company, so part of my job is speaking to customers who want to talk to a manager. I spoke to a gentleman this afternoon and, after I'd resolved his concern, got to chit-chatting a bit as I made some changes to his account.
This fellow was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1940, so some of his earliest memories are of running to the shelter nearest his home when the air raid sirens went off. He saw the Third Reich up close and personal, and during our discussion he mentioned the situation in the States and said it made him very uncomfortable because the parallels to the Germany of his childhood were so vivid.
He also told me about how, after the war, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium, which was paid for with funds from the Marshall Plan. All these years later, he still finds it peculiar that America would give money to Germany to take care of German children while somehow refusing to spend money to take care of its own children.
None of this will come as a surprise to anyone here, of course, but I thought I'd share nonetheless.
SNL had better do a skit of a re-elected Trump governing from his prison cell.
"President Trump rips Congressional Democrats for rejecting his proposed budget, insisting that he needs more money for the prison commissary to get Ramen Noodles, which are akin to currency on the inside."
"President Trump is going to address the nation at 8:30 pm Eastern. Because lights out is at 9 pm."
"President Trump's meeting this morning with French President Macron was interrupted when another inmate shanked one of Macron's security detail."
"Scandal rocks the Trump White House: another inmate stole the nuclear football and traded it for cigarettes."
"Fucked up on Pruno, President Trump authorized a nuclear strike on Greenland because Denmark refused to sell it to him."
I watched the video the Memphis PD released.
Those cops got mad and decided to murder Tyre Nichols. That's what I saw. At the initial stop, when they went hands-on with him, some dumbshit deployed pepper spray and it got all over everyone. Instead of being pissed off at the dumbshit, they got mad at Tyre Nichols. Then, after he got away from them, they were mad because they had to chase him down.
Then, after they caught up to him again, they decided to really take their mad out on him. Running kick to the face, check. Baton strikes while other officers held him down, check. Two officers holding him up while another punched him in the face, check. Two officers holding him down while two more kicked him in the ribs, check.
Their defense attorneys have their work cut out for them. Defending the indefensible is a big lift.
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