Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

My father would quip about "Saint Mary Jo - she kept Ted out of the Whitehouse" and there is serious truth to that.

I only somewhat recently understood Rosemary's (JFK's sister) story. Joseph (JFK's father) was a real piece of Machiavellian (American style) shit. Sin's of the family indeed, what do the Hebrew's say, 7 generations...

 

7 generations to make money is the current norm. I need to stop grabbing pennies

 

NWA had it right.

 

If you want a strange story from NL, here it goes.

In 2019 Amsterdam had a new mayor. The old one passed away. The new mayor came straight from The Hague and used to be a very progressive politician. Within a few weeks of being a mayor, the son of the mayor walked around with a fire arm. The son was caught by the police and went un-punished. People were scratching their heads.

Recently a wave of violence has hit certain parts of Amsterdam. This year one rapper with a violent reputation was murdered and the mayor condemned the violence.

Shortly thereafter a comedian made fun of said mayor and after an anonymous tip, this comedian had 6 police agents in front of his house. His air-soft rifle was a threat apparently.

Many people in NL are having doubts about Amsterdam and its mayor.

Now get this: the mayor in question wants to lobby to regulate or legalise cocaine to reduce drugs related crimes, (in a city where young teenagers vape because it is cool despite the ban on vaping products). It is already too easy to have access to drugs in the city. Adding cocaine is not going to help.

The more you know the details, the less you want to know. Kafka would have vomited even in his cockroach state.

P.S. I detest the whole left-wing versus right-wing distribution of political parties on the spectrum of politics. There are many nuances that are forgotten and ignored that way. Divide and conquer is what I call it.

 

And with the UAW strike expect more American cars to cost more than their foreign counterparts. I expect more foreign makers to continue opening production plants in right to work states.

I know some nutjobs who make sure the car that they purchased were not made by unions since they don't want to give their money to the Democrat machine. Crazy as it is, but they do exist.

 

You’re right, those people are nut jobs.

 

I wish it was Nonsense regarding people that I know who on purpose avoid buying Union-Made vehicles, but they do exist. My neighbor down the block is one of them. A nice guy, but he was super clear that he will not purchase a vehicle that is Union made since it will cost too much and some of those $ goes to the Unions who will tell their members to vote Democrat (which we know more of those union members are voting Trump/GOP today).

Not the first time I heard about that, even at places where a lot of conservatives hang out (Cigar Bars) I do hear time to time of peeps saying they will not buy anything made by an Union to avoid their $ going to Democrats. Of course some of them were wearing their pollical gear on like Pro-Trump stuff, Democrats are Evil, and my favorite one Unions = Marxist - They must be busted to protect freedom. Florida going to do Florida I guess.

Honestly I think it pretty crazy to go that deep, but at the end of the day people will buy what they will want to buy and some will make a political stance about it (on top of every freaking thing they do). Why do you think places like Daily Wire love to keep the strong conservatives talking points going? Being divided is good business to a certain audience who want to pay for it.

 

Here in Canada a lot of the working class vote is moving to the Conservatives. That has traditionally been NDP (our most left mainstream party) territory, but they are slowly realizing the NDP's big tax and spend agenda is not really doing them any favors.

 

I agree... I know plenty of people here in PA that think the same way and avoid union made vehicles. Originally they were in a quandary because they wanted to buy american, but not union. But now that so many foreign brands are made in the US, they simply purchase them instead of one of from the big three. They rationalize that they are supporting american workers, but not the democratic machine... and they don't care where the overpaid rich executives live.

 

or walk inside a building in most major cities (union construction), or go to a hospital, get on a bus, or send their kids to public school, etc, etc. I'm not saying what they are thinking is rational... just saying I've run into more than a few that think that way

 

The mindset of avoiding Unions is becoming semi-popular down here in FL at least in really red areas. However, a lot of the older retiree population were former Union workers who get a good pension post retirement move to FL and normally vote for politicians who want to bust Unions.

I think I posted here of the bill DeSantis signed into law: All Unions except for Firefighters/Police Unions (since they support the GOP) are required to get 60% of eligible members to continue being part of the Union or else the Union is busted (and must be signed by the member that they wanted to be part of the Union and pay their dues). A good chunk these Teacher Unions are close to being busted since they can't get 60% of eligible members to join the Union.

Between low pay in a rapidity rising COL in Northeast FL that is heavily in demand, steep car/insurance and rental costs, teachers are bailing in droves and leaving the state.

With that being said, I do know people who are happy that teachers are leaving and the public school systems are in stress. These are the same people who had their kids raised up in NY/NJ and are glad to be paying less school taxes on their properties in FL. Also, they consider public school systems to be a front of the Democrat Party teaching Socialism and saying conservatives are bad. That at least what our state government believes and some voters believe the FL GOP talking points 100% to the tee.

Hypocrisy is a classic human trait, not shocked by any of this if I have to be honest.

 

Public schools have plenty of reasons other than anti-union zealotry to want to avoid them. Right now I substitute teach because I make great life decisions and, uh. There are some good schools in Chicago's system, but some of these places, I wonder how the building doesn't burn down every year.

I don't even think the union and anti-union people disagree about a lot of the problems, but they certainly disagree about funding. The state legislature killed the private school subsidy here this year. Not sure how that'll turn out.

 

I'm reminded of the younger woman in my neighborhood that drives a Chevy Spark adorned with TRUMP 2024 and BUY AMERICAN bumper stickers. I suppose she didn't look too closely at the Monroney label...

 

Considering the Spark Is made in Korea at the former Daewoo plant, lol.

 

FL politics in a nutshell. Got both mailers today for the same Sate Senate Candidate.

 

WTF is a PROTEIN PASTRY??