* Social Justice Warrior Millennials are quite violent for a group that has very low gun ownership. Can you imagine how even more violent Social Justice Warrior Millennials would be if they had gun ownership rates equal to that of Rednecks and Hillbillies.
If Social Justice Warrior Millennial Tommy DiMassimo was a gun owner, he would likely be trying to shoot politicians he disagrees with instead of trying to tackle them to the ground.
Social Justice Warrior Millennials would be using guns to shut down freedom of speech they disagree with, if they were 2nd Amendment supporters.
* But Cruz, as an ideologue, is the antithesis of the Sailer Strategy. Reliance on an increasing percentage of the white vote for GOP victory implies ideological moderation, and a pragmatic nationalist program to rebuild a gutted Middle America.
* Was also at the Phoenix rally. Was surprised by the amount of young people there as well. It was a good event, and seeing Trump in person gives you an idea that he’s going to win this big.
The impressions of Jeb and Hillary and Cruz were spot on tho even as they were kill shots, especially Cruz with his Bible.
* The utter lack of pretense at objectivity from media is astonishing. Forget hidden editorials we are getting screaming headlines that can only be described as lying. Protesters shutting down the highway in AZ was spun as “Trump rally violence”. It’s just bizarre.
The NYT has been running headlines that sound like the Huffington Post. The Washington Post has descended into a farce of SJW stories.
There is literally no somewhat objective, sober source of news anymore. Every story everywhere is an opinion piece and usually to the point of absurdity.
On a separate topic I was at Fountain Hills yesterday and heard something interesting. I walked by three young, bored looking African Americans. They were wearing NAACP t-shirts. One of them said “I don’t know I was just told to be here” and shrugged his shoulders. I don’t know what the question was but it is a good hint of how organic these protests are.
* Andy Grove was at Intel 30 years? He remembers when the computer components were made in America with a few made overseas. He saw all this off shoring going on. But back in his day it was Japan that was the leader in stealing our vital industries via trade wars and trade barriers. Also they had a gov’t agency MITI that coordinated Japanese industries to get established in important sectors then to climb up the technology ladder the way China is doing now. Japan is kind of enervated these days due to Fukishima, a blow to their pride, plus low birthrates. Actually Korea’s are lower but they are doing great in the tech world and business which is another blow to the Nips because they always feel superior to Koreans.
Taiwan is a super tech powerhouse. They were making laptops for Dell, HP and others 15 years ago. Now they design the tablets, laptops, smartphones in house in Taiwan and the manufacturing is done in China by their factories there such as Foxconn. Taiwanese owned.
* The litmus test is that anyone who supports more non-white immigration into a majority white country is a cuck. Anything else can be argued in good faith.
* Google for “Mormon General Conference.” It’s the big conference held every six months (the next one is the first Sunday in April) where many of the top leaders (“general authorities”) of the Mormon Church speak to the flock, who watch it via satellite, internet, or whatever. The top leaders are all mostly 60+ years old, and mostly all men who had careers in business. Watch a few score hours worth of it and you’ll get a feel for the kind of leaders Mormons tend to find acceptable. “Charismatic” is not considered a compliment, needless to say. Mormons will occasionally vote for charismatic legislators, but when it comes to executives the word to keep in mind is “staid.”
And that’s why Donald Trump in persona non grata in Utah (and large parts of Idaho and Arizona) – thank God.
* I wonder if any of the people calling for a return of manufacturing jobs to the USA have ever worked in a factory? Maybe each poster could put a little, yes I have, or no I haven’t, at the end (not that it is any proof).
Working in a factory is the worst experience I ever voluntarily endured. If needed to feed, clothe and shelter yourself, I would do it, otherwise, any other occupation is preferable. I even did physically hard groundskeeper one summer. You at least get different jobs, different places, variety and stimulation. Same for a stint in construction. One day one thing another something else.
In the factory you have a place to stand for 8 hours. Work arrives and it is frequently the same thing over and over for the eight hours with a few 15 minute stops, and an hour lunch. The lunch goes by like a New York minute. While working the boredom was bad. The time passed as slowly as a History class in high school (only 8 hours instead of 50 minutes). The surroundings were dirty, there could be danger (my father had a label machine trap his hand between a hot plate and a cradle for minutes while the heat cooked his hand – he was freed only when another worker stuck a bar in the jammed machine and pried his hand out; a coworker in a barrel factory has the tip of his finger caught in a machine that put bands around barrels, I watched him drop to his knees in pain in one second).
They are not good jobs. They were good next to farm jobs. They were good next to real poverty. They were good if there was no opportunity. You would not wish one on anyone. I support automation, freeing human beings from such extreme drudgery.
* I only worked in manufacturing for a month during one summer, but I know and have several relatives who did that kind of work.
The fact is that most jobs are repetitive and boring. The best jobs, in my opinion, are those that require a variety of different problem solving and not repetitive. However, such jobs are not common and furthermore I actually doubt that everyone would like that kind of a job. In fact, a lot of people want a very simple routine to their jobs.
As repetitive and boring as manufacturing is (it is a lot safer now), what exactly is the alternative? Long haul trucking is also boring and repetitive. Sitting in an office cube is also boring and repetitive, doing reports that no one reads or doing data entry. So is stocking grocery shelves or working a checkout. And so on.
The key is that manufacturing jobs put average and less than average people to work, and, thanks to unions, gave them the ability to have a real life.
I mean, bottom line, the vast majority of people have to work to survive, let alone raise children, most people’s jobs are boring and repetitive, and, just as most people spend a third of their lives sleeping, they spend a third of their lives in comparative soul crushing drudgery. Who’s gonna fix that? Especially since, from what I have seen, a lot of people spend the one third of their lives being bored out of their minds and/or getting involved in all kinds of bad sensually gratifying habits to chase their boredom.
I don’t know what the answer is, but making a large percentage of our population feel useless and keeping them in comparative poverty and/or dependence is not the answer.
* Factory jobs vary. The basic assembly, machine operator, etc. type jobs are mind-numbing and physically wearisome, but they generate the skilled labor positions that require intelligence and afford opportunity for creativity as well as build one’s skills. Toolmakers, die sinkers, millwrights, industrial electricians, welders, all-around machinists are all highly skilled people that would require a completely unskilled person several years to learn to the journeyman level.
It’s similar to IT/computer science positions. We call someone a “programmer” but there is a huge range from simple coders of easily taught languages to people who are systems architects capable of writing entire operating systems, designing whole languages, implementing compilers and assemblers and other tools. At the far end are people who are harder to train and require a rarer combination of creativity, drive, and IQ than board certified neurosurgeons, and whose work often generates orders of magnitude more money for their employers, and should make a lot more money. Most of the H-1B jobs are near to the first group and are desired for their willingness to be underhoused in places like Silicon Valley, their ability to be coerced into 80-100 hour work weeks, and their lack of potential to take the place over or leave and start a competing firm.
Stamp out H-1B and employers will be forced to hire Americans who want a solid middle class living for 40-50 hour work weeks and will either refuse to move to SV or will want pay commensurate with the living expenses.
Of course they could offshore. Then again, we could tariff.
