Thought For The Day

Nixon's The One

September 6, 2021

So, it's Labor Day. When all Americans honor the working stiff, especially the proud tradition of this country’s labor unions. Oh wait, must have been a dream. The unions assured members of a fair wage. They gave us the 40-hour work week* and the weekend. Unions have had their problems, but overall, just about everyone would be worse off had unions not emerged. Everyone that is, except those at the very top, who continue to fight to keep every penny that their workers make for them. Still opposing a living minimum wage, ‘til the day they die. And on this Labor Day, 7.5 million Americans are losing the temporary unemployment benefits that were instituted because of the pandemic.But that’s not why I asked you here today.

Strawbs - Part Of The Union

The McConnell-stolen/Turmp-packed Extreme Court decided to turn a deaf ear to the insane and draconian anti-choice law now in effect in the hate state of Texas. The one-paragraph unsigned statement by the Court passed on hearing the lack of pros and myriad cons of the new Texas death sentence to abortion rights in America.

Ironically, while Texas Ratpublicans fight for the non-existent lives of cell masses inside women’s bodies, they are also fighting to kill fully living people with their new Wild-West-esque gun-totin’ laws, and fighting to extinguish the votes of completely formed individuals -mostly people of color, of course – with their new-Jim-Crow voting restrictions. Not to mention, Texas is happy to let its citizens die because of outdated infrastructure, and from all its anti-vax/anti-mask state-mandated insanity. So it turns out the only time these numbnuts even accept that science exists is when it comes to abortion, and they get it completely wrong. But I digress.

Who would have guessed that beer-boofing-bozo Brett Kavanaugh was lying through is rape-denying teeth and crocodile tears when, in order to secure her vote to confirm his ill-gotten, ill-advised nomination to the Extreme Court, he promised Susan Collins that he would respect legal precedent and the Constitution (though certainly not women), in particular regarding Roe v. Wade. Simply shocking…I mean, predictable; both Kavanaugh’s raging dishonesty and Susan Collins’ pathetic idiocy. Although to be fair, it is possible that Collins is also full of feces. In any event, fuck Susan Collins.

Pat Buchanan and Richard Nixon ironing out the details for ending democracy

And why is it not surprising that all this anti-abortion bullshit can be traced back to Richard Nixon via Nixon’s speechwriter/special assistant and fellow anti-Semite Pat Buchanan who saw the abortion issue as a way to sow division among the American electorate.

Oh, and just for good measure, Fuck Joe Manchin.

* Representative Mark Takano (D-Calif.) recently introduced a bill into the House which would reduce the standard work week to 32 hours.

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