14 Replies to “Social Disease”

  1. Yes, just think, I was born before the idiots who actually think they know something. Freaking scary that. At least I don’t care if the whu who flu creeps up on me, as long as I don’t stroke out bitch slapping some moron who desperately needs it. There are many who need more than a slap.

  2. Circa 1940, social media wouldn’t have been quite that idiotic.

    Once the City of London was under continual attack by the Luftwaffe, the toffs began to realize that Hitler was serious about German world domination and what a blunder lending money to Hitler to re-build his war machine had been. Fearing their fate in a Nazi Britain, they cashiered Chamberlain and brought in a man who realized appeasement had never been a long-term option.

    Maybe if the People’s Liberation Army had already conquered California, and the Chinese empire was gobbling up another state every few days, our masters might have accepted that the only thing standing between them and dying in a re-education camp was Donald John Trump, and condescended to letting him have a fair hearing.

    1. Your last paragraph reminds me of something that happened to me at a company I once worked for.

      We arranged to use a certain computer program for a project I was working on. Unfortunately, the software was full of bugs and never worked properly to begin with. I notified my boss and his boss, the department chief, that there were going to be problems and even suggesting that I be sent to the company that managed it to sort out the matter.

      I was constantly over-ruled and, sure enough, what I predicted might happen actually did. The department chief tried to blame me for what happened, but I reminded him that I brought it to his attention well in advance. His reponse? “You didn’t try hard enough to convince us.”

      Six months later, I was fired.

      1. Doesn’t sound like the leadership in that company was very smart. Unfortunate that you lost your job; hopefully you ended up somewhere MUCH better where your talents (and directness) were appreciated.

        1. Doesn’t sound like the leadership in that company was very smart.

          It wasn’t. The company went through a series of presidents, who either got fired or signed on for fixed terms. Eventually, it was bought by another firm, which, after it saw the books, quickly put it back on the market. Another outfit finally took it over 20 or 30 years ago and, from what I understand, is now a separate division.

          Unfortunate that you lost your job; hopefully you ended up somewhere MUCH better where your talents (and directness) were appreciated.

          When I was canned, I got tossed into the mess created by NEP the First, though I didn’t see it at the time. I worked for a number of outfits before things settled down when I was granted permanent status at Armpit College. That, however, is another story…..

          One ironic bit is that I outlived some of my detractors at the original firm.

    2. “..lending money to Hitler to re-build his war machine ”

      Usually leftest delusion. Hitler, and his “economics minister” Hermann Goring reneged all foreign debts in 1933. Nobody loaned Hitler anything. He basically took Germany out of the world economy and went North Korean model. By 1938 his economy was collapsing( tanks, subs, fighters aren’t money earners ) and he had to acquire food, ores, goods the old fashion ghetto way, armed looting. German domestic economy improved with “liberated” foreign goods. For a while.

  3. As it was, Churchill was turfed by Labour before Germany and Japan surrendered.
    It seemed most Brits had this train of thought, “I don’t care what you did, you wouldn’t give me any free stuff.”

      1. Another reason to hate newspapers. It was in one, NP I believe it was, where I read that Stalin had the advantage in Malta because Roosevelt was sick and Churchill had lost to Labour.

    1. WW1 broke, bankrupted GB, and it never recovered. Keynes called his interwar year trips to Washington, “begging missions”.
      WW2 GB entered the war on fumes. After the way the money, check kiting, borrow against, and somewhat racketeering Empire was gone. Inspite if the losses, Germany had a advantage in that unlike it in WW1, its entrenched parasitic leadership in all areas was rightly discredited, and had a clean sheet to think a new. The Great Britons on the other hand was betwix and between. Rightly feeling reward/compensation was due. But from who and how and had tried and failed after WW1. Coupled with the death wealth producing Empire, a swing to leftest labor GB was in for thin times, Churchill or not.

  4. Santayana – Re “Maybe if the People’s Liberation Army had already conquered California,”. You mean they haven’t?

    All China has to do is to convince Biden to disarm his nukes or else they will release their version of the deal between the two Bidens and China and then they can land at California or Canada anywhere they like.

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