One Last Bit On Roseanne

Buzz Burbank explains it all:



Now that ABC has come to its senses and shit-canned their efforts to gloss over the Trump Supporter Problem, can the rest of us now shit-can our own lingering attempts to believe the bullshit that 45* got elected because of deeply-felt economic anxiety, and that Hillary was just a really bad candidate because she failed to address these concerns?

45* got elected because the GOP and "conservative media" have spent 30 years paving the road to this hell with the bodies of "liberals" who've been trying to point out just how shitty the GOP was becoming.

And also too, the Russkies figured out how to do some really good Rat-Fucking to push Cult45 over the top.

(some of the Rat-Fucking looks mightily to have been illegal, but it was all definitely tied to the intent to do some very illegal shit by a lot of very criminal assholes)

Good On Jennifer Rubin

She's the only one who's been willing to say she was wrong.

The Professional Left Podcast

More Sane People Have To Vote

New Rule - Bill Maher, last night:

...and tell your conservative friends that climate scientists are working with the Clintons to put chemicals into the air ducts at polling places that turn everyone who votes gay.

Choose Wisely

National Geographic Magazine, cover shot for June 2018:

Asking the question: Planet or plastic?

Again:

We're not trying to save the planet. The planet will survive, in one state or another, for the next 4 billion years - with us or without us.

What we're trying to do is to make it less likely that the planet will kill us all in the next few hundred years.

Today's Tweet

Dean is from a time when people in service to this country had some real integrity, and a sense of honor that superseded their political affiliations.

There are still many many people with those qualities, but right now we're seeing precious little evidence of it - particularly from one side of the aisle.

Big difference between Trump and Obama’s presidencies is the distinction between FEAR and HOPE. Trump sells fear. Obama provided hope. Trump is trashing Obama’s legacy to foster fear, grow his frightened constituency. Trump can’t GOVERN the hopeful. But he can RULE the fearful.

— John Dean (@JohnWDean) May 30, 2018

Today's Quote

"Eating healthy is so esthetically pleasing."

--Sadie Grace Christina Roberts

Sam Last Night

Ed Note: this is the infamous "feckless cunt" episode, and it's been deleted from YouTube - scrubbed from existence entirely, actually.

Samantha Bee - Full Frontal - TBS, Wednesday nights @ 10:30 EDT

Today's GIF

The New Economy

...which isn't new at all - this shit's been going on for 40 years.

Axios:

Very few Americans have enjoyed steadily rising pay beyond inflation over the last couple of decades, a shift from prior years in which the working and middle classes enjoyed broad-based wage gains as the economy expanded.

Why it matters: Now, executives of big U.S. companies suggest that the days of most people getting a pay raise are over, and that they also plan to reduce their work forces further.

Quick take: This was rare, candid and bracing talk from executives atop corporate America, made at a conference Thursday at the Dallas Fed. The message is that Americans should stop waiting for across-the-board pay hikes coinciding with higher corporate profit; to cash in, workers will need to shift to higher-skilled jobs that command more income.

Troy Taylor, CEO of the Coke franchise for Florida, said he is currently adding employees with the idea of later reducing the staff over time "as we invest in automation." Those being hired: technically-skilled people. "It's highly technical just being a driver," he said.
The moderator asked the panel whether there would be broad-based wage gains again. "It's just not going to happen," Taylor said. The gains would go mostly to technically-skilled employees, he said. As for a general raise? "Absolutely not in my business," he said.
John Stephens, chief financial officer at AT&T, said 20% of the company's employees are call-center workers. He said he doesn't need that many. In addition, he added, "I don't need that many guys to install coaxial cables."

Because of the changes coming, AT&T is pushing employees to take nano-degree programs to prepare them for other jobs — either at AT&T or elsewhere.

Today's Pix

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