Catchng Up with Trump

Trump has unleashed and empowered the worst of us. So sad.
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Does Paul Ryan realize that raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 would throw us into the 1980's again, when it was hard for people coming into the job market to find employment? Think about it--if you hold onto five years' worth of workers at one of a spectrum, you squeeze out five years worth at the other end.
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The word is that Trump told Howard Stern that he'd give Melania a couple of days--maybe a week--to lose her pregnancy fat after she gave birth. No news about how fast she shaped up, but four months later, Trump inaugerated an affair with a porn star.
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Trump seems to share an interesting characteristic with his basest base--he is swayed, at least momentarily, by the the loudest voice around.  Thus he can agree with Kelly when he's with him, then change his mind when he hears from the next load-voiced person whom he's with.
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It's a waste of time to try to understand why the pseudo-religious right continues to support Trump. In fact, we've spent way too much time trying to analyze and rationalize his adherents when we should have been blocking them. They are not going to understand our reasoned and well-meant responses and explanations because they don't want to. If Christ came to earth tomorrow and Trump called him the devil, Trump's followers would stone the Son of God. In fact, metaphorically, they already have..
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Yellow Brick Road

Note to all job seekers:

Your talents and skills are nice, but all too many other people have the same talents and skills. What you need to do is give the impression that you'll be a pleasant person to be around for five days a week, twelve months a year.

Smile!

Trying to Understand

Okay, let Fio get this straight.  The jobless rate, which was horrific under the previous administration, is the lowest it's been in years, and salaries, which were stagnant under the previous administration, have gone up--so why do people say they voted against the current administration because of the bad economy?

Does Fio sense the power of The Big Lie somewhere in the woodpile?

Brave New World

Of course, there are no jobs. We've gone and automated everything.

The mantra was that once the work was handled by machines, there would be plenty of jobs designing, building, controlling, and repairing them. But that employment area has diminished, if not dried up.

Even the perennial stand-by, teaching, has taken a hit, especially in higher education. Why hire full-time live bodies for the classroom when one underpaid computer-savvy part-timer can handle twice as many students by remote control from three states away?

Look around. Our autos and appliances are more-and-more built by machines. Our records are kept by machines. Our finances are calculated by machines.

Let's face it. Humans are being phased out.