Roseanne Barr but the Post is Not About Her.

I have never particularly liked Roseanne Barr. I didn't watch her when show originally came out and I didn't watch it when it started again this year. I just never liked her that much and found her annoying. I like Tim Allen and loved his last show, he goes for jokes and a lightness of feeling. I never felt pressured to agree with Tim; but, instead could understand how he viewed the world and that it did not have resentment.

Roseanne Barr made a comment on Twitter. She claims she was on Ambien when she did it. Maybe she was and maybe she wasn't, I don't really care. Lets start with this. Jane Fonda went to North Vietnam during the war and posed in an anti aircraft cannon. It didn't stop her from working or from me watching her movies. Heck, I watched her show on Netflix. Here is the real question, should she have been fired? Should Rosanne have been fired?

I was a stage manager and have heard more stupid things come out of the mouths of actors than I can remember. If ABC thought Rosanne was such an embarrassment, why didn't they let the audience decide what they wanted. What if the audience was less concerned about her personal beliefs and more concerned about seeing a representation of the Midwest on television. The same Midwest that elected Obama twice also elected Trump.

Lets try this. The media is full of reports how ABC wants to keep Roseanne; but, make it about one of her kids that disagrees with her. Hmmm. That will fail miserably. Remember, the show has oversold in the Midwest and does nothing in New York or Los Angeles for ratings. Giving people in the Midwest a show blaming Trump for all their problems will fail miserably in the Midwest, they know their problems started long ago, way before Trump ever ran for office. They know their jobs were outsourced since the 1980s.

The "establishment" knows it is screwing the middle and working classes, heck, it is their intent. This should not be surprising to anyone. They are so out of touch that they believe the average person voted for Trump because they are all racist, even though those same people voted for Obama. Nope, they fear that you will see the plan is to screw the working and middle class even more. They seek a multinational business society that means multinational monopolies and the ability to avoid all government regulation.

Another example of how they view the average person is their calls for Oprah and Mark Cuban to run for President, they are billionaires like Trump and television personalities. LMAO. Personally, I would love to watch that; but, it will not happen and the Democrats are unwilling to run a progressive because the Democrats do not believe in the middle class or working class anymore. By the way, I still support universal healthcare and a guarantee of work for all who are able. I am for a guaranteed basic income if someone is willing to work and subsistence if they are not willing to work. We all live on this planet together and it belongs to all who are alive.

The EU and the Internet.

I was checking my blog and found the following statement by blogger.

"European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used and data collected on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent.

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I don't really care what European law says and I collect nothing from readers or those who post comments. I have never had an ad or anything similar. I must conclude that all bloggers on blogspot have received the same notification. They are seeking to place the internet under international law eventually. You will notice that they have not said we need to conform to Chinese law. The EU has no authority over what people in other countries post. If they do not like what is on the internet they are free to not allow it within their country. American companies do not need to follow the law of other countries for things posted in America.

Be clear, the United States created the internet. The US government did and we own it. We can prohibit other countries from using it. We have a first amendment, the freedom of speech and other countries do not. If we live by their laws then we will not. This attack on freedom of speech will not end until they control what you can and cannot say online.

Why Oligarchs Create Hopelessness.

My dear friends, I feel like talking a little. Let us look at history. Throughout history oligarchs, the "elites", despots, tyrants, the establishment has sought to control in the same manner. Consolidate power, create inequality and cause the majority to feel hopelessness and despair. Look at the medieval times if this is not clear to you or look at recent despots such as Stalin, Hitler, Mao or even Kim Jung Un.

In India they called it the caste system, in England the class system, in America we call capitalism, in the Soviet Union they called it the communism. Creating systems for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. Now, in Polynesia and Africa this did not exist in the same way. Being more familiar with Polynesia I will use that for my example. These systems were community based and even those whose labor was not needed were treated the same. Why would any rational society work to benefit a few at the expense of the society?

Since the fall of the soviet union, our oligarchs have sought to weaken the middle class to create hopelessness. You can see it if you look at the Midwest and rustbelt. Take away all hope and you create a class of fear and dread. You may believe that this had to happen; but, look at China. All their wealth has come from America and Europe sending the jobs there. That could have happened here; but, that was not what was wanted by our oligarchs. Our community, the west, built China by transferring our wealth there.

MSN - CNBC - The 1 percent will always control the wealth and here's why.  According to the article which likes this situation, 1 percent in the world control 82 percent of the wealth.

Bloomberg - Look at What's Going to Happen to Sweden's Fabled Welfare State.  The article claims that Sweden cannot survive unless it takes in hundreds and hundreds of thousands of immigrants, supposedly from the middle east, and gives up on taking care of its people.

The reason Trump and Brexit upset the oligarchs so much is because they fear it makes think people think they can make their societies work for the whole society rather than just the oligarchs. Greed and selfishness can only exist in societies that allow a few to own everything or at least most everything.

Automation and Human Restrictions.

Mirror - Robot to run for mayor in Japan in "world first" Promising "fairness and balance" for all residents. Automated fairness, what a concept. Who decides what is fair, some programming geek? The greatest minds in history cannot agree on what is right. Can you possibly believe that people who built such a thing would not give themselves and advantage, a back door out of problems?

Huffington Post - Capitalism's Betrayal of the Working Class Could be it's Undoing.  A good history of the last 90 years.

Fox - New York City banning cars from Central Park.

Just some things you should be aware of. They will affect your lives much more than porn stars that Trump slept with.

Here is a good question.

How many congressmen lost all their money when the housing market or stock market crashed? Now, here is where it gets fun. How many congressmen who voted to end Glass-Steagall and lost one penny from the stock crash? How many allowed the banks to reduce controls on housing loans lost their houses from the crash? Yeah, you can figure out who knew what was coming from how the benefitted. Its not really that hard. In the end, it is just numbers. Millions of Americans have lost their pensions and their houses. Are you aware of ANY congressman losing their house or pension? Yeah, me neither.

Comey, Hillary, Obama and Brazile. Which one is lying?

Lets start with this. On October 24, 2017 Hillary Clinton's attorneys at Perkins Coie sent a letter to the attorneys for Fusion GPS (the people who hired Richard Steele to write the Trump Dossier) authorizing them to tell the court that Perkins Coie had hired Fusion GPS to prepare the dossier.

Perkins Coie letter to Fusion GPS.

Now lets remember that last year Hillary came out and said "everybody" had known for a year that her campaign had paid for the dossier, while never admitting personal knowledge. Donna Brazile meanwhile claimed that she did not know about the payments. Hmmm. Wait it gets better. James Comey claimed as late as yesterday that he still doesn't know that Hillary paid for it.

YouTube - Comey Makes New Claims in Disastrous Fox Interview.

I want you to go to 9:41 in the video. Comey is specifically asked when he first found out that the DNC had funded the dossier. He answers, "Yeah, I still don't know that for a fact." He said this yesterday even though Hillary and her attorneys have admitted they funded it for months. Comey then goes on to say that he never told President Obama who had funded the dossier. He also says he never told President elect Trump when he briefed him.

This will be the issue that hangs them all. Why are they all denying they knew that Hillary paid for the dossier when she has admitted it? Will Obama deny he knew too?

The Issue Gap

So, what are the issues that the average working or middle class person worries about versus what are the issues the media and the wealthy worry about.

Pay Gaps - The corporate media has spent an amazing amount of time worrying over how much different actors get paid. The see a true travesty when an actress is paid a million for a role and an actor is paid two million to be the star in the same movie or show. The same media that is fixating on this is also against increasing the minimum wage which effects millions. In fact, most jobs pay the same regardless of sex and have for decades. There is no pay gap for most people because they all get paid as little as possible. The biggest pay gap is between the CEOs and the workers.

Gender Identity - While the media would have you believe that homosexuality is a gender, most gays do not think so. Gay men like men, not women. Gay women like other women, not men. They are not confused by which gender they are. Transgenders are in fact a minimal factor in the world. Gays are not confused by what they are, they accept their sexuality. Transgenders believe they are something they are not. That is generally considered a mental problem and their 70%+ suicide rate shows this.

Immigration - The wealthy are for open borders to reduce what they pay people and kill off any social safety new while blaming it on the immigrants. Macron even said that, he said that if they kept taking in immigrants eventually they would not be able to afford a welfare program or social programs.

Police Shootings of the Unarmed - When is shooting unarmed people ever okay? Is it okay if they are white or Asian? We only talk about shooting unarmed black people which by the way is disproportionate. We don't talk about the economics of the people that are killed. Most unarmed people shot by the police are poor or working class, that is the number one statistic on them, not color. We are also more likely to kill men then women. Should we talk about the jail gap and gender?

Let me throw this out there. If you watch the corporate entertainment media you will see well off blacks and successful gays. Yet, that same media will tell you that they are worse off on average, which in fact is true for blacks at least, so why don't they show that? Blacks are not as successful overall or as a percentage as whites, yet, the shows all show that they are. Look at Greys Anatomy, loaded with successful and well off blacks. Is that real representative, nope, it is intended to be aspirational. You are supposed to believe, if you are black, that you can succeed just as well, become the next Oprah Winfrey. How many will achieve that? Not the vast majority. The opportunities are limited and the wealthy have the advantage, they can afford risks. Remember when Eminem sang that he took his one chance and couldn't afford to lose, yet, there is a lottery system and some will succeed but not become the decision makers, just the tokens to fool the rest of us into believing there is the same chance for everyone, there is not.

So what are the biggest issues for the working and middle class. Well, jobs and the economy were number one during the last election. 85% said that was one of their issues, more than any other issue. Any politician that runs in 2018 on anything other than increasing wages and employment is working against the middle class and has their priorities aligned with the oligarchs and the elites.