May 05, 2017 By: El Jefe Category: Trump
As the Trump administration tightens it’s totalitarian grip on US government agencies, an order to turn all televisions to Fox Noise is being enforced. Sorry, normal people, you must watch the Official Station of the Trump Administration.
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A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
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Well, it works for Russia, doesn’t it?
On a side note, I was at my local Social Security office yesterday and was surprised to see that the official photos of the President and Vice President are still not hanging in their reserved space. Pretty funny that a narcissist like Trump has an administration that is so disorganized that they can’t even get the official photos posted in government buildings.
1This reflects the deeply held conservative belief in a free marketplace, unconstrained by governmental interference.
2All proper and legitimate freedom loving patriots will henceforth watch only Minitrue doublespeak on all telescreens. Subject matter retention shall be periodically tested. Failure is not tolerated.
Complete adoration of, and submission to, Big Golfer is mandatory for all.
Absolute allegiance to the Party is mandated for all, on penalty of unpersonning and dissolution.
Any and all thoughtcrimes by dissenters and traitors shall be ruthlessly exorcised from the breadth of Trumplandia by Miniluv operatives.
Vaporization stations shall be scrupulously maintained in all precincts of the regime.
Patriotic proles exhibiting love of Party and the ruling cadres above the stipulated median requirements (AKA: Teabaggers) shall receive 10% extra rations. This obtains on continued performance until the age of sixty-two, or disablement, upon which date all proles shall be patriotically ‘recycled’.
As we have always been at war with the DPRK and the Mouslims, all youth physically able shall, upon attaining the age of seventeen, train for, and serve our Forces abroad and at home (those unfit for service are of course ‘removed’).
Selection of lower echelon breeding pairs rests with the clerical powers.
Breeding pairs shall produce offspring of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the needs of the State. Any deficiencies in this duty shall result in culling from Society.
(Perhaps next time Winston and Julia will vote in his/her actual interests, eh? Who are we BS’ing, 2020 is already foreordained, Big Golfer already filed his papers.)
3Another way to torture Fed employees and drive them to quit.
4Just finished reading “The Handmaid’s Tale” … if you’ve never read it, you should! It totally fits in today’s political angst!
5Sandridge … this makes me believe you HAVE read the book: “Breeding pairs shall produce offspring of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the needs of the State. Any deficiencies in this duty shall result in culling from Society.”
Author: Margaret Atwood in 1984; Introduction written in February 2017 … it’s as if she knew!!!
They double down on the dumbing down of America.
6@Sandridge
@Marcia in CO
Tom Lasater, a son of Falfurrias, Texas called Fertility one of the Six Essentials. Cows that do not drop a calf every single year are not economically viable and are culled from the herd.
It doesn’t take a huge amount of imagination for an author to pick that thought up and apply it to a fictional world government. Or a non-fictional one for that matter!
7Marcia in CO,
8Not “The Handmaid’s Tale”, haven’t read or seen it. Been revisiting my dog-eared copies of Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “Brave New World” (and others). They’ve all nailed it before. Although the “breeders” part was just my own take on one aspect, based on what I see, read and hear of our local evangeliban types (frighteningly, even in my own circle). Eugenics has always been a ‘cornerstone’ of the RW’ers, and their captive religio’s.
I’ve heard them bragging on kinfolk either in special ops units, or now working for the likes of (the former) Blackwater– ‘Warriors for Jeebus’…some permanent “Crusades” are just a short time away now (foreign and domestic).
Micr,
I’ve vaguely heard of Lasater, owner/from the ‘Cage Ranch’?
I sometimes worked in Falfurrias (actually a couple miles N of town). There just happened to be a medium-sized dairy farm down the road (no longer).
There is also semi-famous butter brand called “Falfurrias Butter”, HEB and other groceries carry it still (at least around S. TX). I don’t think it is still made in Fal by a local firm/co-op, but I buy it anyway. Like getting “Whitewing” brand tortillas too (still made in Harlingen?).
Try them out, they’re ‘best in class’, IMO (as a fmr Valleyite).
Falfurrias, like Sarita (remember Cheney shotgunning his buddy at the Armstrong Ranch nearby?), is also famous for having a Border Patrol/Migra checkpoint just south of town (on US Hwy’s 281 and 77). (watch the series “Border Wars”, on the “Justice” network, for some ‘life on La Frontera’, including Fal and Sarita; one aspect anyway– and it’s much changed from before)
In the good old days they were merely a shack with some porta-potties behind; with infrequent, random hours of operation, on a two-lane undivided, low traffic highway. Now they are huge multi-lane complexes, like the ones at the Brownsville, Hidalgo, or San Diego bridge crossings.
PS: little Sarita, TX (~3-400 pop, in Kenedy County, about the least pop county in TX), has the highest per pupil spending anywhere, ~$30K+/yr each. Every kid gets a full college scholarship ride too. It’s the oil&gas, wind farms, and King Ranch tax income.
9This is some sort of workplace violence. I hope they can do what I do in the car repair shop waiting room- pull the plug. (And that’s usually CNN or soaps)
10@Sandridge
Sadly Falfurrias butter is just a brand nowadays. Not sure if a drop of Jersey milk today goes into its manufacture. Ed Lasater was the man behind Falfurrias butter. It was his son Tom who died at an old age about 5 or 6 years ago, that codified Beefmaster cattle and the six essentials.
I think the Cage Ranch may have had some Lasater land in it. But it has been in Cage family for 100 years by now.
Dale Lasater moved the home ranch to Colorado several years ago, although there might still be land holdings around Falfurrias.
I haven’t been that far south in many years, so I unfolded a map to help me. Sarita, Ricardo, Riviera, Fal. MLB’s cousins scattered all through there. We went south for a long visit about 1980 or 85. Bought a pair of work boots I still have from Rios in R’ville.
11@Sandridge
As Emily Litella would say, “Never mind.”
I was thinking GAGE Ranch when you were writing CAGE Ranch.
12Wait, just turn of the TV and do your work.
13Kind of confused here. Been in a lot of guvmint offices and have never seen a TV set at all. Do not understand this “important decision/announcement”. Fake news? Most government offices are lucky if they can get new computers and peripherals on time at all. Most of the time the requests die somewhere under a big stack of red-taped paper. Consequently, I am even amazed that there are government employees being arrested for watching porch on their computers. Machines old enough to vote can’t usually provide that sort of . . . distraction.
14@Micr,
I rolled up many many thousands of miles amongst those places (from ’70’s-00’s), worked in Raymondville and nearby too, R’ville was close to home at least (axe me about my near collision with a crazy effen cropduster pilot west of Raymondville, we were both flying low on opposite sides of a levee…).
Dunno any Gage Ranch, but the Cage Ranch is around the Fal BP checkpoint (the main street in Pharr, TX is Cage Ave/281, probably a connection).
Another connection in those parts is the Guerra Ranch, and their chorizo plant, in Lynn/San Manuel, TX. The chorizo brand is “San Manuel”, the best chorizo you can find (dang, making mesef hungry again).
15One of them, Melissa Guerra, is a TV chef (pre-dating Pati J and Rick B). Y’all may have seen the show: “The Texas Provincial Kitchen”. Now has a culinary biz-restaurant(?) in San Antonio at the Pearl, y’all czech it out sometime.
@Micr, Forgot, my kids raised (FFA/4H) Jerseys for the Hygeia dairy near Bayview.
16Common sense is taking a licking under the Dolt45 administration. There’s the obvious separation of church and state history that should provide guidance as to government offices not favoring one cable news station over another. Park the device on C-SPAN, the Weather Channel or South Park.
Maggie, post 911 many states received block grants for improving security infrastructure. Some squandered the money to buy Israeli gestapo training and used US military hardware to flatten their citizens. Other states actually chose to buy communications stuff. Here in Nevada a big chunk of that change was spent on upgrading communication towers and the emergency broadcast system. So here many places, including government offices, have TVs where those emergency broadcasts can be heard. While ISIL might never strike Las Vegas, we are in a better position to communicate wildfire, avalanche and flooding threats.
17@Sandridge
When MLB needs chorizo, it’s got to be H&H, made in Mercedes, although I haven’t seen the brand in a store in several years. It may be defunct.
GAGE ranch is in Brewster county, around 190k acres last I read.
What’d chew fly? The cousin that wound up managing the family land in Carrizo Springs once bought a Piper Pawnee when our farmland holdings were much larger. When that became too expensive he bought an ancient Air Tractor. Now at 1200ish acres and mostly cattle and hunting lease, cropdusting isnt necessary.
18@Micr,
H&H is pretty good stuff too, still around. I also worked in Mercedes from time to time, lived in the next town over for a bunch of years.
Mercedes (where the office was, in the leafy ‘good’ part of town) always reminded me of the fictional/imaginary town of “Willoughby” from a “Twilight Zone” episode that aired a night or two ago (last night I think, on MeTV).
There’s a famous bootmaker-leathergoods shop there too, forgot the name though.
Ruben Hinojosa, a principal of H&H Foods, was also my Dem US congresscritter until very recently (even worked with some of his kin). He had followed Kika De La Garza (FM1015 is named for Kika now).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubén_Hinojosa
Coincidentally, the near collision took place on the northernmost part of FM 1015, the duster was in the plane, I was ‘driving/flying low’ :] .
19I came zooming up and over the canal levee as the duster was flying parallel to it, right at the last row to the levee.
The duster chose to go UNDER the friggin’ telephone/power wire line running along FM1015, almost scratching the road pavement I was ‘on’.
His port wingtip just cleared my truck’s grille, I’ll never forget the look on his face (and he mine probably); talk about an “oh shit!” moment…
We were each probably going about the same speed, a millisecond or ten +-, and it would have been a real trainwreck. And I had been watching his dusting as I drove east on Hwy 186 (parallel to him in the distance), then turned south on FM 1015 and lost him. Have a look at your map, you’ll see it. Ah, the good ol’ days.
They should not be watching TV on my dime. If they must, I can smell a whiff of “free speech” somewhere in here.
20When I enter a place that’s showing Orange Whore propaganda channel I change it if possible, ask them to change it, make sure they know that I – the customer – really don’t want to hear that crap, or leave if all else fails. Now, thanks to lzrgrl, I have another option, pull the damn plug.
BTW, I’ve most of been victimized by that schiet at car shops too. What’s their problem? Stoopid, I guess.
21I spend a lot of time in hospitals… waiting (long story that). And you know what is on the waiting room TV! If no one is around, I find the remote, turn off the TV and then stuff the remote down under one of the seat cushions or hide it in one of the potted plants. Been doing that for years. However, recently I have noticed that the TV, if on, is usually on the weather channel or the like. My not so subtle message may be beginning to take hold!
22@Maymoon, as my husband asked, why are there TVs in the workplace? Is it just in break rooms or lounges or do they have them in offices and work area?
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