Posted on 03/17/2021 5:40:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A year after “15 days to flatten the curve” began our lockdowns, we have enough data to answer the classic question about lockdowns: cui bono? (who benefits?)
The answer is: as an individual, Jeff Bezos. His stock in Amazon, the single biggest beneficiary of lockdowns, is worth billions of dollars more than before the lockdown. As a group: educated professionals, able to work from home via Zoom and other internet-based services and able to afford home delivery. The Ace of Spades pungently summarizes:
The general lockdowns weren't general lockdowns. As a friend said, we didn't have a lockdown, we had poor people delivering shit to rich people.
Instead of protecting the people really at risk, the Ruling Class -- the "Zoom class," the people who can work completely remotely -- protected itself, and killed half a million people.
Small businesses, the bedrock base of the GOP, have been severely damaged and even bankrupted in mass numbers. Government workers, the base of the Democrats, have not missed any paychecks, for the most part.
Unionized teachers in public schools, members of the lower income tier of educated professionals, still have not gone to work in schools in many places, as their unions scheme to use taxpayer relief dollars to pay them bonuses for trips to Hawaii and other goodies, while supermarket and other retail clerks have labored unceasingly, interacting with adult members of the public who are a far greater health risk than children.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Leftist politicians let rioters riot, looters loot and let the police get attacked with impunity. A small business owner better not open or the full weight of government will come down on them.
Jeff Bezos and George Soros.
Those names seem to be attached to virtually every socialist initiative in the United States, and the attendant damage to the individual freedoms of the citizenry.
Yet, neither are behind bars. Why ?
I’m “professional class”, and this article is 100% correct. Truth is, far too many “professionals” consider themselves more portant/better people than working class folk. Sad, wrong,and stupid.
We paid, as usual, and our money went to fatten the lifestyles of the ruling elite. Nothing different from when peasants were starving and Marie-Antoinette was living a life of luxury.
Small businesses, the bedrock base of the GOP, have been severely damaged and even bankrupted in mass numbers. Government workers, the base of the Democrats, have not missed any paychecks, for the most part.
That didn’t work out very well for Marie-Antoinette.
I feel badly for all those people put out of work by these unnecessary lockdowns. The truth is that for me it has been beneficial. I work for a large bank and can work from home. I save a substantial amount I would otherwise have to spend commuting (gas, parking, doggy daycare, lunch) and not commuting saves an hour and a half of my day every day.
I think working remotely is going to be much more prevalent from now on. Companies are realizing they don’t have to pay for nearly as much expensive office space. Commercial real estate and expensive cities are going to take a severe beating.
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Small businesses, the bedrock base of the GOP, have been severely damaged and even bankrupted in mass numbers.
Government workers, the base of the Democrats, have not missed any paychecks, for the most part.
All art of The CCP/DNC Plan™
The 15 days to flatten the curve morphed into 15 ways to flatten the middle class.
The last several months working at home, a great deal of work was shoved on to department staff because so many others had been furloughed. Also-because faculty (unused to closely accounting for their ‘time’ ) sloughed-off many of their duties to staff and grad students, as well.
Many faculty whine about their new responsibilities and ‘overload’ resulting from conducting on line classes while some of those guys had minimal classes with very few students. They just DID NOT like accounting for their effort. Anytime a person left he/she was not replaced and their work was given to the remaining staff. Staff do more and more without support or even gratitude. I think higher education will never be the same and the teachers' unions will have to struggle to retain the many princely perks faculty get when everything goes on line.
I’ve said it before and every day I am more and more convinced I am spot on!...
The elites love the lockdowns and restrictions because it keeps us little people out of their way.
A day of reckoning is coming.
Posted on 1/1/2021, 11:05:58 AM by ThunderSleeps
‘I work for a large bank and can work from home...’
I was at one time a bank field examiner; my job required visits to clients’ premises...I’m guessing the pandemic wouldn’t have been too beneficial to me, as if the audit could be conducted virtually, the loan managers wouldn’t need the examiners to do the leg and grunt work for them...
Here’s an excerpt from a story at The Daily Caller:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Thursday that the Republican Party leadership doesn’t “like their own voters.”
“This really is the main problem, on the right anyway. The people who run the Republican Party don’t really like their own voters,” Carlson said on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “And they especially don’t want the voters that Trump brought,” Carlson continued. “Trump brought the party’s ranks noticeably downscale, ‘from the country club to the trailer park,’ as they often sneer. And this horrifies them. Many Republicans in Washington now despise the people they’re supposed to represent and protect.”
Carlson claimed that “socially anxious white professionals” feel contempt for “working-class people who look like them.”
“So if you want to understand the hatred, the real hatred, not just disagreement but gut level loathing and fear of Trump — in say New York or Washington or L.A. — you’ve got to understand that first. It’s not really Trump; it’s his voters. The new money class despises them,” Carlson said.
Supporting the GOP after 40 years of betrayal is the height of insanity. The GOP party needs to die and a new party take its place.
The GOP leadership hates patriotic Americans and it is long past time to return the favor.
posted on 1/9/2021, 6:49:07 AM by wildcard_redneck
WE do NOT have the time to sort out the good from the bad. Let the current GOP that allowed itself to decay from within to just die on it’s own. We will be paddling sand against the tide.
posted on 1/9/2021, 8:25:47 AM by ridesthemiles
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee re-elected Ronna Romney McDaniel, the niece of the head RINO himself, Mitt Romney, to be its leader for the coming four years:
surely, the gop-e isn’t that tone deaf or stupid.....but I guess they are.
posted on 1/9/2021, 8:28:45 AM by ealgeone
Trump will be very successful in starting a new party, IMO.
The current GOP has caused the voters to lose faith in them.
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This professional class drove to work every scheduled shift and a few more and spent it hip deep in covid. DH and daughter also physicians did the same. So did son who is a pastor. All the professional class in my family were out busting their hind ends during the lockdowns not being waited on by the anyone
While I usually agree with you regarding your comments, I tend to be conflicted on your assessment this time.
I do think Trump would be very successful in starting a new party but it won't be enough to win right away, as is your own concern. I think it will take at least a decade for a new Trump party to establish itself and overcome the habits of many voters who are used to voting for the Republicans.
Even though Trump came out initially hinting at starting a new party, separate from the GOPe, I think he did his research and homework and decided the fastest way to get conservatives back in the saddle is to primary the exiting GOP, don't fund them and push his own candidates to take their place.
Historically, third party candidates tend to split the votes and the opposition ends up being the winners.
Remember Ross Perot? He ran as an independent presidential campaign in 1992 and a third-party campaign in 1996, establishing the Reform Party in the latter election.
Both campaigns were among the strongest presidential showings by a third party or independent candidate in U.S. history and yet he failed to carry a single state in either election.
The same is true for perennial presidential candidate, Ralph Nader. He made four bids to become president, running with the Green Party in 1996 and 2000, the Reform Party in 2004, and as an independent in 2008.
He received nearly 3 million votes during his 2000 candidacy, but also stirred controversy over allegations that his campaign split the democRATic vote and helped Republican candidate George W. Bush win a close election against Al Gore.
I don't think it will take long for the establishment RINOs to wither on the vine. They have lost their constituencies to Trump. They're in for a big surprise '22 and '24 if they think they can get rid of Trump and act like nothing changed.
Trump is the de factor leader of the Republican party and as such, he needs to assert his authority and get rid of the Romneys, Sasses, Murkowskis, Cheneys, etc. and get some real conservatives back into the party.
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