RE: Poor Kathy Griffin
July 6, 2017 at 4:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2017 at 4:43 pm by Brian37.)
(July 6, 2017 at 4:11 pm)wallym Wrote: If you have a job, particularly a job in the public eye, in which your behavior can financially impact your employers business, you just can't do stuff like Kathy Griffen did anymore. The idiotic standard has been set. If you have a strong opinion, people that disagree with you will boycott everything associated with you. So unless you are in some untouchable position, which is incredibly rare, then you have to keep your head down. Almost every person that says or does something viewed as extreme is at risk of losing their job. That's America now.
Ted Nugent is definitely worse. But Ted Nugent plays old timey rock in the south. The entire state of New York boycotting Nugent isn't going to keep him from selling out Shitsville County Stadium in Bumfuck, Mississippi. He's one of those lucky people who are in a position where people can't hurt him.
Trump ran his own business, and it was his campaign, and now it's his presidency. He's got Fuck you money. There's no viable threat that forces him to behave any way other than how he feels like it.
I think the real sad thing about the Kathy Griffen thing, is that nobody gives a shit in terms of supporting what she did. Holding up Trumps severed head doesn't accomplish anything. There aren't people anxiously waiting on a signal from the lady on E! who makes fun of people for a living to start the revolution. She did it. She got fired. And now she's sad. For nothing.
As for secret service, I think that's par for the course. The secret service also opened an investigation in Ted Nugent's case as well.
I give a shit about what she did, because the right took what she did out of context in any case and in doing that ignored 8 years of threats to Obama.
And as far as "Trump has fuck you money" and "that is the way it is now", no, being that way most certainly does not mean it should stay that way. If the mantra is "nobody is above the law" then that shit does not cut it.
For far too long the top have gotten away with murder, and when they do get in trouble, the next crop of CEOS flood dark money into politics to make what was prior illegal, legal. In Iceland for example when the market crashed, they didn't simply fine the banks or housing industry, they threw those fuckers in prison and bailed out the homeowners, which is THE RIGHT THING.
Right now is still wrong. Bernie Maddoff went to prison for ripping off the rich. Hobby Lobby gets a fine for steeling antiquities of world history. Trump stiffs university investors and only is forced to pay back part of it. If you or I pulled the same crap it would be called a multi level marketing scam and we would go to prison.
If you look up the amount of oil spills since 2000 it is insane, but because big oil owns the GOP the EPA cant do it's job. Duke Energy dumps coal ash in our rivers and they only get a fine. GENEX get dumped in our rivers and nobody will go to prison for it.
I want to know from anyone reading this, why they think it is OK for business owners at that level to put the public in danger and get away with it? Why was it ok for Wall Street to create a bank/car/and housing bubble and few get into any serious trouble outside of a fine?
NO, I am tired of assholes like Trump thinking it is ok to shit on those bellow them.
I am not against the private sector. I am simply fucking tired of one class thinking it owns everything and should be the only class who has a say in how OUR laws are written.
Trump's behavior ALONE makes him unfit. Insulting the intel community ALONE makes him unfit. But even outside him being in office, just on his business carrier alone, if we pulled the same shit we'd go to prison. A rich bully is still a bully.
The problem with today's global economy is that it is like a cheetah, predatory, quick but has no long term energy. You wont get rid of globalization, nor the private sector. But the global rich are not thinking of competition in healthy supply and demand, but in terms of competing to grow just to grow. They are competing for shareholders and now in reality that really makes our global economy really nothing more than a giant casino.
If our species is to reduce conflict the global rich have to make business about problem solving, in reducing conflict, in providing stability for more. We are way past the days where "big just to be big" matters.
