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AZLD4Candidate

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18. George Carlin - That's not why the owners of this country want. Them and their
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 10:49 AM
Sunday

“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oLI0RuDAqjI

" Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want:

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests.

Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that!

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It's a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club. "


As my DU quote says: It's a big club. And you ain't in it. You and I are not part of the big club."

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How did he even get past security with a gun? cstanleytech Sunday #1
There's video of it in the Cable News forum. wnylib Sunday #3
Terrible security. Why? yardwork Sunday #13
Who knows why? We can speculate, but.....?? wnylib Sunday #24
Well, that is the question: Was there a hidden reason, or just the usual Trumpian incompetence? JHB Sunday #32
There's plenty of reason to assume incompetence. yardwork Sunday #33
False flag? Just Jerome Sunday #2
10000000% False flag yankee87 Sunday #36
So the trump admin flew this guy out from CA, gave him a room & guns? Callie1979 Sunday #40
Took a trsin The Grand Illuminist 12 hrs ago #42
Not Caucasan? check. California? check. Teacher? check. Wears Israeli Defense Force sweater? Quick! Delete and deny! GreenWave Sunday #37
You can walk past security with a SHOTGUN?? WTF?? Bengus81 Sunday #4
Thomas Crooks, the Butler shooter, had no trouble getting to a roof to shoot Deminpenn Sunday #5
Exactly my point,crack security and a guy gets on a roof even when others see him? Bengus81 Sunday #6
The illusion of security is everywhere Deminpenn Sunday #7
hardly "waltzes" by security. he zoomed past them at break neck speed. look for the video that orleans Sunday #17
The video Whip-poor-will Sunday #28
How could anyone have foreseen that a would-be assassin might run? Don't they usually walk? lostnfound Sunday #34
Do we know if he was there to go after Trump critics in the press (assuming not fake) JT45242 Sunday #8
IDF? sop Sunday #9
Did Trump ask again how it was playing to the public? Like after the Butler shooting? travelingthrulife Sunday #16
I'd be skeptical about any info from "MAGA report" SouthBayDem Sunday #21
Yeah, right lonely bird Sunday #30
The whole thing looks like a publicity stunt mdbl Sunday #10
C'mon now - do they think we're THAT stupid? Talitha Sunday #11
Notice the drama of attending maybe maybe not Whip-poor-will Sunday #27
My hunch... jmbar2 Sunday #12
They push for people to go into "STEM" fields BumRushDaShow Sunday #14
George Carlin - That's not why the owners of this country want. Them and their AZLD4Candidate Sunday #18
Almost 30 years before Carlin did that ditty, there was this - BumRushDaShow Sunday #22
OMG, that is so relevant today!! jmbar2 Sunday #25
This year is the 50th anniversary of it BumRushDaShow Sunday #26
Prequel to Idiocracy...Network became reality by the 90s LeftInTX Sunday #31
Idiocracy came out around when Carlin was doing his HBO show BumRushDaShow Sunday #38
Idiocracy - the satire that became a documentary AZLD4Candidate Sunday #39
Even fewer now that they are either outsourcing entry level jobs, or using AI jmbar2 Sunday #23
CAL TECH ?? One of the toughest in the country to attend. lostnfound Sunday #35
How is lard ass doing today? efhmc Sunday #15
Time and time again popsdenver Sunday #19
And if not a stunt... tonekat Sunday #20
Californian Traildogbob Sunday #29
Not unusual for a shooter to have a normal background. Aussie105 Sunday #41
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