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In reply to the discussion: White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect worked as California teacher [View all]AZLD4Candidate
(6,850 posts)18. George Carlin - That's not why the owners of this country want. Them and their
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. Theyve 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 dont want:
They dont want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They dont want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. Theyre not interested in that. That doesnt help them. Thats against their interests.
Thats right. They dont want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly theyre getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They dont 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 theyre 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? Theyll get it. Theyll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It's a big club, and you aint 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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White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect worked as California teacher [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Sunday
OP
Well, that is the question: Was there a hidden reason, or just the usual Trumpian incompetence?
JHB
Sunday
#32
Not Caucasan? check. California? check. Teacher? check. Wears Israeli Defense Force sweater? Quick! Delete and deny!
GreenWave
Sunday
#37
Exactly my point,crack security and a guy gets on a roof even when others see him?
Bengus81
Sunday
#6
hardly "waltzes" by security. he zoomed past them at break neck speed. look for the video that
orleans
Sunday
#17
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
Did Trump ask again how it was playing to the public? Like after the Butler shooting?
travelingthrulife
Sunday
#16
George Carlin - That's not why the owners of this country want. Them and their
AZLD4Candidate
Sunday
#18