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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: Job Offer
Date: 21 Mar 2025 11:04:28 GMT
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zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/20/2025 4:14 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote:
>>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:26:01 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 04:32:49 -0400, floriduh dumbass
>>>>> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:03:33 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:50:15 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> (chomp)
>>>>>>>> But mankind seems to "want" a leader. Even very primitive clans 
>>>>>>>> in New
>>>>>>>> Guinea.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Yep.  Some of the worst dictators were hatched during times when
>>>>>>> things looked grim.  Economic depressions, wars, droughts, invasions,
>>>>>>> plagues, crop failures, etc all provide real or potential 
>>>>>>> dictators as
>>>>>>> a solution to the problems.
>>>>>>> "Just give me control of everything and I'll fix everything".
>>>>>>> Whatever the cause, bad times seem to give the people a reason to 
>>>>>>> give
>>>>>>> power to dictators instead of allowing the chronically ineffective
>>>>>>> committees to hammer out a workable compromise.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What I find amusing is how the US leadership is using such 
>>>>>>> problems to
>>>>>>> promote their agenda.  Going into 2024, the economy was in good 
>>>>>>> shape,
>>>>>>> unemployment was tolerable, inflation was a problem which could be
>>>>>>> solved and there was no crisis available that needed a dictator to
>>>>>>> solve.  The Trump/Musk solution was to create a crisis that only a
>>>>>>> genuine dictator could solve.  They begin to dismantle the federal
>>>>>>> government in the name of "efficiency".  They continue to destroy the
>>>>>>> federal government until it is completely ineffective (and therefore
>>>>>>> efficient).  In other words, they create a situation from which 
>>>>>>> only a
>>>>>>> fearless leader can save the country.  Of course, the only available
>>>>>>> dictators available are Trump and Musk who will surely offer their
>>>>>>> services to fix the problems they had caused.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Or maybe the individual states secede from the union in disgust and
>>>>>>> form their own independent states.  Instant balkanization.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Wake me up when the nightmare is over:
>>>>>>> <https://logwork.com/countdown-h5o4>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Going into 2024, the USA was deep into debt and rapidly going deeper.
>>>> 
>>>> Yup, The big acceleration started under the Bush administration with the
>>>> TARP act, continued along the same trend then eased slightly under
>>>> Obama, took another sharp increase under trump (covid pandemic) the
>>>> eased again slightly under Biden. Trump added more non-covid debt that
>>>> the entire debt added by Biden.
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt
>>>> 
>>>>>> Crime was rampant and criminals were being turned loose to commit
>>>>>> another crime.
>>>> 
>>>> nope, just more magatard pabulum
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime- 
>>>> rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> Drugs were killing people at an astounding rate.
>>>> 
>>>> Astounding, yes, but on the decline under Biden
>>>> https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2025/2025-cdc-reports-decline-in- 
>>>> us-drug-overdose-deaths.html
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Billions of dollars were being spent to take care of the influx of
>>>>>> illegals.
>>>> 
>>>> Yup, and now billions are being sent to expel them. Let's watch the
>>>> price of fruit the next harvest season.
>>>> 
>>>>>> The government is spending billions of dollars to lease
>>>>>> unused building.
>>>> 
>>>> Yup, about 2 according to the GAO.
>>>> https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-107060
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> The USA is sending billions of dollars to unknown
>>>>>> people in foreign countries while we have people living in makeshift
>>>>>> shelters on the streets.
>>>> 
>>>> And if we spent money on the homeless here, you'd bitch about that too.
>>>> 
>>>>>> The President of the USA had no idea what his
>>>>>> handlers were signing into law with a signing machine.
>>>> 
>>>> Yup
>>>> https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-donald-trump-use-autopen- 
>>>> jan-6-pardons-2046401
>>>> 
>>>>>> Men were
>>>>>> allowed to invade women's athletics and wave their dicks around at
>>>>>> them in locker rooms.
>>>> 
>>>> No, they weren't.
>>>> 
>>>>>> Wars were killing people all around the globe.
>>>> 
>>>> Which continues unabated
>>>> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgezypn3nzo
>>>> 
>>>> https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/20/israel-continues-to-strike- 
>>>> syria-while-expanding-its-land-incursions/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> World leaders who want to destroy the USA are on the verge of getting
>>>>>> nuclear weapons.
>>>> 
>>>> The same usual suspects for decades. Nothing new.
>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yeah sure, things were in good shape?
>>>> Better than now, with an unelected billionaire taking over government
>>>> buildings by force.
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/doge-institute-peace-staff- 
>>>> resistance-00238488
>>>> 
>>>> We'll see how happy you are when Musk decides you don't deserve your
>>>> social security or medicare.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Apparently, the far left media still has a few followers.
> 
> Yup, those of us who chose not to live in a world of willful ignorance 
> and propaganda sanitized with right-wing spunk.
> 
> 
> 

Saw a YouTube by an American who has lived in London for a good while,
pointing out the desperation attempts to find someone anyone who will say
bad things about the London Congestion charge, as Newyork is planning on or
has just started it?

 <https://youtu.be/3v3pN4xt3dk?si=DL3ToCiHn_8ZRti6>

As he notes it’s just not a thing in london, hence the American news media
had to really search and reach to find people who wouldn’t just say “Meh” I
think I might have had to pay it once?

Driving in is just a silly idea unless it’s very much off peak, early
Sunday is best bet!

Beyond that driving in is just painful! Let alone the cost of parking! I’m
not saying public transportation isn’t expensive and busy but lesser of two
evils, hence there is well established bike route, from Richmond Park to
City of London (which is its own thing) or Canary Wharf which existed long
before any cycleways where installed.

New York appears to be a similar size though how good its public transport
is? It appears to be more car centric but not been there for decades and
only as tourist! And as I can’t use underground transport unlikely to be of
much use!

Roger Merriman


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