You have an awful lot of faith in big corporations operating on a merit
based system, i e, paying that new CEO a gazillion dollars because they
want to get the best man. I'm not buying it. These are all big money
guys and they hang with each other and what goes around comes around.
They figure one way or another they will get a piece of that gazillion
dollars, unlike say, paying their employees minimum wage. I don't know
how you can think the gov is so thoroughly corrupt and the big
corporations are just meritorious gangs of guys just wanting to provide
us with the best product at the lowest price.
So there is no faceless horde channel, but there is a mass hysteria
channel, no wait, that's something you see on tv, the only glimpses I
get of that are those cellphone videos of the Donald at his rallies.
And the people there are all white, and probably all straight, so does
that kind of hysteria make you want to take Old Betsy and that sack of
ammo into the swamp? Actually those rallies kind of make me want to
join you in the swamp. Oh and in this breaking news how do those
militia guys in Oregon make you feel?
Your man Rand is indeed still standing, but he is likely to be sent down
to the kiddie table in the next debate. Trump is still numero uno,
Carson is sinking like a stone (I don't know why he was ever that
popular, the evangelicals I guess), Cruz is moving up, Rubio is behind
him but not gaining ground, Bush is still on his slow horse, Christie is
making a move from behind while Kasich and Fiorina are along for the
ride. I would advise that Rand throw in the towel, but this is the
Republican primary, anything could happen.
But back to faceless hordes, which I believe is a more advanced case of
making a spectacle of yourself. we have a situation here in Chicago.
October of 2014 LaQuan McDoanld was staggering around Pulaski by 41st
with a knife in one hand and high on pcp. The cops had him surrounded,
he wasn't going anywhere and he wasn't really threatening anybody with
the knife just trailing it behind him. A cop car pulled up, a cop named
Van Dyke jumped out and shot Laquan 16 times from about thirty feet
away killing him deader than any doornail.
This didn't come out right away, the twenty or so cops in the area all
said that Laquan was lunging at Van Dyke, the video was suppressed, the
city gave the family five million hoping this would all go away.
But it didn't, the courts eventually made the city release the video and
all hell broke loose. The faceless horde wanted the heads of the
police chief, the mayor, and the state's attorney. The mayor tossed
them the police chief, but the mayor isn't going anywhere, and the
special prosecutor is up for reelection soon and is probably dead meat.
But the faceless horde is in the streets. They've were particularly
active during Christmas shopping on State and Michigan. They blocked
the entrances to stores and they tied up traffic, but there were few
arrests and certainly no burning or looting.
They are still around, they were at the mayor's house a couple nights
ago. On the one hand, I wonder what do they expect to achieve, aren't
they tying up traffic for no reason? On the other hand, demonstrating
is fun and they do have a legitimate issue. The shooting of LaQaun was
clearly unjustified, but even more so to me was all those cops and all
of them lied, that dreaded blue line of silence.
There has been this whole thing since Ferguson (I think the cops were on
the right side of that one), and it has resulted in cameras, I believe
Aquaplane was caught on dash cams, and this is all for the good. So
maybe the faceless hordes are up to some good.
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