Tag: Henry Wallace
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The answer is work
This 1935 Ford promotional film starts with a long florid speech by a pompous grandiose announcer, introducing an important address by Henry Ford himself! Mr Ford will announce the company’s way of countering the Depression. After the long highly “grammatical” intro, we hear a long florid verbose oration by Henry himself: The answer is work.…
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Elon vs FDR
Elon is cutting vast amounts of federal bureaucracy, or at least attempting to do it. He has no official role, so courts would be fully justified in rejecting all of his cuts. SYLLOGISM. FIRST PREMISE: We know that Elon will never cut war or tyranny, the only federal FUNCTIONS that need to be eliminated. He…
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Could learn, won’t.
Polls show that Trudeau’s party is overtaking Poilievre’s conservatives. There’s a wildly obvious lesson here. If you want customers, offer a GOOD PRODUCT that can SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS. If you want votes, offer a GOOD PRODUCT that can SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS. Before this year, Trudeau was a poisonous product and his party had lost all…
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Trying to figure this out
The good bureaucrats in the Biden admin who worked to restore the New Deal restrictions on Men Of Monopoly are now seeing their work smashed and deleted. This didn’t have to happen. It didn’t happen the first time, so the alternative is POSSIBLE. The original New Deal was NOT smashed by the next few presidents.…
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More dust to wait for
Via DailyMail, with the usual caution about DailyMail’s usual wild exaggerations. Trump, working with ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST RFK, has ordered several agencies to stop their Twitter and other public output for a while. We don’t know yet what this means. He undoubtedly remembers how the agencies spent most of their PR time bashing Trump. I noticed…
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What did they gain?
Still thinking in terms of Salesmanship and Sampling the Product and Test Drives. Since 2008 the Dems have been concentrating SOLELY on cultivating billionaires. They had a great product in Obama, but he ruined his own chances by approving TARP to enrich the billionaires. Hillary is a shitty product. Everyone knew it. Biden is even…
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Same reason as before
Continued thought about Tiktok, Rednote, etc. As I noted yesterday, the net provides REAL opportunities for people in different countries to get to know each other. This has been happening for years, especially on video-oriented media like Youtube. It shouldn’t be a surprise that American and Chinese youngsters are meeting and talking and learning about…
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Cherokee Terrace (WPA)
EnidBuzz showed a fairly new ‘midcentury modern’ store that wasn’t present in the ’70s when I lived there. The building is now on the national historic register, which seems surprising. I got curious and looked up the other Enid sites. Unsurprisingly the WPA project Cherokee Terrace is on the list. I used to see the…
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All are error signals
Cults, ideologies, swindles and get-rich schemes are all the same. All are ERROR SIGNALS, warning lights, sharp pains. All are human culture’s way of telling the ruler that LIFE IS SHIT. If a ruler wants to rule comfortably, with popular consent and very little trouble from radical movements, he needs to insure that ORDINARY PEOPLE…
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Y no Gates?
Picking up WWV for New Year pulled me back into shortwave, at least for a while. (I have real work to do right now, and I don’t have enough spare gumption to delve into another sideline.) I’m reminded again of the fact that shortwave is a vacant resource. Broadcasters and commercial communication services have moved…
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Constants and Variables, interstate edition
Constantly quoted by the usual quoters: Central planning always fails, THEREFORE we should trust freedom-loving Libertarian anti-centralizers like Larry Fink and Jeff Bezos and Elon. If you think Larry and Elon are the opposite of central, you’re too stupid to breathe. Variable truth: Central planning by government is VITALLY NECESSARY when it helps ordinary people.…
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Not getting the error signal
When Pretty Boy Floyd and Luigi Mangione are universally seen as heroes worthy of emulation, the monsters in charge SHOULD see this as a serious error signal, like steering the ship into a small iceberg. This SHOULD require a serious course correction before the big iceberg sinks the ship. LIFE IS NEGATIVE FEEDBACK. Negative feedback…
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Might be a good source?
I’m always ready to try out “news” sources that claim to be objective, continuing the spirit of the Fairness Doctrine. Until now all have failed quickly. Most were immediately transparent, just another DNC talking point vendor. Today I’m trying Tangle News. So far I haven’t seen any blatant shibboleths or hidden assumptions. They don’t move…
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Equipoise and social media
Still thinking about PAY FOR VALUE or Equipoise. This is how real business (not Wall Street) works. Substack claims to be different because it depends mainly on payment from readers, not advertising. BUT: It fails the basic requirement of Equipoise. The algorithm doesn’t listen to the concerns of paying readers. No matter how often I…
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If you didn’t want to see…
When evil government allows a problem to grow intolerable, people WILL do something about it. Often the reaction is extreme and uncontrolled because the problem is extreme. Revolutions happen when inequality is too monstrous to stand. When government refuses to punish real criminals, people WILL punish and execute real criminals, whether in neighborhoods or giant…
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