Wednesday, December 7, 2016

My Favorite political cartoonist... Nick Anderson.


Seamus:   My Favorite political cartoonist... Nick Anderson.   But I think he made Trump's lips and hands too big... and besides he has not yet saved those jobs. 
Welcome ladies and gentlemen... We are here... just outside the Carrier Corporation entrance in Indianapolis, Indiana to interview employees as they arrive for work.
Seamus:   You sir.  Your first name?   What do you think victory or defeat for your fellow workers?
Tom.   Yeah, I know why you’re here.   As soon as your microphones and cameras are turned off,  I suspect those jobs, including mine, will be headed across the border at minimum wage,......Probably with Trump's blessings.
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Jan.   If what I am reading is correct there are plans to automate the remaining jobs.   Big victory for the workers, right?
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Jacob.   From the looks of your Facebook page you have a stiffy for Trump as much as you talk about him.   When are you coming out bud?
Seamus:   Thank you, sir.   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Paul.   Jan is correct...  Some jobs saved but others lost to automation... robots.
Seamus:   You, sir.   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Tim.   Typical response from Paul.   He believes them propaganda lies.   Also a typical response from Jacob the FB watchdog!   Haha!    Right Jacob?   Poking fun at lefties is hilarious.   He is so distressed that the Dummies lost the election... too bad, so sad, your dad.
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Christine.   President-Elect Trump has not even been sworn in and has saved these jobs, just think what he will be able to do once he is actually President.   Not even in office yet and already being ridiculed and poked fun at as a loser.   How very sad to see so many poor sports at the loss of their candidate!
Seamus:   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   What do you think?   Your first name, sir?  
Owen.   You look pretty good on your knees, there Christine!  He saved those jobs by offering tax cuts.   That sets a horrible precedent for other corporations.   Now they’ll line up for their hand-jobs and lap dances.   Either way, we get screwed.   Many more jobs are going to Mexico.   I hope yours goes!   So although I agree with the idea of saving jobs, that’s a horrible way to save jobs.
Seamus:   Let’s try to keep the discussion clean, please.   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir? 
Brandon.   How very sad to see someone completely fooled by this news.   First; he lied about the number of jobs saved: 730 jobs, not 1,100 and he essentially paid a ransom to Carrier of over $7,000,000 before they would even agree to it.   Yeah.   He’s a great negotiator, my ass.   Every country in America will be signing up for that deal at the expense of the taxpayer.
Seamus:   Please, folks.   Let’s try to keep the discussion clean.  What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Aquila.   I look at it a differently:   We lost 1000 jobs, and we the taxpayers paid 7 million to do it.   Good job?   I don’t think so.   The Carrier Corporation could have offered those people who were laid off job training...
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Kim.   Cover yourself, Aquila, your ignorance is showing.
Aquila.   You’re a loser honey.   Not surprising from a Hillary supporter.
Seamus:   Let’s try to keep the discussion civil, please.   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Derek.   He has cost taxpayers millions of dollars with this deal!   That's ok with you, Kim?   Every corporation in this country will simply have to threaten to leave and he will give them millions of tax dollars to stay.   Why are people ok with millions going to corporations and mad about paying $36 a year to food stamps so hungry people can eat?
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Pat.   It's his total lack of knowledge of how anything but how a bait and switch salesman operates.   A loser refers to something that is not tight, like a loose screw or a nut, which trump has more than a few of...
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Joshua.   Yea just as sad as the last 8 years with your bigotry towards Obama.   Huh!   Last I heard Trump was a board member for Carrier's parent company, United Technology.
What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir? 
Jodi.   He hasn't done one positive thing yet.   He's broken all his campaign promises and hasn't even been inaugurated yet.   Wake up, he's on course to destroy our country.   You Trumpettes got screwed! Now everybody gets screwed!
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Joyce.   I look forward to criticizing this orange pig for as long as he’s in the White House... if he get’s there.   Obama was treated very badly for 8 years and I intend to get even.   Revenge is mine sayeth Joyce.
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Janice.   Carrier will be using part of the tax breaks to automate jobs.   That’s assuming he keeps his promise.      I'd say Carrier was complicit in T rump's plan.
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir? 
Oscar.   We've been duped by a crafty, slimy snake oil salesman. He hasn't done nothin’ but squat and blow gas all over this country.   Read the small print and you'll discover the scary details of this flimflam deal.   Don't be so naive.
Seamus:   What do you think?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Alma.   Politics is not a freaking team sport!   In fact, everyone in America lost with this dummy’s election.   Continue wearing your rose colored glasses.   He's going to screw everyone and smile while doing it.   I really wish you ignorant a’ho's would wake up.
Seamus:   OK folks.   Let’s keep it clean.   What do you think, sir?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Charlie.   Alma one wants to be technical.   Politics is a team sport that's the point of having political parties to back you up and lend support when you're running for an election or trying to advance an agenda. 
Seamus:   What do you think, sir?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Cameron.   Obviously, for the sake of our country, we want Trump to be successful. But at the same time, we know any success is just going to inflate his ego even further.   I'm already so annoyed...
Seamus:   What do you think, sir?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Tukufu.   The idea that any politician like Trump or otherwise "created" any jobs, other than government positions, is ludicrous.   It is We the People who create the jobs and workforce in this country.   We are not a communist nation.
Seamus:   What do you think, sir?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Bryan.   I'm wondering when even political cartoonists will start noticing it was more like 600 jobs, and the number keeps shrinking.
Seamus:   What do you think, miss?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Dominique.   I believe that the unemployment rate is larger than reported because it only counts those actively seeking a job.   
Meanwhile, GM has thrown money during the bailout, which actually harmed them.   Carrier was saved by talk, not money.
Seamus:   We have a Voice from the crowd.   
...Where do you get your news?  
Seamus:   What do you think, sir?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Khalid.   I think she gets her news from the lying Fox News.   It is the same unemployment model that Republican presidents use.   It's a grading system for a metric in employment.   Based upon that metric Obama did very well compared to his predecessor.   We will see how Trump does vs Obama soon enough.
Dominique.   So you admit it's a flawed system and thus not an accurate representation of the real unemployment rate especially since the number on welfare skyrocketed and all the prerequisites of having to either be in school and actively looking for a job has been debunked.
Seamus:   Ladies and gentlemen, it sounds as if we have a real debate going on here.
Khalid.   It's a metric that is used to show an unemployment rate based on certain criteria.   You are saying it doesn't include criteria that are important to you.   You can make the case that unemployment should show as higher, but then you have to apply that to every other President whose unemployment numbers Obama's administrations are being compared to are false.
Dominique.   Actually, ... Are you Muslim?   If you are... Oh, well...   I'm saying that unemployment and welfare recipients have a correlating relationship and in order to show how many are really out of a job you have to look at both.   It shows how lazy we have become.
Seamus:   What do you think, sir?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Mark.   Trump created more jobs before being inaugurated than President Obama and just announced the Japanese company that will be bringing tech jobs to the US.   We also have more people on assistance than we ever had with a "low" unemployment rate which may suggest that many quit looking or are taking jobs for far less than what they once made.
Seamus:   What do you think, miss?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name?
Elaine.   SoftBank already invests millions in the US none of which is intended to create more jobs.   And no jobs have been created.   This is just a PR play.
Aquila.   Hi!   I’m back.   Grasping at straws, huh, Mark?   I understand the resentment and guilt you must feel for supporting such a candidate.   Healing happens much faster when you admit to yourself that you made a horrible mistake by supporting this man.   So goodbye to your paycheck, Donald needs that money to bribe companies to stay in America.
Seamus:   What do you think, miss?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Natalia.   Really?   Because last I checked, Obama saved GM from going under.  What was that?   Two-hundred-fifty-thousand jobs?    So no, Trump hasn't done anything but line his own pockets.   He owns stock in carrier's parent company, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with his saving like 700 jobs at the cost of 7 million dollars that will cost the rest of us.   Where does he think the money is coming from?
Aquila.   Careful Natalia, facts trigger Trump supporters.   They can’t cope with facts.
Seamus:   What do you think, sir?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Mark.   No resentment or guilt.   I had no other candidate to support.   Is it true that he has created more jobs than Obama?   I don’t think anyone will equal Barack’s record.   Is that 7 million coming out of his pocket?   And how is that health care debacle working?   And the money and tax abatement that was given to the solar industry?   It’s working!
Derek.   Mark?   Don’t leave yet... you’re my ride home remember?   Health care debacle?   Is that what you call the lowest uninsured rate in history?   I wouldn't have coverage for my MS without Obamacare.   And do you think the Donald will actually repeal this healthcare plan?   He's already said he won't. 
Jodi.   Mark stop watching Faux News.   Get some real news.   He's screwing everything up.   He should start attending security briefings before he gets us involved in an international incident!
Aquila.   You guys stop picking on Mark, he is obviously digging through some pretty hardened crap right now.   How would you feel if you doomed your entire country because you were not intelligent enough to realize that a conman was lying to you so he could profit off of your own ignorance?   Please.   Take pity on this man.
Mark.   Interesting, I don't get my news from FOX, along with the other mainstream media that fills heads with unintelligible garbage that many here seem to believe.   I do not follow Mr. Trump or any other individuals as I am an educated man.   
Seamus:   What do you think, miss?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, miss?
Melissa.    Wow, Mark assumes that anyone who disagrees with him works at McDonald's.   Very "educated" and mature of you, Mark.   There is nothing wrong with working.   Work is work, and it is admirable.   Your superiority complex is showing.   Have some grace and humility.
Seamus:   What do you think, sir?   Victory or defeat for your fellow workers?   Your first name, sir?
Oscar.   Mr. Educated man.   Do you think that people don't deserve a living wage? 

Seamus:   Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.   That’s all the time we have for today.   Back to you Maggie.   Yes.   Maggie.   We were getting way off subject.   I had to cut it off.

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