A Happy Serf

Here's Why Minimum Wage, Er...

Explanation First>> Wages high strong middle class but too many drones showing up at the resorts. Too much land, happiness and power for the drone class. REDUCE WAGES use god and racism as an excuse to bust unions and set the drone class against each other...

“In 1960, when I entered the work force, minimum wage was $1 an hour – $40 a week. A decent apartment was $60,and a new car about $2,600. Now a new car costs at least 10 times that much, and an apartment over $1,000 a month. Minimum wage is NOT keeping up. And notice, please, that the 60s were a time of great prosperity.” – (unknown but verified source - kudos)

Signed: (Probably) A Serf

Things Changed...

...But then a rich man fully in the spirit of Ann Coulter and Ayn Rand - saw how happy the serfs were and cried, “What’s the point of being rich if these little people of the earth are happy too? Let me crush their spirits and deprive them of everything I possibly can!” Then he proceeded to slash their wages and destroy their unions, raise the price of healthcare to astronomic levels, and poison the air and water. He then created even more war and poverty while forcing people to have babies they could not feed or clothe. He created millions of dispossessed people, their homes having been bombed and destroyed.

   Then the rich man smiled and said, “I have done great things in the earth!” His fortune ballooned to levels that could not even be counted. He formed an army of goons and talking monkeys that would make pronouncements to fool the masses and keep them at each other’s throats. Then he smiled and said, “I have reached the point of no return, the inhabited earth is mine for the taking!”
     When he said these things God himself took note. He noticed - but he did nothing. Then the rich man then claimed God as his backer. The howling monkeys said, “See, Manifest Destiny!” When God did not smite the rich man and his howling monkeys as he should have, they proceeded to wreak havoc throughout the earth. They went on stealing, rampaging and pillaging with no mercy - wrapped in the "cloak of God" that is the pretense of righteousness by which many are fooled.

But enough of that. God is not one to be blamed, for he didn’t create all of this! YOU did!**

 

*Manifest destiny is where you take someone else's land or country and because God did not stop you, you claim that God actually gave the land to you. Par for the human course, it is.

** The real victim here is God. According to the Bible, all evil is the work of Satan and Man. They, conjuring up evil from the hidden recesses of their inner parts! Those inner parts (actually all their parts) were created by God, for he created all things.

Uh, what? Wait just a minute here!

Eventually It Ruins The Empire

 

When Greed Is Government Policy

By DEEGAN

 

Skin and Bones For The Masses - Graphic TMITH

 When Greed...

becomes the de-facto policy at state, local and federal levels - an artificial stress is created. The stress is borne by the large lower 80% of the population. Purified greed, instigated by the powerful, brought forth and maintained by their governmental lackeys - is certainly beneficial for the grifters and swindlers of society, but can only be maintained for the short term. Eventually it ruins the empire.
This is why you have a healthcare crises. This is why you cannot provide energy without despoiling the land and poisoning the population. Greed is why you have race baiters running amok. Greed is why you have a public servants undermining the very constituents they are supposed to be serving. Why do some narrow minded people hate the poor and any other disenfranchised segment they can lay their eyes on? Mental manipulation by a nice, well heeled bunch of greedy ass motherfuckers. If you are trying to figure out who these completely gentrified assholes are, well...

Phineas disagrees...

But One Cannot...

...begin to disparage the bounteous expression of capitalism as determined by the chaste hardworking
leaders of industry! For once one travels down that road one is bound to be waved away by the free hand of the markets. Just as when one Martin Luther King Jr. determined that the masses were being duped. He proceeded to make speech about it. This threatened "the endowed" and they summarily "waved him away" in Memphis shortly thereafter. In pursuit of ones' capacity to continue alive and serving those in power we must bow down and embrace the ever growing expression of capitalist lust, gangrenous though it may well be. We must, must we?

Zzen adds...

This action counter-action approach may suit your immediate need for dramatic behavior - but cannot very well be a wise course. We know that every empire must dissolve. It is as decreed by the gods, a part of the cycle embedded in mortals. Like the cycle embedded in birds that makes them migrate as the seasons change. Mortals are so foolish to think it is their own doing, bah! They have little choice. Your choice is as strong as the power you can exert over a society, but no one in power ever comes to their own conclusion. The terms of their power are pre-writ. It never varies from the drama exacted by the gods. Look to history - if you doubt me!

Tribalism

Don't Let Your Tribalism Get The Best Of You!

Featuring: "The Man With The Wooden Head" - Clark Kent Johnson...

Middle manager in the middle of nowhere (but happens to be everywhere) and "wish upon a star" corporate lackey.


Photography-Layout: TMITH, Text: Reynard

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Reader Questions:

Q.  Don't your actually mean "racism" not tribalism?

A. Yes. We used tribe instead of race because when a person sees the word race their entire brain seems to shut down, the ability to reason and rationality itself seems to evaporate. 

 

Q.  Would you be better served using a hand drawn everyman style character?

A.  Certainly, and with all that wood carving, photography and post production-layout it would have been easier too...

 

Q.  Are you trying to insult people calling them wooden headed?!!

A.  You might insult someone by calling them a swindler if they cared about such things. You could insult someone by calling them a liar but only if they do not take pride in their lies. The wood is only a reference to the characters' make-up. We would have referred to type except we are not sure if it is birch or maple. 

Captain Peter Peach-Fuzz - Muy Mal Edition

Hey Rocky!

Who does Peter Peach-fuzz remind you of ? (think of an evil version)

L-R: Sergey, Mel, and Vlad blatantly busting 'murica and making fun...

Why do these characters keep coming up in my mind? When I read the news I keep seeing similarities between certain high level officials and certain Jay Ward cartoon characters.

Wrapping up your healthcare, she got away once...

 So he tries again. Is that Mulvaney or Ryan?  Oy!

Except that they are not funny like Ward's characters...

Sending Liberty Back

Statue Of Liberty To Be Sent Back...

Bannon and friends intend to return the Statue of Liberty and charge France for the shipping.

The administration recently revealed plans to send the Statue of Liberty back, using a family owned shipping company, and back charge the French government for the shipping. The reason given was to "reaffirm our America first disposition". Staffers also mentioned that the original concept was "no longer in tune with current policy". If France will not pay transit costs the statue will be melted down into "Freedom Rings" for men and women who support the current administration. They will cost only $199.00 each and will have "America Is Great Again-WW-III" emblazoned around a synthetic red ruby. Also included will be a certificate of authenticity and cloying patriotic fervor.

Beauty, Peace and Sweetness

Photo: Reynard, Caption: Sally

Sally Says

"Don't forget the soft and beautiful, the creative and the gentle, because it really does exist - even now. You may see a world confused, racked with fear, greed and hate. I see the things deemed not newsworthy. A mother nursing a child. An old person being gently cared for. The sick being looked after with love. A kind word and helping hand. These are the things I see."

Push Button Matilda

What informs your average American? 

From the Cosmic staff... A Story

Collage by TMITH -  Jesus, all American?

From...
Zzen:
Push Button Matilda tried to find a spoon looked out the window and fell in love with the moon. What does that have to do with America full of greed? A wildly snorting animal and enigmatic war steed? Easily misled, Push Button Matilda cannot see past the TV screen and so votes for the nasty, the vile, and the obscene.
Phineas:
Fear mongering anti-intellectual zombies, for what else is a person who refuses to think?!! Push Button Matilda sees a brown person walking down the street - she's very patriotic and thinks he needs to be beat - She calls the police and starts to fret, for she truly believes she sees a threat (he looks like that football player, the one who took a knee) The flag! The flag! The flag is not free! "He's looking in peoples windows" she cries out lying (it really didn't take her that much trying). The police come and subdue the intruder, right outside his own front door - He won't try that walking down the street stuff, not anymore...
Deegan:
He resisted their "directions" and having no connections - had to be dispensed with - all patriotic style - while Push Button Matilda watched with a smile - "Serves 'em right for simply being, they are all no account heathens!"
Reynard:
Push Button Matilda looks at her shiny plastic Jesus then shifts her eyes to her nylon flag, there is more to her than being a drag. Hatred allows her to brag a bit. Hatred gives her a small sense of power. She sits alone in her cardboard tower and says, "At least I'm no nigger or Muslim!" She thinks - then pauses, because her thoughts - her thoughts betray her - for in the deep of night just a little bit later, she wishes indeed, for a brown invader.

Understanding "Push Button"

Literature Analysis by Hans Cockerel Wheems

The PBM character is easily distracted by anything lacking weight, hence the moon and television. Fear is a major component that builds PBM's disposition, the facts concerning the fear are never entertained and when challenged PBM will not budge or give consideration to any fact that might break down her media fabricated outlook towards non-tribe members. (Actually any action that challenges her worldview - no matter how absolutely concrete - is met with fierce  and preferably violent resistance) one reason for her disdain of protestors. Lying to solidify her outlook is not a moral issue at all. This is common with authoritarians. Increasing self esteem by self identifying against outside (innocent) groups is also a common trait as is sensual objectification/dehumanization of said groups. This "poem" covers a broad expanse of issues - yet captures much of the essential angst of many "racially oriented" Americans today.