Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for December 19, 2024

Another magat documentary.

God, do I even nee to say it?

Yes. Capitalism SUUUUUUCKS!!!

We are now, like Russia, an Oligarchy. Would you Magahats like to know what Putin & trump talked about at that private meeting in Norway several years ago?

….and people wonder why CEO’s get shot in the street….

I bet that fairy’s name was Roberts. And someone should tell that puppet that smoking cigars is dangerous, especially if you’re made out of wood.

As Ayn Rand said, a good capitalist would sell the bullets to his own firing squad.

What’s the alternative to capitalism again?

American business at its “best.”

MAGAts, MuskRat, Spineless Senatorial Synchophants, and Subprime Court Grudges! Ya gotta love the DisUnited States! Have fun in 2025 trying to take the country back to 1825!

So Ruben bolling is a socialist

Fun Fact: In the original book, that’s exactly what Pinocchio did to the cricket.

Well, look at that: Fisher is extolling Trump economics. I guess Christmas IS a time of miracles!

I believe this is Ruben’s best ever effort. It should be included with the papers involving The Citizen’s United S.C. Travesty.

I’m going to miss the cricket but I can’t take a stand or else my magamerch will depreciate.

In his first 4 years in office tRump added 25% of the total National Debt accrued since 1797.

ROI. It justifies (excuses) any corporate decision made, so long as the result is profit.

One of the principle means of generating profit is to minimize to the maximum expenses/costs of any/all commodities utilized in production of corporate output.

Labor is expense and therefore a commodity. It is a cost corporations/ownership always strives to reduce and/or eliminate.

What currently is (loudly/endlessly) bemoaned as “globalism” is the impact on the US economy of foreign produced goods imported which compete with domestically produced items.

In the ‘80’s, Wealth purchased many US industrial concerns and immediately shipped items necessary for production to China and other Asian nations where labor (commodity) costs were much lower than US labor expenses, particularly in unionized industries. These companies then shipped Chinese/Asian (and a few other nations) produced goods back to the US, where they were sold at or near the same price as when previously produced within US borders. Profits from this increased extraordinarily.

Mitt Romney and his firm, Bain Capital, were front and center in this activity.

Would you, reader, bet money on right wing capitalists as principal advocates of what is labeled ‘globalism’, or would you expect that left wing economic theory supported exporting US production out of this country over the last four plus decades (scale of this activity dramatically increasing beginning with the Reagan administration)?

“Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” Thomas Jefferson

“The business of America is business.” Calvin Coolidge

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“Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” Jacob Marley

Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards, the voice of Jiminy Cricket in the cartoon, is a real favorite of mine. He was a vaudeville star who did a comedy vocal act with ukulele. His career declined during the Depression. He made party records and played sidekicks in B westerns. Disney rescued him and gave him a bunch of voice roles. Edwards devoted his spare time to fast living. He hardly ever net a vice he didn’t like.

This one I kind of agree with, well, miracles and all.

In the original story, the cricket got squashed too.

In the final scene, Geppetto hasn’t make a puppet in years. Most of those factories are automated. They deal with government contracts with massive overruns. And have made the “Too Big To Fail” list in “Inc.” four years in a row.

I have to hand it to President Musk. He didn’t even wait until his patsy was sworn in, that pesky have-to-be-born-a-US Citizen-thing required a patsy like a lot of bars are owned by one so they can get the liquor license, has already decided to end the US Government before inauguration day. Killed the funding bill yesterday and when Trump panicked-pushed a new one today, it failed too. Wave bye-bye to your elders at Christmas because if they don’t their checks in Jan, they won’t be there in Feb.