Tuesday Stuff

Let’s see how many dog whistles Stuart Varney of Fix Noise manages to sound here…

1) Talking about pensioners who will probably “take a haircut” while showing a yacht in the background, making an almost farcical association (assuming the supposedly oh-so-generous benefits of Stockton public employees)

2) Talking about the supposed “moral obligation” of a contract (as if any Fix Noise cretin has even a passing familiarity with anything whatsoever to do with morality) and then, a second later, saying that said contract has to be torn up, or words to that effect

3) Talking about how inequitable it supposedly is for Stockton public employees to receive benefits based on their peak earnings (good luck trying to retire on that, not to mention anything less)

4) Talking about how younger workers supposedly are being cheated out of work because of said bennies due to long-time older employees

Wonderful job by Varney to shamelessly propagate wingnut talking points – I hope Roger Ailes awarded him with a milk bone (“only so much money to go around” for “the rabble,” as opposed to the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch, huh?)…



…and isn’t this an interesting curiosity from a leading spokesman of a political party that used to be sane on the national level, and is actually going around the bend more and more on the state and local level; I probably would not have voted for John McCain in 2000, but I would have thought about it for a little while at least (hat tip to TRMS)…



…and they find themselves in that position because they continue to listen to numbskulls like this guy (definitely “low-hanging fruit” here…oh, and here is more on “Dr. Carson”)…



…and in light of the preceding video, this song comes immediately to mind :-).