re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

Ziabatsu’s link is firewalled here. Who was talking about “no pride in computer programming”? We saved your tender asses from the dreaded Y2K scourge!

Relevant section:

“This is terrible. I live in North Carolina where so much of our manufacturing base has gone to other countries,” he insisted. “And people are out of jobs, are out of work. And they say, ‘But we’ll retrain you, we’ll let you be a computer programmer.’”

“They don’t want to be a computer programmer!” Graham continued. “They want to do the same job as their fathers and their grandfathers. There was pride in the manufacturing and the building. And we’ve taken all that away and it’s sad.”

What a motherfucking liar, these are the people who look down on people who do manual labor.

Just like the Nazis (yeah, I went there), and to paraphrase William Shirer, Trump is loved by the petty bourgeois who considered themselves morally superior to the workers.