Tag Archives: failure

Starship go boom…

Well…again, even though I hate elon….it was cool to see the super heavy with starship take off this morning…but, that was about all that was good about it…the first and second stage failed to separate and the whole thing started to tumble so it was destroyed…one good thing was the look on ole elon’s face sitting in the control room when it blew…poor, poor, elon…I’ll do one in politics when I get back from having my teeth cleaned at 2…

What genius thought Jim Hackett was the solution for Ford?

Well…hey, look at that…I’m not going to talk about trump today and I’m sure you are as relieved as I am…but, I am going to talk about something that has been puzzling me all week after Ford’s bonds were downgraded to junk status…what genius thought that Jim Hackett had the talent to be the solution for Ford’s problems? Let’s go back a ways to his tenure at Steelcase, a company that WAS the world’s largest furniture manufacturer until Hackett got done with it and bailed into “retirement”…we had a saying when I worked at Steelcase…that a monkey could cut jobs and outsource production…but that is Hackett’s only claim to fame there…taking over a company with over 11,000 employees and 9 manufacturing plants with good paying jobs…and turning that into a company with less than 3,000 employees and no manufacturing left in the US after outsourcing everything to plants in Mexico. No innovation, no understanding of the talent the company had, and no growth…and now he has done the same thing to Ford…and all they would have had to do is drive 150 miles or so over to this side of the state and they would see what a no talent hack he is…but I guess that doesn’t matter in the insular world of the 1% where the norm is to fail up and pay no consequences for stupidity or the lack of talent. I have been a Ford man my entire life and I feel for them for getting snowed by Hackett and putting the company in danger…maybe this is what it takes to break the cycle of the incestuous relationships that lead to the same few people getting chance after chance even after being an abject failure….geez….

Paul Ryan, sooper genius….

Well…one of the great mysteries of the past few years is why anyone would think that Paul Ryan was a successful “policy wonk” and the “brains” of the repub party. Just take a look at his accomplishments since he has been in the House….he did get a post office in his district renamed….hmmm…but what else? He introduced legislation that would have privatized Social Security and been a huge giveaway to the investment community….but the real kicker of that legislation was that if converted to buying stocks for SS, the program would have owned every stock and in every company by 2050….I wonder what that is called? Could it be Communism? Where the government owns all of the means of production? Yep, this sooper genius wanted to put the country on the path to communism since he is just not bright enough to think of the long term consequences of what he proposes. Just like the turd of a healthcare law he just introduced that will kick 24 million people off their health insurance they have gained under the ACA….you could probably say that that is the purpose of the law since allowing low income and middle class people to be able to afford health insurance is something the repubs don’t give a damn about….but, given the total failure of a career that Ryan has had, it might be that he is just that stupid and didn’t see the consequences of what he is proposing…I hope this debacle once and for all puts a stake in the vampire idea that Ryan is the “brains” of the repub party….he is just a no talent hack that has played the pliant media for saps….