Nothing could go wrong here, right? Wrong.
It’s almost July 4th.
pic.twitter.com/yNz3anwAwc— AlphaFox (@Alphafox78) June 28, 2023
As mentioned in an article last month, I have been helping out friends by driving a 10-speed triaxle dump truck (6AM to 6PM) 2 to 3 days a week this summer.
Using older but well-maintained dump trucks and newer state-of-the-art excavation equipment, six guys working full-time, plus me helping out part-time, are removing the concrete on a stretch of road and several streets in a small town located in an adjacent county. Additionally, we are coordinating with two road engineers, and conferring with local utility employees overseeing the project. Our crew is handling the overall excavation, installation of underground drainage infrastructure, dumping the old concrete in designated land areas, hauling away dirt to two other locations, and hauling in rock from two separate quarries. All of this is being done in advance of a paving company’s final pouring of the concrete.
I was in a gathering of folks when a dispute escalated between a husband and wife over what has now become the title of this article. During our discussion someone recited those words and the wife divulged how much she hated that statement. After quietly listening to the exchange for a few moments, the husband spoke up and said: “Well that must be more proof of how opposites attract, because I LOVE that phrase and I say it all the time!”
Which may have been part of the reason why the wife disliked the expression, but I wasn’t about to go there.
Instead, I mentioned how that particular shibboleth of sorts was surely defined in the minds of the beholders. On the one hand, its utterance could be an excuse – even a fatalistic expression derived from laziness or defeatism. Or, like the purveyor of produce in Ayn Rand’s epic tome, “Atlas Shrugged” – when Dagny Taggart asked the grocery vendor why she didn’t move her product from out of the sun and into the shade and her reply was: “Because it’s always been that way”.
Oh, the world sucks? Of course it does. Why bother.
It is what is.
A 3-day, maybe 4-day, weekend of no work! Beer! Brats! Fireworks! P-A-R-T-Y Time!! That pretty much summarizes what too many Americans know about the reason for celebrating that day. On a good day you might even find a smart pea-brain sized American who mentions the word “freedom” in conjunction with the drunken festivities. After all, millions upon millions of Americans still live under the delusion that we are “the freest nation on earth”. We even have a war criminal ex-president who told us that they “hate us for our freedoms”. Never mind that what we define as “freedom” today — a brutalized technocratic police state run by banks, corporations, and globalist loyalists intent on destroying the very concept of the Great American Experiment, the Constitution — is the very same thing the Founding Fathers and colonists fought against! They weep in their graves, trust me.
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