When Rivera shot off his own foot saying something similar, at least he wasn't running for Mayor (can't, term limits)
To be fair, the “Illiterate Peasants” he was referencing weren’t the Bus Riding Public who incidentally are the Working Class who support him and the rest of the Parasite Class. They’re seasonal labor Farm Workers who quite literally feed his fat piggy ass and those of his Parasite Class comrades. The ones who, like him, feel that the bus service and the people who ride the bus to WORK, mostly, are extraneous and needn’t be considered. One attitude spills into the other and then back again.
“5000 Illiterate Peasants”, compared to your similar indictments of people riding the bus? When Mayor Rivera said something similar, the “illiterate peasants” with whom I was riding the bus and discussing this same issue (Before the Big Purge of bus service) were a retired lady, with really bad health problems that come from aging, and a SCHOOLTEACHER who is blind from birth. I personally can’t drive because of my neurological problems, similarly, from birth. Mayor Lyin’ el had said that only bums and winos ride the bus. You could tell right there that he wasn’t running for re-election.
Doug Bruce and his accomplices at “Citizens for Accountable Leadership” who aren’t “accountable” enough to put their Leaders Name (Doug Bruce) on their corporate letterhead even as a member of the board, are petitioning for a “strong executive mayoral city government”.
And it’s just a coincidence that Bruce, Former Prosecutor, is rumored to be wanting another run for Mayor.
Of COURSE it’s just a coincidence. Doug Bruce would never lie, unless of course he needs to lie or just wants to lie. Nor would any of his Accomplic errr I mean “Associates” yeah, that’s the ticket, Associates.
By the way, Doug, if somebody is reading this to you… I don’t like cops in any form, especially the Prosecutor type. I feel strongly that as a Prosecutor you would by default have covered many a crime committed “in the line of duty” by your fellow pigs.
Especially as you feel that certain Racist Urge to dismiss whole segments of the people who work to support your system as “Illiterate Peasants” the way you did the farm workers.
And, Brucie-baby, when I was riding the bus that day, Illiterate Peasant schoolteacher was on her way to work, Illiterate Peasant Senior Citizen lady was on her way from one of the Senior Centers which you’re in the process of closing, to her home. SHE was worried because your shadow-government was cutting Saturday bus service off at 5 PM on the route she rides from her home to Church on Saturday evenings. Correction, (damnation, only an ILLITERATE PEASANT could possibly make such an error… RODE the bus to her church services… because you and your Noble, Intellectually Superior Ilk managed to get Saturday bus services cut off completely.)
The third Illiterate Peasant, moi meme sui, who speaks three languages and has a larger English vocabulary than YOU do, was on my way to the doctors office. Many faux literati feel the urge to “incorrect” me on the use of “doctors” instead of “doctor’s” as the possessive of the noun “doctor” but that’s just an error. On their part.
Mr Bruce, I was going to get treatment for an on-the-job injury that has basically left me crippled. Yes, I’m one of those “Illiterate Peasants” who do or rather DID manual labor at slave wages under the Capitalist System you endorse so fervently. And by the way, I have in my extensive Work History actual Farm Labor. Something your porky sorry Parasite ass isn’t going to do unless you’re forced to do it.
The part which crippled me wasn’t the injury itself, severe though it was. No, it was the 14 YEARS of denial of health care by the Corporate Medical System which you also endorse, fervently.
Socialist Subsidized Medicaid saved my Left Foot.
Corporate health “care” protocols and policies completely destroyed my Right foot.
But, in your Fascist Corporate Welfare vision, that makes me a Bum and an “illiterate Peasant”. You say it to one of my comrades, or to 5000 of them, doesn’t matter, it works out the same for me. Your choice too, by the way, because you’ve made similar statements of solidarity with the Police State.
In a way, Mr Bruce, I can almost hope for you to succeed in your endeavours. That way you can further hasten the destruction of your system. Your policies harmed Capitalism much more than any Communist or Anarchist revolutionaries ever could.
I would endorse the further destruction of your system save for one thing… well, let’s call it 5000 things, actually people…. the Bus Riders and Other Working PEOPLE you dismissed as being “Illiterate Peasants”. And every other person of limited means who depends on at least a fragment of Civilization to survive, so they can look out for their own survival.
People like Heather, who unlike YOU or any of your friends, actually WORKS, she’s a waitress at a restaurant which stays open late, across town from our neighborhood. She depends, as does her husband and their three children, on the Bus System being an active running proposition.
In reality, Mr Bruce, so does EVERYBODY in town.
I know, you feel that the PEASANTS in the construction and manufacturing and service and agricultural sectors are disposable and you’d rather do without us. But you can’t, you see. Neither you nor any of your Elitist Pig Comrades possibly could survive.
Oh, I suppose you COULD, if you were to grab enough ambition from God only knows where, and learn how to do Physical Labor for your own benefit.
Funny how the “Elitists” really aren’t all that “Elite”.
Too bad your “elite” friend Nozolino isn’t actually going to be in a Real Penitentiary for your shared crimes. Then he could spout off about how much better he feels himself to be to Working Class people all day long… or really, only as long as it takes for him to piss off one of them, JUST ENOUGH for the Real Worker to decide to teach him a few Physical lessons on “superiority” and “elitist doctrine”.
He and you might just get such a lesson delivered on the Outside, though. And your Pig comrades in the C.S. Gestapo Department won’t be able to protect you. Nor will your “friend” with the closet homo-erotic Gun Fetish.
“yeah, get out of the car… bring your guns, we’ll take them too”.
Anger isn’t an entirely unproductive and useless emotion.
Sometimes it can be channeled to the end of removing useless Parasites like yourself from any position where you might Screw Up our society any more than you already have.
Funny thing this word illiterate. A term meaning not able to read or write; uneducated: having or showing little or no knowledge of a particular subject or full of or making many basic errors in the use of language. Not that any of our civic leaders have shown any signs of these traits. HA! When I have been a regular public transit customer, many of the regulars are reading novels, newspapers and magazines. So, who is the illiterate, Dougie?
Yeah, that part he had specifically aimed at Mexican farm laborers. In Mexico they have a really high rate of literacy compared to the United States. So do a lot of places the Mighty consider to be infested with Peasants. Their contempt oozes over to the American workers as well.
In a quote from “The Return of the King” the last one of the LOTR trilogy, “oft evil will, evil harms”
(Sam Gamgee when he went to rescue Frodo from the tower, and the Orcs who had taken Frodo prisoner from the lair of Shelob, had slaughtered each other)
The biggest joke of all is that he’s trying to portray himself as a populist and One of Us. Just, you know, an Elite one of us who deserves to make our decisions because of his Elite status.
I believe fervently that’s the main reason they hate Public Education, because they NEED an educated “workforce”, but not people who have learned deductive logic, and how to question assumptions.
Because people who rule based on assumptions can’t survive with those assumptions being challenged.
The likes of Doug Bruce is what runs our City, Imagine what Colorado Springs will be like in the next 5 years if Doug Bruce gets his way.
If you think this is a draconian city now just wait.
I think it would spark an uncontainable rebellion. Could be wrong, sometimes the Sheeple stand for unbelievable tyranny from the Bosses.