JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

robots will put millions of people out of work, and yet the world’s economic and political systems are still based on the assumption that laziness is the only reason not to have a job.  That’s an incendiary combination.

Kevin Drum, “Tech World: Welcome to the Digital Revolution”, Foreign Affairs, JULY/AUG 2018 p. 43, 45-46.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/starting-in-a-couple-of-decades-see-kdrums-article-in-foreignaffairs

The only thing more unconscionable than the @realDonaldTrump policy of ripping children away from their parents is @POTUS using those kids as hostages to make demands.

Does this make your blood boil?

If so, vote this November.
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Replying to @tedlieu @realDonaldTrump @POTUS
Dear @amortowles: Maybe I’ll practice the #gamblersrose my grandfather taught me. Re: parlor tricks, card tricks known by the Count. #AGentlemanInMoscow (2016) “sleight of hand” @ 78 (Hardcover). You take a deck of cards and twist them with one’s thumbs up top, turning opposite to each other ever so slowly…it’ll get there.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/senjohnmccain-amortowles-parlor-tricks-sleight-of-hand-known-to-the-count-agentlemaninmoscow-2016-78-hardcover

#SwamiG: “Act, do not ‘react’ [smiles, and we with him].” @UCBerkeley c. 1984

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/i-want-a-narrow-audience-i-use-rhetoric-when-some-may-desire-to-label-the-mock-outrageous-or-fighting-words-id-better-work-on-my-stamina-corps

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/usmc-may-not-stand-for-it-they-are-trained-to-drive-fly-and-dive-whats-so-great-about-standing-all-the-time-re-muellerinvestigation

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/liquidateonesstate-budweiserusa

blogosphere45.blogspot.com/2018/06/did-you-see-that-header-against-saudi.html

aka “Mueller Probe” Special Counsel Robert Mueller, former U.S. Marine Corps as noted by Steve Bannon in recent Anderson Cooper interview on CNN.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/usmc-may-not-stand-for-it-they-are-trained-to-drive-fly-and-dive-whats-so-great-about-standing-all-the-time-re-muellerinvestigation

Build the Wall @ San Salvador! #ElSalvador #offshorebalancing contenders: #Honduras #Guatamala #Belize {Make it artistic foo’}. “I lead a life of crime.”

@https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap-acdc-now-955gary

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Replying to @Ali_H_Soufan @DefenseBaron
Dear @USMC: If you put it that way…#MuellerProbe “[I think it {Mueller/Probe} should be suspended.]”–Rudy Giuliani

unverified material: this has been edited for coherence

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/mueller-probe-unedited-sic

https://t.co/jouv5cPYab; https://twitter.com/MilitaryEarth/status/1007735145724502017

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/liquidate-the-state

“You want to ‘#BankruptTheBars’?, you’ve got to get through me.” #TheBirds by #AlfredHitchcock circa 1967. #LiquidateTheWeakState

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/liquidatethestate-theocean-ledzeppelin-now-playing-well-its-led-zeppelin-anyway-housesoftheholy-955klos

#Propaganda: it means things could be “better” for “them”. #GeorgeOrwell #AldousHuxley #AlCapone
I love how #BetteDavis delivered the lines, “You make me sick!” and “[I’m able to stay just one step ahead of them.]”

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/bette-davis-lines