But, I will never forget how that sick furries bastard Combetta kept taking the 5th for every other question.
I spent my entire career in law and law enforcement. I have never seen less respect for the Rule of Law in my entire life than where we are right now.
A good analogy for the current poor attitude would be how workers under Communism learned immediately that it didn't matter at all whether you worked your fingers to the bone or whether you came in hung over and were useless for the entire day. Everyone was paid the same. Under those circumstances there simply isn't any reason for any good and decent person to stick their neck out anymore.
My family has had good friends from Ukraine for many years. We helped get them into the United States. Anyway, some of them were part of the communism there back with it was the USSR. I will paraphrase what one of them said of it.
At first she really believed in it. Everyone working, doing their part. Everyone putting in and everyone benefiting. It was glorious! Or so she thought. But things kept getting worse and worse. And one event made her wake up. She was the collective leader of some farms and it was her job to organize and lead them as well as deliver the food they made to the government. One season they had it really bad and didn't make their quota by a large margin. She was all worried. And one of her friends, another collective leader, noticed she was upset and asked what was wrong. She explained that she would probably be punished and was upset that she wasn't able to do her part and felt like a failure and was letting down the people. Her friend laughed at her and told her not to worry. The friend told her to do what they all did and it would be okay. They told her to just lie. Just lie about how much food they had made. So she did and wasn't punished. It was at this point that she realized communism was all a farce and she had been played a fool.
I read many books from the 50s to the 70s about Communism and its threat to human incentive and achievement.
Absolutely they would just lie. But the other part of that was that you couldn't in any way make a party leader that was higher than you look bad in any way.
The old Hotel Moscow ended up with two completely different and competing architectural styles on two different sides of the building. Stalin was given both plans to approve and somehow didn't appreciate that he was to choose one or the other. Papa Joe approved both plans! Rather than tell Stalin he made a mistake and risk being immediately shot or a mercifully slow death in the gulags, they kept their mouths shut and they built the Hotel Moscow with two completely different architectural styles
Another book had a story about why a section of the transiberian railway had a severe 10 mile jog in the track line. You see, Comrade Stalin's straight-edge that he used to indicate where they should build, had a small knot in the center of the straight-edge which had fallen out!
Shoes. The factories were required to make a certain amount of shoes but they measured it based on weight. Eventually the demand became greater than they could supply. So what did they do? They made the shoes heavier and heavier with more rubber to meet the weight demand of the quota.
I certainly hope that something happens.
But, I will never forget how that sick furries bastard Combetta kept taking the 5th for every other question.
I spent my entire career in law and law enforcement. I have never seen less respect for the Rule of Law in my entire life than where we are right now.
A good analogy for the current poor attitude would be how workers under Communism learned immediately that it didn't matter at all whether you worked your fingers to the bone or whether you came in hung over and were useless for the entire day. Everyone was paid the same. Under those circumstances there simply isn't any reason for any good and decent person to stick their neck out anymore.
My family has had good friends from Ukraine for many years. We helped get them into the United States. Anyway, some of them were part of the communism there back with it was the USSR. I will paraphrase what one of them said of it.
At first she really believed in it. Everyone working, doing their part. Everyone putting in and everyone benefiting. It was glorious! Or so she thought. But things kept getting worse and worse. And one event made her wake up. She was the collective leader of some farms and it was her job to organize and lead them as well as deliver the food they made to the government. One season they had it really bad and didn't make their quota by a large margin. She was all worried. And one of her friends, another collective leader, noticed she was upset and asked what was wrong. She explained that she would probably be punished and was upset that she wasn't able to do her part and felt like a failure and was letting down the people. Her friend laughed at her and told her not to worry. The friend told her to do what they all did and it would be okay. They told her to just lie. Just lie about how much food they had made. So she did and wasn't punished. It was at this point that she realized communism was all a farce and she had been played a fool.
I read many books from the 50s to the 70s about Communism and its threat to human incentive and achievement.
Absolutely they would just lie. But the other part of that was that you couldn't in any way make a party leader that was higher than you look bad in any way.
The old Hotel Moscow ended up with two completely different and competing architectural styles on two different sides of the building. Stalin was given both plans to approve and somehow didn't appreciate that he was to choose one or the other. Papa Joe approved both plans! Rather than tell Stalin he made a mistake and risk being immediately shot or a mercifully slow death in the gulags, they kept their mouths shut and they built the Hotel Moscow with two completely different architectural styles
Another book had a story about why a section of the transiberian railway had a severe 10 mile jog in the track line. You see, Comrade Stalin's straight-edge that he used to indicate where they should build, had a small knot in the center of the straight-edge which had fallen out!
Shoes. The factories were required to make a certain amount of shoes but they measured it based on weight. Eventually the demand became greater than they could supply. So what did they do? They made the shoes heavier and heavier with more rubber to meet the weight demand of the quota.