According to Trump, Things Couldn’t Be Any Worse.

Mike Weisser
4 min readDec 8, 2023

I have a friend who is 84-years old and has basically lost the ability to walk without using a wheelchair or two canes. So, right now he’s a resident of a nursing home which does physical therapy with the hope that maybe his muscles will wake up again.

Meanwhile, his brain is functioning as well as it every functioned and he has full use of his fingers and hands. So, given today’s report on the employment situation, I’m going to tell him to go online and look for a job.

I notice that many job advertisements now have a category called ‘remote.’ In the olden days, jobs were divided between men and women but that’s no longer politically correct and in some instances even illegal, so it’s been replaced by on-site work i=or ‘work from home.’

And what this reflects is the fact that not only does everyone have a laptop at home, but just about everyone has a high-speed digital connection, so apps like Zoom or Buzzfeed work just fine. Moreover, the only parts of the country which still don’t have broadband service are places where the people are outnumbered by the cows.

Don’t want instant digital connections to the entire world? Move to Box Elder, Montana, which used to have around 800 residents but roughly 90 people live there now. The Chippewa-Cree Nation has their tribal headquarters…

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