To be tactful, John Kerry is a real piece of work. He is right up there with the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas, Uncle Joe (at least when he was mentally competent), and dear Kammie when it comes to political parasites feeding on the body politic.
But sometimes even people like Nixon or Kerry or your local scummy politicians speak the truth. As part of their word salad and self-serving rhetoric.
So while this recent tirade of his is what we would expect, it has some surprising truth in it:
I think the dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing. And it’s part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue.
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Beware of fraudsters
Now, we all hear the various PSAs and see the billboards – often paid for by government agencies – that warn us against scams and scamsters, against con-artists and all those evil folks. Whether it is utility frauds or Nigerian scam letters (emails), or people going around selling counterfeit goods, it seems to be a mission of governments at all levels to warn us against them.
Why?
Well, we need to remember: government hates competition. And two, seeks to distract us from the real pro practitioners of the art of the fraud and scams.
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