...and Parker from The Thunderbirds

I also do an Alan Stockdale routine to pad the show out.

I tell mine that I am a Johhny Howard impersonator and trimming them would leave me to starve.

Kinda sad to see "The More You Spend, The Less You Get" and "The Less You Spend, The More You Get" iterations outcompeted here, but I guess that is just Darwinism.

...resources.
Once accused, every denial sounds like a defensive confession. 2/2

Strong "Robin Hoodesque" ethos of taking from those "othered" for redistribution amongst those "belonging" -> "national""socialism".
Average people (mistakenly) assume they belong.
The Others are accused of being the cause of widespread suffering because they "weaken" society and use up...1/2

It's imminent this time.

It promises rewards for the "strongest" which is interpreted as those who work making actual stuff. Not artists, not academics, not financial market grifters, and especially not politicians/unionists who defend anything except simplistic nonsolutions.

...The icing on the disaffected cake is wall to wall entertainment on media (that lost its social licence decades ago) depicting the most dysfunctional people in society repeatedly failing upwards on reality shows. 2/2.

Then the driver to the "burn it all down and let's see who can cobble someting together out of the ruins" mentality amongst younger workers is insecure employment, unaffordable housing, inequitable access to healthcare and education, and wages that don't keep pace with costs...1/2

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Think I'm going to have "Closing Time" at my kick off

He just Scooby-Doo