I want to illustrate some communist stupidity. These Marxist idiots have a kindergarten level of understanding when it comes to economics.
A circuit breaker for the front of the house kept tripping. I kept losing power to two bedrooms and a bathroom. 6 receptacles, plus the lights for the three rooms. I spent a good part of the day trying to chase down the cause. It took about 3 hours to discover one of the stretches of Romex running between two receptacles on two different walls had a short between the ground and the neutral wires. They measured less than an ohm between them. I was forced to cut the ends of the wire off in both boxes. Now the breaker stays on. I’m glad the wire in question only powers the one plug.
So tomorrow, I will run to Lowes and get a twenty foot piece of 12 gauge Romex and some nail plates. Then I will have to pull the baseboard between that plug and one that is on the same wall, pull the wire behind the drywall, use a hammer drill and masonry bit to drill into the block, pull the wire up in to the boxes through the hole I just drilled, wire it all up, and then repair the wall and replace the baseboards. Call it another 4 or 5 hours of my day MINIMUM. Even doing the work myself is going to take about 20 hours of work and cost about $60 in parts. If I had paid an electrician, probably $1,000 worth of service call. All because of a tripping breaker.
How is this related to communists? Because, according to Communists, owning and maintaining property isn’t work, and landlords shouldn’t be allowed to charge people money for that.
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Grumpy51 · October 16, 2026 at 5:49 am
which is why Sat Cong is the prevailing answer in many parts of the world…..
Joe Blow · October 16, 2026 at 6:43 am
I have relations that are exactly like that. Their adult plan at 25 years of age is to work a minimal health-care job for 10-years to pay off their student loans that give them zero employability… and then build a not-for-profit no-kill cat-shelter that will double as their home. I shit you not.
Fred · October 16, 2026 at 8:31 am
The human race is due for a severe culling. IT WILL HAPPEN. Just the way various life forms balance out… It may be because some moron in a lab on the other side of the world butterfingered a test tube of virulent pathogens, it may be because some recruiter slotted an idiot to babysit the canned sunshine. It could very well be that society suffers a series of cascade failures to cause our standard of living to drop to mid nineteenth century… But the cold hard truth is that in many areas of the world humans are being culled for reasons they had nothing to do with. You could play all your cards right and still get screwed by life because somebody left the idiot cage open that morning… Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and enjoy the ride. Ain’t nobody getting out alive!
EC · October 16, 2026 at 9:56 am
I don’t think they’re smart enough to be communists, b/c communists are smart enough to control the State, and this sort of ilk is incapable of even controlling themselves. However, there is good political use for useful idiots who’s best skill is consumption, whether it be food, water, fuel, internet bandwidth, any resource they can consume, including the Republic itself.
They amount to little more than an unorganized militia of termites, until they become organized under a banner of un-fulfillable promises.
Nebraska · October 16, 2026 at 10:15 am
$1,000 and “We don’t do drywall repairs. (But we can refer you to someone else.)”
Real world experience: I fixed my sister’s Living Room wall after a plumber tore it apart. He did find and correct the root cause of the leak, but left a destroyed wall in his wake.
Please share when done what caused the short. TNX.
Divemedic · October 16, 2026 at 11:16 am
I don’t know. The Romex cable (when disconnected at both ends) shows a short between neutral (white) and ground. My guess is the cable was rubbing against a nail plate, staple, or some other metal object inside of the wall, and it eventually rubbed through. I will likely never know. What I did was cut the cable off at both ends, and I will just run a new one in the least disruptive way that I can.
JimmyPx · October 16, 2026 at 10:39 am
The uber wealthy behind closed doors refer to these people as “useless eaters”.
What do you call someone who refuses to work yet wants everything to be given to them free so they can sit on their ass high or drunk all day at the expense of their fellow citizens ?
That’s about the definition of a parasite and due to sky high taxes over the decades the productive citizens have fewer kids and the freeloaders spit them out thanks to the Welfare State. Mitt Romney in 2012 understated it when he said HALF of our population is sitting on their ass getting a government check every month.
It’s unsustainable hence why we are 40 trillion in debt with no end in sight.
There is coming a day not too far off where the country can no longer afford it and the EBT cards will shut off and welfare, section 8, free Obamaphones, etc checks will bounce.
Then besides rioting what are these freeloaders going to do ?
Big Ruckus D · October 16, 2026 at 4:11 pm
The obvious solution to this issue is to stop renting to shitlib morons, and put all idiot communists where they truly belong: in a mass grave on scrub land that isn’t otherwise fit for development. And that’s exactly the scenario being worked up to, if the good guys start taking the threat they pose seriously.
As to a plumber (or electrician) tearing open a wall for repairs, I like to run a turnkey operation. If I open a wall or ceiling, I will offer the customer a quote to repair the wall board (or plaster on lath) sans painting, as I have taught myself to do excellent repair work on both. Most gladly accept the arrangement, but I realize it is quite uncommon to offer such a service, rather than referring another contractor to handle the cosmetic work.
Univ of Saigon 68 · October 16, 2026 at 10:56 pm
Communism: A weird political science experiment acting in defiance of human nature. James Howard Kunstler
Landroll · October 18, 2026 at 6:41 pm
The woman with the useless college degree is sitting on a gold mine. Just takes a little imagination.
Electrical Work – Area Ocho · October 18, 2026 at 12:05 pm
[…] post this morning because I was busy yesterday. It was time to fix the tripping breaker problem I was troubleshooting a few days ago. If you will recall, I had a problem with the breaker tripping repeatedly for the receptacles in two […]
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