“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Reminds me of the old joke about the WW2 veteran who fell out of a guard tower.
The only reason he's still got his chairmanship (or his seat, for that matter). Bernie's foreign policy has always been lukewarm. Guy was repping Warren for President back in 2016, before she chickened out.
But he gave a good stump speech and helped carve out a new pole within the Dem party. Its marched on without him.
The liberals don't want you to know.
The Red Pill they don't tell you about.
Once again, the villainous Xi Jinping has betrayed the revolution by failing to acknowledge that Mr. Tankie clearly had made the spirit-hands gesture to speak freely. China is no true communist state and us westerners will redouble our efforts to shake our heads disappointedly and post goofy memes on social media.
The best way to get promoted is to change jobs every 3-6 years.
We have bread lines, we just call them check-out queues and traffic jams.
We have concentration camps, we just call them detention centers.
We have a military dictatorship, we just call it the Joint Chiefs
Has anyone checked in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad? Maybe north, south, east, or west of there?
I think that would depend largely on whether or not he cared for his legacy after his final term
He absolutely does. The guy lives and dies by his name, and he wants Americans to remember him as a hero. He'll likely get his wish, too. I have no doubt that, twenty years from now, we're going to have some Thomas Sowell / Ross Perot / Milton Friedman analog leading up the "Trump Institute" in the same way the Hoover Institute and the assorted Eisenhower, LBJ, Reagan, and Clinton revisionists rebranded their old meal tickets' reputations.
Also, related to legacy, is if he'd want to set things up for Republicans who are aligned with him to get some residual benefit from his popularity for the long term.
Like Reagan before him, Trump wants to be an icon that points the way for the party of the future. But he's not terribly good at building organization. It congeals around his personality, but isn't easily transferable even to his immediate family. He's certainly tried to transfer that image, if for no other reason that it would have allowed him to cultivate allies in Congress and the judiciary more easily. But all he ever really gets is a bunch of yes-men aping him while running off on their own personal agendas the moment they're in office.
That's the real legacy of Trump. Folks are going to be arguing about "True Trumpism" long after he kicks it, but it'll be that much more word salad. None of his political ideologue will carry forward, because that ideology is still rooted in the old National Socialism of his father's generation and it is antithetical to modern American business theory. But folks running around in bronzer and saying "I'm just like Trump"? That'll echo for a generation.
But people seemingly act like the government wouldn't have ended the pandemic relief programs even if Trump had been reelected.
I mean, maybe they wouldn't. Trump does seem to get that giving away money is good for your popularity. Biden either hadn't noticed or doesn't give a shit.
If Trump is reelected he has no reason to do the same as he did during the pandemic unless capital faces another threat.
It's guaranteed to take another plunge if the GOP (or the Dems, for that matter) have a chance to do another gutting of public spending.
One way or another, we're going to be in another recession by 2028. Likely sooner.
Can't believe the guy who made the Justifiable Genocide Game would say something like this.