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In reply to the discussion: Trump is not the real problem. [View all]Hekate
(90,552 posts)56. Was discussing, last night, how widely the infection spreads, how DJT is the tip of the boil...
"Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and therell be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years, thirty years, ten years time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.
SIR TERRY PRATCHETT, Lords & Ladies
Pratchett just tosses these bits of social commentary in as they occur to him -- in this case into a story about an Elf invasion -- and they stick in my mind like a burr.
Eventually Trump will drop dead, probably of natural causes, but our work will go on and on. This is a life-threatening systemic infection in our country -- but the fight will go on.
SIR TERRY PRATCHETT, Lords & Ladies
Pratchett just tosses these bits of social commentary in as they occur to him -- in this case into a story about an Elf invasion -- and they stick in my mind like a burr.
Eventually Trump will drop dead, probably of natural causes, but our work will go on and on. This is a life-threatening systemic infection in our country -- but the fight will go on.
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Eisenhower was the last honest Republican. He warned of the "Military-Industrial Complex"
OMGWTF
Feb 2020
#29
Yes, republicans. And the whole concept of republicans and what they stand for..
pangaia
Feb 2020
#22
world wide is right.. and it is the 'right' pretty much that is the greater danger, in my opinion...
pangaia
Feb 2020
#41
hate radio. the root cause, doomed by artificial intelligence as soon as dems stop ignoring it
certainot
Feb 2020
#60
Was discussing, last night, how widely the infection spreads, how DJT is the tip of the boil...
Hekate
Feb 2020
#56
The real problem is as it has always been Republicans in the House, Senate and at
cstanleytech
Feb 2020
#68