Ironic isn’t it, that this multi-spatial thread is essentially a continuation of the monetization of war materiel discussion from yesterday? What did Mr. Spock say…? “Little is as it may seem.” He had the Klingons’ number.
The full-time, professional politician was never envisioned by our founders; the words “… if you can keep it” haunt me.
To switch to the words of Mr. Clemens:
“There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.”
It used to be that serving the people, such as being in Congress, was an honor. It has since decayed into a career, something the Founders didn’t envision. And therein lies the problem.
For someone who believed he was so cunning, Pavel (Young) was remarkably stupid, she thought. Or, no, that wasn’t really true. What he was was an arrogant narcissist, the sort of sociopath who lived in a universe populated not by other human beings, but only by himself and human-shaped things put there for his use and convenience. For him to do whatever he wished with. And he was so busy thinking about all the things he could do with- or to- those things that it never occurred to him to worry about what they might do to him until something rubbed his nose in it. And his family’s position of power and wealth, and his father’s protection, had let him get away with that for his entire life.
–Toll of Honor, David Weber, 2024, p. 242.
Like most of Weber’s “Honor Harrington” novels, a thinly-veiled commentary on present-day American politics, and definitely worth reading.
Even if you already know how it ended on the Landing City dueling grounds on 9 June 1906 Post Diaspora (4010 AD).
So I guess I do not really understand why our polyticks are so involved in laundering money back to themselves. They have been printing money at an insane rate for years. This does Not compute.
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Sure. Let the poly-ticks die. But first pry them off We the People before WE die!
Ironic isn’t it, that this multi-spatial thread is essentially a continuation of the monetization of war materiel discussion from yesterday? What did Mr. Spock say…? “Little is as it may seem.” He had the Klingons’ number.
As Ambassador G’Kar said of Babylon 5, no one there is exactly what they seem.
clear ether
eon
The full-time, professional politician was never envisioned by our founders; the words “… if you can keep it” haunt me.
To switch to the words of Mr. Clemens:
“There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.”
He also said: “The rights of no man are secure as long as the Legislature is in session!”
It used to be that serving the people, such as being in Congress, was an honor. It has since decayed into a career, something the Founders didn’t envision. And therein lies the problem.
–Toll of Honor, David Weber, 2024, p. 242.
Like most of Weber’s “Honor Harrington” novels, a thinly-veiled commentary on present-day American politics, and definitely worth reading.
Even if you already know how it ended on the Landing City dueling grounds on 9 June 1906 Post Diaspora (4010 AD).
clear ether
eon
To any who haven’t experienced Honor Harrington – – grab a copy of “On Basilisk Station,” and prepare to be enthralled . . .
So I guess I do not really understand why our polyticks are so involved in laundering money back to themselves. They have been printing money at an insane rate for years. This does Not compute.
Greed has no logic. Simply a bottomless appetite for “More”.
Madonna nailed it in the movie Dick Tracy (1990).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anZCbX21P-0
Nothing is ever “enough” for people like this.
“Everything” would not be enough.
Grinding everyone else in the world under their heels would not even be “enough”.
They want to be Gods.
And you’d better worship them- Or Else.
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eon
‘Tao’ He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
“Some animals are more equal than others”
George Orwell
Bingo!! Give dat man a cigar… not one of mine…