I meant the Greek gods to stand in for Them, invisible, all-powerful, overall motives unknowable, and I thought Beagles was responding by naming names, but now there seems to be some vacillation on that point So is there They, or is there isn't? Are they a group of people powerful enough to get us into wars and then lose them or isn't there?
I guess if Truman is going to get the onus for not marching into Red China to chase after victory, why doesn't he get any credit for winning WW II? He dropped the bomb didn't he? He was sitting in the oval office when both peace treaties were signed wasn't he? If he is part of Them. losing wars for apparently the hell of it, why did he defeat Germany and Japan?
I wonder what farm Hank had to give away in Paris. We had, as Beagles has pointed out, bombed the fuck out of them and they were still coming, so what were we going to do?
How come Bush I isn't on the list? Didn't he stop short of killing Saddam? He took a bit of grief for that, but I always thought that he did the right thing considering how much crap Bush II got us in by killing Saddam.
Is there a modern day Them? Does Beagles know any of their names?
Where does the prez get his information from? Well that is one of the main jobs of the prez, to select the guys who give him info. The prez is supposed to be able to spot bad apples and toss them out. Old Dog mentions Dulles, but how about evil Dick Cheney?
You know North Koreans don't get around much. When we hear our prez say he is going to blow North Korea off the face of the Earth we go, oh that Donald, but they, who already believe that our national goal is blowing them off the face of the Earth, take it a lot more seriously. Sure the Kims blow their mouths off, but there's an episode in Seinfeld where a monkey pelts Kramer with a banana peel so Kramer picks it up and slams it right back at him, and when people ask him why did he do that, he says well the monkey started it. See North Korea, way behind us in anything intellectual, is the monkey and the US is Kramer. Well currently it is. If we were Jerry or Elaine or even George we wouldn't have to be looking for mushroom clouds out of the corners of our eyes.
So these guys taking the knee are taking it to protest racial injustice, and you would think they would know why they are doing it because well, they are the ones doing it. Their detractors claim they are doing it to unsupport the US troops. Applying Occam's razor I have to ask, does that knee thing decrease racial injustice, does not doing it aid our troops in any way? No to both. Well maybe doing it encourages others to take up the cause of fighting racial injustice and not doing it causes others to support the troops. But really, who takes their guidance from what the position of the knee is in during the national anthem? I certainly hope nobody.
And what does it mean support the troops? When the taxman drops in we all pay plenty to support the troops. This whole thing about the flag and the song is idolatry. At one point during the Vietnam war there was a movement to put your headlights on in the daytime to support our boys. A friend of mine in Vietnam at the time reading about this said, you know, that did not help me at all.
Oh and the Bama returns came in last night. A triumph of the Church of Donald Trump Without Donald Trump, and know we see Donald Trump tossing Luther Strange and hustling to join the Church of Donald Trump Without Donald Trump.
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