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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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America’s not for sale? I be George Soros will be devastated to hear that!
On one hand, I’d have thought he’d have recited his lies (is the “n” really necessary?) so many times as to have them permanently etched in long-term muscle memory.
On the other hand, with nothing but bullshit for currency, I guess he does hafta change it out pretty frequently.
On the third hand, does it really matter? No one’s actually listening. Freedom folks assume he’s lying before he draws breath, True Believers will pimp anything for The Cause, and the vast rest either don’t want to replace him, or do, thinking that will somehow change things.
Seriously, I suspect that across the board, “we” care as much about his content as he does. With attendant results.
shriveled little gnome, I like that.
That shriveled little gnome shit canned the nuclear waste depository we paid billions for. So now it’s all stored in dozens of swimming pools in a neighborhood near you instead of 3,000′ underground in the middle of nowhere. That not only stopped the nuclear power industry in it’s tracks (just great if you’ll be getting power from magic or fairy dust) but left us all vulnerable to any long term grid down EMP event brought to you by our friends in N.Korea or China or Iran or Pakistan or Russia or the Sun.
It’s one thing to screw up an already screwed up health care system. It’s another to really screw everything up big time and long term.