Swiftian rule
Odd that it seems to be inevitably the case that the ruler of extremely poor countries where every one is very skinny are very very fat. Almost as if they were eating their own people.
politics
Uneasy lies the head
Problem with being the leader (whether monarch, dictator, president, prime minister) of a country is that there are x number of people (where x = population of country – 1) who also want to be leader.
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Pan anthropoid
Just as well some chimp didn’t invent a chimpanzee god, Pan perhaps, and then incite his followers to attack and kill all the followers of all the different human gods. Still, if he had, maybe chimps would be given human rights having proved themselves all too human. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/09/chimpanzees-do-not-have-same-legal-rights-as-humans-us-appeals-court-rules
May Day
Just as Maggie Thatcher\’s friendship with Pinochet was the final touch on the portrait of her black soul, so is Theresa May\’s deal with the Northern Ireland Unionists. In both cases, any lingering doubt there might have been as to their characters is instantly removed. In Donald Trump\’s case there has been no doubt about
All of the time
In the British elections Theresa May found that the old saying \”you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can\’t fool all of the people all of the time\” is true. On the other hand, in America, Donald Trump has found
It isn\’t hard to do
Imagine a world that has been made over in Donald Trump\’s image
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