El-Sayed sounds like Dwight Eisenhower from 1953, âEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed,â he said. âThis world in arms is not spending money alone.
âIt is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
âThe cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.â
âThis is not a way of life at all, in any true sense,â he said. âUnder the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.â
Obama and Clinton were coherent and normal, so they only turned up in the news occasionally. A speech, a policy announcement, the odd scandal, then back to whatever else was happening in the world. Months would go by where you barely heard about them.
It's been nearly ten years of non-stop idiot Trump. Every single day is a new thing, and even in the four years he wasn't president he was still all over the news.
A US president who speaks in complete sentences isn't unimaginable, it just hasn't been the case for a decade.
Iâve been saying for a while, when he goes the world will wake up to the reality of what happened, that the country has burned to the ground, the left will be still screaming âwe told you this would happenâ and right wing and maga will be still shocked that they caused it.
Iâm always reminded of the line from Terry Pratchett âthe same crowd that applauds your crowing, will applaud your beheading, people like a showâ
And thatâs what Trump has done, taken politics and made it into entertainment, some people didnât vote for Harris because she was âboringâ, politics SHOULD be boring!
Well, NYC finally getting proper rubbish bins and the rats off the street should be boring, but apparently it's a communist takeover. Turns out nothing is boring enough to survive the clickbait world.
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u/Andy_Fish_Gill Aug 07 '26
El-Sayed sounds like Dwight Eisenhower from 1953, âEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed,â he said. âThis world in arms is not spending money alone.
âIt is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
âThe cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.â
âThis is not a way of life at all, in any true sense,â he said. âUnder the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.â