[quote=The-Shoveler]Talking to you about china is just useless, your are already over the edge LOL.[/quote]
Are you named after THE shoveler? I’ve always identified more with The Spleen.
Spleen: “Why are you guys always dissing me ? It hurts my feelings. I’m a superhero too. I have powers.”
Invisible Boy: “Really ? Like what ?”
Spleen: “So glad you asked. Well, it all started when I was just 13 years of age. One day, while walking with some friends, I accidentally cut the cheese. Well, in my adolescent awkwardness, I blamed it on an old gypsy woman who happened to be passing by. BIG MISTAKE ! The gypsy woman placed a curse upon my head. Because I smelled it, she decreed I would forevermore BE HE WHO DEALT IT !”
But I guess I have a lot of invisible boy in me too
I’d say 35 perc spleen, 40% inv. Boy, 25 % shoveler
[quote=The-Shoveler]Talking to you about china is just useless, your are already over the edge LOL.[/quote]
Ok. what about Russia? You know that the USA “created” Boris Yeltsin. And now we have Vladimir Putin as backlash.
In Iran, we enabled the Shah which led to the the Iranian revolution. We are still dealing with the fallout now. At what total cost in American treasure and lives? That was just so BP could make their $billions.
We Are Living in a Failed State
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.
The crisis demanded a response that was swift, rational, and collective. The United States reacted instead like Pakistan or Belarus—like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering. The administration squandered two irretrievable months to prepare. From the president came willful blindness, scapegoating, boasts, and lies. From his mouthpieces, conspiracy theories and miracle cures. A few senators and corporate executives acted quickly—not to prevent the coming disaster, but to profit from it. When a government doctor tried to warn the public of the danger, the White House took the mic and politicized the message.
Every morning in the endless month of March, Americans woke up to find themselves citizens of a failed state. With no national plan—no coherent instructions at all—families, schools, and offices were left to decide on their own whether to shut down and take shelter. When test kits, masks, gowns, and ventilators were found to be in desperately short supply, governors pleaded for them from the White House, which stalled, then called on private enterprise, which couldn’t deliver. States and cities were forced into bidding wars that left them prey to price gouging and corporate profiteering. Civilians took out their sewing machines to try to keep ill-equipped hospital workers healthy and their patients alive. Russia, Taiwan, and the United Nations sent humanitarian aid to the world’s richest power—a beggar nation in utter chaos. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/
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