Heard an interesting work-around, based upon the very many 'corporations' which are not Mega.
Now they can collaborate to counter the one-note messages of Exxon, Big Pharma and the other oligarchs.
Expanding on this direction, there may be unintended consequences of the POTUS attempting to outshine their Bush V Gore extravaganza of partisan gifts.

(As to actual impeachment for such nakedly partisan Constitutional-gaming.. Well, if we Don't Look Back on authentic cases of criminal torture via Presidential mandate -- and the USSC is as corrupt as the rest of the place. Uh, never mind.)


Gotta go
I'm late getting to my History Rewrite Department post at the Ministry of Truth; late twice -- and it's the rat cage.

-- even unto the jeweled left eye of some heathen idol -- could be seen from inside that gilded cage.

(We must recall though, that while the ancestors of today's Angry-White-Males were engaged in crusades to spread God's Love (or I'll kill you forthwith) , while also destroying as much of Other People's artifacts as any Visigoth strain ... the followers of Allah were extending that Christian Tolerance (so honored in its absence, by most so self-yclept) ... helping to preserve the art, science and other remnants of the precursors to that particular suicidal faction/era.)

Alas, those whelps hadn't yet discovered 0 / zed / nil, needing the Mayans to teach them
(after they converted *their* survivors to live-Xians or Dead-heretics. AWMales: a distinctly ungrateful bunch across their regular Warz-for-Peace/Love and all that can be stolen.

Hey.. as we speak - there are 10K+ armed nukes Out There, and nary a civilized person with-any-power to sequester them away from the likes of US and Our Leaders.
Perhaps by oh.. say.. mid 2050s? we shall (most of us) have died: never having passed through adolescence.

Epitaph?

No more classes, no more books ... no more teacherz dirty looks!
Here lie the ashes of The Lords Of All We Surveyed of The Flies.
(Ozymandias was a piker compared to US)

our completely bio-heedless behavior of decades ... still sucks.
Of course, both strategies were based upon Keeping The / Our People Safe.
By annihilating The Other People. And if both had played-out the MAD-blueprint, a goodly share of all living things on the planet would have disappeared in the short-run and long-term.
Because We're Right, etc.

If there were a Higher Authority, it never would have turned over a beautiful blue/green planet to such apes; Bonobos..? maybe: they're happy to sit around grooming and screwing and they don't eat each other, like homo-sap and the other 98%-homo-sap relatives.

Dunno about you, but the more I learn of human 'history', especially matters later uncovered after the victors rewrote the various incidents -- the more I believe that we are congenitally clinically-insane. The few exceptional folks' sane contributions merely make The Mob appear even worse.

(I used to pore through the various 'incidents' in the nicely stocked LBL library.. like the SL-1 in Idaho, whose operators managed to pull out ("up") enough control rods that, when it blew: two or more were pinned to the ceiling via some other rods + debris. Buried in lead-lined caskets, those.)

Then 'They' == We crucified Oppenheimer / not a team-member, as Teller pushed for The Super (while Ulam did all the heavy-math lifting.) WE could have evaded the arms race from before the outset (wherein >We< pushed for MIRVS, forcing the Russians to counter, after which -- well we know what happened.)

I wrote to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists during the Cheney Shogunate, asking if The Clock could /should be moved forward for other than technological gamesmanship -- like say, the effects of an unstable Head-of-State? and all that might follow from such a one in control of strategic weapons.. They published it. Oh well.

(I'd reset to 2 min < Midnight, right now. But that's just me, and I've only studied nukes since about age 14, so what do I know. But we know what Oppenheimer Knew. And it didn't matter then, either.

(And some people think that Opera plots are silly. Hah ... then there's Dr. Atomic.)


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