u/Dagwood222

[off topic]

Reminds me of a science fiction story. A regular type guy happens to look like a big star. The star sues the regular guy for copywrite infringement

https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-deadly-shade-of-gold-a-travis-mcgee-novel-john-d-macdonald/9580117?ean=9780812983968&next=t

This book is a thriller written around 1965. About two thirds through the book a character shows up. He's was born rich and he's a spoiled idiot with questionable habits. Turns out he's a Russian asset who is happy to help destroy the system that gave him everything.

Of course, this is a work of fiction and shouldn't be treated as anything else.

Thank you very much.

paywall

"Stallion Gate" by Martin Cruz Smith. Fun novel about Oppenheimer's Native driver.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/stallion-gate-martin-cruz-smith/120696?ean=9780345310798&next=t

Even at the height of WW2 the Allies kept secrets from each other. Churchill had no idea the US had the Atom Bomb until it was deployed.

The only surprising thing is that the headline isn't an actual Trump quote.

When he 'wrote' the book he did an unbelievably bad deal with the co-author. That guy got his name on the cover and half the royalties. He's never stopped talking about what a chump Donnie is.

It's like calling a high school gym teacher a "professional athlete" or someone with an associate degree 'Highly educated."

I know a nurse who flies ten times a year. All her trips combined don't add up to the fuel a private jet burns on one trip.

Moreover, she'd happliy use high speed rail if that were an option.

There's an old cartoon that sums up Trump in my mind. Man is being lead to the gallows. Dozens of cops are holding back the crowd that wants to tear him apart. "Oh, all right. I'll apologize."

No matter what happens to him, he'll never admit that he did anything wrong.

Everyone thinks that the kompromat Putin has is something like Trump getting fisted or a golden shower party.

I like to think it's Trump weeping about how his daddy never loved him, or something else that no one but a psychopath would be ashamed of.

Trump was correct. He was stabbed in the back by the 'woke' Deep State and the media. Biden and Harris destroyed America rather than let Trump lead us to greatness.

No /s, because that's the explanation you'll get.

Malls took the place of the town square, but the internet is killing them.

One thing you hear all the time from older folks. When they were young everyone in the area knew every kid. The people in the neighborhood would chat. These days, that's rare. Kids grow up without the idea of having a social network in the real world.

If I'd had access to the internet growing up I'd have never left the house either.

No thank you for the link???

Damn kids...

Get off my lawn.

Grumble

That won't keep him safe...

https://youtu.be/O2djHEIxPVs [sfw]

You never heard of web comics?

Allow me to introduce you to oglaf.com

I was a rotten kid growing up with distant parents and a hostile sister.

If I'd had access to porn and comics without leaving the house, I'd have become one of these people.

This is why the tech bros don't want their kids growing up looking at screens.

It's an actual diagnosis.

https://www.healthline.com/health/malignant-narcissism