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The Third is Useless [1]
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Date: 2025-01-12
By David Glenn Cox
Oh well, snap back to a stark reality across the 2025 doomscape. America Land! The unhappiest place in the whole world! Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Speak softly, but carry a big stick.” I think that is all that needs to be said about the King’s politics. Politics is about building bridges not breaking windows. A dog that barks all the time isn’t a good watch dog; it’s just a dog that barks all the time. If all you do is yell and make threats at people. What do you suppose will happen next?
Never mind the action, look for the reaction. The newborn King blusters and bullies making threats. What do you suppose will be accomplished by that? Like amoeba in a Petry dish they will spasm away in opposite directions. If you give the waiter a hard time, they won’t spit in your food, will they? Not just world governments or international diplomacy. Anyone who has ever worked for a toxic boss knows what will happen to an organization. From the prince in his palace to the cop on the beat, an era of bad feelings and resistance. Lies and subtle backstabbing.
That miserable so and so asshole, I’ll show him. I’ll make certain his prize pig pet project fails and I’ll pin the failure on him! Oh yeah? You think so? Watch what happens next paly! It’s human nature, I was in a large discount house now long since crushed by Walmart. As I was leaving the store, someone rudely pushed me from behind trying to get around me. I intentionally moved in their way and slowed down, politeness counts. As I looked over my shoulder, I saw security grab them. But if only he’d said, “Excuse me.”
If you loudly promise mass firings on day one, guess what kind of cooperation you’ll get? If you loudly promise mass deportations, guess what kind of resistance you’ll meet? You’ll either have to go full Gestapo mode or expect the worst. If you happen to own any stocks in any Airlines or Cruise ships catering to international travel, sell them. With the King’s unique ability to say the absurd and rile the masses, American tourists could become unpopular overseas in the next four years. This means you! Remember, just because they can’t spit on him!
Now add to the mix and stir in the most incompetent and inexperienced Helen Keller of a cabinet there ever was. It doesn’t matter if the pilot is Republican or Democrat. Does he or she know how to fly an airplane or manage a government agency? I wouldn’t hire RFK Jr. or Dr. Oz to run the Ace Hardware, regardless of their politics. Just putting on the uniform doesn’t make you a player. So, this is where that cooperation thing comes into play. Maybe they like you. But my boss doesn’t like your boss, so I’m not allowed to talk to you anymore. We can’t do business with you anymore.
You’ll have to request that information by making your request in writing through official channels and you will receive a written response within ten to fourteen days.
Remember! It’s not what they’ll tell you, but what they won’t tell you. They’ll smile, secretly hoping for your demise as they don’t send the purchase orders, like they promised. Whoops! Was that important? Oh yeah, the boss called, he told me yesterday to tell you to call him immediately. I guess I forgot.
Fire them all! Off with their heads! Only, these are the only people in the whole wide world who know how the machine works. Firing everyone only compounds the troubles of making things go. RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in drugs, except for the really good kind. Heroin works baby! It’s 100% effective in tests done in vans down by the river. But we have an impasse, Dr. Ozzie, he likes all drugs once testing in his personal bank account has been completed. What to do, what to do?
Maybe a son or daughter is considering joining the military. But he or she fears they will be stationed far from home when the King finally ignites a nuclear apocalypse. Maybe there’s never been a better time to not join the military or the Natural Guard. I’d hate to see you end up fighting on the Greenland front or taken prisoner by Canadians outside of Toronto. You know how brutal they can be! They’ll make you watch hockey and listen to Rush and speak French, until you crack.
When I was a young child, my mama told me she said, “Son, you’ll always draw more flies with honey than you ever will with vinegar.” I asked, why would I ever want to draw flies for? She muttered something about a special school and said no more about it. But yes, being nice and saying please, could be effective. It will probably take a little longer, and you still might not succeed at all. But the chances of blunder bussing and bum’s rushing your way through to success are nil.
My father told me about water. He said, “water was the most powerful force in the whole world. It can wash away whole mountains. Only, it will take millions and millions of years to do it.” A Chinese proverb says, “the emperor’s power ends at the palace gate.”
When the palace filled with malcontents, ner do wells, grifters, drug addicts and pseudo-Nazis it might not get that far. Especially an emperor who has a tendency to slap at hornet’s nests, just to show them who’s boss.
“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
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