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[thewayne]

"We live in a world, in the real world...that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time."
-- Trump adviser Stephen Miller

"'Iron laws of the world'? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit. If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe."
-- Pete Buttigieg

I think Stevie would have been a lot happier if he'd been born in the 17th or 18th century, preferably in Europe. It would have been a better fit. And with any luck, he would have ticked someone off, been challenged to a duel, and run through.

Comments

[disneydream06]

I think he would have been thrilled to be an adult in 1930's Germany. :o :o :o
Hugs, Jon

[dewline]

All of us must become less safe, because the Trumpists insist upon it as do the Putinists!

[kaishin108]

I used to say I feel like I'm in a bad dream but this is getting to be an effing nightmare!! :-/

[thewayne]

Absolutely agree.

[moonhare]

“Might makes Right,” a tale as old as time. I vaguely remember this theme in “The Once and Future King.”

[ndrosen]

Or he might have signed on to a pirate ship, and been either killed fighting or hanged when captured. Joining a piratical expedition would have suited his expressed views. One may doubt whether he would have had the courage to do his own fighting, but if the harvest had been poor, and becoming a pirate (or privateer, or mercenary soldier, or bandit) were his alternative to starving, he probably would have taken the risk.

[thewayne]

I have my doubts that, though courage is in his vocabulary, the internal fortitude to act upon it is probably absent.

[silveradept]

He is clearly unsure of his power, if he shouts and stomps and makes noise about how much his power is absolute and great.

The person who wields power effectively does so subtly.

[thewayne]

I am reminded of the old phrase, not sure who originated it, 'The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.'  Good object lesson of 'the more the bluster, the less of what they're blustering about.'