Steve Sack FTW

[mac56]

[Cha]

1. TY mac for Sack! Stupid puppets.

[GreenWave]

2. All hail the pink thread.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Great cartoon

[iluvtennis]

5. Steve Sack nailed it! n/t

[Blue Owl]

6. The Rumperor

[swong19104]

7. Hans Christian Anderson

made famous the Emperor's New Clothes. In his story, the emperor was duped by two swindlers. In our case, the emperor was duped by himself and his yesmen (and yeswomen) were too chicken to say otherwise.

I suspect Aesop had a fable about this, and I'm sure many other writers and playwright made stories of this sort, so it's not unique to us. (I'll bet there's a story in the bible of such a story arc.)

What I don't understand is why haven't we learned from all those past stories. History is rife with swindlers and vain narcissists. But we should expect life to merge towards a sane social compact because it is evident that such a social compact is the most efficient. It's like how all modern cars have a similar shape. It's not because there's little originality among the designers, but because the modern shape is very aerodynamically efficient while also being safer for those inside and outside the car.

We expect that, over time, we will move closer and closer to a sane, workable beneficent political philosophy because the alternatives all suck for the majority.

[rampartc]

11. i don't remember this from the bible or aesop,

but there is a great fable from aesop called "the frog king" that explains trump (and his cult) fairly well.

the similar story in biblical terms, is 1 samuel chapter 8

like the israelites demanding a "strong leader" conservatives can not seem to understand that we had this discission about "stroing leaders" in the 18th century and they lost then as well.

[erronis]

8. Glad the bare-assed wannabe is facing away - otherwise we'd know there's nothing there either.

Just his aspirations.

[paleotn]

9. They have not dignity or values. Never have.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. Naked Loyalty

Remember the Cabinet meeting where each Secretary was called one at a time to praise dip ad nauseam and I do mean nauseous.

[republianmushroom]

12. I like it

[barbtries]

13. "I'm not seeing it"

is really funny. what is he not seeing?