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The Buck Stops Nowhere

Post by Riddick » 06-10-2023 01:10 AM

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Documenting presidential speech without presidential inaccuracies has become a full-time role. I hear there’s a dedicated team of interns in the White House basement scrubbing away.

Their creative stenography spares the DNC embarrassment, but it does make it hard to tell what was actually said in less public events like state banquets. Did President Biden order a Bloody Sunday for dessert instead of an Ice Cream Sundae? A Cromwell instead of a crème brûlée? We may never know.

And who cares anyway? An octogenarian with two brain aneurysms to his name who can get through the day and stay mostly upright is doing OK. Sure, it matters a little since he’s supposed to be the leader of the greatest military power in history, but the key part is “supposed to be.”

For a time, occupants of the Oval Office took their new responsibility seriously. As the Cold War was fought through a squalid series of proxy wars, the threat of Armageddon kept military aims carefully circumscribed.

That era of caution is not a distant memory; it’s altogether forgotten. Yet the nuclear arsenals still stand ready. They can kill you and everyone you love by Tuesday. What can explain the silence of the professional doom-mongers? Especially now as the risk rises daily. If things really go south in Ukraine, who’s to blame?

Certainly not Biden. You might as well hold the First Lady accountable. She sleeps in the White House too. The difference is Joe naps during working hours. Truman famously had a sign in the Oval Office—“The buck stops here.”

Where does it stop today? With Victoria Nuland? Mitch McConnell? Nancy Pelosi? John McCain’s grave? None of these hawks are innocent, but responsibility is too defused to point fingers—an ominous parallel to 1914.

Runaway escalation is a problem the generation who fought WWI took seriously. Writing later about the cascade of misunderstandings that started the war, Winston Churchill recalled that after a certain point it was not men in charge but forces.

It’s a terrifying thought. At the same time statesmen across Europe became aware of looming disaster, they realized they were powerless to stop it. Are we at that point? Have we passed it? Or will we only know when bombs rain on Philadelphia, Paris, and St. Petersburg?

By coincidence, the last presidents to face similar crises were Democrats: Truman in Korea, JFK in Cuba. Kennedy’s brain suffered permanent damage at Dallas, so can someone please defrost Truman’s head? It’s in the cryogenic freezer at the back of the Library of Congress. The current administration urgently needs schooling in nuclear diplomacy.

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Re: The Buck Stops Nowhere

Post by Malaria_Kidd II » 06-13-2023 02:00 AM

What a spooky meme poster that is!

Yes they do need school'n! But the reachable teachers reside in Russia (just one!), North Korea, China and Iran. But no one in Congress is reaching for peace, daily.

Not noted above: President Truman's Fat Man and Little Boy plus the Red Army's new eastern front in Mongolia. Finally scared the tihs out of our Pearl Harbor teacher,.............

🔴 Hirohito!🔴 🙏

Ice cream outside their bunkers will never melt kept in this freezer!🙏

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