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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Feb 6, 2025, 04:26 PM Feb 6

Jeff Tiedrich - befuddled old coot blithers about 'two-dollar plane tickets' [View all]

think of the White House as the world’s most-exclusive assisted living facility. its primary resident is an increasingly-incapacitated 78-year-old man who can longer take care of himself — but he gets by, because his needs are completely provided for. he has a cook to prepare his meals, he has someone to dress him, and someone to remind him of his daily schedule. there’s even a fully-staffed medical center, right in the building.

and, once or twice a day, they let him out in public, where he can babble incoherently to his heart’s content.



“we’re going to start a big investigation. because it’s — I’ve never seen anything like it. nobody’s ever seen anything like it. the worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country. and it wasn’t even necessary. I would have said, you don’t buy it, you take an aeroplane, it costs you two dollars. it costs you nothing. you take an aeroplane. but this got started, and if you have to, you drive. you can drive.”

what the fuck is Dear Leader gibbering about? two-dollar flights? where? when? in 1903? is two dollars what the Wright Brothers charged? seriously, how out of touch is Donny? why the archaic pronunciation of ‘airplane’ as ‘aeroplane’? who does that any more? he sounds like Grandpa Simpson free-associating about tying an onion to his belt, which was the style at the time.

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/befuddled-old-coot-blithers-about

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