Someone needs to breach whatever bubble he’s in to share this…there should have been a 2 week deadline and start the bombing again.
It’s the only damn thing they’re going to understand: this delay confirms IRGC thinking that there’s some mythic American weakness they can exploit, ad infinitum.
Humane thing is to finish quickly & move tf on.
imho.
NIXON:– and I'll tell you something, Bob, nobody's thought of this. Nobody. I had it last night, up in the residence, couldn't sleep, and I went down and I made myself this, this thing.
HALDEMAN: A thing, sir.
NIXON: Pineapple. Chunks of pineapple. In the Kool-Aid. You put the chunks in and they go down, they sink, see, and you've got the, the red and the yellow, and you drink it and you get the pineapple at the bottom. Nobody's done this.
HALDEMAN: I'm fairly sure people have done this, sir.
NIXON: Who. Name one. Name one person.
[EIGHT SECONDS OF SILENCE]
HALDEMAN: I can't name a specific–
NIXON: Because there isn't one. This is mine. Now here's the thing, Bob, and I want you to think about this before you give me one of your – your looks. The Catholics. The ethnics. The, the...you know. Your blue-collar fella in Scranton, in Cleveland. He sees the President of the United States drinking a jar of this, this...out of a jar, Bob, not a glass, a jar, because that's what these people do, they keep the empty jam jars...he sees that, and he thinks, that's a regular guy. That's a fella who understands.
HALDEMAN: Understands pineapple.
NIXON: Understands sacrifice. Understands thrift. You don't throw out the jar.
[DOOR OPENING]
KISSINGER: Mr President, the briefing on the– is this a bad time?
NIXON: Henry. Henry, sit down. Tell him, Bob.
HALDEMAN: The President has invented pineapple Kool-Aid.
KISSINGER: I beg your pardon?
NIXON: Pineapple. In the Kool-Aid.
[TWELVE SECONDS OF SILENCE]
KISSINGER: And this is...we are discussing this in place of the communique from Zhou Enlai.
@BaronDestructo@EverySG1Frame@Polygon ‘SG-Atlantis’ & ‘Deep Space 9’ were both a departure of form that had a solid canon framework and told whole new stories…and they were wonderful. They fruitfully expanded and explored and we were enthralled.
The source material is deeply profound:
“Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressëa, that all those of the Quendi who came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty and wickedness were corrupted and enslaved; and thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes.”