I lived through the 70's,80's inflation. I remember gas lines, and year-round Daylight Saving as a way to lower costs.
Does anyone under 45 realize that mortgage rates were double-digit for 11+ years (1979 to 1990) and from 1970 to 2000--for 30+ years, rates were above 7 percent--higher than rates are right now.
Sorry, I don't live or post for your entertainment. I'm not falling into your Brandolini trap; the Odyssey story/myth was verbally handed down for many hundreds of years; aoidoi embellished in every telling of the story, long before it was "put to paper by pen".
Homer's and Virgil's were just the oldest lasting written records that still exist--they certainly put their own twists on the myth/story. "Homer" quite possibly wasn't even one person (The "Homeric Question"), so the various writings attributed to "him" are likely an amalgamation--with each singer's own version included, abridged, excluded, etc...
My research shows what I've said. The underlying irony still exists, even by your requirements--
Fictional character goes into situation, claiming "victimhood", knowing they will likely be mutilated, is mutilated, claims but in-spite of the mutilation, still sells a lie...is 3000 years later, played by an actor, who went into a situation claiming "victimhood, is mutilated, sells a lie...and that actor is most likely unaware of the parallels.
That's Irony.
Still better than Kamala.
Btw I was nearly pointing out the media bias. No "that's outrageous, coming from POTUS!", from the media, when Obama drops a very sexual joke. No outrage when Joe talks about how great sex almost kept him from running for office; "oh, that's just silly 'ol Joe!, He means no harm!"
Thank you for your civility--funny how simply pointing out historical, documented quotes throws ppl into a tizzy...🤷🏻♂️
Then there were these jokes--
--"The house I grew up in had thin walls; I wonder how the hell my parents did 'it".”
--"l'd rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep, than pursue higher office."
--He once told actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus a joke about whether her husband would like to sleep with him.
...oh wait--these were all Joe Biden's jokes...
@VeryBrexitProbs None of those US cities have been run by MAGA, or the GOP for decades.
Try harder,🎪🤡
Meanwhile--London cops would arrest me for calling you a 🎪🤡, cause god-forbid, you are insulted/humiliated in public...
"Billions in the bank"--you threw any credibility you hoped to have right out the window with this id10tic statement.
...and apparently, "drug addicts" are only bad when they don't vote how you want--that was the whole point of your side accepting drug addicts in the first place--compliant voters.
He's 100% right about the media--hired bootlicker bots
It's not Wall Street I'm worried about--most of them have the sophistication/technical knowledge to avoid data leaks, even with foreign AI.
It's the 1000's of small to medium sized businesses that are already using foreign AI models--60% or more by some estimates. At scale they certainly do not have the sophistication required to stop proprietary data from falling into foreign hands. Many of these companies are sub-contractors to larger, "Wall Street" sized companies, including major US military contractors.
I know you are a jaded anti-globalist, anti big business guy, doesn't mean we can't still fight for a nation we believe in. I'm not going to hand it over willingly or without a fight.