Quote: (08-06-2018 05:18 PM)dicknixon72 Wrote:
In all sincerity, how is stuff like this any worse than how ambassadorships are usually given out - some donor's wife's aunt or something.
Worse?
It's great.
This is "reality" collapsing in free fall. As you say, how is this different than choosing some donor wife, or worse, some bugman with a "diploma". This is much better, and there is symbolism here, return of the action hero, the strong man.
I've written about this before, how the action hero died in the early 90s (film: Last Action Hero), since the powers that be decided it was time to go full feminism (Swarzenegger in Junior). The times they are a-changing and now we have a need for masculine qualities in the world again, so the action heros make a final hurrah. And it's not these new buffoonish action heros, no, it is the 80s action heros, last decade of the Free West.
Much is possible in this new Trumpian world. I for one welcome our new action hero overlords.