Lend Lease and other cooperation with Great Britain was far more provocative than oil embargoes, yet even Hitler was smart enough not to attack. And many American Firsters were far more supportive of the Germans than the Japanese.
But you are right about businesses. Was it Lenin or Stalin who said that the West would sell the Communists the rope with which the capitalists would be hung?
No, I know that. I am not even aware of “Japs” or “Nips” occurng in modern usage. I was kind of invoking the ambience of the era, as in the “Japs” were the enemy at the time.
Lenin. And “hanged”.
Did he say it in English?
nm. Friggin phone …
It was Stalin that was hung.
Wikiquote claims there is no evidence that vlad ever actually said that.
I would like to know how you know this. On second thought, no, tmi, tmi.
Nobody ever called him Vlad the Suspender.
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You get caught fucking one goat…
It’s been at least twenty-five years since I’ve worn any makeup, and I’ve never felt the need to wear a burqa. Trump’s view of women seems to be pretty damn limited.
His wife puts on full makeup if she has to get up to go pee.
I’m sure she has people for that.
So’s the rest of him.
Only for someone who is ignorant or in deep denial about the GOP’s decades-long courting of bigots, ignoramuses, and lunatics. Since the former would require him to have been living on Mars (and, frankly, he couldn’t science his way out of a wet paper bag), I’ll go with the latter.
Awww, you found out the secret!
I’ve paraphrased the Lenin quote as follows: “When they want to hang a worker, they’ll hire other workers to build the scaffold.”
“You can always hire half the poor to kill the other half”
Variously attributed.
Ben Carson’s budget plan. Even conservatives think his numbers are ridiculous.