Well... chess is one of those games at which we are all right really, but don't excel.
War was our game until we realised... and now, even after one or two "just" wars, we found we no longer had the stomach for it unless we really needed to. Like our Viking chums, we have buried our love of war because we love something else more: and that is peace. (Right up until we get angry and expansionist again, of course.)
Personally, I played Bridge. Co-operative and individualistic. Room for flair and taking a view. But it needs be said, the Italian Blue Team is the best Bridge team their has ever been. It doesn't necessarily translate into politics.
Bigods, I never realised I was a Kremlinite tool. I always considered myself a conservative of a communitarian kind. Now that I have seen the error of my ways I shall strive to correct such impressions. Vlad old bean, knout me another serf on your way out. Oops. Maybe not the effect I was looking for. :)
Well let's hope they furnish the Donald with some juicy compromising material then, you know, shopping lists, appointments with foreign dignatories or evil Wall Street fund managers of a neocon stripe. Or else the world will come to an end when that woman is elected. Or not.
But let's face it, Loki is probably a better ruler than the Donald. Oh shit, there goes all my credibility. A bit like poor Tom Hiddleston after he was Swift-boated
I guess that's Putin's response to the "Sorosoid" pro-US elements who he says have been tirelessly working within his realm to undermine his awesome rule.
Uncle Vlad is maybe the most impressive Soviet leader without a Soviet Union. And he has done it through the ballot box via the media. Really, he is the most successful politician of modern times. Shame about everything else, of course.
Trump is Trump. He makes Boris look like a safe pair of hands. We will laugh even harder if he's elected, no doubt. Or cry. Whatever. It matters not and most of the rest of the world don't get a say: which matters little either.
It's all for show. A distraction. Look how everyone is talking about some stupid emails now, instead of the problems that have befallen their society. This way the problems don't have to be addressed.
I was kidding. Somebody has the emails, and they'll be released. Hillary shouldn't worry though, it isn't like she'll be held accountable or have to answer any questions about them. In that way, it is nothing more than a distraction.
Of course the head of the ticket should always be held at a safe distance from any damning trouble that may happen to the campaign. There's always some buffer aide to take the bullet on their behalf.
Same with those Russian hackers, by the way. I'm sure Putin would say, "But, but, they weren't government employees!" And he'd be technically right, of course. Technically.
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War was our game until we realised... and now, even after one or two "just" wars, we found we no longer had the stomach for it unless we really needed to. Like our Viking chums, we have buried our love of war because we love something else more: and that is peace. (Right up until we get angry and expansionist again, of course.)
Personally, I played Bridge. Co-operative and individualistic. Room for flair and taking a view. But it needs be said, the Italian Blue Team is the best Bridge team their has ever been. It doesn't necessarily translate into politics.
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But let's face it, Loki is probably a better ruler than the Donald. Oh shit, there goes all my credibility. A bit like poor Tom Hiddleston after he was Swift-boated
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Trump is Trump. He makes Boris look like a safe pair of hands. We will laugh even harder if he's elected, no doubt. Or cry. Whatever. It matters not and most of the rest of the world don't get a say: which matters little either.
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Talk to my agent.
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Same with those Russian hackers, by the way. I'm sure Putin would say, "But, but, they weren't government employees!" And he'd be technically right, of course. Technically.
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