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captain queeg

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Wed Apr 22, 2020, 10:37 PM Apr 2020

Still reading about Churchill [View all]

It’s pretty lengthy book and I got it for that reason at the start of lockdown. I got several books and am finished with the others. But as Britain is drawn into war and Churchill takes over I can’t help but think of the lack of leadership we suffer from the orange one. Churchill was very well read (and wrote himself), very articulate. I read somewhere he had a vocabulary 6 times as large as the average man. He had a way with words that could get his point across without out right threats and bravado. He certainly had his faults but he was the man they needed in those dark times. There can’t even be a reasonable comparison between a real leader and the ineffectual bully and cry baby we are suffering with. And when rethugs were comparing the orange shit stain to Winnnie awhile back I couldn’t believe it. Just firing off some thoughts, the reading is slow going but very interesting.

As I’ve said before if trump was in charge during WWII we’d all be speaking German right now.

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