Hi little Rat! I’ve been thinking about the very problem you and your youman are pondering about this morning, ie that nothing much happens after you discover some bad thing someone’s done and say something about it.
The issue boils down to the problem of enforcement, which it turns out is harder to do - humanely - than people realize. For instance, when your little local relatives moved into my humble abode without my permission, I could have gone to the local so-called « health » authorities. But most often, after they come around snooping with their clipboards, nothing much happens. They all know that the only remedy is a full-on war against your cousins with really unhealthy poisons and nasty traps and nobody really wants to deal with that as they manage to assassinate more sweet creatures like squirrels 🐿️ and owls 🦉 and kittens 🐈 than your rat 🐀 cousins here.
It’s the same with bureaucrats and your apparently MAGA cousin reading his made-to-order fake news publication.
Who’s going to shut down that fake news newspaper, or send your cousin to brain 🧠 rehab to help him learn to think logically again?
It’s too big a job! Best you can do is bite his toes a bit if you get too exasperated.
We youmans just start wars when the toe-biting proves ineffective. But it turns out wars are even less effective because everyone dies and there goes the neighborhood.
Best is to gently focus on spreading wisdom and understanding, as you always do, Rat, sweetest of all the world’s creatures!
Rat, the only path to safety is REVOLUTION and that path is fraught with peril. Facing peril, however, beats standing still and waiting to be annihilated.
Cousin informs Rat, “We’ll make more Swiss cheese, you know with bigger air pockets, the proverbial where less is more syndrome, just to be safe.”
“ Dear Cousin, have you forgotten the new tax on carbon dioxide emissions ?
Cousin, it’s like skiing down hill! Just noticing another tree going by, no?
Actually, we DO lend money to government; they call it "withholding" taxes.
Cousin is always so eager, bless his heart 😂😂
Hi little Rat! I’ve been thinking about the very problem you and your youman are pondering about this morning, ie that nothing much happens after you discover some bad thing someone’s done and say something about it.
The issue boils down to the problem of enforcement, which it turns out is harder to do - humanely - than people realize. For instance, when your little local relatives moved into my humble abode without my permission, I could have gone to the local so-called « health » authorities. But most often, after they come around snooping with their clipboards, nothing much happens. They all know that the only remedy is a full-on war against your cousins with really unhealthy poisons and nasty traps and nobody really wants to deal with that as they manage to assassinate more sweet creatures like squirrels 🐿️ and owls 🦉 and kittens 🐈 than your rat 🐀 cousins here.
It’s the same with bureaucrats and your apparently MAGA cousin reading his made-to-order fake news publication.
Who’s going to shut down that fake news newspaper, or send your cousin to brain 🧠 rehab to help him learn to think logically again?
It’s too big a job! Best you can do is bite his toes a bit if you get too exasperated.
We youmans just start wars when the toe-biting proves ineffective. But it turns out wars are even less effective because everyone dies and there goes the neighborhood.
Best is to gently focus on spreading wisdom and understanding, as you always do, Rat, sweetest of all the world’s creatures!
It seems to be a rat-sized version of the same mainstream newspaper Human is occasionally reading. Cousin is just a bit too enthusiastic at times. :)
'In hindsight, nothing much changed because of that.'
Much pearl-clutching ensued, clicks were baited, political points were scored.
So yeah, nothing much changed because of that.
Oh too sad , for Moodys has no Divisions nor nuclear weapons.
The Credit Rating agencies have no Credit with Americans after the housing/ finance crash.
This is performative behavior although for what Master they mime and puppet I cannot discern, certainly no audience that lives now.
Perhaps they are playing for the ghost of Keynes?
All they you see performing dear Rattus of House Muridae are the aging starlet of Sunset Boulevard…
In this version she missed Holden and he escaped to become President, or perhaps Chief of Staff.
Rat, the only path to safety is REVOLUTION and that path is fraught with peril. Facing peril, however, beats standing still and waiting to be annihilated.