• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “better to have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in”
    Well, now they’re inside the tent and pissing all over the floor

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      1 year ago

      “A Flash Of Green” by John D. MacDonald. Great little novel about a Florida land grab and local corruption. Written in the Kennedy years.

      A one point, the main political boss sends one of his stooges to get rid of the married banker’s girl friend. The stooge asks what’s wrong with the banker getting a little action on the side. The boss tells the stooge that the banker is being too brazen and people are startign to talk. They plot needs the banker to look clean.

      If they did the story today, the plotters wouldn’t send her out of town, they’d make her head of the ‘Sluts For Trump.’