• root_beer@midwest.social
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      10 days ago

      [preface and disclaimer: I’m remembering off the top of my head something I read over 30 years ago, details may not be exactly correct]

      Not sure whether you remember the chapter of Sideways Stories from Wayside School, by Louis Sachar, in which there was a student who nobody liked, who was a real asshole and wore a stinky raincoat. The kids kept trying to take off his raincoat, but underneath was another, stinkier raincoat, just layers and layers of progressively stinky raincoats, and with every raincoat removed, the kid just became a bigger asshole and his laugh louder and more high-pitched.

      At the very end, he turned out to be a dead rat in a pile of stinky raincoats.

      That’s what the whole administration is shaping up to be. Except we knew this was coming and allowed it to happen, so I guess that, ultimately, we are the dead rat.

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      The plot twist is that the worm in his brain didnt die, its pulling the strings to keep him going and further the global parasite agenda