we're teeming with them here, i mean teddy fucking killed a drunk kid and nobody even came close to challenging his increasingly senior status in d.c.

one of my friends whose father was an academic but a citizen of ireland who'd grown up tossing rocks at the crown's soldiers as a kid after the brits would beat some townsperson into a coma.

so in third grade, he sent the kid to school in an ira-freedom figher shirt. of course, both kids got into harvard and ended up dicking around the ahl for a few years after college. none of the family accepted the catholic church, but they're refreshingly over the top and love being teased about "another day under the thumb of the crown? any heavier or lighter than the last few hundred years?"

but yes, the jonathan swift thing on the irish as applied to leadership without wildly-elevated levels of corruption might be effective if taken non-satirically. south boston is literally the only white ghetto i can think of in the us, eastie, wherever.

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there was an awesome atlantic article around the early 2000's on the topic, the secret service at one point lost a large black bag carrying all the barbituates, painkillers, and dextroamphetamine he was being prescribed basically to such excess that they mobilized hundreds of extra agents from the service and the other trusted agencies to find the fucking thing.

the revelation in the piece is that during the bay of pigs, jfk was so fucked up on his medicine they basically shut him down because he was nonsensical to defense department and cabinet around him. he was asleep for a decent chunk of the most intense part of the crisis.

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Micks are useless, unless you need an enabler.

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