Thursday, April 13, 2017

I'm so old I remember when NATO was obsolete

Must have been way back on Saturday.

Ivamka's been using the time machine too, selling bags and accessories to the ancient Mesopotamians and Mayans. Image from the Daily Express.


I mean it's really pretty astonishing, when you think about it. How did he even do that with NATO?


“I said it was obsolete; it’s no longer obsolete,” Mr. Trump said, standing beside Mr. Stoltenberg.
Mr. Trump attributed his change of heart to unspecified transformations within NATO, which he said were a direct response to criticism he had leveled that the alliance was not doing enough to combat terrorism.
“I complained about that a long time ago,” Mr. Trump said, “and they changed.”
It was not clear what the president was referring to; NATO forces have been fighting alongside the United States in Afghanistan for more than a decade, an effort focused on combating terrorist groups including the Taliban.
Perhaps he has a working time machine. He started using it modestly, tripping back just a few months to create all those jobs he didn't create, then headed out to mid-2014 to stop the Chinese authorities from their dastardly mucking with the value of the renminbi, and then finally, when he'd really mastered the technique, made the 15-year journey needed to get NATO to de-obsolesce itself. Getting back to 2017 in time to try doing some currency manipulation himself, just for the hell of it, before getting back to Florida for a long paschal weekend.
And then there's this stuff:







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