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I keep looking at the current crop of conservative parties around the world and I hear Tricky Dicky and crinkly haired Henry whispering, in conspiratorial tones, that hackneyed chestnut:
RN:  "Hank. Just tell Zhou Enlai that I'll do it.  I mean I've drunk the fucking Kool Aid, man.  He thought Rolling Thunder was a shit storm?  Well tell that motherfucker, I'm gonna exhume the bones of Emperor MacArthur and go fucking NUCLEAR on that stupid tonsure of his!"
HK:  "Will do, Dick.  Hey!  Why don't we leak it to the press. I've got it!  We'll call it the Madman Theory!"
RN: "Yes!  First we take out Giap and those northern bastards and then we take back north of the 38th parallel. Then scare the crap out of Enlai and then we rollllllllll across that motherfucking Yalu like a tidal wave."
Exeunt our antiheroes chuckling with mirth.

And now it has devolved into this - the Complete Dickhead Theory, aided by the Teflon Paradigm and the Sleight Of Hand Hypothesis.
And New Yorkers will sit around holding up Bic lighters against the growing darkness, singing Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle.
God, I need my morning cup of tea right about now.

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