Explanation: King Croesus of Lydia (located in what-is-now Turkiye) was once supposedly told by the Oracle of Delphi in Greece that, should he cross the river dividing his land from the Persians, “a great empire will be destroyed.” With that in mind, he went to war with the utmost confidence in his success. It had, after all, been foretold by the Oracle!
… King Croesus’s empire was destroyed by the war. Maybe being cocksure isn’t a replacement for a functioning brain?
Gotta be careful about them seers and their wording.
… the uh… timing of this meme and our current war with Persia has me a little triggered.
“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”
Thanks, I had forgotten how punchable he was for all of five milliseconds.
Oof ouch my country
Something something graveyard of empires
Oracle? Delphi? CLEARLY posted to the wrong community! ;-)



