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Vigilance and Resolve Will Be Our Lodestar
"The United States of America will soon unveil the toughest and most aggressive round of economic sanctions on North Korea ever."
Address by Mike Pence, Vice President, United States of America
Delivered at the Kantei, Tokyo on February 7, 2018
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We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example a lodestar for restoring honor to public life
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Interestingly, this line was delivered by Henry Kissinger at McCain's funeral:
Honor was Johns lodestar.
janx
(24,128 posts)of the language.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Like within the last week or so. Just sayin'.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Revanchist
(1,375 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)irisblue
(32,996 posts)blogslut
(38,004 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)But it is a certainty that someone with actual statistical text analysis software has this nailed already.
The other interesting aspect is the use of the word in connection with McCain specifically, in the speech given by Kissinger at the funeral.
JuJuYoshida
(2,215 posts)It's a marine navigation term. Also says it's a "senior" official so my guess is Mattis or Kelly, both Marines.
The only thing that sucks is that the Times dropped this during the Kavanaugh hearings taking the spotlight away from showing what a real unsympathetic prick that guy is.
Either way, we pretty much have a de facto coup on our hands and I fail to see how disobeying the POTUS is any better than invoking the 25th to get his ass out of there.
And this bothered me:
"The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility."
Speak for yourself, a majority of us knew what he was before he got elected and decided, nah, we'll pass, but YOU and others like you voted for him.
Thanks for trying to keep him from destroying the world I guess but you and your buyer's remorse can go fuck off on the horse you rode in on.
dalton99a
(81,532 posts)Something that the writer normally doesn't use and has never used before in published writings or transcripts
Gothmog
(145,374 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Pence is the one person he cannot fire.
Gothmog
(145,374 posts)Pence should immediately announce that he is the author and dare trump to try to fire him
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)He doesnt know how any of this works.