Posted on 09/24/2019 2:17:59 PM PDT by grundle
Hey! And I just bought a beachfront lot on Mt. Everest!
As Rush Limbaugh has said many times: To most folks their knowledge of history and the world begin when when they were born and nothing before that exists.
So true. That’s why it’s so easy to flip a con game on its head every ten or twenty years and be successful at it. That gives it a life of twenty to forty years before it has to be turned back around.
The digital age may eventually put a kink in that.
“That gives it a life of twenty to forty years before it has to be turned back around.”
That doesn’t make sense. What I meant to say was it would be 20-40 years before the first iteration of the con was started up again.
When I was growing up it was pointed out the industrial revolution and thanks to its warming up of the atmosphere that the earth was not plunged into another ice age.
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