[ExI] well, that stuff really is expensive

[John Clark]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 11:24 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> Napoleon is a much better analogy for the current POTUS than either of
> the 20th century leaders to whom he has been compared.*


*T**he only thing Donald and Napoleon have in common is they are both
responsible for causing millions of unnecessary deaths. But other than that
they were RADICALLY different. Napoleon was a voracious reader until the
day he died and he made extensive annotations in the book's margins, but I
doubt if Donald has read a single book in half a century, not even the book
that he claimed to write but was really written by Tony Schwartz.*

*And even the people who hated Napoleon thought he was brilliant; The Duke
of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo praised his grasp of
administrative detail and operational speed and said "his presence on the
field was worth forty thousand men." The Austrian foreign minister
Metternich hated Napoleon's expansionism but admitted that he "possessed an
astonishing mind, capable of total concentration, incredible analytical
clarity, and a remarkable capacity for work", even the Russians Tsar
thought Napoleon was "charming, intelligent and had an encyclopedic
memory". But NOBODY who has had contact with Donald for any length of time
comes away from it impressed by his mental abilities.*

*I stand by what I said before, the best historical analog to Donald Trump
would be Benito Mussolini, both men were incredibly pompous and believed
themselves to be brilliant, but both men were complete imbeciles; and that
would've been sufficient to make them comic figures if they hadn't also
produced a huge amount of human misery. *

*John K Clark*
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