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by ceejayoz on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:59PM
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There is no longer an Enron, either. No one blew up their headquarters to do it.
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Enron's accounting department kind of did, not physically but still.
> not physically but still
That's precisely the point, isn't it?
"We will put an end to X" does not mean "we will physically blow up X". Pretending Biden had an "oops, we're gonna do a terrorist attack against Russian and German infrastructure and I said it out loud at a press conference!" moment and that there's no other legitimate explanation for the statement is just goofy.
It wasn't an oops moment, it was scripted. Watch the video carefully. He consulted his notes before saying it. This public announcement removed the requirement to notify Congress. Genius imo.
The original enron pipelines are still moving product. They still 'be'. Biden wasn't talking about Gazprom. His words are very clear and direct. They are congruent with his body language and tone. He looked down at his notes before speaking.
Don't be disingenous. "We will put an end to x" does not mean "we will blow x up", and is common political rhetoric.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=5567609899962902 "We will put an end to Abbott's attacks on educators, raise teacher pay, improve their retirement benefits, and fully fund our classrooms."
https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/larson-... "we will put an end to the decades of price gouging"
Again, "we'll bankrupt them with sanctions" easily falls under "we will put an end to them".
Nobody uses that rhetorical construct in regard to physical entities. Your anologies are disingenuous.
Governor Abbott is not a physical entity? I suspect this is news to him.