They’re not a Trojan Horse. They’re just the Trojans, they knocked on the gates and said “yes hello we would like to come in to rape your women and children, pillage your valuables, and destroy the city.” And the citizens said “hmm yes eggs are a bit expensive” and decided to open the gates to willingly let them in.
That’s the Greeks, not the Trojans in the Iliad. But yes, The rest of your statement is correct, it’s just the Greeks were at the gates of Troy, not the Trojans.
I don’t know if Thom Hartmann just posts to multiple sites or if “AlterNet” is just reposting his original article from the Daily Kos, but he posted it there first and there doesn’t seem to be a paywall.
But I’m halfway in and this article is wild. A lot of these things we’ve all heard about or maybe forgotten, so it’s nice to see Trump‘s history laid out concisely. Wild stuff - I totally forgot that his ex-wife is buried on one of his golf courses and died by…falling down the stairs, of course.
Of course she fell down the stairs, the windowsills were all getting painted that day! Do want to not pay a painter for another days work…?!
After the MAGA people realized that their politicians collapsed the United States comes the…
Save America Falling Again (SAFA)
Paywalled, can you dump the text?
Archive.ph is my new goto to avoid paywalls
I really wish their was a bot that would auto generate links for us.
Normally, 12ft.io works, you just need to put the url after theirs and will get a non paywalled link, like this https://12ft.io/https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-trojan-horse/
Otherwise, use ublook and block javascript, it will work most of the times
