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Setting: Early 2015. A gathering of representatives from countries that want to bring down the United States is having a regularly scheduled meeting at an undisclosed location. Agent X is a young representative at his first meeting.
Agent X: Why don’t we just insert someone into the presidency who will interfere with alternative energy development at every opportunity and then, influenced by his own vanity and hubris, start a war that disrupts a large percentage of the world’s oil supply?
Startled silence, followed by loud incredulous laughter.
Agent I: Nobody would be stupid enough to do that! (still laughing)
Agent C: Who let the whelp into this meeting? (shaking head in disbelief)
Agent R: (thick Russian accent) Wait—I know just the person.
Time jump to June 16, 2015:
Agent X: Why don’t we just insert someone into the presidency who will interfere with alternative energy development at every opportunity and then, influenced by his own vanity and hubris, start a war that disrupts a large percentage of the world’s oil supply?
Startled silence, followed by loud incredulous laughter.
Agent I: Nobody would be stupid enough to do that! (still laughing)
Agent C: Who let the whelp into this meeting? (shaking head in disbelief)
Agent R: (thick Russian accent) Wait—I know just the person.
Time jump to June 16, 2015:
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