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...poor mike pompeo---one of the last *** wipes in trump's dwindling cabinet tried to get out of town for the rest of the waning days in office by taking a trip to Europe---one last chance to bask in the glow of power---but alas, he had to cancel at the last minute---seems no European leader would agree to see him
Imagine----flying off to Europe and having to dine alone---even Chester A. Riley would think that embarrassing
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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He hitched his wagon to the wrong star.
Propinquity to power is a cruel mistress.
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Now Kevin once again you show me a "better way"Originally Posted by Kevin
Left to my own crude mastery of the English language, I would have likely said something similar to-----"sucking up to power"---propinquity--gosh I can't wait to give that one a trypro·pin·qui·ty
/prəˈpiNGkwədē/
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noun
1.
FORMAL
the state of being close to someone or something; proximity.
"he kept his distance as though afraid propinquity might lead him into temptation"
Similar:
proximity
closeness
nearness
adjacency
contiguity
contiguousness
vicinity
vicinage
2.
TECHNICAL
close kinship.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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