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Monday, February 25th, 2019 from slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.

Kim Jong-un is taking a chuchu train through China to get to Vietnam.

I say chuchu train, not to diminish the dear leader, but because it is in fact an older model of train.

It's not one of those trains that would adapt well to the 18,000 miles of high speed rail.

China has more of the chugachugachuchu locomotive of your. It is green.

Therefore, it is Percy. I think that is the Thomas the Tank Engine green friend that has been a while since the kids watched.

This to me is sad. It is sad that this is our adversary.

That suppose it would be tougher for us as a country if we were facing down the best and the brightest.

In fact, our current leadership doesn't seem very much up to facing down the best and the brightest, but our enemies are all just old and decrepit and sad and weird.

They are decades and sometimes centuries behind us.

Ever see the Russian aircraft carrier?

Well, because Netsof has a record of engine failure. In 2012 in the Bay of Biscay, it was floundering in heavy seas and had to be rescued by a tug.

It's had engine failures in the Mediterranean too.

That's the Admiral Kudznetov. It's spewing smoke and requiring several support vessels as it tries to traverse the English Channel.

So sad. And remember how Trump would always talk about the barbarians of ISIS and how they demonstrated their despicableness by drowning prisoners and cages?

Well, in a way, doesn't this kind of undercut their claim of potency? I mean, they have cages. They're using cages. They're out on the battlefield dragging along the cages.

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