Atlas Shrugged: A Most Mundane Resurrection<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Yes that\u2019s right, Dagny Taggart. Yes she\u2019s here with me now. So\u2026 is this going to be by check or gold deposit or what?
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> What are you doing on that phone?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> I\u2019m calling to collect the reward for locating you. Well, technically I suppose the wreckage of your plane but I think that dolt Rearden is going to pay up all the same.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> We don\u2019t have time for this!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> I\u2019m pretty sure we have nothing but time for this. I am going to need some operating capital after that big fiasco, and it\u2019s not like we\u2019re going anywhere in a hurry.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Of course we are, we\u2019re heading all the way back to Taggart Transcontinental headquarters, post haste!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Right, but you know the country\u2019s infrastructure is trashed so I\u2019m pretty sure we\u2019re going to have some delays. And even if we didn\u2019t have delays related to, again, the complete collapse of civilization your little cabal of friends helped orchestrate, it\u2019s not as though there\u2019s no such thing as layovers or stopovers. I mean we have plenty of time to make phone calls, especially with a hundred thousand dollars on the line.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Now you listen here! Galt said I should bring you along so we could keep an eye on you, but I\u2019m not having you slow me down for personal things like contacting my family or my lover about my continued existence when there\u2019s trains to catch!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well what about your place of work then, calling ahead to at least let them get prepared for your triumphant return to their likely crumbling decay?
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> NO TIME!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Fine\u2026 one second. Yes Hank, can I call you Hank? No? Alright, Hank. Just have the money wired to Dagny\u2019s business, apparently everything still works fine so it shouldn\u2019t be a problem, thanks.
\n*One travelogue across country set to Pat Methany Grou\u2019s \u2018Last Train Home\u2019 later*
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Finally I\u2019m back at the office, back where I belong, looking at all these people that I apparently on some level despise and loathe and rather believe to be deserving of their grisly fates to come. I am definitely better fit here than among the group of people I share every ideological agreement with who could have convinced me to stay using perfect argumentation but didn\u2019t, for reasons.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Look I just want my money and then I\u2019m out of here.
\nEddie Willers:<\/b> Oh Dagny! It\u2019s awful! I\u2019m so glad you\u2019re finally back!
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Eddie, as always I have no actual emotional reaction to seeing you despite the fact that you are definitely my closest ally in my company, if not what some people would call a friend, and also somehow you keep doing an actually capable job of every improbable situation you\u2019re put in.
\nEddie Willers:<\/b> Yes it\u2019s good to see you too.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Man\u2026Eddie\u2026 I have to just say\u2026 How did you get out of the death trap I threw you in!?
\nEddie Willers:<\/b> Ah yes, Mr. Commander sir. With hard work and determination I managed to\u2026
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Eddie shut up I need you to do something for me.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Hang on, I actually want to hear this. This guy is like, the most grounded person around here if he actually escaped my troopers clutches he probably did it in a believable and entertaining way, unlike your friends\u2019 garbage explanations for everything.
\nEddie Willers:<\/b> Sorry but if I have to be doing something for Dagny I won\u2019t have the time to get into the full details sir. I barely have time to steer this still profitable company forward.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> What!? Still profitable!?
\nEddie Willers:<\/b> Yes, actually, thanks to some market manipulation and beneficial implantation of new regulations that we were able to\u2026
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Shut up Eddie! Can\u2019t you see profit is meaningless if it isn\u2019t achieved through inventing a new thing!? Capitalism is built on constantly inventing new super technologies, not providing needs to demands and certainly not taking advantage of favorable business conditions created by a company\u2019s leverageable assets!
\nEddie Willers:<\/b> Yes ma\u2019am, sorry ma\u2019am!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> No now hold on here\u2026
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> THERE\u2019S NO TIME! Despite the fact that I literally just sat around reading the newspaper as we traveled cross country and then took the time to actually go back and stop by my apartment to hang around and make phone calls instead of doing that while waiting on stopovers as I changed transit methods which doesn\u2019t even make sense considering all the poor state of travel in general now, I\u2019m now under the gun to come up with an explanation for my disappearance that I need to feed to the media and press which is somehow shockingly not already involved in reporting on my return to life despite the fact that I have already contacted plenty of people and let the news of my return be made when my disappearance was front page news!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You\u2019re not making any sense!
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Eddie! Hillbillies in the woods saved me! No I don\u2019t know their names! No, no one will ever be able to get in touch with them so don\u2019t even try and definitely don\u2019t go looking for them! I walked 50 miles on a bum leg that is now magically healed! Nothing shady about my disappearance at all, right around the time that LITERALLY EVERY INDUSTRIALIST IN THE WORLD OF NOTE IS DISAPPEARING. There! Feed that to the media fast so I can get back to hating all of you for making my company profitable!
\nEddie Willers:<\/b> Right away Ma\u2019am!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Oh I really hope my money gets here soon.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally posted on Atlas Shrugged: A Most Mundane Resurrection. Cobra Commander: Yes that\u2019s right, Dagny Taggart. Yes she\u2019s here with me now. So\u2026 is this going to be by check or gold deposit or what? Dagny Taggart: What are you doing on that phone? Cobra Commander: I\u2019m calling to collect the reward for locating you. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1308,"featured_media":0,"parent":9712,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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