Atlas Shrugged: Damn the Humanitarians<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Ah so good of you to come along! And I see you\u2019ve brought Ms. Taggart with you!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Yes yes, as per the request attached to your very generous retainer, which I assume will be enough to make up for the headaches to come.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> What do you people want with me!?
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Oh the same thing that I want from Mr. Commander here! I was really hoping the both of you would approve of what I\u2019m doing. I\u2019ve been putting in so much work coming up with a good villain plan and\u2026 and I just really think it\u2019ll impress the both of you.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well I\u2019ve been spending so much time around these so called \u2018heroes\u2019 I suppose having a chance to watch you abjectly fail at your job again will be a nice touch.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> And I will never approve of anything you do!
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Well I\u2019m just going to pretend both of you said nice things about me and get to explaining. You see the first stage of our plan has been going off without a hitch. We\u2019ve been failing at everything we\u2019re doing and the world is falling apart all around us. Industries are failing, people are starving, and mass revolt is being fostered all across the country.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well you certainly have at least succeeded in what you set out to do. I would say I can\u2019t fault you for that but since I can I will just fault you for that.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> We could still save the country by completely abandoning half of it. This is a plan that is completely sensible. I mean it\u2019s not like all the people we publicly discard will attempt to revolt and bring revolution against us. How could they, we\u2019ll take the trains away from them!
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Alright and since I haven\u2019t actually listened to either one of you I\u2019ll just keep going on. So now we\u2019ll allow the country to rot away while we use force of arms to maintain a bare minimum peace until that is no longer feasible and then\u2026 well hopefully by then we\u2019ll all be dead because we\u2019re too stupid to have really thought of what will happen next.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> You fools! You stupid, fat, smelly, unwashed fools! Just like Indians!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> WOAH.
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Yeah that is not alright Ms. Taggart.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Cobra is an equal opportunity employer, as evil always is, but I\u2019m surprised to hear you stand up for that Mr. Mouch.
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Oh I\u2019m not actually against racism. Like all people I lack empathy. But pretending to have it allows me to ensure greater suffering in the long run.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> If you let this country be destroyed, just like a lazy, slothful, evil, glassy eyed Indian would, then we\u2019ll never, ever be able to rebuild this country! Ever!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> I\u2026 I am really not sure where all this racism is coming from ah\u2026 have\u2026 have you ever actually met an Indian person?
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Of course not, I live in America.
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Yes you well know everyone in America is Caucasian don\u2019t you?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Wait I\u2026 I\u2026 Holy crap everyone I\u2019ve been dealing with has been white haven\u2019t they? That is insane. It\u2019s literally almost improbable. And when dealing so much with the railroads so just\u2026 I mean the United States railroads were built on the backs of minorities.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Well actually\u2026 wait. You\u2019re not one of those deceitful Indian types are you?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Oh no actually I\u2019m sort of a snake monster person from an ancient civilization that I was\u2026 you know what, it\u2019s a long story. I got sidetracked by the reminder of how absolutely horrible you were, will be a good excuse to up your torture when we get back. Not that I need the excuse of course!
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Well I always approve of having excuses, you know\u2026
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Shut up, not getting side tracked again. Dagny\u2026 your friends\u2019 entire plan revolves around their ability to rebuild the country after it is destroyed.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Of course. That much has been made evidently clear to me and considering how amazingly perfect they are at everything they do, the fact that they made a little Utopia town is obviously proof they could rebuild the entire world as, obviously, the exact same skills and the exact same number of people needed to make a small community work of course translates equally to the large scale of rebuilding the entire world.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> But you\u2019ve just also said that is impossible.
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Oh indeed. If you lose the industrial base it could never be ever rebuilt. Ever. Also you know there will be roving gangs of bandits and marauders probably, I mean that\u2019s already happening and I myself am accusing my opponents of being robber baron kings so I of course believe that after society collapses that those with power, whatever that may be, will rob and steal and loot and murder\u2026 just like those murderous Indians.
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Sorry but I did call you both here to\u2026
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Mouch, at the moment I\u2019m saving most of my hate for Dagny here, if you\u2019re truly a humanitarian and would like to share some of it do feel free to interrupt me again. So Dagny, as I was saying. By your own admission, the moment Galt and his doughy industrialist friends wander into the post apocalyptic wasteland of the United States they\u2019ll just be skinned and eaten by ravagers, won\u2019t they?
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Obviously not. Because they\u2019re just that amazingly spectacularly good.
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Yes she\u2019s got you on that one.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Okay you\u2019ve earned yourself a trip to the dungeons as well.
\nWesley Mouch:<\/b> Why thank you! I wasn\u2019t actually listening to what you had to say but I\u2019m going to pretend it was praise, since that\u2019s what I invited you here for! To pretend you were praising me!
\nDagny Taggart:<\/b> Gasp! Only now do I understand how evil you truly are, by not actually caring what I have to say and having a disagreeing opinion with me!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Oh I was wrong about the retainer\u2026 so very very wrong.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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