Atlas Shrugged: The Rapture of the Capitalists<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nCobra Commander:<\/b> And now we\u2019re sitting here in a stolen plane.
\nDagny:<\/b> It\u2019s not stolen. I bribed someone and then took it.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Trust me, that\u2019s stealing. Also you paid for it with a check in a world where it seems like everything is collapsing. Who would even take checks now?
\nDagny:<\/b> It\u2019s not stealing because I did it and I\u2019m a hero, and heroes never steal. Also I\u2019m a hero so obviously I stand by my word.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You\u2019re demonstrating to this person who doesn\u2019t know you that you are, in fact, a thief, so why wouldn\u2019t he just assume that it\u2019s a forged check, or that it will bounce? And that\u2019s all assuming he even still knows about a bank that would even accept actual checks for thousands of dollars from random people who wandered out of the woods while the entire economic infrastructure of the world is falling apart around him.
\nDagny:<\/b> I know, it was a great plan that went off without a hitch.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> That\u2019s the kind of ad hoc morality and logic I\u2019m starting to expect from heroes like you.
\nDagny:<\/b> Thank you!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Not a compliment.
\nDagny:<\/b> You didn\u2019t have to come with me you know.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Oh I know, I had a perfectly good snake train back there, but if I had to sit around and deal with any more of that Owen jerks winking and nodding\u2026
\nDagny:<\/b> I still am not totally sure what he\u2019s getting on about.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Seriously? Seriously. You\u2019re supposed to be the smartest woman in the world, or thereabouts, and you haven\u2019t figured this out yet?
\nDagny:<\/b> Well how could I!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> I\u2026 I hate that I know all this but I\u2019ve been talking with enough of your quote unquote friends and I know for a fact that some of them have explicitly told you there is a secret society around, and one of them has admitted to being in it
\nDagny:<\/b> It boggles the mind!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> NO IT DOESN\u2019T! That hobo jerk told you an incredibly easy to understand story about what is going on!
\nDagny:<\/b> He was so cryptic!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> His story, about who John Galt was, included a man NAMED JOHN GALT. And he told you the exact things that John Galt said, and what his goal was. And they completely match up to everything you know your friends in the secret society are doing RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT.
\nDagny:<\/b> Well right this very moment I\u2019m flying an airplane while chasing down a super motor so I don\u2019t have time to worry about that.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Yeah I was meaning to ask, how are you a licensed pilot? I mean that\u2019s the sort of thing that usually people in your earning bracket would do as a hobby but I was pretty sure you didn\u2019t have any of those.
\nDagny:<\/b> Well I can do anything, since I\u2019m a hero.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Anything besides put together incredibly obvious clues you mean\u2026 I mean where I come from yes everyone is arbitrarily a licensed pilot but they\u2019re all military personnel so it\u2019s kind of forgivable, you\u2019re a train magnate. Actually isn\u2019t that kind of weird?
\nDagny:<\/b> What, that I am so beautiful and smart and talented?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> No I mean\u2026 it just always felt like this world was oddly without planes for some reason, what with how apparently important shipping and rail travel seems to be but with air travel never really getting mentioned.
\nDagny:<\/b> Trains are the way of the future you know.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Demonstrably false. But to all of a sudden have you just happen to stumble on a random perfectly maintained plane in the middle of a desolate dying world that you just happen to know how to fly and with it you just happen to find the one person in the world you\u2019re looking for on another plane. just in time for you to follow him which is very difficult to do in planes\u2026 Wow you know that all seems ridiculously arbitrary when it comes to getting you to a location that you have friends at. I mean any one of them could have just told you where it was or given you a map rather than this absurd string of improbable occurrences happening.
\nDagny:<\/b> No time to think about all that, we\u2019re going to crash!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> What, why?
\nDagny:<\/b> On purpose! To solve a mystery!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> And that\u2019s why you are bad at solving mysteries! Alright thankfully I packed a parachute.
\nDagny:<\/b> What? You were on a train earlier today!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Believe me in my line of work it always pays to pack a parachute. I can\u2019t remember the last day that went without me diving out of some exploding flying vehicle.
\nDagny:<\/b> We\u2019re going down! WHO IS JOHN GALT!?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> What kind of idiot shouts something random while a planes crashing!? *jumps from the plane* COBRA!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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