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Jensie's avatar

Are you talking about the crazy-pants statue on I-65? It looks fine from a distance but that face is nightmare fuel

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Keith Taylor's avatar

And, which I did not know, he caused or at least his government was instrumental in making a lot worse, a famine in Bengal during WWII that caused a couple of million people to starve, by diverting food from Bengal to British troops in the Asian theatre, when they had enough to eat as it was but the Bengalis didn't.And there was his treatment of the striking Welsh coal miners when he was Home Secretary. He was about as respected in their valleys as anthrax, then and later.He was the leader England needed during the war, he was courageous and inspirational and a fantastic orator, and he was astoundingly stubborn, which was a good thing in that context, and his giving his friend Lord Beaverbrook important jobs at which Beaverbrook performed very well indeed, was not the least of Churchill's value at the time. But the nation perceived after the war that he wasn't the right leader for peacetime, too hard-nosed a conservative, and voted his government out.At least he took it gracefully. He was a much bigger man than Donald Trump, which is admittedly a low bar to be clearing.

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