The whole idea of "founders" as a meaningful (and, as he clearly implies, special) group of people who share enough common attributes to address them as a collective like this betrays just how narrowly-informed his view of the world is.
Vault dynamic secrets, basically?
"And then the screen goes up, and the lights come up, and they go to the new President, 'Any questions?'"
Sometimes I wonder what Bill Hicks would make of our current moment. In this case I'm pretty sure: "...it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before... that looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll."
In other news I just learned New Zealand used to have an eagle that weighed up to 40 pounds and had up to a 10-foot wingspan. Basically, imagine an eagle the size of a goddamn basset hound, with wings as wide as an economy sedan's wheelbase is long.
There appear to be Māori oral accounts of it hunting and killing humans, which were typically somewhat smaller than its main prey, the 500-pound giant moa.
Now: go look at the terms and conditions of literally *any* other website that hosts user-supplied content (including this one), and tell me what you find.
If you see this, post a rabbit 🐰
I am resolved that the next time I see this I will become a substantial member of the conversation. "I have the latest projections here in front of me and they are not good."
Now, now, there's no need for the death penalty. There are tens of thousands of remote uninhabited islands these people can be safely relocated to and supported with a monthly parachute supply drop. They desire not to live in a modern society and I say we give them what they're begging for.