I actually recently ran into a very odd bit of Soviet Joke Telling, reworked for the modern age, that made me pause and really realize the degree of accuracy in the comment of “Without the Soviet Union, America has become its warped-mirror twin” that Cory made a year ago.
The new and updated joke went:
President Donald Trump is attending a diplomatic function in Europe, when he’s introduced to the Minister Of Defense of Luxembourg.
“Minister of Defense? Of Luxembourg? Your country’s tiny, what exactly do you have to defend? Ha! What a joke position!”
The Minister just looks back at him and goes coolly, “Well, you would know that sort of thing from experience, I suppose. I was, afterall, introduced to your nominees for Supreme Court Justices a little while ago.”
