“What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”
This
OP should have updated the subject or included the punchline directly in the body
once upon a time that’s how headlines and news were written–so you could get the gist of the news by skimming headlines (of your printed newspaper) and perhaps the first short paragraph of an article.
News articles are still written like that; Raw Story just happens to be tabloid trash that Redditor types love like flies love shit, and current events comm moderators don’t moderate for quality except for the most extreme cases.
I am reminded of The Diamond Age where the very well-to-do pay exorbitant sums to have printed newspapers while the unwashed chuds scroll mindlessly
Neal Stephenson, you never cease to impress me