Our friends at RatBurger have a post up with an utterly captivating video clip from the wayback machine — former Presidents Reagan and Ford, and Her Majesty her own self, discussing commonsense economics.
It is nearly tear-inducing to see these astounding human beings discussing the search for a cup of decaf coffee and the fate of nations as such astoundingly human creatures. We broke the Soviet Union and freed a billion people. Gotta have decaf or my heart will trip offline.
Please do see this touching post over at our friend’s site. You’ll be glad you did.



“I’d like to meet the President.”
“Which one?”
and here is the official site of the British monarchy: https://www.royal.uk/ (OK: maybe not THE but close enough).
Real people, not manufactured simulacrums like we now mostly have. The Queen was prescient at the end of the clip.