Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and Jean-Claude Trichet are in the duck blind and a bird flies overhead.
Bernanke looks at it and says, "Looks like a duck, flies like a duck... it's probably a duck," shoots at it but misses and the bird flies away.
The next bird flies overhead, and Monsieur Trichet looks at it, then looks through the pages of a bird manual, and says, "Hmmmm...green wings, yellow bill, quacking sound...might be a duck." He raises his gun to shoot it, but the bird is long gone.
A third bird flies over. Greenspan raises his gun and shoots suddenly, brings it down, and turns and says, "Can someone go see if that was a duck?"
"Pride is the first sin, the very negation of humility, and of the devotion and sacrifice of the Cross. Greed and indifference to others, lawlessness and betrayal, are the daughters of Pride, the father of all sin. The unsustainable will not be sustained. God's wrath grows fierce. Nemesis awaits. Pride and its sins are the chains that imprison Satan and the damned in their hell." Jesse, Resist the Daughters of Pride, March 2024