Old people like MTG and Boebert and Gaertz? /s
Old people like MTG and Boebert and Gaertz? /s
That’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.
That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.
I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Google for “Intuit lobbying.”
It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.
From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.