Yes, and my fear is that next time they will be. And, sadly, there will be a next time. Republicans will not yield an inch for a Democratic win - on any issue - in the coming years.
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‘Constitution? What Constitution? We do what we want…even when we screw it up!’
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How anomalous.
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Stupid squinty eyed bint.
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These people really don’t understand the bureaucracy. They expect everything to work like a dictatorship/corporate office where the head honcho gets to make the rules and everyone will jump to follow them, no matter how ridiculous/impractical/ill-advised/illegal it is. They don’t understand that there are processes in place to interdict efforts to cut corners and take actions for personal reasons over governmental interests.
Hey, you need some place where you are setting the foundation when the spouse takes an unexpected vacation overseas and then gets lost, never to be seen again.
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zee no phobia
see no phobia
Zeno Phobia, he’s Greek, correct?
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Hopefully they won’t be able to get any major part of it done before the adults arrive.
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The GOP Fraud Is Us operation continues to bungle and show their incompetence.
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But she can’t stay there any more than he can. So it’s a foundation built on nothing.
She wants a foundation - build it at Mar-a-Lagofuckyourself.
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So he’s afraid of Greeks bearing paradoxes…
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The Atlantic said just that: We’re lucky he’s an incompetent. The next Trump could be competent and then we’re facing an autocracy.
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There will never be a “next Trump.” There will be fascists & there will be frauds, but Trump was a once in a century phenomenon. A mix of avarice, ignorance, total confidence & exactly the right charisma that emotionally broken & mentally deficient voters crave.
For the last four years, all of us (& so many other seasoned political observers) have been saying, “We’ve never seen anything like this.” And we were right.
ETA: Can you imagine Stephen Miller or Tom Cotton mesmerizing a crowd or dominating headlines? ←(rhetorical question)
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And those are her good points.
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Josh noted a year or more ago that most dictatorships seem to be built on incompetence and insecurity, not strength. Occasionally there’ll be a Julius Caesar or Napoleon, but more often you will get a Caligula or Trump. There are certainly people who would welcome that kind of “leadership,” but we do have two centuries of institutional democracy that can’t just be unwound overnight by one (or two) charismatic strongman.
Characterologically, it seems like autocrats are going to tend to the incompetent side of the spectrum because they don’t understand how to work with groups of people, each with their own sets of rules and regulations to follow. They would need to be able to cut through all of it like Alexander’s Gordian Knot and it’s a rare trait for them to be autocrats with the ability to dismantle the existing levers of state. They can muck things up like Trump, but it’s unlikely for them to be able to completely overhaul it in one fell swoop.
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You know what? That is no exaggeration at all. Those are her good points.
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What are the chances that the pavilion surface starts cracking by May?
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Xenophobia: fear of foreigners
Zenophobia: fear of one hand clapping
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Ironically, at least some of the anomalies would have been caught much earlier in the process, had the bureau not been forced, with the administration expedition order, to cut a specific review step that helps vet the data in question.
Curses! Foiled again!
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We’re only 12 years removed from Dick Cheney, but I suspect the era of competent malignancy may be over. It’s Devin Nunes all the way to the bottom.
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