Given May's utter incompetence at every level, from political operator to basic human being, why are we assuming she is in any way capable of any credible judgement of DT?
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostWhy does Trump keep talking about this? All it achieves is to remind everyone that even their Salacious B Crumb thinks that their president is an imbecile.
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Originally posted by Wouter D View Post
Because all attention on him implies no attention on any Democrat hopefuls for the next elections. It's how he got this gig in the first place: keep hogging the media coverage.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostBut this isn't good attention. This is their lickspittle calling them a dangerous simpleton. Also it is clearly true.
If Trump speaks about airports in the civil war, we laugh, but he once again sucks up all the attention. If Trump keeps talking about the British ambassador, we think he's a bloody idiot, but we're all talking about Trump again. I am not convinced that this is not deliberate.
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It is very deliberate
Among the things it is currently stealing time and attention from are Epstein, the adminstration's ongoing series of losses in court, Barr's willingness to do anything his boss asks for, the Iranians taking advantage of his petulant renunciation of the Iran Deal, the absolute dud that is the Kushner "Mideast plan" and New York State facilitating the delivery of his state tax returns to Congress.
The degree to which his people listen to the likes of Farrage may be hard to believe, but really shouldn't be discounted. Keep in mind, for instance, that the US Ambassador to the UK stands to benefit handsomely from any weakening of the NHS.
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Have you guys seen this? This will actually make me read the Mueller Report
We hired the author of 'Black Hawk Down' and an illustrator from 'Archer' to adapt the Mueller report so you'll actually read itLast edited by Femme Folle; 11-07-2019, 01:03.
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Originally posted by BrunoIt's impossible to be a competent authoritarian in a liberal system. That's why they always stack the courts and kill journalists.
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Appointing incompetent bureaucrats is procedurally incompetent but can succeed in making the bureaucracy a joke and transferring more power to the executive.
It is how Putin came to power after Yeltsin destroyed all semblance of organised government in Russia.Last edited by anton pulisov; 12-07-2019, 10:14.
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The way that Pence is spinning his visit to the concentration, sorry, reception camps for immigrants should make anyone wary of the advisability of trying to impeach the president. In many other ways too this course of action would be counter-productive. Concentrate on positive reasons why you (Dems, mainly) should be elected. The sad fact is that the right do negativity a lot better so why compete in this part of the battlefield?
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An underlying problem is that the US constructed a liberal system to constrain states and interest groups that are prone to be illiberal and the latter will always find cracks they can exploit.
Moreover, as Durkheim emphasized, liberalism only works if there's a broad consensus to respect its norms. That has been eroded over decades.
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