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Red said:
I keep coming back to this paragraph from Snyder:

“Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States. How could you do so? The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence. From this perspective, Trump's proposed appointments -- Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard -- are perfect instruments. They combine narcissism, incompetence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, and foreign influence as no group before them has done. These proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer”.

So, there’s that outlook, given the characters involved…
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Trump calls it draining the swamp.

But where most people imagine the Swamp being DC, and Trump emptying it of the much and the swamp creatures, The swamp is actually Trump's friends and they are being emptied into DC.
 
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Sardines said:
I think Trump in his second term is going to be like Mike Tyson in the Logan Paul fight. Everyone was expecting an 80s style hero story in the Tyson fight but what we got was the harsh reality that Mike is a tired old man who can't move as fast, hit as hard, or develop a cohesive strategy that played to his actual strengths.

Trump was old the first time, he's going to be a bumbling old grampa yelling at the clouds this time around.
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And with a team around him to turn his ramblings and rantings into actual reality. So, far more terrifying.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
What I hope happens over the next four years is that we forget about the government. I want the government to be like a refrigerator that quietly goes about doing what it is supposed to do while our attentions are focused on the more important parts of life.
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If all of my political beliefs could be summed up in one short statement, it'd probably be this.
 
MT Steve said:
If all of my political beliefs could be summed up in one short statement, it'd probably be this.
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Sadly it's not possible with trump at the helm. He always has to have as much attention as possible
 
Mongoose said:

View: https://x.com/catturd2/status/1857920483036967268?s=46&t=PfGBft52CF1a98VsjZzilw
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Recess appointments are perfectly fine if used the way they are intended to be used. What Trump is trying to do is specifically called out in the law as NOT what recess appointments are for. You cannot use recess appointments as a way to circumvent Senate oversight, or to avoid expected political resistance.

I don't care if Clinton had 1,000,000 recess appointments as long as his all abided by the rules set forth for using recess appointments. If Clinton had 1 that was out of bounds I would be against it.

Trump supporters don't like details. They don't like subtlety. I wonder if it is because they lack the cognitive ability to deal with anything that isn't black and white, binary, yes or no, boy or girl. It gets too difficult and they react with anger and denial. If it's too hard for them to understand then it just isn't real.
 
Sardines said:
Trump supporters don't like details. They don't like subtlety. I wonder if it is because they lack the cognitive ability to deal with anything that isn't black and white, binary, yes or no, boy or girl. It gets too difficult and they react with anger and denial. If it's too hard for them to understand then it just isn't real.
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"The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well-educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward." - Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
 
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