I think the head of the FBI has more potential to fuck up the US and to tighten the Maga grip on power than the Ambassador in Paris.
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Oh my bad, I thought we were just talking about incompetence/corruption.
Read up on this Patel guy. Heās a piece of work. Kuschnerās just about the grift, the champagne and the fashion freebies for his wife.
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Kash is a true believer. Those guys are made even more dangerous when they are as unqualified as he is, as they know being a lacky is their only career path so cannot ever say ānoā. Most the time they know so little about how the job is supposed to be done they dont even appreciate how damaging their actions are.
There is no reason to have him at the FBI other than for Trump to enact vengeance by turning it into his personal federal police force.
Yeah, but his double jerk off dance is fun and I want to be able to use the R word without being ācancelledā
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Boulos is Tiffanyās father in law. This is the second family member appointed to cushy administration positions. I am sure the people who spent the last 6 years chasing down Hunter & The Big Guy conspiracies are equally concerned about this sort of self-dealing.
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David Weldon to head the CDC. If another pandemic hits the US, the response will be orders of magnitude less effective than the fairly useless February-December 2020 response to covid. The professionals will be actively restrained from doing their jobs.
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And Joe Biden buries the final dagger in what was left of his own integrity (if anything) and that of presidential pardons.
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In a country that has discarded norms of honour and integrity, why take the suckerās payoff and pretend otherwise?
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Iād get the suckerās payoff thinking this was a prisonerās dilemma, but it wasnāt. Biden has been portraying himself as a lesser evil and even a protector of democratic principles. This act isnāt remotely close to fitting in either of those categories.
I suppose at this point maybe we can forget policies and begin by just hoping for a good human who wants to be president.
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whats he done exactly?
id search it up, but once you do that the algorythmy things go off the charts
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Hunter? He owned a laptop.
Presidential pardon for his son.
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Sure. But all of that is irrelevant now. He isnāt going to be President. A convicted felon is, and one with no respect for the rule of law. Forget democratic principles. They are dead. The Republic fell, what is the point of an empty gesture?
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Had a weird conversation this evening, with a friend who was part of the Trudeau delegation that went to Mar-a-Lago. The Canadian side were nowhere near prepared enough for the focus on fentanyl (which is a problem here, but as far as we know there isnāt a whole lot crossing the border). Zero interest in the auto industry, energy, pulp and paper (i.e. all the stuff they had prepped), everything was drugs. I guess the Trump inner circle is aware that about as many illegal migrants go from the US to Canada as vice versa, so the conversation was just drugs.
The truly bizarre thing for my friend was that while he was unprepared in the sense of knowing the numbers, the Americans were at least as unpreparedā¦and didnāt really care.
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If you set the argument up with the premise that republic has fallen, sure. Itās possible youāre right and maybe even likely it will, but the rule of law still exists for those not in the powerful echelons of DC. And for a man who (falsely) held himself up as a standard bearer, that should matter. If only because this will only spark further anger and hasten the downfall that hasnāt happened.
And gun and tax charges
Iām surprised your friend found that bizarre. When have Mar a Lagoans even cared about preparation?
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What do you think he owes the Democratic Party? They ushered him out the door in the name of winning, and lost anyway. As for the rule of law, have you looked at the Supreme Court? It is basically a legislative body now, with a GOP majority. The US is weeks away from abrogating multiple international agreements. There is no more integrity.
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Presidential transition team, not the Mar-a-Lago crowd per se. The people who will be running the country in six weeks.
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Where did I say say he owes the Democratic Party? I live here and am fully aware of the Supreme Courtās indiscretions and leanings. I have said as much before.
None of that makes Bidenās actions right. I was arguing they are reprehensible. You are arguing they are somewhere between practical and not mattering. Completely different arguments.