Life Under Biden.
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People don't believe it can happen to them though. It's like being unable to truly grasp your own mortality when you're young. It's something that happens to other people, not you.
Mr. Tea
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Without poverty, there'd be no tramps for Bullingdon Club inductees to burn a 50 quid note in front of.
sus
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Truth, as Nietzsche once argued, is a function not of verifiability but of controlling Congress
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brilliant custard pie fight
IdleRich
IdleRich
One thing I think is that Biden is just more competent than Trump, he understands the mechanisms of administration better (he should do - he's been part of it for more than eighty years), so, for example it was in the news the other day that Trump's regime had left no plan whatsoever for the role out of the vaccine. I'm pretty sure that Biden will put someone competent and effective in charge of that and it will get doled out reasonably well. Cos he thinks that's the sort of thing that a "professional" president should do. I'm not even saying that this attitude of competent respectability is always a good thing, I can imagine him signing orders to drone bomb some kids or destabilise a South American government - regretfully no doubt - but with the same dry professionalism, as he recognises that that is simply what the US does and what the president has to do.
Am I saying "at least he'll make the trains run on time"? I guess something a bit like that but less extreme. It's just Trump had swung so far in the opposite direction that it's worth noting.
Am I saying "at least he'll make the trains run on time"? I guess something a bit like that but less extreme. It's just Trump had swung so far in the opposite direction that it's worth noting.
Mr. Tea
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Trump, while careening all over the place like an Adderall-spangled cannonball, was also signing off orders for drone missions and the like at a greater rate than under Obama, and dismantled what measures Obama had put in place to make information about military missions (such as civilian casualties) public.
So if Trump swung in the opposite direction in some respects, in others he swung in the same direction, only further.
So if Trump swung in the opposite direction in some respects, in others he swung in the same direction, only further.
IdleRich
IdleRich
What I mean is he didn't know how government was supposed to work, he fired competent officials and replaced them with yes-men with no experience. Many of his executive orders were struck down by the courts cos they were so badly drawn up they were unconstitutional, the White House was, by all accounts, in chaos with Ivanka-Kushner struggling for power with whoever had Trump's ear and the two factions often giving conflicting orders to underlings who had no clear chain of command etc
So I'm not talking about what Biden does, but how he does it. I suspect he's more interested in and capable of running a proper system that works, with orders going through the process they're supposed to and reaching the people who can activate them. And of course this can be for better or for worse, depending what it is used for.
So I'm not talking about what Biden does, but how he does it. I suspect he's more interested in and capable of running a proper system that works, with orders going through the process they're supposed to and reaching the people who can activate them. And of course this can be for better or for worse, depending what it is used for.
Mr. Tea
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I see what you mean. I think the damage he could do, although obviously considerable, was probably restricted somewhat by the chaos and incompetency. I know @luka is convinced that GWB was far worse than Trump - I'm guessing mainly because of the Iraq invasion - but it's sobering to think what might have happened if Trump had been part of a well-oiled machine comprising the likes of Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Rice, Bolton and the rest.
A counterfactual that could probably never have been, of course, since Trump has no interest in being part of anyone's machine, well-oiled or otherwise.
A counterfactual that could probably never have been, of course, since Trump has no interest in being part of anyone's machine, well-oiled or otherwise.
sus
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Not laughing at you Tea I would never laugh at you I just love the phrase Adderall spangled cannonball
Mr. Tea
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Which is, annoyingly, quite a good joke.