• Jiral@lemmy.world
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      Competence is not so important, what is crucial is where they will stand during a coup.

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      The important thing to note here is that it’s not a plan so much as a tendency for when incompetent people get in power.

      All the structures of our Government are in such a way as to make wars of regional conquest the easy choice for anyone in leadership. It’s the machine Bush & Son built, and Obama fine tuned. But this administration is too stupid to just sit in the drivers chair and accept the structural limits that allow the status quo to keep chugging along. They run into experienced technocrats who tell them, “no, things start breaking if you push this too far here here and here, scale back and do this instead” and they throw a fit.

      Packing a horse with twice the necessary amount of food and water so it goes twice as far.

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        All Trump had to do in Covid was make one speech. “I am not a scientist or a doctor. I am a smart businessman who has hire the best people to cope with this situation. Just do what my friend Dr Fauci says and we’ll be fine.” He’d have been reelected by a landslide.

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            Obviously I meant handing it to Fauci before it got too bad.

            I remember seeing Fauci rolling his eyes while Trump spoke; that was what doomed any chance of sanity prevailing.

            Your clip is from August 2021.

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              I mean he’s not pissed it all away. He made more money than he’s ever made in his entire life thanks to having the power to change the rules at his whim (and by having the ability to change the stock market with a tweet.)

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        In 10 years when MAGA has effectively become ruling party, forever; the stupid fucks will still blame Biden when everyone except the autocrats are struggling to survive because of rampant kleptocratic policy.

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          These morons can’t hold it together for 10 years, something is going to boil over

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        Indeed.

        I was on a different site, and pointed out that 18 US servicemembers had died so far in the War of Epstein’s Files.

        Someone retorted that more americans died in the Afghanistan pullout.

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      We’re a bunch of laissez-faire morons that won’t get violent enough to make these idiots and billionaires fear for their life every single day.