Pat’s retardation is not new. It’s funny how someone who cries about having lived under the tyranny of socialism refers to Trump as “ruling” rather than serving.
The good thing about Pat’s obsession with penises is that he can’t get pregnant.
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Our government sits on a spectrum between being run by majority rule and run by experts who aren’t elected. Both halves of that coin are necessary in balance. Majority rule hopes to make sure that the government is actually run for the benefit of the governed and experts hopefully make that government effective in its goals.
On the one hand, the majority of the general public is not actually expert enough to make detailed policy decisions. I, for instance, wouldn’t be able to actually write a good trade agreement, nor would I be necessarily able to tell the details of a good agreement from a bad one. I don’t know the details of safely regulating food handling or drug manufacturing. I don’t know how to build roads, run a police department, or plan a city. Neither does most of the public. Asking the entire public to vote of these types of decisions is neither effective nor reasonable.
On the other hand, experts are people, too. They have interests, ideologies, and a general desire for personal gain (like everyone). A blind reliance on experts would allow for the corruption and abuse of the system by these experts for their own gain. In it’s simplest origins, a dictatorship is just a system where a single expert (or small group of experts) specializes in running the country. The dictator/expert likely states and even believes that he is skilled in controlling the system for the benefit of all.
So in the US, we have something in the middle. Elected officials provide direction and the experts try to implement it.
While there are many political winds that have brought us to the current situation, one of them is a widespread distrust of the experts/bureaucrats that are running the system. In essence, that is what “Drain the Swamp” means. Some people have started to believe that many of the meaningful decisions are being controlled at the expert level and the political figures that should be directing them don’t actually have functional control. In other words, some people have started to believe that elections don’t matter.
Escalating the “Drain the Swamp” mentality is one of the dangers of the current impeachment inquiry. It has been instigated and largely driven by the opinions of experts claiming, in essence, that the President is wrong. One side sees “career state department employee” as a designation of impartiality. The other interprets it to mean “part of the swamp.”
I fear that ultimately it will be the bureaucrats that lost credibility when all is said and done. If they have any left to lose…
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If only our country were run by experts. It’s run by vampires.
No. This is a textbook postmodernist approach - ironically championed by conservative media - that this scandal is a matter of opinion and that there’s no objective truth nor observable facts.
The underlying premise of this fake interpretation is that bureaucrat experts have a set of strongly held beliefs about a subject while the layman POTUS has a set of diametrically opposed beliefs and that the know-it-all bureaucrats, upset that they’re not getting their way on this obscure issue, are trying to ensnare the POTUS with procedural minutiae and hearsay for some bizarre details regarding some country far away. You can’t prosecute a POTUS for thinking outside of the box, right?
And even if the POTUS did break some boring bureaucratic procedure or rule then let’s not forget Hunter Biden and his corruption or Hillary and Uranium One. It’s a case of “he said, she said” and at worst the score is even, with both equally corrupt, except that Trump appointed conservative judges and will - fingers crossed - stop the murder of unborn babies. Who has the energy to dwell deeper into this boring scandal? Nothing to see here folks, move on. Boooring.
All these arguments are complete and utter bullshit. This is a two sentence scandal and the facts are extremely clear.
Sure, there are fascinating details - for example, the fact that the President’s personal lawyer, accompanied by a conservative media network infamous for “the Joooos” and “lizard people” was in Ukraine performing (filming?) his documentary/investigation (?) interviewing on camera a fascinating coterie of Russian mobsters, bona fide KGB officers, disgraced corrupt officials, notorious con men and random mentally ill individuals, all the time claiming they’re being followed by George Soros personally:
And Rudy will debrief AG Barr on the “findings” from his documentary/investigation.
But again, even this bizarre and extremely fascinating details are a distraction. It’s a two sentence scandal.
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How many of these “successful” socialist countries foot the bill for their own defense? Of the ones that don’t (har har), how many does the Evil Capitalist USA pay for?
You’re right. Bureaucrats good. Elections bad.
Crime bad.
Hey, but this guy put in much more eloquently:
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I’ve lost count of which Lindsey graham that was? I think he has at least 7 different personalities.
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There’s a reason I read all my news instead of watching it.
Are any of them not effeminate?
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I like one of his personas that declared Joe Biden “as good man as God ever created”:
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I don’t know what the rules are but he should have to step down and run for office as a republican.
If one wants to sum up everything wrong with American politics just contrast Graham on Clinton’s impeachment vs “I don’t plan to be a fair juror” on Trump’s. Our system of government is horrid (well maybe not designed horrid but becomes horrid since we demand two parties and don’t kick anyone out)
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Yep…
It didn’t take Graham long to learn that if didn’t kiss the ring of the Mad King…the South Carolina electorate would bury him…
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Absolutely, but I think he keeps that one in the closet.
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It’s not the ring he wants to kiss.
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Meh. We had a guy from PA switch parties twice. Arlen Spector. He didn’t have to do anything special. Honestly he was an empty suit regardless of party, never did much. Just realized he’s dead now. Nobody even noticed.
I really don’t think we need to do anything to make the parties more powerful, like codify membership in law. If you want to change parties in office have at it. Deal with your constituents at election time.
Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as United States Senator for Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party.
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Agree.
Meanwhile they might have up to six years to screw those who voted for them because they misrepresented themselves.
I know there is no way to recall him but it’s still a scummy move.
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