surely, those numbers would not be any different, if she had continued to take your advice, and wisely continued to do nothing.
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read that line back to yourself with Trump’s talk with the Ukranian PM in mind.
remember: it is impossible to lead. it is impossible to act. it is impossible to change anything. simply kneel before your republican betters, and accept their pronouncements.
the part about the attack that is truly genius is that you are completely correct to say the following, and, at the same time, it is the worst possible response.
i mean, yeah, but i remember some commentary on a degenerative milestone for Rudy’s brain-meats being trotted out as a partial explanation. if only every week was not a thousand years long.
i forget, what was it that happened to him. syphilis? a stroke? i dimly recall a story about a medical issue that coincided with his transition from stupid, venal, but competent politician to raving nut case, but it’s bugging me I can’t track it down.
and so, you find yourself in a place where you’re saying “sure, his son accepted a massive bribe from a foreign company, in exchange for favorable treatment from his father’s administration, but in the absence of a notarized document ennumerating the fee-for-service relationship we must assume it all to be…
you know how when one of your students thinks he’s clever, and is bad at taking criticism, he starts rambling in a vague theme of affronted genius, out of the hope that he can drown your objection in bullshit?
it’s always worked before. he makes a bunch of noise and the rich and powerful decide there’s a cheaper and easier target to go after.
as a side note, the “actual cost/benefit analysis” on things like “everything within 11 feet of sea level becomes first a flood risk zone, then underwater” has been run. it’s pretty bad it turns out
file photos of Ivanka and Jared Kushner extremely unrelated
“The underlying corruption is absolutely worth addressing”
remarkable how the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time evaporates the moment we start talking about the cushy job Biden’s kid got in exchange for Daddy’s attention being directed... elsewhere.
look, a Ukrainian natural gas company offered a board seat to an unemployed and unemployable crack addict, who had never been to Ukraine, and never been involved in the industry in the slightest, at the time that the crack addict’s dad was suddenly getting involved in the country’s politics.
whom amongst us does not have a crackhead loser family member who gets offered a board seat at a foreign natural gas company out of the blue
fun trivia: there’s a picture of eric trump’s hobby garage where he’s got a crudely traced version of that picture on the wall
they are -supposed- to, but there’s legal precedent that the president can say “fuck off, executive privilege, come back as part of an impeachment proceeding or not at all because otherwise you have no reason to get these.”
yeah, the reason it’s a good attack is that there’s no good way to call out the bullshit parts (biden didn’t get the guy fired, the guy wasn’t investigating hunter in the first place) without bringing up the “also hunter biden’s crackhead son got a board seat with a Ukranian petrochemical company somehow” bit
and your road map includes bulldozing poor people’s homes, firing police chiefs if your donors say “we don’t like he’s recording the racist shit we say about him,” and making sure you publicly let the police know that you’ve got their back every time they shoot an unarmed black guy before you bother talking to the…