I agree with all those things, but that’s the “is it worth it” part. We shouldn’t have to trade off basics of public health like vaccines or scientific consensus.
Well based on my imperfect view as a layperson it looks like 85% of the effort is going towards the batshit crazy stuff and not the actually important reform objectives which I think we both agree with. I don’t see evidence of good shit broadly happening. But let me ask you this: if eradicated diseases become endemic again, is it worth it?
what am I missing?
No. The problem is that it’s a bad job, with insane hours, the pay is incredibly shitty, and the customers are cheap, stupid assholes who don’t care about the difference between right and wrong.
Very few good people would want that job. We’ve got the congress we deserve. Probably better.
I get it, but that always seems crazy to me. It’s like the Bush administration saying essentially that waterboarding is not illegal torture because we wrote ourselves a secret memo that says it isn’t.
By the way- I was told by a Texas Republican BMD that this is the reason Cornyn didn’t have any real chance of being Majority Leader. Thune is willing to take the heat when he needs to.
But this is what bullies do- they have nothing but contempt for their toadies and put them against each other. They are afraid of conflict and send others to do their dirty work.
Trump doesn’t really fuck with Thune because Thune is the boss of his chamber and doesn’t do dance to Trump’s tune except when it works for him and his backers.Trump was nice to Mamdani because Mamdani has authentic swag and Trump likes to be photographed with handsome winners who have good hair.
Johnson is a short, nerdy, annoying kissass who people make fun of. He’s only interesting as long as he’s useful and he’s reached the limit of his utility. He will now be humiliated and discarded.