Shoutout to Alice’s podcasts Trash Future (https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/ ) and Well There’s Your Problem (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxHg4192hLDpTI2w7F9rPg) both of which are amazing.
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As I said in the 2020 thread: anyone insisting that they can’t investigate because “this isn’t that type of country” or saying they won’t, should immediately be disqualified from the presidency.
Mitchy, Lindsey et. al should also be given a hard look.
ETA:
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Let’s not be hasty– I’m sure many republicans are Very Fine People.
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I’ve lived here all my life. If these people get the chance- we’re exactly that kind of country. And anyone who has any sense of self preservation and is in a disfavored group - better have an exit plan in place.
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The kicker in Rubin’s op-ed is buried at the end:
And, in one sense, who could blame the left for adopting the playbook the right wrote?
I do not know if a Sanders administration would engage in such actions, but if it is as radical as Republicans imagine, they should expect nothing less. Perhaps then it will dawn on them that setting fire to our institutions and eradicating accountability for the president was a fatal error — fatal to democracy and to the rule of law. By then, of course, it will be too late.
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I’ll take her “concerns” with a truckload of salt. Her supporting for decades the party that actually did this doesn’t give one confidence in her tea leave reading or validate her projection.
You built that, Rubin.
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At least Rubin has never pretended to be anything other than what she is, a Nixon-style republican; and when the other never-Trump republicans immediately became strong supporters, she continued to attack Trump. The other conservative op-ed writers for the WaPo are beyond the pale.
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That damning with faint praise.
Nixon was the model for Trump. Hence Stone and Manafort etc.
But - you do you.
Edit:
Unitary Executive, enemies list.
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It wasn’t meant to be praise, just an observation. (And in one respect it is not correct, as Rubin opposed the Paris accords while Nixon created the EPA, environment having once been considered a conservative cause.)
I quoted the not-incorrect bit at the end of her column to put the bits already posted by others into context.
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If it didn’t have to do with your investment in her opinion- why the defensiveness about a swipe at her - not your - position?
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I’m not invested in her opinion in general, except in the sense that I subscribe to the WaPo, and I do agree with the last part of her op-ed. “Me doing me” (I’m not sure what you meant by that or why you felt obliged to include it) is giving credit when I think people are correct and being critical when I think they are not.
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I would argue against this, as Nixon had a legitimate upbringing in the Friends Society (Quakers) that meant when push came to shove, he had enough integrity and respect for the office he had trashed to step down. His quest for power and his paranoia were similar, but built on a base of actual intelligence and frustration for NOT having had things handed to him. Very different origin stories, basically, which means very different outcomes. Both villains, but unique from each other.
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I can’t even anymore.
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Seibt is in the pay of the Heartland Institute, a thinktank closely allied with the White House that denies established science showing humans are heating the planet with dangerous consequences.
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It’s about god damned time someone actually described their position accurately.
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