This is not true. The repukacons simply skipped all of the crafting process and then whined about it later. Here’s a detailed write-up of exactly how it happened in the second longest open debate in the senate’s history.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if he had tried to learn the phrase Ménage à trois at some point.
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The sentiments are dear to his heart, but I just can’t imagine Trump knowing any phrases (or words, even) in any other languages - he has a hard enough time with English.
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One difference between journalism and science is that journalists report what their sources tell them. They use multiple sources, often contradicting each other, and report all of it. They have leeway to also report information about the credentials and reliability of their sources. So, if a source lies, that’s part of the normal process in journalism. If that source is used again, responsible journalists will also report that the source had lied in the past. For anonymous sources, journalists have the responsibility to make a determination of the credibility of the source - not whether they are lying right now, but whether they are in a position to know what they say they know.
But this is an Op-Ed. It doesn’t fall under most of those rules. You can bet that the editorial staff at the NYT at least vetted that the writer was in a position to know what they are writing about, or they would not be allowing the anonymity.
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It’s a national insecurity issue.
On another site I frequent, posters from Indiana who saw his performance as the governor first-hand mocked him roundly. Apparently, he’s a dumbass, and his wife’s the brains of the outfit.
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Friend of mine who lives and dies by political strife has a few novel theories on the motivations of the writer:
- “Testing the Waters” for if there’s the political will among the Republican mainstream to remove Trump from office if he goes far off the rails. (less likely)
- Trying to assure the Republican mainstream that no matter what comes of the recent (and certainly upcoming) revelations, that a vote for the Republicans and by extension Trump is “Safe” because there’s actually a real boat captain steering the ship. (more likely) They can’t just come out and say this, because they’d have to publicly throw Trump under the bus.
I think we’d be foolish to not think there’s not some sort of calculus behind the op-ed which benefits Republicans more than it does Democrats. After all, this doesn’t tell the Democrats anything they hadn’t already heard or assumed.
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The ACA took months of debate and compromise (remember that?) and was continually sabotaged by Republicans until it finally passed along mostly party lines.
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Congress routinely has members voting on bills they haven’t fully read. But let’s just give everyone the benefit of the doubt for the ACA. What it was and what was in it was an obfuscated mess for the average person. Beyond the pundits and talking heads confusing people, the misinformation on what it was and what was going on was all over the place. The average person is lucky if they understood the bullet points.
But let’s also give the benefit of the doubt that I am wrong and the ACA was as transparent as anything and it was a bad example. That doesn’t counter the fact that the US gov needs more transparency. Though granted, compared to a lot of the world, it is fairly open.
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Not to mention that the ACA essentially was the Republicans’ idea for universal healthcare. The Dems never even pushed for single payer and caved on the Public Option almost immediately. The final bill was basically what Newt Gingrich’s Heritage Foundation had come up with years earlier; a national version of so-called RomneyCare. By all rights the GOP should have been thrilled.
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But A BLACK MAN would get credit for it. The horror of it.
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Yup. It was RomneyCare 1.0.1
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People still talk about “Death Panels” somehow.
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I hate getting called up for Death Panel duty in Canada. All you do it sit around for days without getting to actually kill anyone. /s
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Everyone wants to be a gangster until it’s time to do gangster shit.
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“Sessions j00 r the worst Southern hick who can’t even be a lawyer!” Three dayuhs layuhtere “Hey, uh, Jeff, could you pretty please sort of, ya know, investigate this sort of situation, huh?” I know this is a question of legality and here I am poking fun but, damn, Trump did the EXACT same thing to South Korea; making disparaging remarks about a pro-United States presidential candidate there and then expecting there to NOT be some fallout over it? Koo koo! Yeah, master of the deal my ass! He royally screws up and then ends up taking a plea deal from the position of lesser bargaining and then keeps making the same mistakes! This op-ed piece along with other disparate testimonies only cements the notion that Trump is some poster child for the Dunning Kruger Effect.
But then he discovered they don’t speak French in Slovenia
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I’ve said before that if Trump was a Game of Thrones character he’d be Joffrey. A spoiled, utterly unqualified entitled sociopath who gets off on publicly humiliating his closest allies because he’s too stupid to even realize how precarious his position is.
Most politicians don’t treat their adversaries half as badly as Trump treats his own inner circle.
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