Frank wrote on Jun 26
th, 2024 at 5:55pm:
Karnal wrote on Jun 26
th, 2024 at 5:38pm:
Frank wrote on Jun 25
th, 2024 at 7:21pm:
What’s more, expectations have been lowered to such a level that
Mr. Biden may need only to stay alive, or at least awake, for the whole 90-minute broadcast to exceed them. 
The rules may have been designed to further cushion Mr. Biden, but these could backfire. Silencing the microphones when the other candidate is speaking presumably won’t deter Mr. Trump from continuing to speak over Mr. Biden during his answers. We the audience won’t hear his needling, but Mr. Biden may feel the urge to reply. In responding to something the audience can’t hear, the president may only look even more confused.
Above all, the debate can provide an opportunity for Mr. Trump to do the two things that will earn him victory in November: stay sane, and stick to Mr. Biden’s record in office, contrasted with his own. If Mr. Trump can resist the temptation to make the entire event about his wounded ego, he has a golden opportunity.
The Wall St Journal
Contrasted with his own?
Oh, ja. Say that, sir. Remind us all of those four fun years of race riots, bleach injections and White House covid outbreaks. Tell us about all those RINO staffers and cabinet members who blabbed about you being totally unfit for office.
DEEP STATE !!!
You are grimacing, paki. You are trying to make irony out of exactly what happened, and you know it. You are not stupid, you are just supremely dishonest. Gweggy is both stupid and dishonest.
Trump was against the 'swamp' which included Jeb the Third as a candidate. Against Clinton the Second.
Dynastic rivalries in a republic that fought to have no hereditary rulers. So the swamp blabber, gossipped, intrigued, nobbled and hindered.
I dont want to draw too long a bow but there are some perceptible parralels with Whitlam as far as a political novice breaking into power being frustrated and nobbled at every turn.
Just imagine the transformation if the public service, universities and the media had been as supportive of Trump as they are of Biden.
You can't imagine it. THAT is the swamp.
That's right, dear boy. I really can't imagine it.
Imagine public services like the weather bureau and disaster recovery requiring their briefings transformed using a Sharpie texta. Imagine the media requiring briefings that your DL's inauguration crowd sizes were triple - quadruple - their actual number. Imagine public officials like secretaries of state being told to transform their vote counts. But do you know?
This doesn't even touch the sides. Your DL's administration was the most inept in modern history. Many US agencies had no directors for their first year. Trump appointees to senior government positions included truck drivers and sales assistants with no experience whatsoever. When they were finally appointed, a number were fired for lying on their security clearances, lying to congress or not declaring their status as foreign agents. When Investigators General reported adverse findings, they were fired.
Australia had no US ambassador for
nearly two years.
And if they lasted in their jobs, many never turned up for work or bothered to find out what their new workplaces did. Agencies like the Dept Energy and Agriculture spent weeks waiting for their new bosses to turn up to be briefed - a first. During the Bush and Obama administrations, they were briefed and ready to go during the
transition.
The head of the big fella's transition team, Chris Christie, was fired almost immediately. Prior to that, the big fella said he didn't even
want a team (a legal requirement).
It can't have been easy for career public employees to support such a "transformation". The media merely reported the facts. The universities? I'm not sure what they said, but it can't have been good. The "transformation" in agencies like the Dept Energy included firing those who'd written reports on global warming and banning the use of the term "climate change".
Trump appointees were tasked with one job only, to undo every policy implemented by Obama, without even knowing what these policies were. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, was drafted by nuclear scientists. Their work was overturned, allowing Iran to restart its nuclear weapons program. Trump himself didn't even know what the deal involved, tweeting about pallets of cash to describe private Iranian citizens' unfrozen US bank accounts.
There could be no such transformation in such an environment, only incompetence, graft and corruption. Jared Kushner, who fired Chris Christie, was given $20 billion in Saudi sovereign wealth funds to invest three months after leaving office, despite Saudi financial advisors' protests. Nothing like this has ever been seen before - or since.
There is no possible way your DL can transform government for the better. Why? We know. We've seen his work with our own eyes. He doesn't even know what it does.
The US federal government is one of the biggest and most important organisations in the world. It regulates everything from patents and satellites to safety standards for food, drugs and nuclear weapons. Sleepy Joe has only just put things right. Placing it in the hands of your DL is one of the biggest threats to global security we now face.
Ever get the feeling?
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