Brave Little Hitachi Wand

Ready to fight to the last

Gaslighting

Pointless to sign anything

Obstructing

Ukraine’s government is illegitimate

Projecting

… Where do I know this playbook from?

I read the “eith” typo as either. I think if there was real footage of Hillary pegging the shit out of Trump, it would make up for about 10 percent of the last decade. Which is nothing to sneeze at, if I’m being real.

Valid points, with love to George. But there’s a bit missing from that pithy take. The reasons you don’t see enough “good politicians” are the same systemic reasons we say “all cops are bastards”.

The carrots and sticks in the system are all lined up to weed out a certain kind of person, and to give another kind as much help as they need. The carrots I’m thinking of are campaign finance and the sticks are corporate media.

The American political system loves people who are cynical mercenaries, vituperative demogoues, or any alloy of those traits flexible enough to find a lasting niche. The exceptions prove the rule, to my mind.

They are morons for following illegal orders. Modern GPS can practically tell when you leaned over to fart, we cannot assume this was accidental.

Fundamentally unserious “just admit defeat” type of offering. The real signal is that the US is still a painfully unreliable ally.