I cannot help but think that it is not a good sign when a spat between two very powerful men over a piece of legislation neither one of them has a vote on dominates the headlines for an entire day.
One of the two will, eventually, have the opportunity to say yea or nay to the entire bill, but until then? They're both Just Some Guy; any American has a chance to write to or ring up the offices of their Senators and Representatives, and no one of us should have any louder a voice than the rest of us.
Yeah, yeah, realpolitik admits it ain't that way and it never has been, but the field used to be at least a little bit flatter, and everyone pretended it was even more so than it was. Now you can't even express an opinion without picking a prince.
It's not a horse race and neither of the principals knows what he's doing when it comes to the national economy or the federal budget. Watching them is like watching a couple of chimpanzees fighting with sledgehammers in a house under construction: sure, it's fascinating, but sooner or later, one or the other of them is going to knock out something load-bearing and it will all come tumbling down.
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6 months ago
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This is a great window into the cloudcoocooland of a lot of MAGA supporters. Too many are positing that this is A Big Ploy By the 33.33D Chessmasters Don & Elon, a bit of manufactured drama for some Great Purpose.
It's interesting that many people would rather believe that events are under human control & following some sort of plan- even if it's malign control for nefarious purposes- rather than face the fact that no person/people is able to control events.
I'm in the position of believing it's all a mess and the worst is yet to come . . . and it will.
Because people-eating Lizard Overlords at least has reason and purpose. Too many need order at any cost.
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