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On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:24:13 -0500, Kestrel Clayton
<richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 16-Nov-24 07:06, jillery wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:28:15 -0800, erik simpson
>> <eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 11/15/24 8:09 AM, Kestrel Clayton wrote:
>>>> On 15-Nov-24 08:09, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
>>>>> Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Robert Kennedy as Health Secretary - the lunatics really have =
taken
>>>>>> over the asylum.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> And Matt Gaetz for DOJ. As Steve Bannon had said =
before=E2=80=A6flood the zone
>>>>> with
>>>>> shit.
>>>>
>>>> Gaetz is a child sex trafficker. I don't want to hear Republican =
voters
>>>> whine about "protecting women" or "what about the CHILDREN?!" ever, =
EVER
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Trump, whatever is other qualities may be, is a very shrewd =
politician.
>>> He recognizes that many of his followers are embarrassments to his
>>> administration.  Appointing Gaetz gets him out of congress.  The next
>>> step is an "arrangement" (contract, in effect), to deny his
>>> confirmation, and return him whence he came.
>>=20
>>=20
>> Let's see if we are better off 4 years from now, assuming we are still
>> around.
>
>Unfortunately, given the perpetual political amnesia from which most=20
>Americans seem to suffer, that's not typically a useful metric. The=20
>dingdong we just re-elected ran on "Are you better than you were four=20
>years ago?" even though we are, by almost any definition, better off=20
>than he left us in 2021.
>
>It's like watching a cow placidly lick an electric fence, bolt away in=20
>terror, and then a few minutes later wander back and do it again.


My reference to the dingdong's meme is the point.  What worked for it
this time was the high inflation due to corporate profit-taking, and
the porous border; both in-your-face visible and easy to whine about.
My guess is dingdong's "shrewdness" will create lots of problems to
whine about.

--=20
To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge