When Biden appointed Merrick Garland as AG, I knew then we were in deep shit.
Garland was vetted to Obama by Orrin Hatch R-UT. Hatch was the most radical right Senator in the Senate at that time., he also had worked for the Federalist society as a moderator. That told me all I needed to know.
When Biden appointed Merrick Garland as AG, I knew then we were in deep shit.
Garland was vetted to Obama by Orrin Hatch R-UT. Hatch was the most radical right Senator in the Senate at that time., he also had worked for the Federalist society as a moderator. That told me all I needed to know.
Biden joined the Senate when the Senate Democrats were controlled by Dixiecrats, racists, and his mentors were racists. Senators were friends, they had dinner together, attended cocktail parties together. Comity and compromise were the unofficial rule.
Biden was reared politically, as a compromiser, bipartisan, and was not the man for the times, but it is in his blood, still.
And it is in the blood of the Democratic party leadership, maybe now they have had a transfusion and the film wiped off their eyes, but not when Obama was elected, not when Biden took office.
Senators make piss poor presidents, they are politicians who were raised to legislate and compromise. The best President we ever had, FDR, was a governor, and he knew how to govern and so he did.
Obama was not even a practiced senator, with only two years in the Job and nothing to his credit. He was a neophyte inside the beltway, he had no connections, he was prey, and jumped on by predators like Larry Summers and Rahm Emanuel, who "guided" him, they even "suggest" official advisors like national security advisors, economic advisors, etc.
Same is true for Trump, we know who Steven Miller is now, a racist exenophobic Jew, but Trump never heard of him, until he was told to appoint him as an advisor.
Trump didn't know any of the people he appointed as advisors and cabinet, there is a grise eminence behind the throne.
Basically the president, in most cases, is a figure head. The only power he has is to execute laws passed by congress, and he hires a staff, called the cabinet, which is supposedly approved by the Senate to do just that.
White House advisors are a work around, as is acting cabinet members, which Trump employed to full effect.
When Trump took office he was naive as to the powers that he had, and what he could do. The crap and subterfuges he has come up with are not his idea, he is not his own man, he is a carnival barker, a conman, the "Music man", a malignant narcissist, a malleable tool,and that tool is being used today by the likes of Elon Musk, and for J D Bowman Vance, Peter Thiel., but they aren't the only hands on the tool. There are other hands like Leonard Leo, and Kevin Roberts.
There is not one man behind the curtain, or one hand up the ass of a sock puppet, but many men and many hands.
When Biden appointed Merrick Garland as AG, I knew then we were in deep shit.
Garland was vetted to Obama by Orrin Hatch R-UT. Hatch was the most radical right Senator in the Senate at that time., he also had worked for the Federalist society as a moderator. That told me all I needed to know.
Biden joined the Senate when the Senate Democrats were controlled by Dixiecrats, racists, and his mentors were racists. Senators were friends, they had dinner together, attended cocktail parties together. Comity and compromise were the unofficial rule.
Biden was reared politically, as a compromiser, bipartisan, and was not the man for the times, but it is in his blood, still.
And it is in the blood of the Democratic party leadership, maybe now they have had a transfusion and the film wiped off their eyes, but not when Obama was elected, not when Biden took office.
Senators make piss poor presidents, they are politicians who were raised to legislate and compromise. The best President we ever had, FDR, was a governor, and he knew how to govern and so he did.
Obama was not even a practiced senator, with only two years in the Job and nothing to his credit. He was a neophyte inside the beltway, he had no connections, he was prey, and jumped on by predators like Larry Summers and Rahm Emanuel, who "guided" him, they even "suggest" official advisors like national security advisors, economic advisors, etc.
Same is true for Trump, we know who Steven Miller is now, a racist exenophobic Jew, but Trump never heard of him, until he was told to appoint him as an advisor.
Trump didn't know any of the people he appointed as advisors and cabinet, there is a grise eminence behind the throne.
Basically the president, in most cases, is a figure head. The only power he has is to execute laws passed by congress, and he hires a staff, called the cabinet, which is supposedly approved by the Senate to do just that.
White House advisors are a work around, as is acting cabinet members, which Trump employed to full effect.
When Trump took office he was naive as to the powers that he had, and what he could do. The crap and subterfuges he has come up with are not his idea, he is not his own man, he is a carnival barker, a conman, the "Music man", a malignant narcissist, a malleable tool,and that tool is being used today by the likes of Elon Musk, and for J D Bowman Vance, Peter Thiel., but they aren't the only hands on the tool. There are other hands like Leonard Leo, and Kevin Roberts.
There is not one man behind the curtain, or one hand up the ass of a sock puppet, but many men and many hands.