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Can we stop with the clueless idiots nonsense? Some are that. The POTUS is also insane. Many more are much, much worse.

Marco Rubio absolutely knows due process is a right for all persons subject to U.S. law. It's not only a right for citizens, and having taken this right away from persons, in no meaningful way can it be said it's preserves for citizens.

The federal government is at best in abeyance. And an adversary at worst.

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People often mysteriously turn into idiots when their job depends on it.

Clueless is the wrong word. Calculated is.

Remember Hanlon's Razor, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

While I like this razor, it's overbroad. Malicious people can always say 'oopsie, I have no clue what I'm doing lol'. Also, you can have people who are both malicious and stupid.

Conversely, we know some people are not stupid. I dislike marco Rubio's politics for example, but he's a smart guy and widely considered to be competent. And as an attorney and a US Senator of long experience in intelligence matters, there's no way he's unaware of the legal implications of using a self-destructing messaging channel.

Remember Dietrich Bonhöffer, Lutheran pastor who considered stupidity a greater threat to good than malice.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bonhoeffer

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