Like when he's unaware of certain bills or important procedings, maybe he legitimately doesn't know, but he should. It's part of his job to know.
Of course the ignorance could be a lie, which is worse, but neither option is good. So in some ways it doesn't really matter, it's already a bad outcome.
No, they don't "all do this". No, it's not normal.
ollie north was also lying on behalf of the establishment who wanted to fund anti-communist partisans (the contras, a term only known to most millennials as a nintendo game)
The only difference between this statement and "all politicians do this" is the politicians who are not confronted about bad behavior. It's a pretty big overlap and sufficient to assert you are coming across as normalizing this behavior.
So not "all" who are confronted, but "almost" all. Not a very big difference, but that's still not "all".
> The only difference between this statement and "all politicians do this" is the politicians who are not confronted about bad behavior.
That means that in your view, phito's comment was essentially saying that "all politicians do this" (your words), unless they're not confronted. My point was that it's incorrect, because of "they will almost always say" in phito's comment - so the correct reading of that comment would be that almost all politicians do this when confronted, not all.
Right. I arrived at "not all" and you arrived at "not all" for different reasons. The combination of our assessments is correct. Both of us are incorrect if you decide that we have to show all our work, correct in that they draw the correct conclusion.
This is HN-tier pedantry that is immaterial to the question of whether or not the above comment is normalizing something not normal.
Nothing is Normal when it comes down to it, reality is what you can get away with.
If that makes you uncomfortable, then buckle up because reality is what THEY can get away with.
He always knew, it's shameful how politicians behave like spoiled children instead of well-adjusted adults in a position of great responsibility. Why does this kind of people keep rising to the top?
Maybe they just want to see him playing in the asbestos dust
It doesn't make it better or worse, it just means the policies aren't his but the agenda of various puppetteers.
I loathe Orange Man but the power to arbitrarily pardon any federal crimes for any reason is one of the powers of his office and Americans haven't ever seen fit to limit it. Trump is flagrantly corrupt and tries to flout the law at every turn, but he's also exposing the degree to which the American system has always just run on gentlemans' agreements and pinky swears.
You are 100% incorrect.
> The Department of Education Organization Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1979, which created the Department of Education.
> In the Senate, 69 voted in favor and 22 voted against separating education from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.[3] In the House of Representatives, 215 voted in favor and 201 voted against.[4] President Carter signed the bill on October 17, 1979.[1]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Education_Organi...
Please list the departments and cite the executive orders creating each, because I think you will find that this is far less than half (and, unless you are using a non-standard definition of what constitutes a department in the US federal government, that the proportion is actually 0%.)
(A sibling commenter has demonstrated that the single example you provided is wrong, but its not just a poorly-chosen example.)
(Yes the 50% is assumes full voter participation and no third party candidate, also it can be slightly less than this if you have an incomptent state and friendly Supreme Court.)
A world in which we have to grant people arbitrary and unchecked power to overrule a justice system we can't trust, and can only hope they happen to be incorruptible, doesn't seem preferable.
Why would it be worse?
If he knows, at least he has a plan, whether that plan is good or bad.
If he doesn’t know at all, then literally even more random shit can occur than what’s already happening.
In theory, you try to limit the influence of a persistently bad actor, but it seems the U.S. didn't get the memo.