Those Diaz-Balart comments seem almost like a Rorschach test. Some people focus on the anti-Dems part, others focus on the anti-lunatic-Rs part. Maybe he's just an experienced and reasonably skilled politician trying to talk his way through the mess. Not everything that drops from these people's lips is a thesis on the Wittenberg church door.
They've really run their underwear up the flagpole now. We're seeing stuff we don't usually see, not because it's top secret but because it's routine and usually quickly over. So maybe we don't have a full context for how it's /supposed/ to look. For example, I think it's pretty normal that they don't vote for the speaker of the opposite party. So now it's a question of if and when to break the glass. And if they do, they're probably not gonna announce it to the first reporter that walks by. Because if you shoot at the king, don't miss.
To me, Diaz-B seemed more like a guy trying to look like he had a spine while pissing off as few people as possible and trying to hang onto a shred of his legacy. I wouldn't be surprised if the (not sure what we can call them now without evoking a chorus of umbrage -- I'd still say normie*) Rs are even more pissed at the lunatics than the Ds are.
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* Now defined as: if someone else would make this all go away, they'd be happy to go along.
Those Diaz-Balart comments seem almost like a Rorschach test. Some people focus on the anti-Dems part, others focus on the anti-lunatic-Rs part. Maybe he's just an experienced and reasonably skilled politician trying to talk his way through the mess. Not everything that drops from these people's lips is a thesis on the Wittenberg church door.
They've really run their underwear up the flagpole now. We're seeing stuff we don't usually see, not because it's top secret but because it's routine and usually quickly over. So maybe we don't have a full context for how it's /supposed/ to look. For example, I think it's pretty normal that they don't vote for the speaker of the opposite party. So now it's a question of if and when to break the glass. And if they do, they're probably not gonna announce it to the first reporter that walks by. Because if you shoot at the king, don't miss.
To me, Diaz-B seemed more like a guy trying to look like he had a spine while pissing off as few people as possible and trying to hang onto a shred of his legacy. I wouldn't be surprised if the (not sure what we can call them now without evoking a chorus of umbrage -- I'd still say normie*) Rs are even more pissed at the lunatics than the Ds are.
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* Now defined as: if someone else would make this all go away, they'd be happy to go along.