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‘Worst foreign policy blunder in decades’: Republicans turn on Trump over Iran deal
(www.the-independent.com)
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I've never spoken to her, or met anyone who has. But let's look at the facts.
She didn't just leave Congress. She waited until a point in the news cycle where she'd get a lot of notice. She gave up her office before being placed in a position to go against Trump in a realistic way [e.g. voting for impeachment.]
She's in a great position to be a TV pundit for the midterms, which means more money and more exposure.
For a nitwit, she's played some pretty cunning moves.
I agree, assuming she's making a play here.
I think a lot of these people might be incredibly stupid at some things [1] and incredibly crafty and cunning at manipulation and scheming.
[1] Or great at acting like they are fucking morons to get the base to like them because the base confuses being smart with being "elitist".
For one of the most extreme examples of this acting like a dumbshit act, see ol' Foghorn Leghorn himself, Senator John Kennedy, is a Rhodes Scholar, who has a motherfuckin' degree from Oxford. From his public persona, you'd probably never know this, since he sounds like a blend of Foghorn Leghorn and Hee Haw in his ridiculous folksy persona. For someone that now feigns to be so confused about things like gender, he sure has had quite the transition himself...
I always admired the way George W. Bush could be a Yale graduate with a vast fortune and a simple cowboy at the same time.
100%. I was going to bring him up, too, but my post was getting overly long as-is. 😀
I think some blogger had put up earlier W being quite sharp in some debate he had then contrasted that with some derpy thing he was saying during one of his two terms.
They were not necessarily politicians, but you'd see the same kind of thing (I think some people called it "redneck drag") in the Duck Dynasty guys. There were plenty of people pointing out that these guys all looks like typical upper-class types, then at some point before the show, were sporting mountain man beards and plenty of camo.