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He saw opportunistic possibility to get ahead and it backfired. The problem with Trump government is that dysfunction shadows opportunistic cynicism by wide ma

• cmurf 9y ago
  I'm not quite so forgiving of "opportunistic possibility" that just isn't working out to Thiel's advantage. First a person had to cross the birtherism rubicon, it wasn't something you could just skip over claiming you didn't know about it. Either you went with "YES! MORE GIVE ME MORE OF THAT!" or "Yeah that's pretty derp, but I'm going to overlook it as irrelevant to a proper assessment of one's character: someone who's making a personal and racist attack, attacking the office of the presidency, and also really attacking everyone who is willing to believe such an obvious lie - yeah that's who I still want as a president, someone who thinks I'm a moron." And just tick that box. And then there are the Stern interviews. The bankruptcies. The widespread pooping on all the furniture approach to business. And the 1999 Russert interview where he said we must preemptively bomb North Korea, we have to do it. And last year out loud asked why we hadn't used nukes yet. The data points for a kakistocracy are all there plain to see. But there was and still is a deep attachment to tribalism and denialism that resulted in where we're at.