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Dianne Feinstein's Health Crisis Goes Back Farther Than We Knew
- klooney 3y ago> The seniority system in Congress This is just the democratic party's own rules. The republicans don't run their committees this way. It could change whenever they wanted to.
- firstlink 3y ago[flagged]
- VagueMag 3y agoRolling Stone is using the royal "we" in the headline to refer to "the public" and not "reporters and newsmedia," whom the piece shows have played an active and knowing role in concealing Feinstein's mental incapacity.
- mnky9800n 3y ago[flagged]
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoYou know, it really makes you wonder, or perhaps simply confirms what we already know: that high-ranking officials in any government (or church, or business) are often puppets of their own handlers. Advisors will filter their information streams with a carefully-curated list of talking points, PR flacks will handle the public-facing messages, secretaries, ghostwriters, et. al. will handle the internal messages, decrees, statements, etc. Pope Benedict XVI, speaking to a high-ranking prelate in the papal apartments, was known at least once to remark, "My authority ends at that door." And it's true, I mean, aren't Popes, and democratically-elected politicians as well, supposed to be servants of the people? They should be doing our bidding, and hopefully they've put in place a staff that will prop up that public will, even after the official herself has lost the plot.
- VagueMag 3y agoWas with you right up until the part where you said the behind-the-scenes handlers are acting on behalf of the public's will or interest.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoWell, that's our fervent hope, but it's not necessarily a rational or well-founded hope, now is it?
- VagueMag 3y agoAt this point I think it calls to mind "cope" more than "hope."
- cft 3y agoRemands me of the last walking dead Brezhnev's days of the USSR. Big changes are coming. And not towards the best.