UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in office.

Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by shanusmagnus on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:27AM (#33274375)

I think part of it is that we're in the political equivalent of "total war" -- if a politician were seen as being friendly with political opponents they would probably be destroyed in primaries by party rivals using it as red meat for how they were "soft" or an "x in name only" or some similar idiocy.

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by Macha on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:46AM (#33274625)

See for example the criticism of Ellen's friendship with George W Bush.

Though interestingly the Obamas and Clintons don't get the same criticism for that, apart from occasionally being held up to suggest the centre left wing of the democrats isn't that different from the old bush-era republicans

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by lostlogin on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:28AM (#33276214)

Criticism of everything Obama related is next level compared to anything those others have had to deal with.

I’m not in the US and all of the names you listed have politics I disagree with.

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