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Then link it unedited.

He's an asshole, I get it. But half of what is said about him is false (pee pee tapes?) that Americans don't give a darn about what is true.

Good for you! Myself, I agree with you that Chamberlain is a great model to understand Trump.

Pretends to be a pacifist while buying time to strengthen the national economy to fight a big war everyone knows is inevitable because everyone wants it.

FDR is also a great model for Trump to understand the political levers to crush both an unelected and disloyal deep state and legitimate opposition.

However, may I also recommend you read a history book that doesn't bracket the world wars?

Of course he is, he's a narcissist. A narcissist whose legitimate orders were disobeyed by the military and who has been shot at with the security state high on many people's suspect list.

A cagey narcissist.

But there was a very specific allegation that Trump is asking "civil servants" who they voted for. A claim that is, not only, unsubstantiated, but that deals with a very specific council that, above all others, serves at the president's behest.

May I add that the NSC has been a nest of murderous assholes who draft the infamous kill-list that included a US citizen that Obama bragged of killing (and his underage son)?

These people belong in a crime tribunal, not next door to the Oval Office.

Agreed.

ODS was pretty bad. CDS was very self destructive for the GOP. BDS helped give Jr a second term.

A British rag. How lowly we have fallen. Whatever, let's allow it.

"[...] according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter."

And there you have it - zero capability to prove or verify what is actually happening.

But let's allow it.

So Trump is demanding loyalty from the members of the National Security Council. Not the FTC. Not the DOE. The NSC.

A council created by a president (not congress) depending directly on the White House to advise the president on matters that the president has exclusive constitutional prerogative and serving at his pleasure.

Trump has full discretion over these people because these people are very powerful and are crucial to the successful implementation of the policy that Trump was elected for.

Nor are these civil servants being fired, they are being returned to the agency whence they came from.

Their commute has changed. That's all.

This story is about the FTC, a congressionally created agency.

Do I think Trump will be good for the issues pertaining to the FTC?

No, he'll be terrible. So let's stick to that.

Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It's a horrible disease that blinds people to the bad things Trump does by hyperventilating over the things he is alleged to have done.

The saddest part is that it has effectively shielded Trump from real criticism since everyone is sick of of folks suffering from TDS. e.g.

"Trump is giving away the West Bank to Bibi as a thank you to Aldeson's widow!"

"Whatever. How many boosters do you have?"

Terrible disease.

Citation needed.

And not Rachel Maddow ranting about anonymous sources. Something that can be falsified.

How interesting. The UK is the only western country Ive encountered that gave this shot to kids in the 80s.

Why is this?

You got the BCG vaccine in the UK? Are you sure?

I got it when I was a toddler in the late 80s and I still remember the excruciating pain and have the scar to show for it.

I grew up in the third world. I have never met a Westerner with this scar unless they got it in the sixties.

The partisan thing was so weird. Im right wing adjacent, and I remember that early on in the pandemic being concerned about COVID19 was a right wing thing.

It was all so stupid.

I understand why China would spin it.

I understand why the NIH (who appears to have funded this) would want to spin this.

What was in it for CNN and MSNBC to spin this as racist when, IMHO, blaming COVID19 on culinary habits is far more racist? What was in it for Rachel Maddow to lecture America about the lab leak when she could have more effectively lectured us about financing the whole thing?

Specifically, we now have internal emails dating to 2020 from the CDC (NIH? Who remembers, it's been literally two years since this came out) about how it was probably a lab leak and then about the importance to bury the lab leak theory.

You're right of course.

This gentleman works in a US national lab, graduated top of his class in a top Chinese school and has friends that, at the time, worked in the Wuhan lab.

He, while very proud of being Chinese, was very critical of what he perceived his countrymen's lax safety standards. Myself, I can't judge that as I am not Chinese or an experimentalist so I deferred to his expertise and experience.

What I never understood about the politicization of the lab leak theory is this:

How is it more racist and Sinophobic to support the lab leak theory vs the wet market one?

The lab leak theory has single individuals messing up.

The wet market theory judges an entire nation's culinary habits.

Of course racism has nothing to do with the Truth of COVID's origins. Im was just always perplexed how the lab leak ended up spun as more "racist" than the wet lab one.

Actually under the original Trump administration.

The intel community never dismissed the lab leak theory. The discrediting of it was 100% a psyop

In fact the government has been quietly acknowledging that the lab leak has merit for about two years now.

Out how many conspiracy theories end up being right.

In fact, if a new flu came out from Atlanta I would immediately suspect an Emory grad student working in the CDC labs.

(Not to knock Emory students, I love them, but Emory has a relationship with the CDC and grad students can be cavalier)

I had a Chinese colleague in January of '20 saying it was obviously a leak. I hadn't even heard of Wuhan before, and he told me there is a bio lab there.

Who's "they"? You just grabbed a bunch of different arguments you disagree with and then bunched them all together with the lab leak.

Btw, I wouldn't remind people of "horse dewormer" debacle I were you - you come off as anti-science.