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the executive office and executive appointments in US life have always been distinctly whiffy.

it's one of the more troubling aspects of recent british politics, taking its cue from 'murica: appointing people from totally without politics, without vetting, often times to senior cabinet advisory positions or even cabinet itself.

non-MPs being hastily shuffled through the lords with a peerage or given access to the seniormost levels of intelligence, or getting their hands on the bureaucratic levers ... not good actually, despite what dominic cummings and your technocratic eggheads want.

uziq wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbkt2vYC4M

what a coup for this channel. millennial media is safe and well.

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SuperJail Warden wrote:

The interview was good. You can hear his father's way of speaking and tone especially later in the interview.

i thought so too. the physical presence and gestures. he has become weirdly presidential since getting sober.

i mean, he's had a hugely traumatic life in many ways, rubbing right up with the global oligarchy levels of privilege. probably dealing with immense amounts of guilt from surviving the road accident that destroyed half of his family. watching his anointed, more respected and altogether more wholesome brother slowly waste away to a vicious disease, etc. many people get addicted to drugs or end up on skid row for much lesser reasons.

i also don't really get the specific and politically motivated ire directed at the biden's for their low-level ruling-caste corruption. of course family members get appointed to boards. what do you think board members are?! you need connections and a bit of charisma/suavity; that's mostly it. i think people would be appalled if they realised just how 'credentialed' the board members of all sorts of august institutions or public utilities really are.

plus the MAGA lot think nothing of trump's entire white house being staffed by his daughter and his son-in-law etc. putting your son on the board of a multinational company in eastern europe seems pretty low-key in the malfeasance stakes compared to letting jared or bannon into the inner sanctum.