Comment by duxup
1 year ago
I don't doubt it's his "style", and I think the effect is as you describe.
I do not know if he is conscious of it / it is a thought through strategy... or something else. He seems straight up falling into an old age involved cognitive decline. At times he sabotaged what seemed like initiates last term by praising a bill, then angrily claiming he would veto it, his own party members not sure what was going on. Some of his legal troubles don't really benefit him at all and he steps in it again. His words don't even make sense together at times and even those around him seem confused.
I'm just not sure how much is thoughtful strategy, or just old age problems that are effectively just childishness.
> I do not know if he is conscious of it / it is a thought through strategy... or something else.
At this point speculation and "benefit of the doubt" is counterproductive, and I say that as someone who likes speculation and disassembling things to see how they work.
Recycling a recent comment:
> Trump-scandals kinda killed Hanlon's Razor for me.
> A miasma inseparably blurring the lines between malice and incompetence, lies and ignorance, culpability and insanity, condensing into a greasy alloy which is definitely some amount of evil yet not worth anybody's time to separate and assay.