Comment by apical_dendrite
8 months ago
This would be unbelievable in a normal administration. The combination of flagrant lawbreaking and incompetence is just so characteristic of these clowns.
No, nothing in the Clinton email scandal comes close to cabinet secretaries accidentally real-time texting imminent war plans to journalists using a non-governmental system with auto-deleting messages.
Could you please stop using HN primarily for political battle? That's not allowed here, regardless of what politics you're for or against.
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(This is not a comment on the current story, or any story.)
¯\(ツ)/¯ Plenty of people in Trump's own cabinet used private email servers too, but no one cared.
As always, it's only a problem when a Democrat does it.
I’m sort of surprised Democrats haven’t snapped yet.
Democrat what? There's no power anywhere outside of the Trump circle.
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A few of them held up signs and some were kicked out. Yes, actually - some of our legislatures were removed from the premises for silently protesting!
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Honestly, I think a lot have just given up at this point.
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> surprised Democrats haven’t snapped yet
There is no Democrat in the singular. There is a left-wing bloc defined, first and foremost, by identity politics and foreign policy views (namely, Palestine). There is a centrist bloc focussed on employment and wages (historically pro-union). And there is a free-trading bloc focussed on American enterprise and industry (historically pro Wall Street and the party's dominant wing through 2016 to 2020).
The second and third used to be aligned. Then, briefly, the first and second. Currently, nobody is aligned. The financial crisis cost the third group its moral standing. The third group's affiliation with the second lost corporate America and Silicon Valley to the Republicans. Then the middle group's alignment with the first lost its base to the anti-woke pitch. The first group remains cohesive, but it's too small and uncoordinated (e.g. voting for Trump for Palestine) to move the policy needle on its own.
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