The criteria really is nothing more than "who's least suited for this position", isn't it?
Millions of Americans say openly that they turned off the Super Bowl half-time show because of Bad Bunny's ethnicity, yet they still expect us to believe that there's no racial discrimination in policing or the job market.
How many of these millions of Americans are in positions of authority? How many of them are cops? How many of them are in positions to deny jobs or promotions to people if they don't like the way you look?
What's happening with the Epstein files is like that moment when the school acknowledges that they know your kid was being bullied, but you can already tell halfway through the meeting that they'll never do anything to the attacker.
Just so we're clear, the right-wing tactic for marginalizing communities is not to write laws which explicitly target those communities. Their tactic is to write laws that affect everyone, and then selectively enforce those laws so that they are only used to punish a targeted community.
They've been doing this for generations, with selective enforcement of drug laws for example, but we've never seen a more blatant example of this technique than the ICE crackdown on Minnesota: a state whose immigrant population per capita is roughly half that of Texas.
This longstanding technique is such a poorly kept secret that many Trump supporters actually counted on it. Latino Trump supporters all assumed that they would be exempt from ICE brutality simply because they're Trump supporters.
The US has never really had consistent rule of law, and now they're not even pretending anymore. The farcical true nature of American law and order has been laid bare by the Trump administration, and this cannot be unseen.
Stupid people, or people who are looking to advance an agenda of their own and are willing to suck up to someone they hate (or at least consider to be beneath them) to make that happen. So far we've only seen that happen with people who are even more evil than he is, but who knows what saboteurs might be lurking behind the scenes. Think about it: their standards are so low that anyone who's a half-decent faker could get a foot in the door, and we've seen enough instances of public figures taking a sudden swerve into genuine Trump fanboyism (Kanye, Scott Adams, Tatsuya Ishida) that the press and the public would probably fall for it too.Nope; the criteria is solely "how much can you kiss trumps ass". The incompetence is built in because only stupid people want to kiss trumps ass.
“Effective immediately, all national security tariffs under Section 232 and all existing Section 301 tariffs... remain fully in place and in full force and effect.
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