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Getting so totally carried away with the smugness from 'you don't understand the political mechanisms' to 'you don't know where New Jersey is' to 'you don't even know what a senator is' is absolutely hilarious.
Especially when the main arguement appears to be that the totality of a senator's job is reading all letters in full on the senate floor.
And attacking people saying that's performative by implying they think politics is a West Wing episode, not like this real business of politics, is the absolute icing on the cake.
There's an entire West Wing episode about how a old retiring senator who has a granddaughter with autism does an epic filibuster to stop Bartlet's admin passing a bill that reduces funding for autism studies and he goes on for so long, in such a courageous performance of process, that the administration comes around to him and decides they won't gut autism funding after all.
It's called The Stackhouse Filibuster and the ending is this amazingly saccharine bit of lanyard swinging below, where all the important West Wing people write to their elderly parents about how they helped this guy by getting a senator to ask a question so Stackhouse can have some water and a sit down:
Cognito Hazard: naff lib shit
The true liberal fantasy.
Their party 'accomplishing' something by having a neurodivergent person speaking ad nauseum (a person who gets shoved back under the rug after they have 'performed sufficiently'), and the accomplishment is just preventing something from happening; not resulting in positive change, just preventing a negative change.
Pathetic on so many levels. These people dream in beige.
Agreed. And even worse, it's undoing the policy they were accepting despite it's effect of neurodivergent people only because a political insider has a relative it effects and made a righteous spectacle of political process.
I'm guessing Stackhouse is supposed to be Paul Wellstone since in the episode mentions that he's from Minnesota and is a haranguing 'pain in the ass' of Bartlet who they frequently dismiss for outdated lefty grievances.
If so, then the real life counterpart, Wellstone, didn't get a triumphant send off on the Senate floor. The small plane he, his wife, kid, and aides were travelling in crashed after he become a prominent opponent of the Iraq war in 2002 and the Senate majority hung in the balance of his re-election.
Never heard of Wellstone; crash doesn't seem overtly suspect, but there were some things that caught my eye
So he was being piloted to an airport with a faulty VOR beacon by two bad pilots; a reach could be that the faulty beacon was not an 'accident', and that those two were picked to fly him in hopes that between the beacon and poor pilots this would happen, but seems a stretch. Crash was determined to also be due to the aircraft stalling due to low airspeed; this pilot was known to let the copilots actually do the flying, and this copilot here was known for easing up on the throttle to the point of almost stalling
I meant more that a man in his position should have lived by the True Anon rules than the idea that he was definitely murdered. It was convenient for a lot of the political class after the fact though. Interesting context though, I never looked into it at the time, just remember the news.
Aaron Sorkin has a lot to answer for
To women first, then for the Obama braintrust, then to writing. And maybe the
Aaron Dorkin
Good lord, that clip is radio active. I can't even find the words to accurately describe the level of cognitive dissonance on display here. The utter lack of material understanding is in full bloom.
If Cory Booker was intending to impress liberals, then by god he did it. He put on a show for them, and they ate it up. Just see for yourself!
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