I see a common pattern: Lots of excuses for it but nothing addressing it. Deflection for when one wants to avoid facing an issue.

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 I laughed at “I’m going to buy Greenland”. I thought – finally, a joke from the guy.Turned out he meant it. Mr. President is nuts. Sorry folks.

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Nah, it’s a problem. It’s not 4D chess or a clever distraction and it’s not creative.It’s nuts. He had years to show otherwise. Nuts.

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At 8 yrs old, I followed 1980 election cycle as much as an 8 yr old could. I don’t think anybody in the house followed it but I did.I liked John B Anderson. I didn’t know 3 parties was uncommon.What happened to him? Founded and ran FairVote ’til 2008.and my politics haven’t changed from his much since.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairVote

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 He canceled the trip because they laughed at the notion.An even slightly self-aware individual would go “Shucks, yeah you got me” and had tea together anyway.

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 It’s not to him though. Blind to it. It’s a problem.

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  You’re justifying it “as if” a normal creative individual did it.But you can’t start from that footing. It started from the mind of an unwell individual who is in a powerful position. It iddn’t start from a rational mind.

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 Nutty guy has notion. Gets rejected. Changes how he deals with them because of rejection.Future dealings will be based on that rejection.

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Also in 1868. It’s not “policy for decades”. It was tried. Twice – and with justifications.This was what? Whim.

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