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Aristus

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31. I just chalk it up to simple incompetence.

Reply to Trueblue Texan (Reply #12)

Thu May 7, 2026, 02:07 PM

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This isn't the Presidency's first foray into terminal ineptitude.

How quickly we forget.

GWB's odd little painting hobby, and his schoolboy crush on Michelle Obama shouldn't make us forget what a thin-skinned incompetent little man he was. We were hoping he would be the worst of it, and then we could go back to competent governance. How little we understood that the repukes were just softening up the ground for Trump.

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