Meanwhile, in North Korea
I am sensing a new ongoing bit...
Steven L. Taylor
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Thursday, July 31, 2025
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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That would be the perfect theme music for the upcoming trumpcession.
If this becomes a new ongoing bit, you’ll never lack for material.
MAGA is for subjects, not citizens.
Also, I’ve heard Donald Trump does a very good Scottish accent: https://www.mediaite.com/media/podcasts/trump-busts-out-sean-connery-impression-while-discussing-his-history-with-scotland/
I’m still thinking about the pros and cons of this:
Trump meets with candidates for 4-star general in break with tradition
It sounds like an acceptable idea. On the other hand, it involves Trump. After the politization of the Pentagon under an incompetent Hegseth, I can see a downside.
Well, the first question is going to be “So, General, who won the 2020 election?”. Anything further will depend on the answer to that.
Ah, the good old days when it was just a round of fulsome praise from all the Cabinet secretaries at Cabinet meetings. Now it’s (like everything else) far greater than what it was.
@Scott:
Heaven forfend that the U. S. military, one of the largest bureaucracies in the world, should have bureaucrats. What’s the old line, amateurs talk about strategy, professionals talk about logistics. One historian, IIRC Thomas Rick’s, added that experts talk about personnel policy. I don’t think being expected to say, “Sir, my duty is whatever you say.” is good personnel policy.
I’ve sorta trusted Navarro’s account of the thinking behind Jan 6 because he’s so naive he doesn’t know when he’s saying something stupid or, unless lawyr’d up, incriminating.
ETA: I see that account is not easily google-able. Google is obsessed with his prison term for some reason. The account I was referring to is that the violence of Jan 6 was not intended, and in fact turned out to be highly counter productive for them. The idea was they would march around outside and that would scare the politicians, but when they chased the politicians out of the place they lost the game.
Sure, Navarro thinks Trump is a great economist, but what does noted economist Ron Varo think?
Ron Varo has been suspiciously quiet about the matter of what Nobel Prize Trump should get first.
I have no doubt that Ron Vara* also thinks that trump should be up for the Nobel Prize in Economics.
*Spelling to make the anagram work