I really can’t spend the next year arguing with people who are somehow AGAINST pushing for better communications from Dems.
So, I’m just going to block anyone peddling stupidity about how sucking at communications is somehow fine, necessary, unimportant or unfixable.
Seriously, I mostly hate Twitter lately.
Before Trump was elected, all of my existential screaming at the movie screen while the people in the horror movie couldn’t hear me happened off Twitter.
I didn’t join Twitter until the election.
It sucked the absolute life out of me.
As someone who understood his narcissistic personality disorder from the jump, that helpless screaming into the wind sucked the absolute life out of me.
The triggering of Trump’s narcissism was PTSDish enough.
“Everything that looks like a potential conflict is one.” is not one of them.
“Every actual conflict of interest materially harms the public.” is not one of them.
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Conflict of interest laws exist because, at least in part, because of the understanding that even the *appearance* of a conflict can erode *public faith in government*.
The agency most responsible for enforcing federal conflict of interest provisions is the Dept. of Justice.
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There is no entity in our entire government that better understands:
…and blurts something out like “I don’t understand why we need to do all this. 🙄 We just need a good slogan like Nike.”
And everyone else around the table cringes. Their own colleagues.
You were supposed to just sit there and eat your bagel, Frank from Finance.
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It’s like the scene in the Devil Wears Prada where Anne Hathaway makes a snide comment about a “blue sweater” and Meryl Streep takes her apart for her simplistic understanding of fashion.
Cerulean. It is cerulean. And you didn’t choose it. You were made to choose it.