right; this is kind of the thing. Johnson actually didn't know stuff he should have known, and suffered for it. That seems...just?https://twitter.com/EmpressSudol/status/814254501637095424 …
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not that american politics is generally just, but this seems to be a case in which things worked more or less as you'd like them to.
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the fact that many people, like Johnson, don't know much about Aleppo seems kind of beside the point...
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I don't know how to drive a tractor trailer, but if a tractor trailer driver didn't know how to drive a tractor trailer, that would be bad..
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I guess it's just fundamentally bizarre that he'd use this as the prompt to talk about problems with meritocracy.
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I'm trying to figure out why he did that, and I'm not really coming up with anything. I don't understand it.
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he thinks it's better Johnson just said he didn't know than if he'd come up with some plausible way to duck the question
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since being President is, to put it mildly, a front-facing job, and being able to bullshit when necessary is part of the job
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Your president elect got the job doing exactly that, so really it all pays off, unfortunately which was FDB's point.
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well, no, not really
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Trump repeatedly failed to BS effectively, got roasted for it, and got love from his fans for being hated by the media
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