Iraq Reconstruction Parallels w/DOGE

I've brought this up in a few places here and there on social media (without much of a response), but does what's going on right now with Musk and DOGE seem a lot like what was happening in Iraq with the post-invasion reconstruction? The wanton firing of civil servants, looting of government agencies, the mysteriously constituted and opaque "Coalition Provisional Authority (nobody could figure out who exactly was in charge of that either)," massive corruption, etc. I'm sure other people can probably make some other parallels that I'm not thinking of right now but, considering how the miscreants pretty much got away with it last time, I wouldn't be surprised if notes weren't taken by the perpetrators of that looting for this very moment here in this country.......

Thoughts, opinions?

So the only things holding up most of our government

Are willful adherence to norms and rules and that, until now, we never had a President willing to utterly disregard and destroy everything?!

Has a Former 1-Term President Ever Run Again 4 Years Later and Won?

Or would that be unprecedented in terms of our history? Do we think that Americans are ready to make history electing a former 1-term President or electing the first African-American woman as President? - semi-rhetorical


Closest example I can think of is Nixon but he was never a former President (and it was actually 8 years later that he ran and won).

CNN Reporter was grilling NC Attorney General/Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate last night about disaster recovery

Practically blaming him or questioning him about how long recovery is going to take. NC Attorney General kept telling reporter that they're still in search and recovery mode and they're working as quickly as they can to help people. Reporter pulled out quotes from people questioning how soon things will be better. It was really annoying.

Touting Endorsements of RFK and Tulsi Gabbard

Every Governor Certified the 2020 Election Results

n/t

Trump STRENGTHENED ACA?!

Now that Biden is out, the RW attacks and conspiracy theories are blowing up

Listening to WIBC FM in Indianapolis (which leans to the right) are now questioning the entire credibility of Biden's Presidency to date and think that people have been covering up Biden's health issues/concerns for all or most of his Presidency. Not saying that I agree with them but I hope we have a good response team and that nobody actually has been holding anything back. Does anybody think that people might care about this or is this basically all the Republicans/Trump have to fall back on? Some idiots like Mike Johnson are even trying to push Biden out NOW since he made his announcement, which is a complete non-starter for a myriad of reasons. Thoughts? Anything we should be worried about?

Anybody else feel like we're having one big national nervous breakdown right now?

I sure do. My username may become my actual state of mind (if not already there).

Biden's Debate Performance

Maybe this is a bit but is it possible Biden and/or his debate preppers got "psyched out" by all of the Republican accusations of Joe being drugged with "performance enhancing" drugs before the debate that he/they felt that he had to tone down his performance? I'm not saying he tried to tank the debate but was that in the back his/their minds going into the debate? Although I'm sure that fatigue and a reported cold might have naturally played a factor but I just wonder if he/they felt like they had to try to battle those, admittedly ridiculous, assertions, which helped to paralyze/slow him down some? I've never heard anybody talk about this but just wondering all the same......