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"What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong. But what's the foundation of that brand? One that's more globally recognized than practically anything else.

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This is President Trump going bigger than President Nixon"

Jesus christ, man

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I about spit my coffee when I saw that. Good grief.

> We've been conditioned to accept that mediocre in government is normal.

Yes, I do now accept that mediocre [sic] in government is normal for the next few years.

Mediocre is probably the ceiling.

Are you under the impression this is somehow different from the last few years?

Are you American? Do you think this is normal? Just curious (non American).

There is a somewhat stubborn idea that a government will always have many inefficiencies baked in, since there’s no real incentive to remove them beyond a generic “that would be nice”.

Of course. Whatever problems the US government had before, mass firings, loyalty tests, furloughs, and endless other shenanigans have only exacerbated them.

An entire generation has grown up post Nixon and hasn't known government that worked so yes...could you blame them?

Furthermore only ~50% of the country has a passport so many haven't even seen how things run elsewhere.

:( I had to click through because I didn't believe you at first... as someone who used to proudly work with feds, this yet another low point in many over the past ten years.

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