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    1 day ago

    That’s the neat part. It’s weaponized feigned incompetence.

    After Noem got the definition of Habeus Corpus exactly wrong in a recent hearing, some Lemmings have suggested that the RNC stooges in power are all playing dumb. Now, I can’t unsee it. It makes sense: play dirty because your aims are underhanded and illegal, and your opposition is both outraged and busy attacking the wrong thing. Every time we all get in a fit about how stupid this sounds, which takes up valuable space and time from doing anything useful.

    Edit: it’s like a misbehaving kid that knows if he keeps telling the right kind of lie he can get away with just about anything.

    Edit2: In Greene’s case, her “argument” is also signaling being a “useful idiot” to her base for getting the job done.