If I answered a question like that in an interview for a job at McDonalds, I'd be laughed right the fuck out of the room. This should be instantly disqualifying, but in this admin, brazen dishonesty and cronyism is a must have.
That's one of the most frustrating parts about all this, so few people are rational, so few people have standards or honor.
It should be allowed to demand a duel if someone dissembles and refuses to answer questions in situations like this.
That would just put psychopaths with good reflexes in charge even more than they already are.
In other administrations, too. The definition of truth belongs to the majority holder.
If the opposition to the GOP do not get a majority, and really a super-majority is what's truly needed... If that doesn't happen, there's no salvation for the United States.
I'd argue that it's been gone for a while, but I simply cannot give up yet.
For there to be a real path out of this they need to be willing to strike a stake into the heart of the republican vampire party:
(Personally I would add every goddamn american citizen to the supreme court because its a lifetime appointment and the public would be way better the corrupt nutjobs currently running the asylum)
Additionally like 3 of the following:
And then looking to the future:
This is great. I wrote a platform in 2016 that included a lot of this, but I realize now that I should update my stance on these things to accommodate the new landscape.
The very fact that he is so rude and not forthright, is because he knows it doesn't matter. This is all formality. His position has been filled, by himself.
It’s similar to a question that doctors will ask you in the emergency department: “who is the president?”
Alongside questions like “what year is it?”
What a piece of shit.
If he were an outlier, it would be something funny but the issue is rhe staggering number of the pieces of shit.
Yeah, if the members of congress had any principles none of them would have ever voted in any members who couldn't answer basic questions in the cabinet positions.
This guy seems to think he's Göring in the movie version of Nuremberg. No matter what he admits to, can't say that Hitler was wrong, so he would do it again.
Well, it is the US.
Didn't even respond with the usual "Joe Biden was confirmed as the winner". Just refusing to answer is an even bigger piss-baby thing to do. It's a great and simple question to see if you'll put loyalty to one man above truth, and shows how much integrity you have in one simple question.
If it's really a job interview then why didn't the guy move on to the next candidate
Because half the hiring committee sees nothing wrong with this man's behavior.
Kind of annoying that they don’t ask them who won in 2024 or 2016 too. Or first. Or a really old one like Reagan.
Yeah, ‘16 and ‘24 aren’t really contested in Trump’s mind because Trump won those (maybe; lawsuits are pending, etc) but the ‘20 election is contentious for fascist fucks everywhere.
Yeah but from an interviewing perspective it's a win-win. Either the guy answers the question for those elections more clearly, showing that he only has a problem answering the one about 2020 and therefore clearly doing it because of the orange man, or he still refuses and he looks like he can't answer simple questions.
He didn't win the popular vote in 2016, which is hilarious.
He knows he’ll get confirmed anyway and whatever he does he’ll get a presidential pardon.
Not necessarily. A president can pardon someone who was legally convicted. He can't bottle a pardon for later.
So if after Trump the big cleanup will come, they all will have to face consequences, until some idiot later president will pardon them.
After Trump will be more regressive autocrats because America was spineless in 2024.
Vietnam draft dodgers were pardoned without charges or convictions.
You can totally pardon someone for something they haven't been convicted of. For example, Biden did this for him, his family, and others when he left office.
I assume there must be a mechanism that could be created to remove pardons though? If someone like Trump just pardons everyone for doing crimes for him, there must be a way to say they were corrupt, and they don't offer protections.
An autistic person simply could not do this. Its not in our nature to ride trump's dick so hard that we could deny very obvious things.
Obstructing the government is my special interest
These people are disconnected from reality and need real psychological help. In the meantime, this behavior is not acceptable for anyone in any kind of official position. Hell, this amount of deflection wouldn't even be acceptable if he were trying to be a fucking barista.
No offense at all meant to baristas. You have likely worked harder than this clown ever will.
They're not disconnected from reality. They are liars, cheaters, thieves, and crooks.
Pathetic. My last shit had more integrity, and I have diarrhea.
Stealing for later.
The comment, not your squirts. Someone else can have those. No kink shame though.
Love the questioning. I was hoping for a dismissive "ok we'll call you back".
"I'm not gonna engage in the theater"
Proceeds to make it more and more theatrical with every word
This man should have been taken away in a straight jacket.
Edit: also, the whole Jon Ossoff questioning is here, at 1:46:05. Good to hear in it's entirety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9BYMPKDB3g
Mr. Ossoff is a beast - only in the best way!
I haven't seen a more well-spoken, eloquent, and impactful speaker in years, dude. Where can I see this full video and more of him?
Post-truth Amerikkka
Disqualified.
Wishful thinking. Have you seen the Brett Kavanagh job interview lol?
You would have gotten a better lie from a 5 year old who ate all the chocolate chip cookies.
I could never do a job like that because I'd just tell the truth.
"do you know how little that narrows it down?"
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