And the answer is: "No."Today our president suggested that both the FBI and the Department of Justice are part of the vast conspiracy to take the election from him.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) November 29, 2020
Which means we've arrived at tear-the-ship-apart-to-find-the-strawberries stage.
From The Useful Idiot: https://t.co/aRvZVHOYIG pic.twitter.com/nZg2jNbALA
Queeg is a fictional character whose every action is determined by Herman Wouk and screenwriters. Trump assembled a decent cabinet, and then proceeded to ignore every one of them because he's a "very stable genius" and knows more than all his generals and "gets science" because he had an uncle on faculty at MIT.
My father was an accountant; I'm an English major. Whatever skills he had in numbers didn't pass to me.
The "establishment" tried to work with Trump. He wasn't Queeg. He wasn't a hapless man in over his head but the product of a Naval system of discipline that could have been appealed to by his fictional (and non-Navy careerist) officers. The comparison doesn't work, on any level. Well, except the tear-the-ship-apart-to-find-the-strawberries part.
When Ishmael first signed on to the Pequod his first roommate was a Pacific Island harpooner named Queeg-Queeg. Was it simply a coincidence that Wouk foreshortened that name for the subject of his case study in life at sea?
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