This made me think of the scene in Jaws 1 where Chief Brody chugs a big glass of red wine before cutting open the shark to look for the kid's body.

The difference is Gretchen Whitmer has values and shame.

Hormones and antibiotics are bad but should not be compared to GMOs. GM labels are dumb. All food is genetically modified by centuries of artificial selection.

Even competent people make mistakes. That's why we have protocols to avoid them ... like using classified government communications.

There is precedent for that. Remember how Ford got the job from Patrick Brown? All that's needed is a scandal, and the lack of security clearance is getting weirder with each passing day...

I don't support Pierre, but this
take is a bad one.

You dislike Pierre because of his policies if he wins, but if he loses, he won't lie about it and rally a mob to interfere with the transfer of power. Trump is against law and democracy and thus deserving of a different level of contempt.

Efficiencey means achieving a task while minimizing input. Closing hospitals in your example is not achieving a task. It's not efficiency; it's failure.

Right now, services in Ontario/Canada are so inefficient they are failing. Claiming that the government should ignore efficiency is bananas.

He advocates for making government more efficient and applying a tech (ie private sector) mindset. These goals do not necessarily include everything that is malign about Musk (the rampant lying, the indiscriminate nature of the cuts, etc).

Surely you can distinguish between a laudable goal (efficiency) and everything else that is malign with Trump.

It reminds me of "Mussolini made the trains run on time". I don't know if he did, and Mussolini was very bad, but the trains running on time is still a good goal for any government.

I hope not. Because I am a fiscally minded small-c conservative and I vehemently oppose Musk and Trump. Surely we can both oppose authoritarianism and disagree on making government more efficient?

I believe that you can be a fiscally minded conservative without supporting Musk and Trump ... and that the authoritarian new right will thrive if we cannot find common ground with these members of the conservative old guard.

Of course, but Sean Speer is not advocating for that.

Government efficiency is still a laudable goal regardless of Musk and Trump.

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