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Explain your interpretation of the modern republican party again? I'm confused about the definition of a, "republican". [/quote]

When have Republicans not flown off the handle every time Democrats tried to accomplish anything? ACA comes to mind, perhaps you remember that? My definition of a republican is a right leaning individual who may or may not be a party member. When I use a capital R as in Republican I'm speaking of a registered member of the Republican Party. My interpretation of the Republican Party is roughly equal to the largest smelliest pile of dogsh*t you can imagine. After it's dried out a few days it more resembles the Democrats. It's gone pale, the aroma not quite so pungent and it's more likely to crumble than stick to your shoe.

I think Trump promised to "hire the best people"

How is Biden's promise to "hire the best people" different.

I would guess that it would be what defines the best people.

Trump's model of the "best people" are the people who will give him a public rim job.

The biggest difference is that Biden is not bat-shiz crazy, so his "experts" would actually be experts. Like professors, scientists, economists, and such rather than Trump crony crackpots and former FOX News broadcasters. "Hire the best people" means hire the worst people in Trump-speak.

Actually hiring the best people is what every competent President has to do. The federal government is way too complex for one person to run all by himself, even if that person is an actual genius. Remember, the rarest of geniuses are only about twice as smart as the average Joe. Two and a half times as smart (IQ 250) does not exist.

And...the other "biggest difference" is that Biden is most likely to actually LISTEN TO the experts.

When's the last time anyone in the current administration actually listened to anyone other than the sycophants in their inner circle, the morons on Fox News, or Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones?

I have to laugh at anyone who makes a direct comparison between TrumpCo and any Democratic administration. Dried dog crap, please.
They're not far left enough? Yeah okay...they aren't far left enough, they aren't as far left as we need to be.

How on Earth is that the same as being a millimeter away from Viktor Orban. Trump just threatened to adjourn Congress.

Sure, the odds of his gambit succeeding are infinitesimal, at least for now. So, what will Trump do if his plan to erase the Legislative Branch's authority fails? Will he stop and think and will cooler heads prevail?
The odds of that happening are even smaller, because instead, Trump will search for ways to up the ante even more, taking whatever hostages are handy. The man fantasizes about crashing the economy to get his way.

What's next? Starting a war to get satisfaction?
The choruses of "It Can't Happen Here" are getting really old, and so are all the bogus "red lines" that keep getting laid down; Trump will never do this, Trump can't do that, even Trump would never do X or Y, bla bla bla -- he has DONE almost everything folks said he would never do, and even when he has failed to actually do something, that doesn't ever stop him from upping the ante, it spurs him on.

Shall we wait till one of these batsh!t attempts succeeds?
He's already succeeded in crashing the economy just by refusing to take prompt action to stem a pandemic.
Shall we wait for him to start pushing buttons?

Marilyn VosSavant's (yeah right, like that's a real name - LOL) Standford-Binet score was supposedly a record 228.
Her claim to fame?
She's a magazine columnist!

I had a very dear friend who could do advanced physics calculations in his head.
My nuclear physicist father tossed him a couple of questions for fun and damn near fell out of his chair when my friend responded with a correct answer in a matter of seconds.
His claim to fame?
He never got a better job than being a courier.
He too, died at a young age.
He died a bitter, miserable drunk.

The world is full of people with sky-high IQ's who work delivering pizzas. Just having the IQ of a Good Will Hunting is not enough.

Fatboy thinks "best people" are cretins like Betsy De Voss. Clearly Fatboy doesn't understand what the word "best" means. Then again, Fatboy is a functioning illiterate. Biden is literate and knows what words mean.

My suspicion is that he might prefer Brazil!

Trump hired the best people to do what he was hired to do. Destroy the departments that Republicans and corporate interests would like to see destroyed. They have done a remarkable job.

Biden is a corporate controlled neoliberal. He will choose the best people to rebuild those departments to better serve corporations while giving lip service to unions and the working class.

He'll be a better president than Trump but that doesn't magically mean he's gonna be a "good" president.

Biden is a peevish old prick who flies off the handle when he's asked hard questions. He will surround himself with people who don't ask hard questions, that don't question his judgement. Remember, he can't remember what town he's in or who he is talking to, he's old and sometimes confused. He won't be able to absorb as much information as a younger sharper man so his intelligence briefings, like Trump's. will need to be kept simple to avoid confusing him. When he gets confused he lashes out.

Apparently when I look at him I see an entirely different person than everyone else.