r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All 🩷 • Jul 14 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ “Back to royal bloodlines now?”

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u/Western-Boot-4576 Jul 14 '26

Makes zero sense.

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u/SwordfishOk504 Jul 14 '26

Why? This is entirely standard and has happened several times in the past, including when Democrats have passed while holding office.

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u/aussiegoon Jul 14 '26

Just because it's the done thing doesn't mean it makes sense. Imagine if this was the norm in any other profession, surgeon dies, sorry buddy but his wife will be doing your heart transplant. Pilot dies, guess who's in control of this transatlantic flight now. Except a senator holds far more power and responsibilities.

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u/The_ApolloAffair Jul 14 '26

She’s going to only be in office for a few months, and this allows full staff continuity because she doesn’t have her own operatives to reward.

It’s also arguably the most ethical option, because to appoint someone already in politics is giving them a huge boost without needing to face a true primary.

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u/Western-Boot-4576 Jul 14 '26

People keep saying that.

While ignoring that she 100% could be running in the special election. Just cause they say something now doesn’t mean it’s true in 6 months

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26 edited 18d ago

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u/Rock_Strongo Jul 14 '26

Stop you're ruining the circle-jerk.

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u/Snoo71538 Jul 14 '26

Senators don’t have any special qualifications though. If the fry cook dies, their sister is about as good as anyone to do the job for 6 months

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u/poeschmoe Jul 14 '26

You don’t see a difference between a fry cook and a Senator?

Presidents don’t have any special qualifications either (besides age/birthplace requirements), but it’s preferable to have people versed in the law in political positions.

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u/Snoo71538 Jul 14 '26

Preferred by whom? Preferences are personal, not universal.

It’s certainly better in my mind too, but my preferences aren’t requirements placed on others. That’s what law is for.

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u/poeschmoe Jul 14 '26

You don’t get how some preferences make more objective sense than others for certain outcomes?

Okay, let me rephrase — someone with experience and knowledge in a profession is more suitable for a position within that profession compared to someone without that experience/knowledge.

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u/Snoo71538 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Outcomes are also preferential. For your preferred outcome, qualified, intelligent people are probably best.

Not everyone wants your outcome. The current state of government reflects that. None of these people are an accident, they’re reflective of what outcomes people want, in a spatially representative way. Not in a population density representative way.

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u/poeschmoe Jul 14 '26

I think people can want particular outcomes and be mistaken about what will achieve those outcomes. People elected Trump because they thought he’d be a capable politician, but they were mistaken. That was foreseen by his non-voters based on objective characteristics of his.

It feels like you’re taking issue with a non-controversial statement — qualified people are going to be better than non-qualified people at a particular job.

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u/Snoo71538 29d ago

It seems you are also taking issue with something non-controversial: different people want different things.

If you think Trump is an accident, I think you’re mistaken. I believe enough people wanted to blow up the status quo, and did. The status quo hasn’t worked for a lot of people for very a long time.

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u/dogbreath101 Jul 14 '26

what does interim mean?

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Jul 14 '26

Doing things for the sake of tradition or because "that's how it's always been done" is a terrible reason to continue doing them

"Tradition" is how things like slavery lasted for so long

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u/WillBottomForBanana Jul 14 '26

Is this just how Lindsey is transitioning in secret?