Ugh. The AP reports the Average Duong is getting screwed again by the system as the Vietnamese Communist uniparty elite swampists have selected one of their own – literally the leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary, To Lam – to the nation’s presidency.

“The opportunity is obvious. Faster decision-making, greater policy coherence, and a better chance of pushing difficult reforms at a pivotal moment. But the risk is that concentration of power can move faster than institutional reform,” said think tanker Nguyen Khac Giang and, in all seriousness, what the fuck does any of that mean? There was supposed to be a little quip here about how it was incomprehensible and meaningless to the median citizen who lack fluency in policy wonk jargon but that take legitimately was incomprehensible and meaningless. In all likelihood Giang was speaking to some sort of streamlining of how the party operates internally and appoints people to patronage jobs and so on with all the tropes of how these Mickey Mouse Club for Adults-type states work.

Which isn’t actually in tension at all with the headline joke. If anything it actually sort of validates the simplistic stereotypes MAGA clods here invoke – if they’re among those capable of articulating their perception of “the swamp” at least semi-coherently, all while taking pains to avoid accidentally describing the kind of shit their Orange Mao does every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

At least Lam didn’t waste anyone’s time promising to bring down the cost of rice and gas. Not having to be responsive to regular voters means there’s no need to bullshit them to get elected.