What is Mechanic?
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A card-dealer at high-stakes poker who is adroit at manipulating the cards in the deck to favor one player over another.
"Don't worry kid," Shooter said, "No one will know. I'm one helluva mechanic."
-- Richard Jessup, "The Cincinnati Kid"
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Once aided in saving the universe by informing Captain that somebody had set up us the bomb, thus causing Captin to launch, or "take off", every zig.
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
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A paid
You wantsta rub him out? You hires yourself a mechanic. Easy.
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1: A Democratic Party politician who thinks that the path to power within the party comes from 'playing the game' with the powers that be; of giving and securing favors, and building a network based on mutual self-interest within the ranks. Mechanics are experts at working the system which they are a part of and believe in. To a mechanic, voters are only ciphers who must be made, somehow, to support the party and the party's candidates.
Mechanics love and want power for power's sake. For them words are a means of manipulation, not communication.
"Before Barak Obama showed up, Hilary Clinton, the quintessential Mechanic, thought she had the nomination sewn up. She had cashed in all her markers, collected on all favors owed her, bribed with promises of power all influential people in the party, and thought she had greased the skids all the way to the White House. Unfortunately for her, a good
Savior beats a good Mechanic every time, no matter how well the Mechanic has wired the system."
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