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The Wire: The parable of the bowls of shit.
Jon B
A clip from The Wire (season 4, episode 7) in which a former mayor tells Tommy Carcetti about having to "eat shit" from each constituency during his term. It is a parable about the unpleasant compromises of political leadership.
Cited as a parable that leaders must absorb criticism and do the unpleasant work nobody else will.
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