Reminds me of those nightmares I used to have when I was a student: I’d show up the first day of school and find out we had a quizz for a subject I never studied for.
At least he wasn’t naked.
Gawd. A fish-white body, with orange face and hands.
I felt the closing lines were all to sharp.
I think politics will only get worse from here out.
It reminds me of a schoolchild called upon to do a book report when he didn’t read the book. As in, he knows that “Johnny Tremain” is about a boy in Revolutionary America, but once he’s put that into a sentence he has to start scrambling to think of anything else sorta connected that he can use to pad out his report.
I realize I’m not a genius or anything, but I knew - and sort of assumed everyone knew - that modern armed forces modernization and purchasing projects are ALWAYS decade-or-longer programs. You do not simply go out to Best Buy to pick up new nuclear warheads.
Like, surely any reasonably well informed and educated person knows that, right? You don’t have to be reading Jane’s Defense Weekly, if that’s still a thing, to know that it takes a long time to design and build a complicated weapons system. It’s not just nukes. The M1 Abrams tank, the main battle tank of the United States armed services, took seven years to design in its first incarnation, and it was six years after that before they started producing the version that had the type of gun they currently carry. It’s been continuously upgraded since then. The US Navy is now building Gerald Ford-class aircraft carriers, and those took God only knows how long to design and even as they’re building the first ones they are redesigning parts of them. Everyone knows about the trials and tribulations involved in the producing of the F-22 and F-35 fighters.
Donald Trump is no expert on nuclear weapons but in this regard he knows full well what he’s saying is a sound bite that means nothing (he’s so incoherent that watching the debate, my mother didn’t realize he was referring to nuclear weapons, because he just calls them “the nuclear.”)
The F35 for instance.
First flight: December 15, 2006
Design started in the 1990s.
It’s just now getting to the flight line and not even fully functional yet.
You’re right, this isn’t a go to Amazon and order whatever you want thing.
Regardless, they have already announced a trillion dollar 30 year upgrade plan for the nuclear arsenal so we don’t need Trump to get it started.
During the debate a friend posted, “Hillary looks like every high school English teacher when a student starts talking about a woman named Scarlet who wrote a letter.”
You’re quite right that all weapons take a long time to field, but the nuclear modernization issue is far more complex. Debate on whether we need a new tank or plane is relatively routine - how many should we make it? Debate on nuclear weapons modernization is incredibly complex. Building a new warhead would have profound implications on our nuclear policy, for example, and it may take years to figure that issue out even before any engineering can be done at all.
I have absolutely no reason to believe that he knows anything at all about this area. I do not believe he has any idea of whether what he’s saying makes any sense at all, much less that it’s meaningless. If I started talking about genetic treatments for prion-related diseases, and what that means for dopamine receptors, I would say I have as much understanding of that issue as Trump does for nuclear weapons policy. That is, literally zero.
Yeah, I thought most people knew that as well, but Trump is all about the simple answer to any question. I think he truly believes that all the problems in the country are because our leaders are too stupid, cowardly, or greedy to take the obvious, simple answer sitting right in front of them.
That’s endemic of management. I run into this every day at my job: managers angry because “Why do I keep hearing about problems with ? Why can’t we just do [Y]?”
They have no operational knowledge. So every time, you have to explain that the problem with is very complex, and their 10sec solution [Y] isn’t going to do anything to solve it. There’ve been really smart people working on these problems for decades, and they’ve improved things, but it’ll probably always be a problem. Somewhere before the end of the explanations, frustration sets in and it all dissolves in plaintive complaints and an order to “set up a team to fix this!”
The Donald is the middle manager that makes all our work lives Hell. I can’t believe people want to let him do the same to the whole country.
Unsurprisingly, Trump’s bobo Scott Adams feels Trump, the Master Persuader, won the second debate “… bigly. This one wasn’t close.”
There has been no further comment related to the fact that post-debate polls said most voters felt Clinton won, or the fact there is no evidence in general polls Trump got a debate bounce.
Adams made some neat points about Trump and election tactics in general many months ago but he’s now such an obsessive Trump fan his observations are veering into the “alternate reality” so beloved by alt-rightists and Trumpists. He sounds more and more like an MRA pickup artist, convinced that cleverly named little neurolinguistic programming tools (all employed by Trump) are guaranteed winners, and that everything Trump does is a deliberate move. That’s a “Contrast play.” The threat to imprison Clinton was a joke, not a threat. The Rosie O’Donnell reference in Debate 1 was a good move. (I’m serious.)
I mean, think what you want, but the winner of a debate is the candidate who uses the debate to change the polls. And the polls are not changing in Trump’s favor. So he didn’t win. ** There is nothing else to it.**
You’ve described Scott Adams to a t. He’s gone off into narcissistic mania land. To people like him, Trump is a God.
Trump doesn’t have an elaborate playbook-he has a comic book.
Axe-Cop.
I think he meant that they have newer bombs and missiles than we do. He is difficult to translate.
“Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), …” is a quote from a tweet by Trump. how can you debate, argue, reason, with folks that hold such believe in such an obvious (and easy to disprove) line?
I just don’t know how to do this… what can you do against that? facts don’t matter… cause/effect don’t matter… “Everyone is against us, so we must be right” is all that matters.
He’s channeling George Orwell.
I don’t get it either. Pence could sit there and deny that Trump said or did the things Kaine said, things we’ve SEEN multiple times in footage?!
I had a good laugh at “We haven’t spoken; I disagree.” No frigging diplomacy at all.
And then I felt repulsed by him likening Hillary to the Devil, and saying she has hate in her heart. There are plenty of other things to hammer her on; “hate in her heart” is something you can’t judge. And footage of some of his supporters certain would look like hate.
I can only assume Scot Adams has drunk so much kool-aid that he actually believes all the scientific polls are biased. He’s clearly as delusional as Trump is now…