Perfectly said. ‘like-button +2’
Yup. This type (the Trumpniks, for instance) don’t trust education, and especially don’t trust college degrees. Advanced degrees are the worst. These are the people who love a so-called President who brags about not reading books. (I think the so-called President is functionally illiterate.)
To be honest, this is actually going worse than I thought. Which is sort of a good thing because I entirely expected the evil, but significantly underestimated the incompetence.
Put in charge of an agency that not only he wanted to eliminate, but then couldn’t remember the name of that agency when asked which agencies he wanted to eliminate. Then, it turns out this piece of shit who wanted to eliminate the agency didn’t even know what that agency does.
While we’re on the subject, Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what a sanctuary city is, but is still opposed to it:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-kelly-no-idea-sanctuary-city-definition
The mind boggles at the incompetence and ignorance of this administration. At every turn they have proven themselves to be completely unprepared to even articulate why they want to do the radical things they want to do.
When I saw that cartoon a month ago I snipped it out, took a photo and emailed it to family with the note “if there is one cartoon that could possibly sum up all the shittiness of, well, everything…this is the one.”
Can you elaborate?
So all his Breitbartism, Fourth Turnery and Apocalyptic zeal isn’t a concern? There’s other shit I could go off on, but do I really need to?
Bannon is a very bright guy in the same way Hannibal Lecter is a very bright guy - him being clever only makes him more dangerous, given his stated and apparent goals.
…at the very least Perry is part of the “establishment” and he understands how politics works. And Perry has said he got it wrong about his department, and he no longer wants to destroy it.
Perry is a guy that I disagree with. And who I would have voted against if I could.
But Perry isn’t the biggest problem here. Shaun King (the BLM guy) wrote this today about Stephen Miller.
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“He’s the most sanctimonious student I think I ever encountered,” said John Burness, Duke’s former senior vice president of public affairs and government relations. “He seemed to be absolutely sure of his own views and the correctness of them, and seemed to assume that if you were in disagreement with him, there was something malevolent or stupid about your thinking. Incredibly intolerant.”
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“I can’t be your friend any more because you are Latino,” Jason Islas says he was told by Miller the summer before they began high school.
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Are you reading what I’m writing here or what? In the White House right now, serving as Chief Policy Advisor, is a young, inexperienced bigot whose racist roots go back to his childhood. Another student, Natalie Flores, said Miller had “an intense hatred toward people of color, especially toward Latinos."
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Bannon and Miller are the problem. Both unelected, both not subject to congressional approval, both racist and IMHO fundamentally evil. If you haven’t watched Miller’s speak before then watch these videos. You need to watch these videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTFuShdWfSQ&t
But Miller and Bannon have the ear of the President of the United States of America. They spew bullshit and the President believes it. Just imagine the President alone in a room with Miller and Bannon. Just think about it for a minute.
These guys are not subject to any forms of accountability. They are the alt right. America will survive 4 years of Rick Perry. But I weep for an America with Bannon and Miller at the helm. Do not get complacent. Don’t allow the apologists for this regime to normalise this. You can see it happening in this very thread.
It goes deeper than this; in all spheres ISTM there is a culture now of people just going with gut feeling, or following whatever conspiracy theory they like, and feeling that makes them a free thinker.
No need to actually study a topic; your best hunch is already better than what those probably corrupt, “so-called experts” are saying!
One place where I saw this the most, to the point where I stopped going to the meetings, was at Mensa. I came to the conclusion it’s a very dangerous thing for people to think of themselves as smart.
That said, it’s pretty clear that in American politics right now, it’s the Right that has the monopoly on anti-intellectualism and misinformation.
That’s the problem, in general. We’ve proven his issues time and time again. He led the predominant alt-right newspaper and main purveyor of fake news. He’s a conspiracy theorist.
And then we have his actions. No one felt having him attend the meetings made sense. He promoted himself, and demoted the military generals–the people who would actually know what they are doing.
And yet you keep acting like this is perfectly fine. A conspiracy theorist who peddled fake news and helped out a neo-Nazi political movement is now trying to control the security of the United States.
And that’s without getting into his cabinet picks which even Republicans admit aren’t qualified for the job, but keep voting them in for party loyalty. Trump admitted he didn’t even know what he was doing when he did this stuff.
Yet your only problems are with his tweets and the Muslim ban. The Muslim ban that Bannon was a part of, BTW. Trump doesn’t make his own executive orders–he admitted as much.
Two experts have told you you don’t know shit about the DAPL. But you keep on arguing you do. You seem unable to do admit you were wrong and were talking outside your expertise, the very thing you accused Colibri of doing.
I honestly can’t remember ever seeing you admit you were wrong or even stop trying to explain how you were right if you look at it in a certain way.
I’m sure you’ve done it, but it seems quite rare.
I’ve posted this before and I’m still convinced it’s true: people don’t buy into just one CT; they buy into all of them. Trump is a CTer. He still hasn’t renounced his belief in Birtherism. All he did was state he would no longer fight that fight.
That would be Crank Magnetism.
This administration makes the arrogance of Don Rumsfeld and the authoritarianism of Dick Cheney and John Ashcroft seem to be barely observable characteristics. Trump is a bloviating know-nothing who thinks he knows it all and has surrounded himself with essentially quieter and more sycophantic versions of himself.
If you haven’t noticed the stream of EOs coming out of the Oval office I feel confident feeding you facts and figures would be a waste of time.
Why would I notice them? Has there been a stream? The search engines are clogged up with his ban on foreigners. Remember, I’m not American.
…I’m not American. I live further away from the United States than you. It took me less than a second to type “Trump Executive Orders” into google to get this link.
Every other link on the first page gave me a similar variant. The engines aren’t clogged. You just didn’t bother to look.
I posted a link to the list on The White House site. Trump fanboy Quartz is just being willfully blind.
He’s just taking a page from the master, really!
That’s been the response to everything, by everyone, in his admin, “Garsh, I didn’t know!”
Didn’t know what was in the EO? Didn’t know Brannon was included on the security council?
Come on! “I didn’t know, though.” Are going to be the words you hear over and over again. That’s why you put incompetents in place. So they can say this. Over and over.
That’s why you sew chaos at every level,in every department. So, ‘I didn’t know, though.’, is 100% believable. ‘I didn’t know they were doing that.’ ‘I wasn’t aware that was happening.’ Etc, etc.
It should be a drinking game! Someone should be keeping tally!
“Sow,” as in sowing seeds.
I’m not defending Trump or any Trumpist here, but I don’t think this is literally true and have to speak to the technicalities here. Speaking as a former Army intelligence analyst, I would find it extraordinarily unlikely for the analysis part of the intelligence cycle to be done by the President of the United States or anyone working directly for him. If the President actually chose to do this he would be a total idiot, and I doubt Trump specifically would do this, idiocy aside, because details just aren’t his thing.
There’s just no way in hell what you are saying could be literally true - that a committee headed up by the President would actually be responsible for converting bits of intelligence information into actionable intelligence. I assure you the analysis is done long before the NSC meets. They’re sitting down and talking about completed briefs, not looking at puzzle pieces, and from that are formulating policy.