Stranger_On_A_Train:
Hey, I voted for Public Policy Nerd Lady, not the Human-Chinchilla-Troll Hybrid and his Mery Band of Post-Apocalyptic Fundamisfits. At this point, having an actual clown as President accompanied by Barnum and Bailey’s Circus would be an improvement, and would also have had a better showing at the inauguration.
I am totally stealing this description of Trump.
The pro-lifers shouldn’t approve. Them’s potential fish lives!
I smell an infrastructure project in Homs!
Insolvent casinos are infrastructure, no?
David Brooks - The Coming Incompetence Crisis
Close the thread, we’ll never get a better summary.
I just read that the Trump administration has filled only 22 of the 553 key positions that require Senate confirmation. This makes me worry that the administration will not have enough manpower to produce the same volume and standard of incompetence that we’ve come to expect so far.
Granted, in its first few months the administration has produced an impressive amount of ineptitude with very few people…
And in general, the personnel process has been so rigorous in its selection of inexperience that those who were hired on the basis of mere nepotism look like Dean Acheson by comparison.
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Trump’s greatest achievements are in the field of ignorance. Up until this period I had always thought of ignorance as a void, as an absence of knowledge. But Trump’s ignorance is not just an absence; it is a rich, intricate and entirely separate universe of negative information, a sort of fertile intellectual antimatter with its own gravitational pull.
It’s not so much that he isn’t well informed; it’s that he is prodigiously learned in the sort of knowledge that doesn’t accord with the facts of our current dimension.
And this is from the conservative half of Brooks & Dionne (on NPR) or Brooks & Shields (on PBS).
I’ll see your NYT article and raise you This Is How the Next World War Starts from the Huffington Post Highline. Or I’ll just point you to today’s news from Syria because it’s done started, boys and girls.
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That is priceless. I think he’s been saving that for just the right moment.
Ravenman:
Excellent point.
I pointed that out on Facebook earlier, and one of my rabid Trump-supporting friends countered with
After my rational, reasoned response, he said
sniff That was beautiful.
Monty
April 7, 2017, 6:06pm
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He told them he lied to them and they still support him. Do you know why? Because he’s not betraying every single thing they voted him in for. The one sacred thing for him is the discriminatory practice against Muslims. Now that the courts won’t let him ban Muslims wholesale, he’s ramped up to killing Muslims. And if you think his ardent supporters have a problem with that, you don’t know bigots.
Wow. And to think that I used to detest David Brooks. His conservative ideals have been shattered by Trump. Kind of sad. On the upside, Brooks’ humor has improved. (Well, it was non-existent before, so I guess that’s an improvement.)
Euphonious_Polemic:
In addition to not even having a clue how long he’s been president, Trump sounds like he is channeling Baghdad Bob.
In all seriousness, it’s really starting to look like some kind of dementia is happening here. I expect that the next thing he’ll do is take a massive dump at a press conference, and exclaim that it’s the best turd that anyone has ever produced in history. His supporters would likely agree with him.
It’s been talked about:
Is Trump Suffering from Dementia?
Ah, working on keeping the next generation of republican voters.
U.S. FCC chairman plans fast-track repeal of net neutrality: sources
From the link above:
The rules approved by the FCC under Democratic President Barack Obama in early 2015 prohibited broadband providers from giving or selling access to speedy internet, essentially a “fast lane”, to certain internet services over others. As part of that change, the FCC reclassified internet service providers much like utilities.
Pai wants to overturn that reclassification, but wants internet providers to voluntarily agree to not obstruct or slow consumer access to web content, two officials said late Tuesday.
The officials briefed on the meeting said Pai suggested companies commit in writing to open internet principles and including them in their terms of service, which would make them binding.
What could possibly go wrong? :rolleyes:
And just for anybody who isn’t sure what the whole “net neutrality” issue is about, here is the Last Week Tonight segment on net neutrality from June 2014, which is basically the most entertaining and useful explanation you’ll find on the topic.
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