This response made me laugh:
He’s right on that last count: it’s a top story at NPR.
He’s a total piece of scary shit with views to being a succeeding monarch. I’ve long said so. We have to get rid of these Trump people, every single one.
Imagine what happens if - okay, when - Trump gets reelected.
It won’t happen.
Democracy depends on active, engaged, civic-minded people who care more about getting their latest fix on YouTube and Netflix.
We need to feel the pain first.
Quite the interesting listen, if you’ve got a few minutes; Pompeo seems clearly agitated by Mary Louise Kelly’s questions on just how the administration’s draconian policies toward Iran are supposed to gain their cooperation, and can barely contain himself when the subject turns to Ukraine and his apparent lack of support for former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
The most fascinating bit is right at the end, where Kelly, who remained unflappable throughout, relates how Pompeo, during his post-interview tirade, hauled out an unmarked world map and demanded that Kelly find and identify Ukraine. What the actual fuck?
The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has joined the board of Lockheed.
Former top U.S. general Dunford joining Lockheed Martin's board | Reuters?
Yup, got to protect the American workers, even if it means sanctioning our allies.
Ah, yes.
I met the enemy this evening. We had a nice conversation. He doesn’t even know we’re enemies.
Assuming it went down how she described–and it almost certainly did, she was going into a space where he could’ve had a recorder and she didn’t, it’d be pointlessly career-ending for her to lie about what happened–it’s an incredible temper tantrum from a powerful figure who can’t take being confronted.
Cool.
But let’s stay more reasonable than sounding like you’re working your way up to putting on your ninja jammies and going to practice some aggravated felonies.
I actually don’t mind the Space Force using a portion of NASA’s logo. In an ideal world they would work together. Stealing the Star Trek logo OTOH…
However, people here are missing the big problem. What is to become of the Pentagon? How can we make the US military truly great with an awesome Space Force if they are working from a pentagon and not a hexagon. Will Trump find the billions of dollars to reconfigure the building? Will he fix the parking situation there? Most important, how will it affect my daily commute? These are the things that keep me up at night (or at least keep me awake behind the wheel as I sit in Pentagon-adjacent traffic).
You’ve made me realize what Trump’s big plan was all this time:
Sextagon
Regrettably…
Rethuglicans are fucking animals.
Rodents.
The fact of the matter is that the Nazi-Republican Party must be outlawed the same as the Nazi Party is outlawed in Germany.
As the Handmaid’s Tale surges onward, President Suppurating Abcess adressed some anti-abortion idiots in Washington today.
This is an extreme example of something that happens fairly often, if you look for it. Guys like Pompeo think that everybody else is stupid – that’s why they can lie so shamelessly. A corollary is that if a questioner calls them on something, it can’t be because the average person is smart enough to know X, it’s because the questioner is parroting a script written for him by one of the few smart liberals, e.g. George Soros.
So they try to expose this by testing them – not usually this blatantly, but the principle is the same. I remember when James Inhofe agreed to be interviewed by Rachel Maddow during a publicity tour for a book he wrote about the global warming “hoax,” and out of nowhere, asked her about some innocuous anecdote, to prove she hadn’t actually read the book. She had actually read the book, and correctly answered his question.
I also remember when Rumsfeld went to Iraq, and agreed to take questions from the troops. One of them asked about why they didn’t have proper equipment, and appeared to read the question from notes (as many people do when given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to ask a bigwig a question). The question was perfectly audible and understandable, but Rumsfeld asked the soldier to restate it, hoping he would be unable to do anything but reread the question word for word, and thus reveal that it was a put-up job. Instead, the soldier ignored his notes and gave a very articulate description of the problem, to Rumsfeld’s disappointment.
Interesting. When I watched Handmaid’s Tale Season 1, I was strongly reminded of modern Republicanism, despite that the details of the GOP’s preferred dystopia may not resemble Handmaid’s Tale at all.
I’ve observed a general tendency for people to impute their characters to others. Liars think others are lying; ignorant people think others are ignorant; and so on.
A brilliant point, wittily stated!