Because that’s what they’re doing: acting like they know what their job is.
(side note: I have a BFA in Theatre, and when I was working for the Feds I used to tell people that I put it to great use by acting like I thought my managers knew how to do my job better than I did.)
I know someone in the medical field who also has a degree in theatre. When questioned about it, they answer that it occasionally helps to convince their patients that they know what the fuck they’re doing! Some situations are a lot of guesswork…!
Wow. How can he still be in office after waffling on the easiest question for any politician to answer correctly regardless of party? Let me be clear here. There is one and only one right way for this conversation to go and here it is.
(Reporter) Have you thought about pardoning a sex offender?
(Smart politician) Of course not. I will never pardon a sex offedner. Next question, please!
But aren’t the felon and his flacks/accomplices/co-conspirators still trying to pin something on President Obama and then try him? (I ask just before quoting the very next sentence.
I ask you to focus on that last paragraph I quoted. The border is now an Army installation. Not only are people entering that installation from the south trespassing, so is anyone, including US citizens, entering that installation from the north. That means that if you decide to go to your favorite fishing spot on certain rivers or streams in that area, you are violating federal law.
Guess how many people illegally entering that Army base from the north are going to be stopped, apprended, and prosecuted. Go ahead. I dare you.
There’s your problem right there. It’s a non-political group. Had it been a Republican group, the felon and his lemmings would treat every word from it like scripture.
I don’t have a degree, but I was active in drama and other types of performance related activities. It’s been hugely helpful in customer service. I can act like I give a flyin’ fuck about some of the straight up assholes i have to deal with. I can pretend to not get pissed off at stupid lottery players. I’m a character. I’m "Syl The Cashier.
It helps with social anxiety too. I sort of act like I’m ok being at a social event. All and performing on a stage is so much easier 'cause there’s adistance end the performance is easier to sell,.“performing” as myself is a bit trickier, but it does help to see myself as a character.
This is the exact mistake Trump always makes in these “negotiations”. He doesn’t understand the government’s role in international trade and investment. The government sets the rules for trade and investment, hopefully well-designed enough to actually attract investors. But if it’s not well-designed? Of course no one will invest.
And with Trump’s fantasy that the US will get 90% of the profits? Who in their right mind, with enough money already to even make a dent in $550 billion, would agree to that?
Skydance has made written commitments to ensure that the new company’s programming embodies a diversity of viewpoints from across the political and ideological spectrum.
But also
In recent days, Paramount’s new owner made [a number of concessions to the FCC, including agreeing to not implement any diversity, equity or inclusion programs
Here’s an idea. Get the convicted felon disgracing the Oval Office again to sit down and take the current citizenship test. If he passes, then that’s proof it’s too easy. Otherwise, quit “fixing things until they’re broken.”
I’ve been attending science fiction conventions for years, and back in the 80s I used to walk around in “hall costumes” (low-grade cosplay, not like the elaborate outfits people put together today). Often I would come up with a background for the character I was dressed as; I once had another costumed person almost in tears as I told my story.
Honestly, I think it’s time to just start being dishonest with these people.
Hire every DEI person you can, and then just tell them, “Yep, they were all better than every white guy who applied.” “No, we weren’t even thinking about servicing that minority community, we just picked the best guy. Oh, our hires exactly match the demographic breakdown of our community? Must have been god’s will, buddy, why do you hate Christ?”
Not meaning to continue the hijack, but I had always been a bit of introvert, before the term was widely used. The weird thing about me (well, one of the many weird things about me) was that I enjoyed being around other people at parties and conventions, but I was often uncomfortable actually interacting with other people.
There’s a part of me that wonders if this is to give him a head start on fleeing if MAGA turns against him and he’s revealed to >cough< have had “indiscretions” with underage girls.
I really think maga won’t care. The thing is for the most part maga doesn’t care about the victims, and never have. What they care about is getting the architects of the “deep state.” There will be a multitude of excuses, rationalizations. Somehow or other trump will be the “hero.”