Trump: The Cognitive Slip Continues...

I must admit, I've been using google's AI to check some information but I've always tried to drill down to see where it's getting it's information.

Also I don't trust things that require a great deal of political analysis.

So, simple facts are usually OK but as t WHY something is the way it is, that requires a bit more work.

 

Trump tries to create chaos and at the last minute not staff though Gordie Howe bridge. The Ambassador Bridge currently supports 25% of us trade with Canada and so many Auto Parts go back and forth between the two countries before it's completed and supposedly the new bridge was supposed to make things easier but Trump in the last minute decided that he wouldn't stop the bridge unless Canada gave him to a bunch of insane demands including no more EVs from China.

Carney response by saying they will review their energy policy in the Midwest. Apparently there's some oil pipeline that provides a ton of propane to Michigan and gas to Wisconsin and Ohio that Canada's threatened to shut off and response.

 

One aspect that I think helped over here with covid was that a lot of the work was being done by Oxford Uni which people hold in some esteem, mostly because it's seen as non-commercial.

People think that, once you involve money, things usually go sideways. Hard to say they're completely wrong, tbh.

 

Ontario conservative is Northeast US conservative. Alberta is Texas and Florida style. Funny how Trump winning killed the Alberta guy from becoming PM.

 

Never worked in customer service have ya? Whoo boy. Also had a colleague who did Census stuff. He had some stories.
Once had a guy in a customer service job go on a rant about the University of Michigan coach Bo Schembechler. All because I told him he couldn't park somewhere.

Thank god I had to never sit in focus groups in my old field because I'd have lost it.

 

In fairness, antivax has been thriving for a long time.

 

He’s out NOW. Right?

 

Oddly enough they are friends in my battle for direct instruction and science of reading. Like I haven't said anything to them it's just when I've spoken in public I've gotten emails and back channel communications. Obviously I have not made any of this public

 

The administration has fired the head of the DOJ antitrust division. She has been in office less than a year, which suggests she’s a Trump appointee.

 

I posted the same thing yesterday.

No rep.

 

I've been in customer service, but not in ways that would invite the kind of insanity that you hear in those focus groups.

Even in the 90s and early Aughts, child vax rates were down a bit, but not like they are now.

In a PTA thing I went to, they said that HALF the incoming kindergarteners in Utah were not current on their vaccinations. Religious exemptions have run amok too, even though the Mormon Church is pro-vax. Apparently, you just have to say it is a sincerely held religious belief with absolutely no statement or confirmation from the religious institution. They force you to watch a 15-30min video of actual vax facts before getting the exemption. A stupid MAGA troll in our legislature proposed a bill to get away with having to watch the video and pretty much any other requirements to get exemption. Luckily it failed to get out of committee. If it had gotten out, I'm certain it would have been passed and signed.

 

TBF that's mostly because Rogan can't be trusted about anything because he's an idiot.

I tend to trust news and political reporting by the BBC and the guardian to a lesser extent and then wikipedia for some information.

But I try and get information from multiple sources. Over a period I've tended to get a reasonable picture of the way the world 'bolts together,

 

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/t...h-all-thread-r.1405260/page-207#post-43240389

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/t...h-all-thread-r.1405260/page-207#post-43243059

There is a reason why I keep posting the 2015 incident of Jorge Ramos being kicked out of a Trump presser. Well, what happens right after with the Trump supporter. Guy's filter just leaves him and he is saying things that normally he would look around to see if any minorities were around. But Trump has been saying it, so there is no reason to hide what he really feels.



It really should have been a sharp warning of what was coming for the next decade. And it really hits a nerve for me as to why so many Latinos voted for Trump. Personally speaking, I have heard a variation of "go back to your own country" a lot more than needed.

tl'dr - so yeah, if someone assumes you are part of their tribe, you can be privy to a lot of things said behind closed doors. If you are not out or are light-skinned, people say things first because they assume they are in a safe space to say them.

 

“It was a discussion last year between two foreign nationals about Iran, not an unusual topic for American spies to study,” the New York Times reports.

“But an intercept of that communication, collected by a foreign spy service and given to the United States, has now become a flashpoint within the intelligence community and between the administration and Congress.”

“The reason is a single name that came up in the discussion: Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law.”

 

https://www.ft.com/content/b474855e-66b0-4e6e-9b73-7e252bd88938

This is an article from the Financial Times written by John Burn-Murdoch. John lives in the UK, and is a pretty smart guy.

Doesn't live in the US and doesn't visit there all that much. Here's a graphic from the article:



And a resulting paragraph:

I would put it to everyone here that John doesn't have to live in the US or even visit to be able to write with expertise on the topic.

Food for thought.

 

He's caught on camera taking bribes, and they're covering it up. There's more complicated potential alternatives, sure, but this has to be what it is.

 

It's not taking the bride basically explaining the extortion of if you pay us this then you can get this