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Problem here is that all these guys live and work in Hollywood and they don't know shyte about astrophysics. Are you saying these people that PEOTUS Trump is selecting, don't know shyte from Shinola™ ? 
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Sounds about right 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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Sounds about right 
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I just heard an interesting piece on NPR about human judgement errors. It said it is a common human error to put people in jobs because they look the part. So the best way to avoid that error is to look for somebody who DOESN'T look the part: They probably have the job because they are actually good at it.
It also said that real experts at anything don't claim to know all the answers. Anybody who claims they have all the answers and will fix everything is a snake-oil salesman. Sound familiar?
Finally, they talked about the people who claim there is no such thing as a fact anymore: That person is wrong and terribly corrosive to society. It means that everything that is going to come out of their mouths is going to be a lie.
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Problem here is that all these guys live and work in Hollywood and they don't know shyte about astrophysics. Are you saying these people that PEOTUS Trump is selecting, don't know shyte from Shinola™ ? Well if they don't, they can come to Detroit and we will teach them the difference. Shinola is a growing company here in Detroit.
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Apparently, they're seeking to differentiate Shinola from Trump. Seriously. Shinola products are proudly made in the USA; Trump's, famously, not so much.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Several times in the last 48 hours, the President-elect has made declarations (tweets) that are at odds with U.S. policies (and interests), e.g. F-35, nuclear arms, (illegal) Israeli settlements. SO MUCH FOR AMERICA FIRST!
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I think he just forgot the rest of the sentence :
AMERICA FIRST OFF THE CLIFF!
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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We are at an inflection point in the United States. If we, as a people, don't insist on reform at every level of government to resist party takeover, we WILL lose our country.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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So what you are saying NWP, is that we need to take our country back?
Because we've just witnessed conservatives "insisting on reform at every level of government to resist party takeover". For at least the next four years we are going to see the results of conservative reform.
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