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Successful people can be successful politicians. It's true that Trump is no expert, but he has a team of experts. He doesn't know about STEM but he assembled a

by 0x27081990 10y ago

Successful people can be successful politicians. It's true that Trump is no expert, but he has a team of experts. He doesn't know about STEM but he assembled a team of advisors which include Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. He thought torture works, but James Mattis (Sec of Defense) told him it was false, and he accepted it.

orev 10y ago
Musk resigned and his entire cabinet is objectively the least qualified set of people in American history. I fail to see how stacking all your positions with people fundamentally opposed to the missions of every agency is somehow seen as a team of experts.
- didgeoridoo 10y ago
  1. When did Musk resign? Everything I can find says that he is still a member of the advisory board. 2. "Objectively the least qualified" is not the same thing as "doesn't agree with Democrats about the agency's proper mission."
  - orev 10y ago
    Yes, because Ben Carson is fully qualified, and people's only issue with him is that they disagree with his approach. Get a life.
    - didgeoridoo 10y ago
      So you 1) did not address the fact that you completely made up the talking point that Musk resigned from the advisory board, presumably hoping that nobody here would check, and 2) apparently assume that I agree with every single Trump cabinet pick because I refuse to get on board with declaring the whole thing an unmitigated disaster. To address your specific example, of course Carson is not qualified for HUD, although he would have arguably been qualified for HHS. But I imagine you would not have been thrilled with him being appointed for any position at all, because one of the world's foremost neurosurgeons is some kind of barely-literate nincompoop, right? I normally don't respond to trolls, especially ones that invent alternative facts from whole cloth, but I'll make an exception for you. Feel special? EDIT: after checking out the rest of your contributions to this site, it seems your standard approach is to state your opinions as proven facts, from your hilarious "Balloon Theory" of how blenders remove fiber from food, to your dumbfoundingly ahistorical slander that the Second Amendment was written specifically to appease slaveholding Southerners. Please try to adjust your approach. You'll find a much more receptive audience here if you admit that some things are just your personal perspective.
kapauldo 10y ago
These are not experts.
alphabettsy 10y ago
We'll see if his arrogance allows him to actually utilize advice. He's good at being a reality show personality and getting people to trust him, but otherwise he's a know-nothing.

orev 10y ago

Musk resigned and his entire cabinet is objectively the least qualified set of people in American history. I fail to see how stacking all your positions with people fundamentally opposed to the missions of every agency is somehow seen as a team of experts.

didgeoridoo 10y ago
1. When did Musk resign? Everything I can find says that he is still a member of the advisory board. 2. "Objectively the least qualified" is not the same thing as "doesn't agree with Democrats about the agency's proper mission."
- orev 10y ago
  Yes, because Ben Carson is fully qualified, and people's only issue with him is that they disagree with his approach. Get a life.
  - didgeoridoo 10y ago
    So you 1) did not address the fact that you completely made up the talking point that Musk resigned from the advisory board, presumably hoping that nobody here would check, and 2) apparently assume that I agree with every single Trump cabinet pick because I refuse to get on board with declaring the whole thing an unmitigated disaster. To address your specific example, of course Carson is not qualified for HUD, although he would have arguably been qualified for HHS. But I imagine you would not have been thrilled with him being appointed for any position at all, because one of the world's foremost neurosurgeons is some kind of barely-literate nincompoop, right? I normally don't respond to trolls, especially ones that invent alternative facts from whole cloth, but I'll make an exception for you. Feel special? EDIT: after checking out the rest of your contributions to this site, it seems your standard approach is to state your opinions as proven facts, from your hilarious "Balloon Theory" of how blenders remove fiber from food, to your dumbfoundingly ahistorical slander that the Second Amendment was written specifically to appease slaveholding Southerners. Please try to adjust your approach. You'll find a much more receptive audience here if you admit that some things are just your personal perspective.

kapauldo 10y ago

These are not experts.

alphabettsy 10y ago

We'll see if his arrogance allows him to actually utilize advice. He's good at being a reality show personality and getting people to trust him, but otherwise he's a know-nothing.