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It's interesting, the new President seems to be able to reverse himself on many issues after discussing them with bureaucrats/foreign policy/trade experts. I w

It's interesting, the new President seems to be able to reverse himself on many issues after discussing them with bureaucrats/foreign policy/trade experts. I wonder who among his administration could convince him to change his mind here.

angstrom 10y ago
I'm still not convinced it's not an act. The guy would have to be unusually dense to govern with ignorance of both a priori and a posteriori knowledge. The greenhouse effect was discovered over 100 years ago, not placed on a napkin as a hunch in a bar 10 years ago.
- spitfire 10y ago
  It’s hard to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it.
  - clishem 10y ago
    – Upton Sinclair
- watmough 10y ago
  I think you are vastly underestimating the capacity of (near)human beings to be completely fucking stupid and delusional.
melling 10y ago
Many of his base don't believe in global warming, or if they do that it's big problem, or that it's too costly to fix. Skip to about 6 minutes in of this TED talk to get an idea on how some people think about climate change: https://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_priorities https://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_prioriti...
- helthanatos 10y ago
  It's not a big deal
- wyldfire 10y ago
  Right, but they were also big on several of the isolationist policies that he seems to be quickly doing a ctrl-Z on.