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I feel like a lot of his pronouncements can be explained simply & directly by looking at who the last person he spoke to was, as he tends to just repeat whateve

I feel like a lot of his pronouncements can be explained simply & directly by looking at who the last person he spoke to was, as he tends to just repeat whatever they told him, even if it completely contradicts what he was saying 10 minutes prior.

duxup 1y ago
He has outright said that he went home and Melania told him something so he decided to do a thing. I suspect the same goes for whatever he runs across on Twitter. Some of his firings have been strangely specific and it seems like it's just whatever meme like thing that got traction with the right twitter troll at the right time ... Heck his own comments in this story: >I hear so many stories about ‘We’re not going to allow their students’” to come in No apparent awareness that he is the source of the stories :P
- adt 1y ago
  Reminds me of the Aus Prime Minister: >Mr Morrison said the announcement followed a discussion with his wife Jenny the previous night and after he considered how he, as a father, would want his daughters to be treated. "Jenny and I spoke last night and she said to me, you have to think about this as a father. What would you want to happen if it were our girls?" he told reporters. “Jenny has a way of clarifying things. Always has. And so, as I’ve reflected on that overnight and listened to Brittany and what she had to say.” Mr Morrison said he wants to make sure "any young woman working in this place is as safe as possible, as I would want for my own daughters". The Prime Minister was later asked by a reporter why it took discussing the alleged incident "as a husband and father" to take further action. "Shouldn’t you have thought about it as a human being? What happens if men don’t have a wife and children? Would they reach the same compassionate conclusion?" she asked. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/scott-morrison-criticised-for-invoking-his-daughters-in-response-to-brittany-higgins-rape-allegations/2vcacxtya https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/scott-morrison-criticise...
SilverElfin 1y ago
Is it possible he’s getting paid by China somehow. They have unusually low tariff rates compared to what you might expect, and he keeps putting off the TikTok ban that is legally required.
- xqcgrek2 1y ago
  TikTok's algorithm favors him. The moment it doesn't, it's banned.
  - bigyabai 1y ago
    I don't use Tiktok, but that statement reads like confirmation bias.
- pavel_lishin 1y ago
  I'm sure he's getting paid off by plenty of folks, but I think it's statistically more likely that someone on his staff is being paid off by China, and managed to corner him for five minutes to load this soundbite into his head.
  - burnt-resistor 1y ago
    I'm just wondering what good is $1 billion vs. $4 billion if you're terminally unhealthy and have maybe 5 years left to live, tops.
burnt-resistor 1y ago
Yep. It's wordsalad without much in the way of consistency, memory, or thoughtfulness (no pun intended). Also, he looks really, really unhealthy and so I'm frightened what a POTUS Vance would look like except requiring religion in public schools and mass expulsion of everyone not WASP. Oh, wait.

duxup 1y ago

He has outright said that he went home and Melania told him something so he decided to do a thing. I suspect the same goes for whatever he runs across on Twitter. Some of his firings have been strangely specific and it seems like it's just whatever meme like thing that got traction with the right twitter troll at the right time ... Heck his own comments in this story: >I hear so many stories about ‘We’re not going to allow their students’” to come in No apparent awareness that he is the source of the stories :P

adt 1y ago
Reminds me of the Aus Prime Minister: >Mr Morrison said the announcement followed a discussion with his wife Jenny the previous night and after he considered how he, as a father, would want his daughters to be treated. "Jenny and I spoke last night and she said to me, you have to think about this as a father. What would you want to happen if it were our girls?" he told reporters. “Jenny has a way of clarifying things. Always has. And so, as I’ve reflected on that overnight and listened to Brittany and what she had to say.” Mr Morrison said he wants to make sure "any young woman working in this place is as safe as possible, as I would want for my own daughters". The Prime Minister was later asked by a reporter why it took discussing the alleged incident "as a husband and father" to take further action. "Shouldn’t you have thought about it as a human being? What happens if men don’t have a wife and children? Would they reach the same compassionate conclusion?" she asked. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/scott-morrison-criticised-for-invoking-his-daughters-in-response-to-brittany-higgins-rape-allegations/2vcacxtya https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/scott-morrison-criticise...

SilverElfin 1y ago

Is it possible he’s getting paid by China somehow. They have unusually low tariff rates compared to what you might expect, and he keeps putting off the TikTok ban that is legally required.

xqcgrek2 1y ago
TikTok's algorithm favors him. The moment it doesn't, it's banned.
- bigyabai 1y ago
  I don't use Tiktok, but that statement reads like confirmation bias.
pavel_lishin 1y ago
I'm sure he's getting paid off by plenty of folks, but I think it's statistically more likely that someone on his staff is being paid off by China, and managed to corner him for five minutes to load this soundbite into his head.
- burnt-resistor 1y ago
  I'm just wondering what good is $1 billion vs. $4 billion if you're terminally unhealthy and have maybe 5 years left to live, tops.

burnt-resistor 1y ago

Yep. It's wordsalad without much in the way of consistency, memory, or thoughtfulness (no pun intended). Also, he looks really, really unhealthy and so I'm frightened what a POTUS Vance would look like except requiring religion in public schools and mass expulsion of everyone not WASP. Oh, wait.