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JRPGfan on 26 April 2020
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EricHiggin said:
Torillian said:

Been thinking a bit about the latest Trump defense: basically that he's just asking questions so it's no be deal. The issue I have with that is that Trump has set up his administration in such a way that he can't be told he's asking a stupid question. If someone is in a biology class and they ask the teacher "why can't we use things like bleach to cure disease since it gets rid of viruses on surfaces?" then the teacher can explain why that wouldn't work and the faulty reasoning behind the suggestion. Instead in this case you have the president asking his administration and his administration just going "yeah we'll look into that sir". I wouldn't mind the question if the response was "oh no that won't work because bleach doesn't discriminate between human and virus in how it kills things so that would be too harmful to the host". That would be alright because you ask a dumb question and you get an immediate answer for why it won't work. Instead you have a stupid question that's left hanging, and that gives the idea legitimacy to those who don't know better which is what leads to dangerous situations and misunderstandings.

An immediate concrete answer would have been best. It would also be nice if the world was nothing but immediate concrete answers to all questions for everyone. Maybe everyone should write down or record every question that comes to mind and hope when they eventually ask it that's it's widely agreed upon to be the right way at the right time. That's not how the world works though in reality, unfortunately.

Its good that you realise that, is how things would work in a "perfect" world. Where things make sense.
(your batshit stupid, you ask stupid questions of your advisers, when your off live tv)

Thats how it works for every other nations leaders when they do press briefings.
They make sure they dont communicate, their own stupidity, or ask stupid questsions, which could result in stupid people trying stupid things, live on tv, infront of a nation. This stuff is the basic minimum level required of a nations leader, and trump fails on it. He constantly says stupid things, lies, backtracks, countradicts himself or his advisers.  How is any of that good for a nation? if anything it just shows you cant trust current leadership in this situation.


You have 1 part wrong though.

this part:  "That's not how the world works though in reality, unfortunately."

That should read, "thats not how it works in our current world though (with trump as president), unfortunately."


The worrying part is what Torillian wrote.
Trump surrounds himself with "yes"-men, that just nod at everything he says, even if its crazy/wrong, out of fear of him. He gets rid of anyone else that thinks rationally and stands up to him, if he does or says crazy things. Now theres no one left to tell him that hes without clothes.

Ever read "the emperor's new clothes" as a child? or told it to your own?

That story is playing itself out now. Trump is the emperor without clothes on.




Last edited by JRPGfan - on 26 April 2020