That kind of word salad is emblematic of the extremely stupid but confident grifter.
If you have ever interacted with delusional idiots who insist they know more than anyone else about anything even though you know they were failing biology and snorting mints in the back of class, you have experienced this talking style.
For some reason, the especially gullible fall for it in droves. This talking style is essential to MLM profitability.
It's pretty clear, and has been for years, that Trump is mentally impaired. He rambles, is incoherent, loses his thought all the time, and generally his sentences don't make much sense. It's more or less normal for someone of his age and lifestyle.
Example of a thing he said back in 2016:
> "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
There's just no semblance of coherence there. And he does that all the freaking time. It's obvious he has dementia or something of the like, and belongs in a specialised care facility. Yet people hear/watch/read this, and think to themselves this is the kind of person they want with absolute and total power over everything in the US (remember, his loyal supreme court said he has total immunity, and all checks and balances have been thrown out the window by the people supposed to be doing them refusing to do their duty), from budgets to nuclear weapons. I genuinely would not be surprised if the world ends up in a nuclear war because of him getting angry at something he misunderstood while on the can.
It's honestly kind of a tragicomedy to watch from afar. If this were a book or a movie, nobody would buy it, yet here we are. Reality really is stranger than fiction.
No. The story I read was for "Interim Top Secret". If you have a clear National Agency Check (arrest and convictions), and do not flag as a drug user / mental case, then you can be given an "Interim Top Secret" while waiting for the clearance adjudication. Does not allow access to SCI, or NATO Cosmic, but does allow access to regular Top Secret. There is also an "Interim Secret". Over 90% of the people with interim clearances are positively adjudicated.
Normal thing. Provided they are using the same criteria for the Interim Clearances.
Top Secret is also a fairly common clearance, despite the name it is not a clearance level reserved for highest levels of intelligence or anything like that.
> The average SS recipient receives more in benefits than they contributed. (including reasonable interest).
This is unsustainable. The people running it know and have known this for decades, instead of fixing it they have been at work finely tuning everything to ensure that the boomers receive full benefits just before major overhauls are require, significant additional taxes and/or reductions in benefits are 100% a guarantee at this point, but they continue spending and even increasing benefits all the while. A quarter century ago, Al Gore suggested putting a small amount of money aside to fund the program in the future and everyone laughed at him, on both the left and right. Instead they cut themselves stimulus checks and went to the mall, kicking off a decade of indulgence that ended with the 2008 global financial crisis while spending 7 trillion pounding sand in Iraq and Afghanistan with no particular goal and little to nothing to show for it.
This generation has acted like overgrown children their entire adult lives, they've spent and borrowed and kicked every can in sight down the road. They rigged this program along with every other as another massive transfer of wealth from the generations with the least money to the one with the most. As a final FU to future generations, they are as we speak in the process of dismantling the global world order that has protected and enriched them for their entire lives. I hope in the near future they will at last see some retribution for all of this.
The 'brand' of the FBI is worthless. For half of the country it was investigating the criminal.
For the other half of the country it is the result of the purge.
No-one will trust the FBI from here on out.
Need to delete it and re-create the function with a different name.
I am 62 years old. What is the number 1 discussion topic with my retired colleagues?
How to minimize taxes in retirement. (the RMD causes panic because if forces taxation). Many get a pension, social security, have a 401k, paid off house, and savings. Not everyone needs social security.
Oh, but they did.
Trump has been spewing out his plans for 10 years. His inability to understand complex situations, lack of world knowledge, ignorance of history.
The voters knew exactly what they were voting for.
Just like economics has been found to have far from rational actors, it's clear that there are millions of "low information voters". Many of them likely voted for him because he's that actor on tv who entertains them.
But yes, plenty of his voters heard what he had to say and liked it.
Tangent: in the United States, more people believe in angels than in evolution (69% vs 60%).
