• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 hours ago

      I’m neurospicy, and also used to programming errors, but to me that detects as incompetence. It tells me they don’t know what they’re talking about.

      When Trump kept saying the Hormuz Strait was open to freight when it wasn’t, I quickly concluded he doesn’t know the conditions that determine open. Or he’s misinformed. Or he’s lying. Now, it’s general knowledge Trump is not a source.

      Duffy is definitely not a source either. He doesn’t know how transportation infrastructure works. He’s a reality-television star, which is why he’s been doing a travel themed reality TV show rather than actually doing his job.

      Hey, it gives us something we can do for the resistance, which is teach others to not rely on official lines from the regime, but what we can gather from news based on leaks and investigation. It’s what we had to do in the George W. Bush era.

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        14 hours ago

        [Duffy is] a reality-television star

        I wasn’t aware of that, but I can’t help notice a curious coincidence. Are there more incompetent US officials with a background in television rather than whatever their actual profession is?

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          6 hours ago

          Secretary of education is the wife and cofounder of the fake wrestling WWE. A whole career in professionally faking it, and she’s in charge of education in this country.

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          Yes. While a lot of Americans’ primary source of media has been the TV in the past couple decades, it’s even worse with Trump. He, personally, spends a lot of time watching Fox News, so that’s his primary source for what’s going on in the country. And that’s why you have people like Jeanine Pirro (had a show on Fox during his first term) as DC prosecutor, and Dr. Oz in charge of Medicaid and Medicare.