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highplainsdem

(49,045 posts) Thu Jan 24, 2019, 10:05 PM Jan 2019

"Who'd've guessed a Cabinet of out-of-touch billionaires would be so bad at running the country?"

Catherine Rampell, minutes ago on Twitter:

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who would have guessed that a Cabinet of out-of-touch billionaires would be so bad at running the country
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/am-i-out-of-touch-trump-administration-struggles-to-show-empathy-for-workers/2019/01/24/09dc9872-1ffa-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html

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"Who'd've guessed a Cabinet of out-of-touch billionaires would be so bad at running the country?" (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2019 OP

All Of Us Here On DU? Me. Jan 2019 #1

Just because they are billionaires, doesn't mean they are smart. democratisphere Jan 2019 #2

Although as a career public servant, I get lots of Schadenfreude meadowlander Jan 2019 #3

about 68 million people not counting the republicans that knew better. GemDigger Jan 2019 #4

Me.

(35,454 posts)

1. All Of Us Here On DU?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 10:07 PM

Jan 2019

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

2. Just because they are billionaires, doesn't mean they are smart.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 10:13 PM

Jan 2019

Crooked, YES. Smart, not necessarily.

meadowlander

(4,411 posts)

3. Although as a career public servant, I get lots of Schadenfreude

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 10:35 PM

Jan 2019

watching people I know have spent half their lives sitting around country clubs bitching about the government and how useless government workers are failing so spectacularly at the most basic tasks.

The last two years have been like the watching an extended version of "Mr Bean Tries Public Policy".

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)

4. about 68 million people not counting the republicans that knew better.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 12:10 AM

Jan 2019

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