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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:57 PM Jan 2017

Trump's Competency Now Being Questioned


January 30, 2017 By Taegan Goddard

First Read: “Of course, competency — or a lack thereof — has been a stumbling block for past presidents, on matters big or small. Think Hurricane Katrina for George W. Bush or the Healthcare.Gov website for Barack Obama. But what’s extraordinary about all the chaos resulting from Trump’s travel ban is that it 1) came less than two weeks on the job, 2) came from an executive order, and 3) was on a campaign promise. So this wasn’t a response to a natural disaster, or a computer glitch caused by a contractor. It was an early priority for the administration — and they didn’t have their act together. Also, note that much of the criticism coming from Republicans is on the competency angle.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/01/30/trumps-competency-now-questioned/
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Wounded Bear

(58,662 posts)
1. Some of us were questioning his competence two years ago...
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 01:58 PM
Jan 2017

apparently nobody was listening then. Would be nice if somebody listens now while we still have a chance to avoid something major happening.

neeksgeek

(1,214 posts)
3. Reminds me of things I saw ...
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:04 PM
Jan 2017

Working in back office jobs in the financial world.

Example:

1) We fax a new "service agreement" to ten thousand of our vendors, which they've never agreed to and in fact haven't seen before.

2) We put one person on the inbound phones (me).

3) Many - read hundreds - of our vendors get the fax and call to dispute the new "agreement."

4) Many more call to complain that we're sending this fax multiple times, or calling their cell (back when every minute cost).

5) Chaos ensues. Manglement refuses to put another person on the phones. Fun times.


Incompetent. Yep, that's the word.

Kber

(5,043 posts)
11. Strategic Incompetence
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:31 PM
Jan 2017

It's what I use to get out of certain chores around the house, but with global impact

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
4. It's about time. I would also like to see the competency of the disheveled quack who "vouched"
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:05 PM
Jan 2017

for him in that inane letter formally questioned by the New York medical licensing board.

Docreed2003

(16,862 posts)
5. It's funny how no one in the media questioned his competency until now...
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:16 PM
Jan 2017

From the moment Trump announced his campaign, he made it his quest to align with the worst of America, saying the most vile and bigoted things to gain support. Then, in the primaries, debate after debate showed that the man was completely incapable of rational or coherent thought and he exposed himself as an intellectual lightweight and a thin skinned narcissist, time and time and time again! Yet the media igorned this because it played to their ratings. Meghan Kelly is "bleeding from wherever", Ted Cruz's dad was chummy with Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife was a psychological wreck, the judge who ruled against him must be biased because "This judge is of Mexican heritage, and I'm going to build a wall", Hillary was crooked and encouraged "lock her up", he cheered when protesters were roughed up at his rallies, "grab her by the pussy" was no big deal because it was just "locker room talk" and now, only after he's done EXACTLY what he said he wanted to do, are those in the media cluing in to the fact that this guy is unhinged. They danced with the devil and gave him the platform and they normalized his irratic and ghastly behavior. Now we are paying the price for it. Perhaps now they will see the light. What price we will pay as a country remains to be seen

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
7. Problem is that it would take a 2/3 majority to remove him
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:20 PM
Jan 2017

that is unlikely to happen as the Republicans will pretent that he is sane for as long as they possibly can and they will all turn blue holding their breath hoping he won't permanently damage the country but they are, as usual, dead wrong.

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)
9. Anyone who does not question his mental competency (congress) should be tested themselves
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:26 PM
Jan 2017

Anyone with any intelligence at all could watch this guy with the sound turned off and know he is out of it. His facial expressions, his hand gestures, his WWE quality acting out would all be pretty good indicators that this guy is a few bulbs short of a chandelier.

Then, turning the sound on would remove all doubt.

Time to just chalk one up, GOP and do what even you know what is best for this country and the world. Then you can run again as a sane party.

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