Oh okay, he was right at least on this: "[Trump] is thus the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence.”
But with a compliant Congress, he may still get away with being so…
Doug
> On May 16, 2017, at 7:20 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Brooks may be a conservative ratbag, Doug but this article seemed well
> observed to me:
>
> https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html
>
> Bill
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> On Wed, 17 May 2017 at 11:10 am, Doug Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> It was right well found, Robin.
>>
>> A lengthy look back, & then at where we are ow (I think there are a few
>> more local PMs you might include…?).
>>
>> Bill: I wouldnt rally trust David Brooks as far as I could heave him, but…
>>
>> Doug
>>> On May 16, 2017, at 6:48 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, I kind of presumed as much, Robin about the majority of it. I
>> thought
>>> you had fiddled a bit to make the opening couplet. Amazing. Love 'him of
>>> whom the word was moved'. Words move so oddly in the current term limited
>>> elected monarch. David Brooks on New York Times points out the
>> difficulties
>>> 'trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies
>>> beeping randomly in a jar'.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>> On Wed, 17 May 2017 at 10:04 am, Robin Hamilton <
>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not my words, Bill, but an actual Act of Parliament passed in the second
>>>> year of
>>>> the reign of Richard II.
>>>>
>>>> Didn't turn out real well for him either, did it?
>>>>
>>>> Came on it accidentally, and was quite disconcerted at how apposite it
>> is
>>>> to
>>>> certain things being uttered by a current term-limited elected monarch.
>>>>
>>>> Next down the line: the Divine Right of Presidents -- "I was elected
>> by
>>>> the
>>>> people, and the people are the Voice of God, so anyone who objects to
>> what
>>>> I do
>>>> is committing blasphemy, and will be dealt with accordingly."
>>>>
>>>> Robin
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 17 May 2017 at 00:28 Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Impressive accretion of moving words here, Robin.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 17 May 2017 at 6:20 am, Robin Hamilton <
>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Item, of Devisors of false News and of horrible and false Lyes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> of Prelates, Dukes, Earls, Barons, and other Nobles, and great
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Men of the Realm, and also of the Chancellor, Treasurer,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clerk of the Privy Seal, Steward of the King’s House, Justices
>>>>>>
>>>>>> of the one Bench or of the other, and of other great Officers of
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the Realm, of things which by the said Prelates, Lords, Nobles,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and Officers aforesaid were never spoken, done, nor thought, in
>>>>>>
>>>>>> great Slander of the said Prelates, Lords, Nobles and Officers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> whereby Debates and Discords might arise between the said
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lords, or between the Lords and the Commons (which God
>>>>>>
>>>>>> forbid), and whereof great Peril and Mischief might come to
>>>>>>
>>>>>> all the Realm, and quick Subversion and Destruction of the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> said Realm if due remedy be not provided ; it is straitly de-
>>>>>>
>>>>>> fended upon grievous pain for to eschew the said Damages and
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Perils, that from henceforth none be so hardy to devise, speak,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or to tell, any false News, Lyes, or other such false things, of
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Prelates, Lords, and of other aforesaid, whereof Discord or any
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Slander might arise within the same Realm, and he that doth
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the same shall incur and have the pain another time ordained
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thereof by the Statute of Westminster the first, which will, that
>>>>>>
>>>>>> he be taken and imprisoned till he have found him of whom the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> word was moved.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2 R. 2. st. 1. c. 5. [i.e. 1379]
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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>> Latest books:
>> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
>> Recording Dates
>> (Rubicon Press)
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>> If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
>> little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and
>> sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
>>
>> Thomas De Quincey
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Douglas Barbour
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Latest books:
Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
Recording Dates
(Rubicon Press)
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas De Quincey
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