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#incompetence

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Kyle Memoir 🍉

@faab64 @palestine @israel

It remains astonishing that Israel and its IDF—after all the slaughter and destruction, now morphing into forced desiccation and starvation—still pretend to be frightened rabbits ('pussies' some would call them) before the bogeyman of 'Hamas.'

How is possible the smartest people on earth, with billions upon US billions in money and weaponry pouring in, haven't yet put down a ragtag rebellion from a bunch of dirt poor fenced-in prisoners?

#fascism = #incompetence

RonSupportsYou

Here is how Biden's stupidity helped to elect Trump:
"The 2021 infrastructure law was supposed to pump hundreds of billions into roads, bridges, rural broadband, electric vehicle chargers. By 2024, few of its projects were finished or installed ... the (Biden) administration didn’t make the changes necessary to deliver on a time frame the public could feel":
nytimes.com/2025/04/13/opinion
#Biden #incompetence #politics

The broadband program takes shape.
The New York Times · Opinion | ‘You Try to Build Anything, and You’re Stepping Into Quicksand’By Ezra Klein
RonSupportsYou

"China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies. China has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries":
nytimes.com/2025/04/13/busines
#TrumpIsLookingLikeAFool #incompetence #tariffs #politics
"If factories in Detroit and elsewhere run out of powerful rare earth magnets, that could prevent them from assembling cars and other products with electric motors that require these magnets."

A mine for heavy rare earth metals on the outskirts of Longnan, China. The country’s suspension of exports of the metals and magnets is part of its retaliation for President Trump’s sharp increase in tariffs.
The New York Times · China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War IntensifiesBy Keith Bradsher
Old White Dude

Even if the US were the ultra-dominant trading partner it used to be, the credibility of its promises, treaties, agreements, & even its basic rationality is in doubt.

Felon Trump has put the USA in a deep hole. Any nation would be crazy to trust the US even if everything was reversed.

#international #felontrump #corruption #incompetence

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

The Atlantic · Trump's Tariff Chaos Is UnfixableBy Jerusalem Demsas
John Refior

But of course he didn't really reverse course. There are still massive tariffs in place, and probably more coming, because no one has stopped him and they are a useful policy tool if you want to commit extortion.

However, it looks like the administration is so incompetent that tariffs aren't being collected or enforced at this time.

"U.S. shippers tell CNBC they have not been charged higher tariff rates on their containers, some of which came in as late as yesterday"
cnbc.com/2025/04/11/customs-re

New Yorker cartoon in a conference room with a man pointing at a line plummeting on a graph, then finally ticking up a bit (looks like the major stock indices recently), and this text: “It was at this point, gentlemen, that the President decided it was his plan all along to reverse course.”
ALT
#tariffs#trade#incompetence
Replied to Nonilex
Nonilex

#Senate #Democrats just held a press conference on #Trump's #tariff announcement & his admin's policy.

Sen Kirsten Gillibrand said: “Because of this #chaos, this #incompetence & this carelessness, he has wiped out trillions of dollars from the #US #economy.”

Standing alongside her, Senate Minority Leader #ChuckSchumer said: “You can't undo the damage. The #TrumpSlump is upon us now, & whatever he will try to do in the future does not undo the damage.”

#tariffs#inflation#recession
Nomdeb

@mloxton And not only in the Trump regime, but these kinds of people - DOGE for example - are out there in the private sector in droves, telling themselves that they are efficient and competent, and super, and mostly the dismal reality of their skillset remains hidden. Now we can see their work product publicly, and what a load of codswallop, what a myth, that the private sector is smart, efficient, well run. #PrivateSector #PublicSector #Incompetence #USPol

WIST Quotations

A quotation from Joubert

It is always our inabilities that irritate us.
 
[Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

WIST Quotations · Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 "Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)] - Joubert, Joseph | WIST Quotations It is always our inabilities that irritate us. [Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.] (Source (French)). Alternate translations: Our worries always come from our weaknesses. [tr. Attwell (1896), ¶ 65] It is always our incapacities that irritate us. [tr. Lyttelton (1899), ch. 4, ¶ 19] It is always…
#quote#quotes#quotation
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