Donald Trump is Intellectually Lazy
It’s not that he doesn’t have a lot of energy. He does. It’s that he is unwilling to do the hard work of preparing and digging into arcane facts to get the real story that leads to better policy.
Famously during his first administration, he refused to even read the PDB, or Presidential Daily Briefing. He is quoted by aides as preferring just highlights and even pictures as opposed to pages of type and words.
We’ve seen this in his supporters many times. When faced with an argument based on data, they will respond by rejecting the data as out of hand, made up or false, instead of even looking at it. They are so sure of their convictions, there is no need to read anything.
And President Trump is cut from the same cloth. How else to explain his pardons of all the 1500+ J6 rioters?
As recently as a few weeks ago, Vice President elect JD Vance said of the pardons, “if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned”. Even Trump had said on numerous occasions that he’d be looking at it [the pardons] on a “case by case” basis.
So what happened? Why did Trump suddenly decide to go big and issue sweeping pardons of even the most violent of the protestors?
The answer may lie in a report from Axios News where they report that in the middle of reviewing each case, Trump simply stopped, looked up and said “F#*k it, Release them all”.
And with that, it was done.
Was Trump bogged down in the prisoner profiles? Sure. Were there a lot of them? You bet. And when faced with the reality of having to read and review the facts on over 1500 cases, he refused. He said no, because Trump has never been a briefing paper kind of guy.
President Trump was not going to read through all the cases and decided the only way to get out of doing the real presidential work of reviewing those reports was to simply wave his wand and pardon all of the J6 prisoners. All of them, including the bomb throwers, the folks who tasered DC Police, the folks who, according to a GOP Senate report, brutally beat and injured over 120 officers charged with protecting members of Congress and that day, Vice President Pence.
President Trump could have decided to release just the non violent offenders among the group, keeping the most violent behind bars to serve out their sentences. But that would have required work, time and commitment, something Trump has never exhibited in his public life.
Because President Trump is intellectually lazy when it comes to reading, studying, learning new things and doing the hard work of confronting difficult facts.
16 comments:
The number of EOs released since the Inauguration would argue to the contrary Dave.
btw - A good leader tells his followers what he wants them to do, NOT how to do it. "Release the J6 Hostages".
It doesn't take brains and brawn to sign one's name.
Keep trying to polish that turd; but no matter how hard you try, it's still a turd.
Good followers tell their leader what to do...bad followers grovel.
I think you supported biden commuting sentences for rapists and murderers so what changed other than it was trump. Next you will say that birthright citizenship is in the constitution. That is highly debated and it will be interesting to see how it turns out. The US is one of the few countries allowing it and it was enacted to give slaves citizenship not an illegal border crosser's child.
Trump could break into FJ's, or one of his/her several monikers house, sodomize his/her dog, and FJ would praise Trump for being an animal lover.
No -FJ, it would not. He just tells his aides to draw it up and he signs it. When asked about the J6 pardon EO, Trump said, on tape, "we'll have to take a look at it", showing he didn;t even bother to read that one.
Is this a case of Trump having to sign an EO to know what's inside it?
Again -FJ... Trump said he'd be looking at each of them to determine whether or not they should all be included. Vance said "obviously" violent offenders should not be pardoned.
Face it, Trump's in charge, this is a screw up and you, like all MAGA unthinking and intellectually dishonest people, are unable to admit you, and your pilitical change agent, are wrong.
A simple case of deep reification of unethical and mmoral beliefs and behaviors. The man/child president"s intellectual and emotional growth stopped at an early age.
Dave Miller is correct, President Felon and his crew are intellectually lazy.
My point - EO Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, from Section 2:
(d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
(e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
There is one issue with this EO - "Geneticists have discovered that all human embryos start life as females, as do all embryos of mammals. About the 2nd month the fetal tests elaborate enough androgens to offset the maternal estrogens and maleness develops."
So President Felon declared we are now all female due to their use of the wording "moment of conception" (the language in the EO as of 1/24/25). I'm sure a correction will be issued any moment now because we all know how well President Felon apologizes when he is wron..errr... less than correct.
Can't make this stuff up. (H/T Belle of the Ranch at Beau of the Fifth Column)
You do understand that Biden commuted death row prisoners to life in prison, they're NOT running free like the convicted felons who beat up, maimed, and caused the deaths of Capitol police. Trump did that.
Unless you're a Constitutional Law expert, maybe you should reserve judgement on what is or isn't in the Constitution. The 14th Amendment clearly states that anyone born on American soil is a citizen.
AMENDMENT XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
"A federal judge said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship was “blatantly unconstitutional” and issued a temporary restraining order to block it.
Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee who sits in Seattle, granted the request by Washington Attorney General Nick Brown and three other Democratic-led states for the emergency order halting implementation of the policy for the next 14 days while there are more briefings in the legal challenge."
The 14th Amendment, if you know how to read, says NOTHING about just slaves being born on American soil. It clearly states, "ALL PERSONS BORN..."
And he'd link to some YouTube video to prove he/she was correct.
Thomas Jefferson said the Constitution is a thing of wax that can be molded into whatever the judiciary wants it to be. The Supreme Court, six of the justices anyway, will mold it into whatever serves Trump. I visit here because Shaw is a big sister to me and I hold Les and Dave in the highest regard. Sadly that means I have to glimpse at Skuds' and the rest of the kook brigade, which is obviously one person posting under different avatars, apologies and justifications for Trumps dismantling of our Nation's laws and principles.
Grey... It's the same for the Trump EO on the 14th Amendment. Here's the relevant text...
It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.
Where does this come from within the Constitution? I'll save you the time... this arbitrary interpretation is made up completely out of thin, arbitrary air.
It's a ridiculous as the example you cited.
But hey, the let's throw everything at the wall and see what sticks does seem to work, at least some of the time.
I wrote this to myself at the beginning of the year. I offer it to you, Grey One talks sass:
"For every bit of anxiety I have about the future, I am trying to remember that there are great joys ahead, too, that I just don't know about yet, that will also happen to make the worries more bearable."
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