tRump's condition: Dunning-Kruger effect?

Sounds right to me.

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein persons of low-ability suffer from illusory superiority, by mistakenly assessing their ability as greater than their actual capability. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability people to recognize their ineptitude. Without that, they cannot accurately evaluate their actual competence."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Dear Brad: A letter to my congressman

Bradley Byrne is the rep from the 1st district of Alabama.
I write him "Dear Brad" letters.
He doesn't reply.


Dear Brad,

Now it appears that our Dear Leader has compromised an ally re highly classified intel info he gave the Russian ambassador.
Quite inadvertently, I’m sure.
That’s the problem.
Bless his heart, he just doesn’t KNOW what’s important and likely to cause SERIOUS ramifications throughout the world.

I know that he said during the campaign that he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and his people would still support and vote for him.
At the time I thought it was a hyperbolic throwaway line, but now I see that it is actually true.
I guess you have to have some grudging admiration for someone who can screw up the country and the world so badly and still have 35 or 36 percent of those polled support him.
I imagine Hitler may have had the same numbers in the last few days of WWII.
AS Dear Leader would tweet: “Sad”.

You may remember that a couple of weeks ago I asked you if you represented EVERYONE in the 1st district, or just the Republicans.
You never answered my question, so I guess that’s an answer in and of itself.
You know I DID vote for you.
You were the lesser of two...well..’undesirables’? by far.
Dean Young scares the pants off of most of us.
Democrats in Baldwin County ORGANIZED to Get Out The Vote for you to keep that madman out of office.
I guess you should hope that someone with a less commitment to the PARTY as opposed to the NATION doesn’t challenge you.
You know where we’ll go if that should happen.

Best regards,
trof

From a right wing retired FBI agent today:

We were at a friend's brunch.
I asked him if he was in touch with his former colleagues.
"Yes, I belong to the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI."
'How do they feel about the firing of Comey?"
"Good riddance. Everyone hated him. And McCabe, too. He won't be in there long."

Unh hunh.
OK.

Now look at this:
http://www.socxfbi.org/
Comey's farewell letter is on the home page.

And this:
Link from their website; http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/10/comey-firing-fbi-trump-238247
FBI agent groups dispute Trump’s rationale for Comey firing
‘His support within the rank and file of the FBI is overwhelming.’

Conclusion: My 'friend' is a lying bastid.

The Spicer bush ornament

The difference between Obama and tRump:

From reddit

Chicken fried steak, garlic 'smashed' spuds, collards tonight.

Heaven.

Stupid: 2, USA: 0, UK: 0.....France: 1, Stupid: 0.

dang

'Frat boys and sorrority girls' - check in

I'm glad the frat boys thread died a natural death.
Don't ask, and no, I won't link to it.
I'll just opine that it unfairly damned anyone who had ever belong to a Greek letter organization in college.

But it made me curious.
How many of us are there here?
Who are willing to admit it.

Does it matter?
Not a whit.

As I said, just idle curiosity.

Me: Delta Kappa Epsilon, University of Alabama, class of '63.
Roll tide.
For me, it was a phase.
I pretty much left it behind when I left college.
Much of it seems pretty juvenile now.
I did enjoy the parties and social life and it was a pretty good bunch of guys to hang out with.

I don't really have any close friends from that time now.
As I said, it was a phase.
I don't regret it.

You?

Trump has been sued 134 times in federal court since inauguration

WASHINGTON — President Trump, who has struggled to press his agenda in Washington but has shown a knack for unsettling opponents and triggering protests, has also become an unprecedented lightning rod for federal lawsuits filed by plaintiffs across the country seeking court relief on an unusually broad array of issues.

Trump has been sued 134 times in federal court since he was sworn into office, according to a Globe tally based on federal court databases, nearly three times the number of his three predecessors in their early months combined.

The lawsuits include green card holders trying to get into the United States after his travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries; cities like San Francisco, Richmond, and Seattle suing over a plan to withhold funds from ”sanctuary’’ cities; and even a woman from Quincy, Mass., who went to court contending that the president’s actions have caused “loss of enjoyment of life.”

The dramatic uptick in litigation — Barack Obama faced 26 suits at this point in his first year, while George W. Bush had seven, and Bill Clinton, 15 — is further evidence of the unsettled era ushered in by Trump’s election and the intense fallout stemming from his early executive actions. Court filings may not be as visible as demonstrations on the National Mall, but they ultimately could exert a more lasting check on his executive power.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/05/05/trump-has-been-sued-times-federal-court-since-inauguration-day/E4AqZBYaKYHtzwfQ3k9hdM/story.html

Email to my repug congressman, Bradley Byrne, 1st Dist. Alabama

Dear Brad,

I have a serious question.
Do you work for the people of the 1st Congressional District of Alabama or just for the Republican Party?
I’m dead serious.

Is it your goal just to stay in office for as long as possible?
Or is it to actually address the problems of folks you represent?

Of course your district’s citizens’ politics are deeply Republican, for now.
Do you just represent them?
Or do you represent all of us?

You just voted to take health care AWAY for a lot of citizens in your district.
How would you feel if it was YOUR kid, or YOUR mother who could no longer afford to pay for health insurance?

I don’t think you’re a bad person.
I have to believe that you’ve just been taken up in the whole “winning is everything” mindset of our current politics.
I have to believe that deep down inside you have a heart, and a soul, and some sense of decency.

You have to quit hurting us.
Please.

(trof)
(Hometown)