This has probably been said to death, but the mention of the hot dog cart just made me imagine Trump as an Ignatius J Reilly who happened to be born into wealth.

I doubt drinking mixes well with the uppers and other downers he’s on. 

It’s been said before, by myself and people smarter than me, that Trump is a poor man’s idea of wealth, a classless person’s idea of class, and a loser’s idea of success. He appeals to the poor and classless because if they were rich they’d buy the same kind of crap that he does. He appeals to losers because they…

His brother apparently died of alcoholism, and for once in his benighted foul existence Dump decided to learn something from it. Or he saw it as a sign of weakness. Probably the second one.

One of the minor mysteries of the world is Trump and teetotaling.  Is that just another lie? Is that one of the few true things about him? He contradicts his no-drinking attitude all the time.  I suppose I’ll never know, because I don’t want to think about him any more.

I have no desire to sully my hands by shaking with him, but I do have a fantasy where I get the opportunity and he tries that shit with me. The fantasy includes me nutting him in the nose with my forehead.

He famously has a weird handshake for men, where he pulls the other person’s hand in to throw them off balance. I think it was Macron that wouldn’t let him do it? Him holding May’s hand was all about proving dominance and reducing her to a child. 

She couldn’t really take her hand back, so she was stuck...

Needs more stars for grasping the problem of applying that mentality to everything and for also capturing my frustration with software.

This is where the tech bro “move fast and break things” development cycle runs aground. With software you can often get away with doing the interesting flashy bits and skipping the testing and QA, because people expect software to fail. Not so with cars. You have to do all the boring stuff right, too.

 What, the company that used Home Depot vinyl flooring in production has manufacturing issues?

There should be some level of preventive measures to ensure parts are not missing, like marking bolts after installation/torque.

On a future CV:

I used to work at a small factory building lighting products for the oil industry. One of our assemblers wired the hot to the ground so I had to redo all the light fixtures that were already installed on a new drilling rig. Fun! I should have made the assembler do it.

I used to work for an auto supplier and I lived in perpetual fear of introducing some kind of bug that would cause some huge recall.

The qty is pretty small here in the scheme of recalls. Sounds like the guy checking the electronic torque tools numbers daily caught the anomaly. It might be all this guys fault, but the reality is it is probably the job trainer/certifiers issue.

As someone who directly manages and trains a group of people involved in manufacture and testing of cell-based therapy products...

Wonder if this guy previously worked at ford torquing down head bolts for the RS lol. 

If it was GM we’d get “Someone somewhere at one of our plants fucked up some bolts. Just bring it and we’ll take a look at it. Fuck you, have a nice day”