More coffee all around. If only that would address the larger problems in the world.

Okay, so, obviously I missed the point of your original post. Help me out? And, please feel free to correct my pre-coffee overview of the kind of NDAs we plebs get, or add more about the kind being forced upon White House staff which are described as likely both unenforceable and unconstitutional in the article.

You realize that while both the original article and your statement involve the words “work” and “privacy” they have few other points of commonality, right?

Unfortunately, before the U.S. did its own version of “showed up 2 years late with Starbucks” for WWII (the war started Sept 1939, U.S. only entered in Dec 1941), there were many proud American Nazi supporters cheerfully agreeing with eugenics and downplaying the news of genocide from Europe with so much spin it made…

Aw, I was totally setting the ball for a glorious Grampa Simpson-style story!

Typically third grade happens when one is ~8-9 years old. How many times did you have to repeat third grade to be 15 years old and still there, Earl? Or have things changed that much since 1965? (I don’t know. All the movies have a weird tint to them and the hairstyles are horrifying. Help me out.)

Notice how they didn’t even make a statement “against” him until THURSDAY. As if they were somehow unaware of this racist garbage sack running under an “R” until then?!?

“If even half of the accusations are legitimate, the current United States secretary of commerce could rank among the biggest grifters in American history.”

The gentleman in this story more than qualifies. Out of respect for your prior experience, I’ll let you have dibs.

Logic, rhetoric, and philosophy are not taught in public school. Other than a single sentence mentioning that some ancient Greek or other was a “philosopher,” I don’t think they were ever presented as areas of study in the entirety of my public school education.*

That is the utterance of a man who would not comprehend Russell’s teapot even if he were beaten to death with it.

I was gonna shout about Russell’s Teapot. Thank you for beating me to it.

It’s just pathetic is what it is. At least be a villain with some general competence if you can’t muster some panache. I’m nearly as offended by how lazy and incompetent they are at doing evil as I am by the outright evil they’re doing. Serious bargain-basement villainy, day after day.

The “lied to Americans” part is hardly noteworthy. That they once again tried to lie (ineptly) to the larger world however is both worrying and rather pathetic. What plays for fully propagandized, willfully ignorant fanatics in Florida is not sufficient to do more than bemuse educated outsiders equipped with facts and…

Now, now. To be fair, some of them are outright Nazis.

I just slept for nearly 12 hours. Almost unprecedented*, but, apparently needed. We can step back from Def Con 4 on the knitted data structures, the potential discussion about the quality of yarn employed in your conspiracy walls (I’m not touching nasty cheap acrylic, I don’t care if civilization has collapsed), or…

I just had this horrible mental image of your conspiracy wall(s) getting mixed in with my: non-fiction research work, soft sci fi noir novel notes, and possibly that throw blanket I was knitting before it got too hot to even look at yarn.

Thank you for your work, and for your clarifying comments on these stories. 

I think another useful round-up would be fact checking every damn one. We do it as they happen, but just having a running tally of them “we’re up 929383 percent, best ever” next to “No, that percentage is incorrect, and here’s the last 10 years’ averages to show where that fits into context” next to ever damn one.…

Hey, if we were brainless, hopped up on diet pills, and basically unemployed, we’d have lots of time to troll Twitter, too.