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Cont: The Trump Presidency IX: Nein, Nein!

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Tsukasa Buddha said:
For Eric Trump, a simple question:

Linky.
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He’s really stupid, but somehow he came across the word “shekel” as a little dog whistle for his post; probably somebody helped him.

He’s certainly stupid enough to not know what “behest” means. He just said that America asked Woodward to write the book.
 
Minoosh said:
The Economist once had an article about a pervasive problem in nonfiction. It's that to snag you, the really good stuff has to go at the beginning of the book. I've found when reading nonfiction that the first chapter is great, but I feel so knowledgeable at the end of the chapter that my enthusiasm falls off. Probably 50 good pages would be enough for me. After that comes a lot of supporting detail, more than I usually want.

I am not saying this is true of Woodward's book.
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Well, he did put the bit about the letter ending the South Korean free trade deal up front, but other than that, he's been mostly telling the story chronologically.

But there's a few points so far where I've thought, "There's no way you could know that, unless you've just outed one of your "deep background" sources". He makes a point early on that almost all of the interviews he based the book on were off the record deep background discussions, but then he writes things like "X thought that.....", which he could only really write if X was one of his sources. How could he know what someone was thinking at any given point, unless the person in question told him that? That's either sloppy writing, or he's screwing his sources.



Tsukasa Buddha said:
For Eric Trump, a simple question:



Linky.
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As I said on Facebook, where does a member of the Trump family get off calling someone else a moneygrubber?
 
C_Felix said:
I bought all the Sherlock Holmes stores from a used book store for $4 to keep me occupied in case I lose power due to Hurricane Florence.

I am flat broke, unemployed, and will just have to wait to read Fear.
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See if you can borrow it from the local library. Mine carries both ebooks and paper ones.
 
"I had to deal with the biggest hurricane in xx years. It was tremendously big, tremendously wet. The previous administration never had to deal with a hurricane this big. Crooked Hillary wouldn't know what to do. Only I could have done it this good."

(a prediction, not a quote)
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Trump signs an executive order permitting sanctions against foreigners who interfere in US elections, including the distribution of propaganda and disinformation
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While I am still quite thoroughly unconvinced that Trump is doing that because he cares, I applaud the actual action. On the other hand, it's likely worth noting that sanctions were already legislated into being for those very reasons, and Trump had been strongly resisting actually implementing them, so this is fairly certainly yet another pile of nothing.
 
Minoosh said:
The Economist once had an article about a pervasive problem in nonfiction. It's that to snag you, the really good stuff has to go at the beginning of the book. I've found when reading nonfiction that the first chapter is great, but I feel so knowledgeable at the end of the chapter that my enthusiasm falls off. Probably 50 good pages would be enough for me. After that comes a lot of supporting detail, more than I usually want.

I am not saying this is true of Woodward's book.
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People have been saying as much for years when viral articles later get turned into books. The article was enough.
 
alfaniner said:
"I had to deal with the biggest hurricane in xx years. It was tremendously big, tremendously wet. The previous administration never had to deal with a hurricane this big. Crooked Hillary wouldn't know what to do. Only I could have done it this good."

(a prediction, not a quote)
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Why it was so big? I don't know. Some say it's Obama's fault. He could have taken care of those hurricanes before. We have to show strength. Maybe I am going to nuke the next one. We'll see.
 
SezMe said:
Who is Cain between posts?

Mods:Asking so I can better understand his posts.
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Certainly that wasn't my clearest statement ever.

What i meant was that Cain has been on here for ages and almost always makes satirical posts. Dudalb often reacts to them at face value as if he's forgotten the general nature of Cain's posts.

The phrase "you've been Cained" should only apply to you once.
 
TofuFighter said:
Certainly that wasn't my clearest statement ever.

What i meant was that Cain has been on here for ages and almost always makes satirical posts. Dudalb often reacts to them at face value as if he's forgotten the general nature of Cain's posts.

The phrase "you've been Cained" should only apply to you once.
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Ehh... not if you only see the poes. Then it's entirely reasonable to get Cained repeatedly, really. Of course, first time I got told "It's Cain, don't worry about it," given the lack of context to work with, I figured that Cain was just unreasonable and that I may as well move on.
 
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