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| DATE | 2017-01-15 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Word of the Year for 2016
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 09:03:41AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
>
> > No because I expected he would nominate very smart NYers, and that is
> > often at Goldman Sacks.
>
> It's indeed wise to make sure one is mugged only by _smart_ crooks. One
> must maintain standards, after all.
>
Everyone from GS is not a crook, and it is a benifit to be a part of
them, and a detriment.
I know it bothers you, but c'est la vie
> That high smart-corruption standard from our PEEOTUS, however, is not
> proposed for the bulk of proposed administration, which includes putting
> the entire nuclear establishment and national science labs under Rick
> Perry the global village idiot, Ben Carson the somnolent whose sole
> qualification for running HUD is that he's lived in housing
> (http://www.salon.com/2017/01/12/ben-carsons-quietly-surreal-hearing-the-hud-nominees-grilling-was-dull-weird-and-uninformative/),
> Jeff Sessions the unreconstructed Alabama neoconfederate as attorney
> general to pointedly fail to enforce the nation's civil rights laws, Tom
> Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services to cut off women's
> access to birth control
> (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/29/trump-health-czar-tom-price-is-a-nightmare-for-women.html),
> and Betsy De Vos as Secretary of Education because she's basically
> against, y'know, public education.
>
> In other words, a total, all-encompassing shitshow.
>
> But look on the bright side: The PEEOTUS tweets and blusters that he
> intends a new nuclear arms race
> (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-nuclear-arms-race-russia-232944)
> and issued orders for the National Nuclear Security Administration to be
> without leadership and unable to do its job
> (http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52145/trump-nuclear-team-dismissed/),
> so it may be both a short administration and a short future.
>
>
> Oh, by the way, you don't need a television to watch SNL cold opens.
> There's a thing called the Internet, now. You may have heard of it.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Gf0mGJfP8
>
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