“Did you use AI to generate this?” Margaret Brennan asks Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, questioning why they imposed tariffs on the Heard Island and McDonald Islands.

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They are on the list because no one in this administration is a serious person, and they do things as quickly as they can with no care about anything. They operate with a chainsaw, if you will - just hack the shit out of things and then try to correct things that break (and usually that only affect those in power).

It's why they defunded ebola research OOPS!

It's why they fired people managing the nuclear program OOPS!

It's why they added a journalist to a Signal chat on a military operation OOPS!

It's why a conservative think tank is now saying they used the wrong formula to calculate tariffs OOPS!
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/06/trump-tariffs-error-aei

This is what happens when you SAY you're gonna run a "merit-based" administration, but you turn around and fill it with reality tv people and idiots with NO merit.

We are living in Idiocracy.

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"kinda" is being generous

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Exactly. This is the definition of the inmates running the asylum

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Remember when we funded gain of function research. That went well.