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angrychair

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8. Interesting insight from MSNBC I caught recently
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 10:33 AM
Jan 7

Can't remember the gentleman name but he is one of their occasional intel people and the story he ended up telling wasn't even part of the segment he was there for but a sidebar comment.
He was on the NSC in his first term and was set to give a briefing and had already been told to reduce his briefing read out for him. He had got it down to five pages he said but another principal told him it would need to be less. That you could only hand him stuff you expected him to read that was a single page of four or five, single sentence, bullet points that convey the issue. Also include a graphic of some kind, chart or picture to show what you mean.
He told them he didn't even think that was possible to do with such complex subjects and he was told it wouldn't matter, just make it easy to look at.

That story, not even the main point of the segment, absolutely horrified me. This moron is making decisions and speaking on things he is absolutely ignorant about and more likely than not couldn't understand it even if you explained it to him like a child.

Which is what actually appears to be happening.

Do your right, he may read it but he absolutely doesn't understand what he is reading.

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