“The Fifth Risk” - Michael Lewis published 2017
Excerpt: The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis - The final quote from Bannon in the final sentence is priceless!
"...Chris Christie who'd been fired (As head of Diaper Donald's Transition Team)...it wasn't just Christie who'd been fired. It was the entire transition team---though no one had ever told them so directly. As Nancy Cook later reported in Politico, Bannon had visited the transition headquarters a few few days after he'd given Christie the news (he had been fired), and made a show of tossing the work the people there had done for Donald Trump into the garbage can. Trump was going to handle the transition more or less by himself. Not even Steve Bannon thought this was a good idea. "I was fucking nervous as shit," Bannon later told friends. "I go, 'Holy Fuck, this guy [Trump] doesn't know anything.
And he doesn't give a shit.' "
Replies to: “The Fifth Risk” - Michael Lewis published 2017
I’ve recommended that book on here a half-dozen times. Excellent choice.
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Well reasoned people like yourself rely on credible...
Unimpeachable sources of information. You can’t drag the majority of the herd away from their crack addiction for confirmation bias. People love to weave narratives in their head that suit their state of cognizance. This has been well studied. And the underlying “cognizance” in any Democratic society is a result of the structure controlling what people think as opposed to what they do. Why? Because you can’t control what they do. The goal of those running the country is to get the leadership element of the population to drink the Koolade. Most of the time it doesn’t matter, but when a the leanings of the society become too severe and a tails event intervenes, bad things will happen which result in massive change against the current extreme.
The type and degree of change is reasonably predictable as long as you remain outside the confirmation bias echo chamber. It’s all about possibilities and not restrictions. Conservation of the trend in place eventually results in massive imbalance and pain. Only under pain does meaningful change occur. I like to say that, “ no one ever jumped off os a 100 story building because the were making too much money and they were too happy.”
It's 55% off on Amazon.
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So now you believe what Bannon says?
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Simplistic line of thinking but I’ll answer away...
Yes. Bannon is quoted by a highly regarded author with an impeccable track record. Unlike you, I avoid poor sources of information that rely on an audience of confirmation bias addicts :-)
Plus all my predictions were correct. And that is quite satisfying irrespective of the fact that always being correct is a huge burden to bare.
Look, fat, Mr. Corn Pop, shut your mularky. You're a dog-faced pony soldier.
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Ah! I love the sound created when stupidity meets fact based reasoning! Thanks :-)
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LOL, and no one knew Donald better than Bannon.
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