OT: 'the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect'

[Alan Baker]

'He is thus the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the
phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to
understand his own incompetence. Trump thought he’d be celebrated for
firing James Comey. He thought his press coverage would grow wildly
positive once he won the nomination. He is perpetually surprised because
reality does not comport with his fantasies.'

<https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html>

A great piece.

:-)

[Carbon]

It would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous...

"Trump’s statements don’t necessarily come from anywhere, lead anywhere or
have a permanent reality beyond his wish to be liked at any given instant.

We've got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the
entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are
often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar.

“We badly want to understand Trump, to grasp him,” David Roberts writes in
Vox. “It might give us some sense of control, or at least an ability to
predict what he will do next. But what if there’s nothing to understand?
What if there is no there there?”

And out of that void comes a carelessness that quite possibly betrayed an
intelligence source, and endangered a country.

[Alan Baker]

'Some U.S. officials have told Reuters they have been concerned about
disclosing highly classified intelligence to Trump.

One official, who requested anonymity to discuss dealing with the
president, said last month: “He has no filter; it’s in one ear and out
the mouth.”'

<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKCN18B2MX?il=0>