The commander in chief is impulsive, disdains expertise, and gets his intelligence briefings from Fox News. What does this mean for those on the front lines? Mark Bowden interviewed officers up and down the ranks to find out.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/military-officers-trump/598360/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20191007&silverid-ref=NTk2NjM3NzQ0NTAxS0 …
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Are there any outward, objective, and reliable indications of one's impulsiveness, in your view?
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I have crazy friends and objectively most people know who is and who isn’t.
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“Impulsive” is a description of acts, not of thoughts
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It implies knowledge of motivation for action. Things may seem impulsive that may be completely calculated if you understand motivation behind the actions. He may be impulsive, he may be calculated. Are the actions good or not? Seems irrelevant to many.
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Refusing to read an article based on one word in its description is a more valid tell.
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His type of blindness is a tell for a Trump zombie more generally.
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The spin doctor is in.
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I was going to tweet my rebuttal to this article, but I quickly realized I would exceed Twitter's character count by several thousand. The big takeaway is that polished sophistry from the media can even dupe intelligent folks such as
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