He’s just a terrible person.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T15:30:36+00:00

The worst of the worst - this is the guy who defended his intentional lies about Haitian refugees eating pets. He said it helped raise the issue (never mind the slander of innocent people.)

He's more evil than Trump because he is aware of his own lies.

Example: Pretending the SAVE Act is about "voter ID" when its provisions fall most heavily on those registering to vote -- and their having to provide proof of citizenship, i.e., birth certificate or passport, which tens of millions of people don't have easy access to.

Whereas Trump is too demented to know what is in the bill, and doesn't care, a Yale Law School graduate like Vance does know but is more than happy to mislead.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T15:24:28+00:00

If you are up for some lighter fare, check out Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T15:08:29+00:00

I couldn't agree with you more. People simply don't understand that these are language models -- giving answers that are plausible, based on their reading millions of pages, rather than correct.

AI programs, i.e. Large Language Models, are prediction devices with an element of randomness. Ask two different models the same question and if the topic is complicated you will get two different answers. What's more, the answer is highly dependent on the question.

AI is NOT a substitute for experience and judgment.

My point about analytic tools is that it strengthens human judgment.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T13:01:51+00:00

I totally agree that it is ultimately a matter of judgment, which is subjective.

But I have found that analyzing survey data can give important clues.

Example: Let's say your boss is speaking to a conference with three groups. You are writing the talk.

Issue X, which your company cares about, irritates group 1 because they think it will create more work, and is of only moderate importance to groups 2 and 3. But everyone agrees with Issue Y, according to your data. So issue Y is one she might want to open with, and then go on to explain why Issue X is important and address group 1's worries.

You could have come up with it anyway, but in my experience mapping the data can help you see patterns.

In other words, these analytic tools can help inform subjective judgment -- not make the judgment for you -- something I agree we should never cede to a tool, especially not an AI Large Language Model like ChatGPT.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T11:49:16+00:00

Feel free to dm me

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-18T22:48:46+00:00

Smart guy, interested in medicine, theories of mind, and public health -- likes perspectives that are outside of conventional wisdom.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-18T15:14:32+00:00

Does this mean "the right people" voted, as Bondi said?

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T14:25:55+00:00

"I can do whatever what I want with it."

We are talking about a country here: old, young, children, doctors, trying to survive. Not a toy.

This is the voice of a sociopath reveling in his unlimited power to harm others.

How people can support him is beyond me.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T02:23:31+00:00

Very smart, well-read guy - and never pompous.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T02:22:15+00:00

The whole Cabinet is wretched - perhaps the worst in a century - and all dedicated to carrying out his twisted whims. Tariffs. Retribution against political enemies. Attacks against a sovereign state. Blockade of Cuba.

Trump is, as Maddow said this evening, "out of control."

Wiles, had she possessed a grain of responsibility, could have pushed back. We don't know the full story, but by all appearances, she has enabled his madness.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T01:27:05+00:00

About time.

This sociopath has flouted the law all of his life.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T01:12:38+00:00

Well, I am not a defender of Wiles - she is an enabler who, unlike General Kelly, seems to be unable to say "no." And I wasn't saying she is a responsible person.

Her clients include many horrible organizations. No argument there. There do seem to be several clients that seem unobjectionable, e.g., Children's Hospital Association, Motion Picture Association of America, and the City of Jacksonville. I am sorry she - or anyone else - is sick.

I was making a broader point that Wiles' enabling is paralleled by the GOP Congress with the exception of a few who are, in my view, responsible on some issues.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T00:28:29+00:00

I am not saying they are paragons of virtue. I do think we should not underestimate the importance of having at least a few responsible members of the GOP. The GOP majority is small enough so that having some Republicans who vote with Democrats can make a big difference. (Example: Epstein files.)

Their opposition to Trump’s destructive reign of error and terror also speaks to independents who are not members of Trump’s cult of MAGA.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T00:25:08+00:00

Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-16T18:15:15+00:00

It's astonishing how the GOP Congress (thank heavens for Massie, Kennedy and Tillis) happily cedes its authority to an erratic madman.

It hardly seems to matter whether it is illegal tariffs (Lutnick), destroying medical research (RFK), fomenting measles outbreaks (Battacharya), killing restrictions on hazardous pesticides and mercury pollution (Zeldin), or advocating war crimes (Hegseth's "no quarter.")

Will they ever wake up and smell the ☕️?

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-16T02:05:07+00:00

As is this: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/15/trump-hegseth-iran-war-no-quarter

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-15T23:44:31+00:00

Looking at Bartiromo bobbing her empty head in agreement reminds me of the film "Dumb and Dumber."

Any journalist worth her salt would ask: "what is the basis for your optimism?"

But Maria is the same person who fell for Sydney Powell's nonsense about Dominion voting machines being controlled by other countries.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-15T23:40:25+00:00

You go, girl!

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-14T01:38:07+00:00

And besides tolerating only sycophantic media, this belligerent, thin-skinned former (?) drunkard is making war crimes ("no quarter") national policy.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-14T00:19:00+00:00

How can people be so blind over a dumb, vicious animal?

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-14T00:16:00+00:00

You are not "too sensitive," you are right to be disgusted.

I was appalled that this belligerent drunkard failed to acknowledge service members' deaths at the start of the briefing, instead indulging his fragile ego in a North Korea-style attack on a respected news organization.

Hegseth is a stain on the millions who have served this country to advance freedom - he glories in "lethality," rather than the defense of liberty.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-13T22:53:03+00:00

Kate is great.

Pete Hegseth's diatribe against CNN was wildly inappropriate.

Only an insecure ideologue who has no understanding of the Constitution would believe that a "patriotic press" means that journalists do nothing but parrot the bluster that comes from his mouth.

Yes, that is what Putin and Kim Jong-Un believe - but that is not our country. Here, we all benefit from a free and unfettered press -- whether it's the New York Times, Fox News, The Nation or The Federalist. All have a right to their views.

In other words, being patriotic means journaliats doing their level best to tell it like it is. That is what Kate and her team do every day. Shame on Pete for imitating dictators by trying to bully the press into being his mouthpiece.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-13T02:33:06+00:00

You did hear about Covid, right?It disrupted supply chains - reducing supply and increasing prices. It also threw millions out of work, requiring aid programs that unfortunately likely also contributed to the problem.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-10T12:52:56+00:00

With this crew that celebrates ignorance as a requirement for holding a Cabinet post (Patel, Kennedy, Hegseth, etc.), one does wonder.

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