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I'm not saying the VA is perfect. I'm also not saying that the recent efforts to improve the VA solved all the problems. What I am saying is one of the identified problems was lack of medical staff. Refusing to hire more medical staff can never fix that problem. I suppose you could work the system like that. The private hospital system would need to be prepared for a huge influx of new patients. I'm not sure we can handle that. The Medicare system would also have to be expanded. I'm not sure you'd really save much money. The VA does some things really well. Between the last post I made and this one I got a call from one of my providers at the VA. I had put in a request through my primary care giver for a replacement part for my prosthetic last week. Today they called to tell me they are going to send me four new parts so if one breaks again I won't have any downtime. They also made me an appointment to come try out a new high tech prosthetic hand next Friday. Sure, I had to wait on the phone five minutes to get my appointment. Regardless of what Trump thinks, VA healthcare isn't just a pile of dying old men littering the halls of a dusty hospital while incompetent doctors and corrupt staff people spit at them. Thanks for that and I agree especially with the highlighted areas. There is certainly an existing system that could supplement existing VA facilities by funding veterans needs at other hospitals/health providers. Most US hospitals run at about 85% capacity.

.66 a watt by the pallet without controllers, wiring, installation, mounts,etc. http://www.wholesalesolar.com/bulk-solar-panels-by-the-pallet

Aug, 2015 "About one in three jobs are vacant at eight of the nation’s regional Veterans Affairs health care systems, leaving veterans waiting weeks to get care. Nationally, one in six positions — nearly 41,000 — for critical intake workers, doctors, nurses and assistants were unfilled as of mid July, in part due to complex hiring procedures and poor recruitment, according to critics of the nation's network of 139 hospitals and clinics that treat veterans." http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/08/20/half-critical-positions-open-some-vas/32003103/ And here is how trump screwed things up some more. Perhaps Mattis would take on both jobs. Defense Secretary and VA. "While most want to get rid of disorganization within the Veterans Affairs Department, some think the only way to fix the problem is to add a little more “Chaos.” A petition is calling for Marine Corps. Gen. James Mattis to serve as the new head of the VA. The general, whose call sign was “Chaos,” retired in May 2013 after a 41-year military career marked with milestones such as serving as the commander of U.S. Central Command and the NATO Supreme Allied Commander." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/22/some-want-chaos-marine-gen-james-mattis-lead-va/

"In North Dakota’s Bakken region, the fracking boom has generated nearly 10,000 wells for unconventional oil and gas production—and along with them, almost 4,000 reported wastewater spills resulting from the activity. A new study shows that these spills have left surface waters in the area carrying radium, selenium, thallium, lead, and other toxic chemicals that can persist for years at unsafe levels (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b06349). Soils and sediments at spill sites also harbored long-lasting radium contamination, the study found." http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/05/Toxic-chemicals-fracking-wastewater-spills.html " The downside is waste — lots of it. Companies produce millions of gallons of salty, chemical-infused wastewater, known as brine, as part of drilling and fracking each well. Drillers are supposed to inject this material thousands of feet underground into disposal wells, but some of it isn't making it that far. According to data obtained by ProPublica, oil companies in North Dakota reported more than 1,000 accidental releases of oil, drilling wastewater or other fluids in 2011, about as many as in the previous two years combined. Many more illicit releases went unreported, state regulators acknowledge, when companies dumped truckloads of toxic fluid along the road or drained waste pits illegally. ... Compounding such problems, state regulators have often been unable — or unwilling — to compel energy companies to clean up their mess, our reporting showed. Under North Dakota regulations, the agencies that oversee drilling and water safety can sanction companies that dump or spill waste, but they seldom do: They have issued fewer than 50 disciplinary actions for all types of drilling violations, including spills, over the past three years. Keller has filed several complaints with the state during this time span after observing trucks dumping wastewater and spotting evidence of a spill in a field near his home. He was rebuffed or ignored every time, he said. " https://www.propublica.org/article/the-other-fracking-north-dakotas-oil-boom-brings-damage-along-with-prosperi "A Louisiana trucking company believed to have illegally dumped radioactive waste in an Eastern Montana landfill for nearly two years has been ordered to stop by state officials. Dual Trucking and Transport, of Houma, La., has been ordered by the Department of Environmental Quality to cease all operations near the Bakken community of Bainville. DEQ officials, who began inspecting more than a year ago, say that as early as July 2012, and without a permit, Dual Trucking and Transport began accumulating mildly radioactive soil and oil filter socks, as well as other Bakken waste at the site. The waste site is a couple hundred yards upwind from a housing development in a sandy-soiled region where the water the table is high enough to produce wetlands. Dual was warned in Sept. 2012 to stop operations until it was licensed by DEQ’s Solid Waste Program. At that time, it also ordered to hire a qualified consultant to develop a cleanup plan and begin removing waste. Dual eventually started the permit process, but then declined state requests for further information, later informing DEQ the company was no longer processing oilfield waste and didn’t need a permit. However, earlier this month, DEQ inspected the site again and found Dual still managing solid waste without a permit. Contacted by the Gazette, Dual did not respond to questions about the closure. The DEQ action comes amid rising reports of illegally disposed Bakken oilfield waste, namely filter socks, used to trap naturally occurring radioactive silt driven above ground during hydraulic fracturing. Garbage bags full of the filters have been discovered abandoned in a shuttered North Dakota gas station and on a flatbed trailer near a landfill in that state." http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/company-suspected-of-dumping-radioactive-waste-in-montana-ordered-to/article_e63b89ac-cdc2-11e3-b909-0019bb2963f4.html Unfortunately the entire attitude of oil field workers and the smaller companies. Is cut corners, dump, do it at night in places where nobody is around and shut up. Big oil companies have records of disposal of filter socks, etc. The small companies contract with the cheapest subcontractor and the second its off the well site, its problem over. When the owner of a small drilling company is faced with layoffs and repossession of homes. Its get it done regardless of costs and if there not caught its not like there isn't a 1000 square miles of land to dilute any consequences of pollution. Its just a dirty little secret of the industry. "America’s dirtiest secret How billions of barrels of toxic oil and gas waste are falling through regulatory cracks By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer - March 13, 2014 The oil and gas industry has a dirty little secret, make that a dirty big secret … no, make that one of the biggest, dirtiest secrets in U.S. history. What is no secret these days is that the potential for negative environmental and health impacts as a result of oil and gas exploration and production activity is very real. Concern over fracking, with its toxic cocktail composed of some combination of between 300 and 750 chemicals, 70 percent of which are known to be harmful to humans because they are carcinogenic or endocrine disruptors, etc., gets most of our collective attention these days. But this industry practice is not the only or largest contamination problem our nation faces as the result of oil and gas development. In fact, the oil and gas industry’s other contamination problems are so large, they have literally been deemed impossible to prevent or even clean up by both industry and government. As a result, an unimaginable tonnage of contamination is being placed into our environment every year thanks to the near total lack of regulations over oil and gas exploration and production wastes. The story behind this unregulated onslaught of contamination is so bizarre as to seem impossible, but it isn’t. We often hear of the “Halliburton loophole,” a name used to describe a regulatory exemption that was created for the industry in 2005 to relieve fracking fluid of the burden of the Safe Drinking Water Act. But the Halliburton loophole is just one small exemption to federal regulations for the oil and gas industry. There are many others. The mother of all oil and gas waste exemptions had its beginnings in 1978 when the EPA proposed reduced requirements for a couple of types of large-volume wastes associated with the oil and gas industry, namely produced water and drilling muds. Today, the federal government and the oil and gas industry seem to have created a revisionist history of this early exemption process that gutted the requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 — an act created specifically to guarantee that there was cradle-to-grave oversight and enforcement for all hazardous wastes under RCRA’s Subtitle C. The modern version of the Subtitle C exemption fictitiously purports that the reason for reducing requirements for oil and gas waste was because these large-volume wastes were deemed to be “lower in toxicity” and therefore not as much of a threat to human health and the environment as other wastes being regulated under Subtitle C. You can find such statements throughout the websites and literature of local, state and federal government regulators of toxic waste and in industry marketing materials. But it is simply not true, not by any stretch of the imagination. Go back and research the records of the exemption process and you will find a far different rationale for the largest exemption of toxic wastes in U.S. history. In the late 1970s, the EPA had decided to study the idea of removing large volume oil and gas exploration and production wastes from RCRA’s Subtitle C. The study was barely off the ground when Ronald Reagan took office was elected in 1980 and government once again started tinkering with RCRA. According to a 2002 EPA report on the RCRA oil and gas exemption, “The oil and gas exemption was expanded in the 1980 legislative amendments to RCRA to include “drilling fluids, produced water, and other wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil or natural gas. . . .” By the time they had finished defining “other wastes,” every single ounce of toxic waste generated by the process of exploring for and/or producing oil and gas had been removed from RCRA’s hazardous waste oversight. http://www.boulderweekly.com/news/americarsquos-dirtiest-secret/ "State Senate Minority Leader Mac Schneider, D-Grand Forks, said Democrats are working on legislation that would either make clear that the oil well reclamation fund could be used for cleaning up oil waste or would establish another fund to “rapidly address” future incidents. The proposal also will attempt to create a “meaningful” way to track oil field waste, he said. “The fact that we have been humming and hawing on who is supposed to pay for this cleanup demonstrates a total failure,” Schneider said. “It’s not acceptable to just let this radioactive waste sit there and fester. That’s not something a responsible state government does.” http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/environment-and-safety/north-dakota-pay-cleanup-illegal-radioactive-oil-waste-135824/ What these stories don't discuss is that in N. Dakota all the way to Texas. Is that cash, jobs and oil are more important than the environment. Everybody excepting the major oil companies accept it including local state regulators that are always too busy to forward complaints to prosecutors. To order investigations. Then its the farmers, ranchers and landowners that may receive royalties. Or may not. That are left holding the bag.

Yep be it the NPS or CIA, if somebody thinks orders will turn real government business, national interests and the scientific basis of facts. Into political trumpisms. They will find leaks, subterfuge and inaction. Also called patriotism. Trump’s Anti-Science Campaign, by New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trumps-anti-science-campaign Trump and the anti-science movement is just starting: http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/24/14372940/trump-gag-order-epa-environmental-protection-agency-health-agriculture

I was thinking along those same lines. A robot to get the oil https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-24/robots-are-taking-over-oil-rigs-as-roughnecks-become-expendable another to fly the plane,another to fix the plane, another to pack the rig, and perhaps one to serve supper!

I was thinking a pool or "over/under" on how long it takes the new president to be impeached. Well he has been sued already since becoming president. Given midterms that show a new awakening of voters to trumpism. " Trumpism A gospel politicians preach to instill fear in locals: illegals are bringing crime and robbing their jobs, and radicals among Muslim refugees are terrorizing the "infidels." Although Trumpism arguably promotes extreme nationalism, anti-globalization, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, however, many politicians in the developed world secretly endorse this divisive doctrine to guard against crime and terrorism." That trump will likely refuse to forgive, forget and move on from any republicans in the house or senate that vote against him. I would say his welcome would be worn out in two and a half years. With an impeachment for ethics violations of trump business and conflicts of interests, thereafter.

Economic theories are just that. Theories. The best answers come from countries or states that try it out. Its like safe needle injection sites. When i first heard of it I thought it was the stupidest idea since trickle down economics. But the savings in incarceration costs, health costs from the reduction in spread of disease. Makes it a no brainer. I don't think is an idea that should be tried first. But after a five year trial, EU countries should have some good data to study. You mean try it out like the USSR? I doubt the USSR ever had a successful program excepting space. In order to judge success the economics would have to be close in all the parameters between two states. While EU countries have more government participation than the US. They would be better than nothing. Somehow the idea that hard core republicans could get their heads around it. Would be like democrats agreeing to the arming of every citizen, without restriction.

A subsidy that helps the end user, i.e. the American consumer is nothing less than what every other segment of the economy gets. It like saying federal funding of airports subsidizes airlines and air travelers. Sure it does but its merely part of the whole picture of government support for commerce. IMO there is a subsidy of big oil in the guarantees of oil security, oil supplies by the US military support of Gulf states. i.e. propping up the gulf emirates and the Saudi governments. Green energy and independent oil supply would, or could lead the US away from such support and expense. trumps isolationist ideologies would tend to lead to this. But i personally think big oil and the military-industrial complex is too tied to this policy. The further you dig the more subsidies anyone can come up with. Its sort of like trumps hair. You know there must be a human under it. Its just that nobody has ever looked there before. Or if they've looked, never found a soul which would be identified with a human.

Could you possibly link to where he said that so that we can see it in context? It looks like a description of the possible worse case scenario outcome of climate change. Not like the outcome of one project. It is just as wrong to use his words this way as it would be wrong for him to claim that. No one advances their argument in any significant way when they engage in extreme hyperbole. Agree. you hurt yourself when extreme hyperbole borders on lying. Sort of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trumpesque

"When they said they'd leave the country if Trump became US President, they weren't kidding." http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170123-meet-the-people-leaving-trumps-america "According to the National Foundation for American Policy, more than half of all US technology startups are founded by immigrants. So without an easy path toward citizenship, or in the face of a clamping down on foreign work visas, Silicon Valley faces to lose more than just its lobbying goals in Washington. It could begin to see its influence in all sectors of modern industry — from entertainment to transportation to finance — wane as foreign workers and startup founders are denied entry and begin establishing technology centers outside the US. This could have a number of lasting ripple effects as large tech companies start feeling disadvantaged. “A company like Oracle or some of the enterprise software companies, you could see them potentially losing global market share because of this,” Atkinson says. To counter, those companies could look to Canada. “Places like Vancouver, Toronto, even Montreal could be an option for American tech companies,” he adds. Canada could also use this opportunity to court foreign startup founders away from places like Palo Alto. " http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/11/13594172/donald-trump-immigration-silicon-valley-innovation-h1b-visas

Well i agree with trump on these ideas. Even infinite monkey theorem, i.e. trump theory. Will get things right occasionally.

Economic theories are just that. Theories. The best answers come from countries or states that try it out. Its like safe needle injection sites. When i first heard of it I thought it was the stupidest idea since trickle down economics. But the savings in incarceration costs, health costs from the reduction in spread of disease. Makes it a no brainer. I don't think is an idea that should be tried first. But after a five year trial, EU countries should have some good data to study.

http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Charity Current thoughts: http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/pope-francis-capitalism-inequality/ and the new antichrist's thoughts on compassion, giving, etc. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/18/donald-trump-pope-francis-christian-wall-mexico-border

Who is designing the robots? Who is maintaining the robots? If your answer is, "other robots" then we're not talking about robots anymore. We're talking about a new, intelligent form of life. At that point, which will not happen in the next 20 years, sorry, the whole world paradigm has changed. In the next 20 years I think we'll see some self driving cars/trucks that will still require a human driver to monitor and react to unpredictable events. We won't be ale to transition to a driverless system because the infrastructure to allow machine vision to work doesn't exist in many parts of the world, including the rural US. We'll see more robotic assembly of products, potentially even clothing (which will really shake the world economy). We'll see robotic assistants in the medical field, but only very simple things like preparing surgical trays and cleaning instruments. Doctors and nurses aren't going anywhere. Whenever I see people predicting a huge change in "the next 20 years" I almost always think they are full of it. Radical change isn't predictable, and people never take into account human momentum or infrastructure requirements. I agree that there seems to be change in the winds with regards to self driving, robots. Finally!! But in the entire history of mankind from the time of the first Luddites. New classes of jobs and opportunity has arisen. It takes education and retraining. Its like the issue of trump baseball caps, or field work in the California vegetable farms. US workers just won't do those jobs at the wages that are competitive. Who wants to run a sewing machine making baseball caps for .40-.50 cents a cap. Pick fruit on a 80-90 degree day for; " Still, the increased pay, improved working conditions and overtime benefits have failed to attract many American workers. "Of the 300 workers I have in the field, two are Americans," said Joe Del Bosque, a farm owner in Firebaugh, California. One big reason: The work can be very labor intensive, said Nassif. Picking strawberries, tomatoes or melons requires bending down or kneeling all day. Picking tree fruits, like oranges and peaches, means carrying 10- to 20-pound bushels while balancing on ladders in all sorts of weather conditions. " http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/29/news/economy/american-farm-workers/

I agree but a major factor in the failure of the US middle class not growing is that the wealth of the upper class is expanding so much. Income disparity has been growing for some time. Two other factors that have not been mentioned much in this consideration is the costs of homelessness. I.e. drug addictions, crime, incarceration costs. All arising from the absence of a US integrated social safety net like a universal Basic income. The above is a huge number of separate issues and programs. But its useful to compare European programs to US for comparison.

http://in.reuters.com/article/usa-obamacare-pharmaceuticals-idINKBN157250 This is one reason why the US health care is so expensive. and the result: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/518a3cfee4b0a77d03a62c98/t/534fc9ebe4b05a88e5fbab70/1397737963288/2013+iFHP+FINAL+4+14+14.pdf Lawyers add another 2.4% https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/medical-liability-costs-us/ Then add another 1/2 billion, yearly, for preventable drug and substance abuse: http://www.wefaceittogether.org/it-s-a-disease/costs-of-addiction

Mmmm... There is at least one other explanation floating around. I wasn't there. I haven't seen video. However, the story is that Trump brought a staff of yes men with him to chuckle and cheer at appropriate points so regardless if the CIA remained stoic, the microphones would still hear his intentions. Authorities are also pushing back against the perception that the CIA workforce was cheering for the president. They say the first three rows in front of the president were largely made up of supporters of Mr. Trump’s campaign. Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-say-theres-a-sense-of-unease-in-intel-community-after-trump-cia-visit/ "CBS News confirmed reports that President Donald Trump brought a studio audience to his visit with the CIA on Saturday. The news agency reports that an official said the visit left a wake of "unease," “made relations with the intelligence community worse," and was “uncomfortable.” " http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-say-theres-a-sense-of-unease-in-intel-community-after-trump-cia-visit/ "NEW YORK (AP) — White House press secretary Sean Spicer told a roomful of reporters that "our intention is never to lie to you," although sometimes the Trump administration may "disagree with the facts." Spicer's first full press briefing was closely watched Monday following a weekend statement about President Donald Trump's inauguration audience that included incorrect assertions. After White House counselor Kellyanne Conway received wide social media attention for her explanation that Spicer had presented "alternative facts," Monday's briefing was televised live on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and, for a time, even ABC." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4149732/White-House-press-secretary-Our-intention-never-lie.html So thats how trump is going to create jobs. Pay busloads of Americans to follow him and his lackeys around cheering and clapping. A teleprompter that faces in both directions so one party knows when to lie and the other when its their turn to clap.

Are we talking in the world, or USA? Never happen in US. Ontario Canada: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-report-touting-basic-income-likely-to-target-middle-aged-women-disabled-adults-for-most-help Finland: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-to-consider-introducing-universal-basic-income-in-2017-a6963321.html

Then again today there was a trump hack explaining to the wide eyed journalists on CNN, that the EPA was responsible for the lead contamination of drinking water in Flint Mich. If its up to them there will be free lead for all Americans. Thats why the EPA needs to be disbanded according to this buffoon.

Very true - and even more so for newer technologies, like solar, wind and grid-scale storage. and - cut wages by 30% in the oil industry. - cut service costs by 30% - cut rig lease rates. Devastated balance sheets of the smaller oil companies. and "A report published earlier this month by Haynes and Boone found that ninety gas and oil producers in the United States (US) and Canada have filed for bankruptcy from 3 January, 2015 to 1 August, 2016. Approximately US$66.5 billion in aggregate debt has been declared in dozens of bankruptcy cases including Chapter 7, Chapter 11 and Chapter 15, based on the analysis from the international corporate law firm. Texas leads the number of bankruptcy filings with 44 during the time period measured by Haynes and Boone, and also has the largest number of debt declared in courts with around US$29.5 billion." http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/20-Months-90-Bankruptcies-In-North-American-Oil-Gas.html

here you go - since Trump is pretty much Monte Burns Careful there we all know that trump likes to carry a grudge. Now the NPS has been caught poking fun at trump and telling the truth about global warming. http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/20/14341882/national-park-service-twitter-account-anti-trump-messages-inauguration

Its already had an effect. There are schizophrenics with Tourette's who have more control over what comes out of their mouths than donald trump. You misunderstand; The article is about the effect on people hearing the lies, not the ones spreading the lies. IMO since Bill Clinton it has become more and more important to start by vetting the source of information. I think that many people default to a easier way of cognitive functioning when it concerns trump. Thats why otherwise reasonable people say that they like trump because he "tells the truth". Interviews with trump supports will have this response at least 20% of the time. I read this article a while ago and it provided some help in understanding trump. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/ With the exception of: "Nixon was widely recognized to be cunning, callous, cynical, and Machiavellian, even by the standards of American politicians. Empathy was not his strong suit. This sounds a lot like Donald Trump, too—except you have to add the ebullient extroversion, the relentless showmanship, and the larger-than-life celebrity. Nixon could never fill a room the way Trump can.... Research shows that people low in agreeableness are typically viewed as untrustworthy. Dishonesty and deceit brought down Nixon and damaged the institution of the presidency. It is generally believed today that all politicians lie, or at least dissemble, but Trump appears extreme in this regard... For psychologists, it is almost impossible to talk about Donald Trump without using the word narcissism. Asked to sum up Trump’s personality for an article in Vanity Fair, Howard Gardner, a psychologist at Harvard, responded, “Remarkably narcissistic.”.. Psychological research demonstrates that many narcissists come across as charming, witty, and charismatic upon initial acquaintance. They can attain high levels of popularity and esteem in the short term. As long as they prove to be successful and brilliant—like Steve Jobs—they may be able to weather criticism and retain their exalted status. But more often than not, narcissists wear out their welcome." And in psychology today: "Though some lies produce interpersonal friction, others may actually serve as a kind of harmless social lubricant. "They make it easier for people to get along," says DePaulo, noting that in the diary study one in every four of the participants' lies were told solely for the benefit of another person... Certain cultures may place special importance on these "kind" lies. A survey of residents at 31 senior citizen centers in Los Angeles recently revealed that only about half of elderly Korean Americans believe that patients diagnosed with life-threatening metastatic cancer should be told the truth about their condition. In contrast, nearly 90 percent of Americans of European or African descent felt that the terminally ill should be confronted with the truth.... Who Lies? Saxe believes that anyone under enough pressure, or given enough incentive, will lie. But in a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, DePaulo and Deborah A. Kashy, Ph.D., of Texas A&M University, report that frequent liars tend to be manipulative and Machiavellian, not to mention overly concerned with the impression they make on others. Still, DePaulo warns that liars "don't always fit the stereotype of caring only about themselves. Further research reveals that extroverted, sociable people are slightly more likely to lie, and that some personality and physical traits—notably self-confidence and physical attractiveness—have been linked to an individual's skill at lying when under pressure." https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199705/the-truth-about-lying That may be a whole lot to digest. But for me, when trump speaks or I hear one of his puppets speak. I just tune them out and am just filled with absolute disgust. Kellyanne Conway and his other team of apologists...er lairs . I just tune them out. An unfortunate effect of American politics and the divisive nature of the major parties is the lack of straight talk. Hence the need for lie/spin filter between the ears. Which brings me back to the first statement about an easier way to understand trump. The cognitive filter of his lies. The quote from trump supporters that they support him because "He can't make it any worse". Is again the default easy way out to mull the mind through the "trumpisms" that come out of his mouth. The "It takes work: We must actively choose to accept or reject each statement we hear. In certain circumstances, that verification simply fails to take place. As Gilbert writes, human minds, “when faced with shortages of time, energy, or conclusive evidence, may fail to unaccept the ideas that they involuntarily accept during comprehension.” Above quote from your story.

Its already had an effect. There are schizophrenics with Tourette's who have more control over what comes out of their mouths than donald trump.

Mmmm... There is at least one other explanation floating around. I wasn't there. I haven't seen video. However, the story is that Trump brought a staff of yes men with him to chuckle and cheer at appropriate points so regardless if the CIA remained stoic, the microphones would still hear his intentions. He did it at his campaign announcement, he did it at his only press conference as Pres elect... Of course he did it at his first appearance as President. This is the man who continued to hold rallies after the election because he gets off on the applause. He knows no other way. Upon reflection, most CIA are pretty smart people and they could have just been laughing at him. IMO as intelligence-intellect increases trump becomes funnier and funnier. It has to because nothing he says makes sense.