{"id":34076,"date":"2018-12-07T21:29:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34076"},"modified":"2018-12-07T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T21:29:52","slug":"tillerson-isnt-dumb-however-potus-might-be-another-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34076","title":{"rendered":"Tillerson isn’t ‘dumb’; however, POTUS might be another matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rex Tillerson shouldn’t have served as secretary of state.<\/p>\n

He didn’t have the foreign policy chops one would expect in such a sensitive diplomatic post. However, he isn’t “dumb as a rock,” as the president has said in a tweet. Nor is he “lazy as hell.”<\/p>\n

Tillerson is an accomplished Texas business mogul. He also was surrounded by a legal team at State that told him that Donald John “Stable Genius” Trump was making demands that violated the law.<\/p>\n

So that’s what Tillerson said this week, incurring the Twitter wrath of the president.<\/p>\n

Sigh<\/em>. I hasten to add that if there is any dumbness<\/em> to be found inside the Trump administration, I believe it can be seen in the man who runs the show. Seriously, man.<\/p>\n

The nonsensical idiocy<\/a> that flows from his Twitter account tells me that the president of the United States — the elected head of state — is deficient in (a) the use of the English language and (b) any sense of propriety for the high office to which he was elected.<\/p>\n

He should refrain from calling anyone “dumb.”<\/p>\n

However, he won’t.<\/p>\n\n

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Rex Tillerson shouldn’t have served as secretary of state. He didn’t have the foreign policy chops one would expect in such a sensitive diplomatic post. However, he isn’t “dumb as a rock,” as the president has said in a tweet. Nor is he “lazy as hell.” Tillerson is an accomplished Texas business mogul. He also … Continue reading Tillerson isn’t ‘dumb’; however, POTUS might be another matter<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,6734,4398,4932],"class_list":["post-34076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-state-department","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34078,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34076\/revisions\/34078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}