Comments on: The Trump administration put someone with Lab experience in charge of the pandemic response… https://habitablezone.com/2020/04/23/the-trump-administration-put-someone-with-lab-experience-in-charge-of-the-pandemic-response/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hank https://habitablezone.com/2020/04/23/the-trump-administration-put-someone-with-lab-experience-in-charge-of-the-pandemic-response/#comment-44410 hank Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:49:51 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=81174#comment-44410 Haven't you heard? Republicans believe technical experience is for dull nerds and tech geeks, but if you can run any business, you're obviously qualified to manage all businesses. Its what makes business executives superior to the rest of us plods. They don't need to know anything, they just need to know how to boss around the "human resources" that do. You see them in the movies, they yell into telephones things like; "I don't care how you do it, just do it!" And somehow, it gets done. America finally got what it really needed in a President, a real businessman. A man who could make things happen, not one who is all confused by trying to figure out how to do it. You went to college, RL. Don't you remember the business majors? Haven’t you heard? Republicans believe technical experience is for dull nerds and tech geeks, but if you can run any business, you’re obviously qualified to manage all businesses.

Its what makes business executives superior to the rest of us plods. They don’t need to know anything, they just need to know how to boss around the “human resources” that do. You see them in the movies, they yell into telephones things like; “I don’t care how you do it, just do it!” And somehow, it gets done. America finally got what it really needed in a President, a real businessman. A man who could make things happen, not one who is all confused by trying to figure out how to do it.

You went to college, RL. Don’t you remember the business majors?

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