Nice takedown. This calls into serious question how much (or how little) Peter Navarro knows about economics. Seriously. After the Supreme Court quashed Trump's claims to executive privilege, this turkey is still trying to be more royal than the king. Navarro tied himself to an anchor and still pretends it's going to float him to safety. He's another shirt-sleeved version of Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, all yap, and all crap.
Feb 12, 2022·edited Feb 12, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Ditto-- It's a disgrace to that university to have this POS on the faculty, but I imagine he has tenure so they can't fire him unless he's convicted of a felony. I wonder what his faculty colleagues think of him. He's in his 70's-- a little long in the tooth to still be an active professor. And WTF is he teaching those students???
The university should DEFINITELY revoke his emeritus status. Not much else the school can do, other than maybe issue a statement of deep regret that they ever hired this SOB in the first place!
All that hand movement deflects attention from whatever he is saying! All I know in acting class we had to do a scene study sitting on our hands. To avoid acting with your hands. Obfuscation to the max with his hands.
Of all Trump's unpleasant appointees and advisors, even Bannon, Navarro was the absolute worst. Arrogant, obnoxious, loud and wrong. I'm shocked he is a professor anywhere, much less where he is.
The attutude is "We can cheat, but you must follow the collateral rules." Like having the House vote for president after the electors are decertified. But why would the Democrats do that? Pelosi simply refuses to hold that vote. Biden is named Speaker of the House (the Speaker doesn't have to be a member). On January 20, there's no president, so by law, the Speaker becomes president.
Also, Navrarro seems unable to count, which is a bad sign for an economist. He keeps bragging about they had 100 House members lined up for the scheme. But you need more than 200 for a majority.
Lucian, your account is even better than the original, and the original was pretty good. Not to mention -- somehow I missed Navarro's email to the NYT. "Marc Short is a Koch Network dog"? Sometimes I wish dueling hadn't gone out of fashion . . .
You nailed it. The Trumpers are realizing they are in deep trouble. When the Jan 6th Committee starts public hearings the pathetic truth will shine brightly.
If you think he got rattled when a TV lawyer was questioning him just wait until he is under oath and the light of actual legal scrutiny. The fact Navarro served Trump for all four years is a sure sign the man is either a fool or suffers from world class masochism.
But, to me he is the classic case of a combination of the Peter Principle and Smartest Guy in the Room Syndrome. His "theories" of economics and trade have been debunked by 99% of the world's leading economists (leading me as one with a degree in Economics to wonder why only 99%). But it is his cocksure "I am the guy you need to interview" arrogance which is always on display and makes Peter Navarro a walking talking caricature. Surely, a classic example of the Trump "only the best people" standard.
He is so damned dumb he keeps allowing Melber to make the fool of him repeatedly. In his initial interview it was, I am sure, simply to pimp his book. But to come back for the follow up and allow Melber to point out how he , essentially, has already confessed to his role in the crime is hubris on an industrial scale. I am also of the opinion he is do damned full of himself when he is called before the Committee under oath he will not be able to stick to the 5th. Before it is over he will be confessing to being the mastermind who hatched the whole plot and sold Trump on doing it.
That was what I was wondering. Same with Alex Jones who pled the Fifth over and over, then went back to his studio and said all the questions he'd been asked and gave the answers to them. And they want us to think they're smart.
Guys like Navarro are so eager to show everyone who brilliant they are, they can't control their urges to tell you even when it's gonig to throw them in jail.
Yes! I love "hubris on an industrial scale." Having grown up with a professor father, I can relate to all that hubris - the faculty lounge was reeking with it. My dad played "tricks" on his overblown colleagues, providing them with treats of dog biscuits and sending them fake messages from fake people, which caused them all manner of steam coming out of ears. And the description of the "garb" is spot on. In my dad's day, it was hideous - usually khaki pants, some sort of non-descript ugly starched shirt and a mismatched buttoned sweater vest. Gag material. Usually shades of blue, gray and brown. And the talking with hands shtick - yes! The only thing he failed to do (or maybe I missed it) was the classic palms together under chin, as in "I'm so thoughtful and smart."
But one question - does this guy have an attorney? Why on earth does he keep coming back to get roasted on live TV? If he has one, that poor fellow (I'm sure it's a "fellow") must be on the verge of having a heart attack by now.
I do like your da. I have a thing about people llke Navarro who are so impressed with labels to attach to themselves to make them appear to be serious and competent. They try too hard..
Feb 12, 2022·edited Feb 12, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
My comment disappeared? Didn't go thru? I made a comment earlier about how this doofus thinks he's part of the New Frontier except that he isn't. Far from it.
Anyway, amazing what these seditionists think they can get away with (much like the Canadian trucker idiots) because as long as there is no enforcement of penalties -- they are. And they're starting to not even be alarmed or embarrassed by their actions catching up to them. The tRump disease of "Do What Thou Wilt" spreads.
Feb 12, 2022·edited Feb 12, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Excellent in every way. I especially enjoyed the unprecedented snarking of Navarro's sartorial and gesticulating images. Sartorial snarking is most often focused on women.
these are some desperately sick, dangerous people. wasn't Navarro the one who had a sort of public nervous breakdown, talking about "the shadows on my ceiling," etc.? I'm pretty sure it was. I actually hadn't realized that he was actually a tenured professor and if it's Economics he taught, well....I know a few people who who have doctorates in the field and they've always maintained that it's really a non-field, since most of it is speculative. Navarro's "job" in TFF's administration was, I believe, to be an "economic advisor," but all I ever heard f him doing was THIS sort of thing. he also (and again, this is memory) acted as the anti-Fauci during the period of those insane Covid "briefings." so basically, he was HIRED to be a sort of free-lance hatchet man. or that's certainly how it LOOKS. and yes, the shirtsleeves thing immediately made me think of Jim Jordan, whose faces cries out to be punched and who has a skeleton or two in HIS closet. as I keep saying....if you wrote this in a novel, the editor would ask you to "dial it back."
Nice takedown. This calls into serious question how much (or how little) Peter Navarro knows about economics. Seriously. After the Supreme Court quashed Trump's claims to executive privilege, this turkey is still trying to be more royal than the king. Navarro tied himself to an anchor and still pretends it's going to float him to safety. He's another shirt-sleeved version of Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, all yap, and all crap.
Ooooh, this is good, Arthur, fun to read.
2 morons...
This sounds very much like sedition and treason. Just sayin’
It's so embarrassing when Italian Americans like Navarro (and Alito) sound like they have more in common with Mussolini than with Garibaldi.
I can’t believe this guy is allowed to teach anywhere.
Ditto-- It's a disgrace to that university to have this POS on the faculty, but I imagine he has tenure so they can't fire him unless he's convicted of a felony. I wonder what his faculty colleagues think of him. He's in his 70's-- a little long in the tooth to still be an active professor. And WTF is he teaching those students???
And might I ask, is he in full control of what's left of his brain?
Treason?
Fortunately, but, he is probably the Hitler Youth faculty advisor.
OK-- thanks. Lucian's description made it sound like he was still endangering young minds in university classrooms.
The university should DEFINITELY revoke his emeritus status. Not much else the school can do, other than maybe issue a statement of deep regret that they ever hired this SOB in the first place!
My jaw dropped and it's not a flunky school.
Trump U.?
They let this fool into the White House!
Among others...
All that hand movement deflects attention from whatever he is saying! All I know in acting class we had to do a scene study sitting on our hands. To avoid acting with your hands. Obfuscation to the max with his hands.
Of all Trump's unpleasant appointees and advisors, even Bannon, Navarro was the absolute worst. Arrogant, obnoxious, loud and wrong. I'm shocked he is a professor anywhere, much less where he is.
He went to Jared, who found this fool on the internet. Seriously.
Jared reminds me of a famous insult.
An empty car pulled up to the curb, Jared got out.
Wow! Slenderman strikes again in his stealthy slender plastic way.
Ari roasted him. This was a true Melber "coup" on live TV. Hubris is indeed a deadly disease.
Yes, roasted him for sure. But the only people watching that were people who agree with Melber, and not the Navarro fans.
The attutude is "We can cheat, but you must follow the collateral rules." Like having the House vote for president after the electors are decertified. But why would the Democrats do that? Pelosi simply refuses to hold that vote. Biden is named Speaker of the House (the Speaker doesn't have to be a member). On January 20, there's no president, so by law, the Speaker becomes president.
Also, Navrarro seems unable to count, which is a bad sign for an economist. He keeps bragging about they had 100 House members lined up for the scheme. But you need more than 200 for a majority.
Lucian, your account is even better than the original, and the original was pretty good. Not to mention -- somehow I missed Navarro's email to the NYT. "Marc Short is a Koch Network dog"? Sometimes I wish dueling hadn't gone out of fashion . . .
Navarro has Gym Jordan disease. Sufferers think that never wearing a suit jacket makes you appear busy.
I suggested starting a Go Fund Me to get Jordan a suit jacket, throw Navarro in on that deal.
I saw both shows, Melber had to avoid bursting out laughing more than once.
The Former handlers like Navarro, Bannon and Epshteyn are truly hilarious in their false intensity.
They conned Former into buying their BS. They are as guilty of treason as their paymaster.
Jordan needs shower slippers; the jacket would be a waste.
Add a straight jacket.
You nailed it. The Trumpers are realizing they are in deep trouble. When the Jan 6th Committee starts public hearings the pathetic truth will shine brightly.
If you think he got rattled when a TV lawyer was questioning him just wait until he is under oath and the light of actual legal scrutiny. The fact Navarro served Trump for all four years is a sure sign the man is either a fool or suffers from world class masochism.
But, to me he is the classic case of a combination of the Peter Principle and Smartest Guy in the Room Syndrome. His "theories" of economics and trade have been debunked by 99% of the world's leading economists (leading me as one with a degree in Economics to wonder why only 99%). But it is his cocksure "I am the guy you need to interview" arrogance which is always on display and makes Peter Navarro a walking talking caricature. Surely, a classic example of the Trump "only the best people" standard.
He is so damned dumb he keeps allowing Melber to make the fool of him repeatedly. In his initial interview it was, I am sure, simply to pimp his book. But to come back for the follow up and allow Melber to point out how he , essentially, has already confessed to his role in the crime is hubris on an industrial scale. I am also of the opinion he is do damned full of himself when he is called before the Committee under oath he will not be able to stick to the 5th. Before it is over he will be confessing to being the mastermind who hatched the whole plot and sold Trump on doing it.
How could he plead the fifth if he’s already blabbed/confessed everything on TV?
That was what I was wondering. Same with Alex Jones who pled the Fifth over and over, then went back to his studio and said all the questions he'd been asked and gave the answers to them. And they want us to think they're smart.
Guys like Navarro are so eager to show everyone who brilliant they are, they can't control their urges to tell you even when it's gonig to throw them in jail.
Yes! I love "hubris on an industrial scale." Having grown up with a professor father, I can relate to all that hubris - the faculty lounge was reeking with it. My dad played "tricks" on his overblown colleagues, providing them with treats of dog biscuits and sending them fake messages from fake people, which caused them all manner of steam coming out of ears. And the description of the "garb" is spot on. In my dad's day, it was hideous - usually khaki pants, some sort of non-descript ugly starched shirt and a mismatched buttoned sweater vest. Gag material. Usually shades of blue, gray and brown. And the talking with hands shtick - yes! The only thing he failed to do (or maybe I missed it) was the classic palms together under chin, as in "I'm so thoughtful and smart."
But one question - does this guy have an attorney? Why on earth does he keep coming back to get roasted on live TV? If he has one, that poor fellow (I'm sure it's a "fellow") must be on the verge of having a heart attack by now.
I do like your da. I have a thing about people llke Navarro who are so impressed with labels to attach to themselves to make them appear to be serious and competent. They try too hard..
Your dad.
My comment disappeared? Didn't go thru? I made a comment earlier about how this doofus thinks he's part of the New Frontier except that he isn't. Far from it.
Anyway, amazing what these seditionists think they can get away with (much like the Canadian trucker idiots) because as long as there is no enforcement of penalties -- they are. And they're starting to not even be alarmed or embarrassed by their actions catching up to them. The tRump disease of "Do What Thou Wilt" spreads.
Haha! He's trying to look like he's part of the New Frontier! But he'll never be one of the "best and brightest."
Excellent in every way. I especially enjoyed the unprecedented snarking of Navarro's sartorial and gesticulating images. Sartorial snarking is most often focused on women.
It accompanies the mansplaining.
these are some desperately sick, dangerous people. wasn't Navarro the one who had a sort of public nervous breakdown, talking about "the shadows on my ceiling," etc.? I'm pretty sure it was. I actually hadn't realized that he was actually a tenured professor and if it's Economics he taught, well....I know a few people who who have doctorates in the field and they've always maintained that it's really a non-field, since most of it is speculative. Navarro's "job" in TFF's administration was, I believe, to be an "economic advisor," but all I ever heard f him doing was THIS sort of thing. he also (and again, this is memory) acted as the anti-Fauci during the period of those insane Covid "briefings." so basically, he was HIRED to be a sort of free-lance hatchet man. or that's certainly how it LOOKS. and yes, the shirtsleeves thing immediately made me think of Jim Jordan, whose faces cries out to be punched and who has a skeleton or two in HIS closet. as I keep saying....if you wrote this in a novel, the editor would ask you to "dial it back."