Sean's just not very good with numbers

[struggle4progress]

I meet lots of people who have trouble with basic arithmetic

But most of them can correctly handle "bigger" and "smaller"

This notion eludes Sean completely, however

Maybe that's why he's in the Administration

It is not hopeless, of course: later in life, many people successfully learn concepts they failed to grasp earlier

[underpants]

1. Counting Dippin' Dots is hard. PERIOD!

Spicer out

[saidsimplesimon]

2. struggle, thank you

EJ Montini's op-ed matches your last line, I think.

It is not hopeless, of course: later in life, many people successfully learn concepts they failed to grasp earlier

http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2017/01/23/montini-arizona-evan-mecham-donald-trump/96949518/

audacious alternative to ‘alternative facts’

We’ve been where you are, America, and we fixed it.

Eventually.

Smaller scale, but same situation.

In Arizona in the 1980s we elected as governor a man who was coarse, vain and vindictive, a man who managed to offend and insult racial and ethnic minorities, women, the LGBT community and more, and yet still became governor. A man who railed against the establishment in public pronouncements but whose political actions tended to have the most negative effect on the little guy.

Sound familiar?

MONTINI: Arizona is America now (we tried to warn you)

This man’s name was Evan Mecham. He disassembled the truth, peddled his version of what Donald Trump’s would call “alternative facts.” He attacked the media, condemning reporters for daring to report with accuracy. He used his press secretary as an attack dog. He once even told a journalist, “Don’t ever ask me for a true statement again.”

Again, sound familiar?

One of the first things this governor did was abolish Arizona’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

People rallied.

Thousands of Arizonans protested
...snip
In an era when it seemed as if mass political demonstrations had become passé a crowd of 10,000 to 15,000 men, women and children gathered in downtown Phoenix for a march to the state Capitol on a cold, rainy, windy day that could not have been more miserable. A day that turned out to be joyous.

A day similar to what it was like around the country over the weekend.

A column I wrote after that 1980s march in Phoenix read in part:

MONTINI: Flack lies matter (when the attack dog works for Trump)
...snip
We learned in the 1980s that a demonstration march, no matter how many people participate or how far it travels, never reaches its destination. It’s only a first step.

Mecham was elected in 1986. He was impeached and removed from office in 1988.

Marches didn’t cause that. They helped. But the end game for Mecham was the result of patience and persistence, for which there is no alternative.

It required a press corps that refused to be intimidated. And a public that demanded the truth. And lawmakers – particularly those in Mecham’s Republican Party – who enforced accountability.

Sound familiar?

[struggle4progress]

4. Great column!

[AgadorSparticus]

3. Clearly, he isn't "cream of the crop". Trump had to scrape the bottom of the barrel

To find someone who is willing to work with him. And it shows. No one remotely competent would be willing to jeopardize their career for this buffoon.