4470

Admiral Rickover interviewed every single nuclear trained officer before they were assigned to ships. His interview stories are absolutely legendary. Every one of those folks that I spoke to had a crazy anecdote from their meeting with him.

4471

I agree. Hopefully Jerry will rise to the moment.

4472

I’m not really clear on what Nadler’s committee will actually do in their hearings. I know they will eventually draft articles of impeachment and vote on them, but you don’t draft those in a committee hearing. Schiff has already taken the testimony of witnesses.

4473

Two officials at the White House Office of Management and Budget recently resigned while voicing concerns over the holdup on Ukraine aid, a career employee of the agency told impeachment investigators, according to a transcript of his testimony released Tuesday.

Mark Sandy, the only OMB official to testify in the impeachment inquiry, did not name the employees in question. He said one worked in the OMB legal division and described that person as having a “dissenting opinion” about how the security assistance to Ukraine could be held up in light of the Impoundment Control Act, which limits the ability of the executive branch to change spending decisions already made by Congress.

The other person, who resigned in September, “expressed some frustrations about not understanding the reason for the hold,” Sandy said.

4474

LOL…welcome to the beginning of relentless Trump feces being dumped on your face, Rudes.

4475

So what happens now after the week of televised testimony?

4476

Regarding the doughnuts, theres a game of telephone going on. He never “knocked” candidates who did not take a doughnut.
https://www.denverpost.com/2010/03/13/for-chief-justice-john-roberts-proof-is-in-the-doughnuts/

It’s paywalled, but you can view the story by opening in Google cache and stopping loading quickly. The story suggests it was a fleeting experiment he thought of, and most likely was making a joke – the punchline being he had to “look at their resumes” because no one took a doughnut. Unless you seriously think he would auto hire someone who took a donut and ignore all other resumes.

“I like people with a fair amount of self-confidence, who are going to be comfortable with expressing their views and defending those views without, you know, wilting,” he said.

He developed a self-confidence experiment once, he said, apparently when he was still an appellate judge. All the interviews were on one day, so he brought in a dozen powdered-sugar and glazed Krispy Kremes and instructed his secretary to tell the applicants to help themselves.

“I figured anybody who had enough self-confidence to pick up a doughnut that’s glazed or with powdered sugar would be the sort of person I was interested in,” Roberts said. “I even remember saying, ‘Anybody who has a doughnut, I’ll hire.’ ” At the end of the day, the doughnuts were untouched. “So I had to go back and look at their resumes.”

4477

I think that’s worse. Like I wrote already, the common thinking for most people, confident or not, would be not to take a donut and risk fucking up their suit just before interviewing with a judge. That’s just smart.

4478

I’m eating a powdered doughnut while reading this thread.

4479

Gonna confess that I had the exact same reaction. That seems incredibly fucking stupid.

I mean, do you get extra credit towards getting a Roberts Supreme Court clerkship if you flash the “hang loose” Y finger Hawaiian sign when you leave the interview?

Yes. That or, god forbid, maybe they just didn’t want a doughnut right then.

4480

As former nuke, I’ve heard some amazing Admiral Rickover interview stories (Skippers had to pass an interview to become a nuke skipper).

I’m pretty sure some of them were true. Rickover was something else.

4481

Yup it’s only reported by the Denver Post, and since nobody ate the donut, we really don’t know what would have happened if somebody ate one.

4482

Interestingly the three people I know who all the dreaded interviews with Rickover , all have very prefunctory interviews, none of them last more than 10 minutes and none were particularly noteworthy.

None the less, it’s clear there were some very tough interviews over the decades.

4483

I hate to interrupt all this hagiography of Roberts, but he was one of the intellectual leading lights of the whole push to make every damn take-it-or-leave-it contract one signs for a consumer service include language forcing binding arbitration as the only avenue for dispute resolution, which removes a major financial incentive for bad actors in the consumer service space to clean up their act.

4484

Great, now I want a donut.

4485

Really weird.

4486

Not weird at all. At some point the administration will claim outright that Rudy was a rogue actor and that his efforts regarding Ukraine were in no way authorized or even known by the president. The only hesitation is worry about what his “insurance” might be.

4487

Rudy’s insurance will be nullified by the promise of a presidential pardon if there are repercussions from him being held out to dry.

4488

Really a shame that a great man like DJT is surrounded by all these corrupt actors. Sad.

4489

It will be interesting to see if Rudy is dumb enough to fall for the promise of a pardon. Especially given Trump’s record of not pardoning Manafort, Flynn, Stone, etc.