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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy does Pompeo have an unlabeled world map lying around his office?
Among the many things that bug me about his meltdown with the NPR reporter, that one keeps coming back. Why the hell did he have a map with no country names on it lying around his office? Does he just randomly quiz people about country names?
samnsara
(17,658 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,031 posts)nevermind. just googled it.
napi21
(45,806 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,839 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)It's got some really, really good cartographers and GIS techs in it. I'm really curious how they'd react to that request.
Igel
(35,383 posts)options for unlabeled world maps available online.
They're a staple of geography teachers, from middle school through high school.
It's even more fun to hand one out with borders and say, "label the countries." Without the boxes to fill in students leave out entire countries like France or Brazil--we're not just talking Montenegro or Andorra. Or more embarrassingly they'll put countries on the wrong continent, or think Russia extends west of the Elbe.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,490 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)It does seem odd that he'd have one lying around, unless they were using it to quiz Trump.
"OK, Mr. President, now show me where France is."
"There." (points to Finland)
"No, sir, that's actually Finland."
"I went to Finland, didn't I? It's right next to France. I went there, too. Write "France" where I pointed."
"But that's Finland."
"It's France. I know because I went there."
(Pompeo writes "France" on Finland.)
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,737 posts)Igel
(35,383 posts)Specifically in order to quiz the journalist.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,500 posts)if he could find Iraq on the same map.... my guess is 50-50 chance he could.
keithbvadu2
(37,011 posts)Wouldn't it be fun to watch Trump do it?
A New Yorker cartoonist already imagined Trumps map a couple of years ago:
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/friday-january-12th-trumpworld-map
keithbvadu2
(37,011 posts)Surely Dotard could find Nambia.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)which sits atop the Black Sea.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)graduate or equivalent and he also said she went to Cambridge for Euro studies so to ask her to find Ukraine on a map is laughable.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)Maraya1969
(22,509 posts)What a fucking idiot.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)jcgoldie
(11,656 posts)Whatta guy!
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)course his plan failed miserably. The NPR reporter is not one of pompeo's uneducated peons.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)I'm pretty sure she can find Ukraine on an unlabeled map and would not confuse it with Bangladesh.
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)or Ukraine on a map...if they did, either of them, I'd be surprised. It's pathetic that our so called national leaders have descended to such a state. And rump is a so called billionaire? Yeah, right.
Take care of yourself!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)applegrove
(118,880 posts)underpants
(182,990 posts)My wife's joke.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)That was a brilliant show that made geography fun for kids.