This story has a dozen or so nice anecdotes on why institutional competence matters and exactly what we've lost by this administration's hackneyed "reforms." wapo.st/43fc1aw - ThreadSky

billresh.bsky.social • 3 days ago

This story has a dozen or so nice anecdotes on why institutional competence matters and exactly what we've lost by this administration's hackneyed "reforms."

https://wapo.st/43fc1aw

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sherkohoii62.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

jenxperth.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just saying 🇺🇸🤷‍♀️ #USpol

caodragao.bsky.social•3 days ago

i hope they find homes in other countries that will apreciate them

freezasaurus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Isn't this what Trump wants? Purge the government of people who know what they're doing, then you can give all of your unqualified buffoons whatever jobs they want.

arnoldziffle.bsky.social•2 days ago

I want to retire but someone needs to stay and fix the damage being done

heatherpaulpayne.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can you stick around long enough to prevent the invasion of allied nations, as well, please?

videodrome-oz.bsky.social•2 days ago

They could do what our Australian conservative party did for a lot of the last decade, rehire them through contracting.
The beauty of this is that it will cost a lot more, and their loyalty is to firms like KPMG, not the government.
It's a lose/lose situation

resistasista76.bsky.social•2 days ago

Lose/lose is the right wing SOP.

ava4bleue.bsky.social•1 day ago

soon America will be left with incompetent loud fools like maga who think they’re experts after doing some research on the internet 🤦🏻‍♀️

karysel.bsky.social•3 days ago

America's Conservative Party Is Growing Disillusioned With Trump

hrryan.bsky.social•2 days ago

They have no balls and will never do anything.

axialagegamer.swifties.social•2 days ago

onewheeldoin200.bsky.social•2 days ago

No. He still has 42 percent approval from Americans as a whole. Nobody is doing anything to remove him.

drbethany.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’ll believe it when they remove him from office

calamityjim.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Washington Post was unable to make a call on who might be better able to manage the executive branch. Now they want me to pay them to read about the result.

Fuck 'em. There are much better sources that don't insult me with lies and evasions.

jt-allen.bsky.social•2 days ago

It turns out "deep state" just means expertise.

fatherluke.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is the explicit goal of Project 2025. Remove all these experts and civil servants so they can't stop the agenda, AND it salts the earth so bad that the Democeats can't rebuild it or use it

peebsy0.bsky.social•2 days ago

You suggest that these are "miscalculations", but they are malevolent acts.

You're being abused.

billresh.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm not suggesting anything of the sort. I'm referring to the rhetoric used to deliver said malevolence.

peebsy0.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're dismantling the administrative state.

Anything they can't shut off they will underfund and make ineffective.

markesienko.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

eclacl.bsky.social•2 days ago

dgwest.bsky.social•2 days ago

We are at this very moment in Uruguay investigating an opportunity to spend the next 5-10 years wrapping up our careers. Would prefer to stay and help the US turn around, but if 1/3 of you voted for (and celebrate) having experts sidelined, then clean up the f-ing mess yourself.

resistasista76.bsky.social•2 days ago

This isn’t reform. This is state capture and the destruction of what makes the USA strong and functional. This is treason.

lordbyronbunch.bsky.social•3 days ago

Many 10s of thousands. I am one of them. And, frankly, I don't know how the federal government can expect to attract top talent to help rebuild after this authoritarian nightmare ends. (That's one of the objectives, I know.) Who would opt for a life and career that fascists can demolish in months?

beachjon.bsky.social•2 days ago

The GOP wants to outsource government so they're donors can make money from contracting with the government. It'll cost more, contracts can go to their pals, and we'll have less control.

phoenix914.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m not sure the toothpaste can be put back in the tube. Forever changed.

redloribrighteyes.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

drgeophysics.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thousand of experts have been terminated too. Decades of damage from DOGE.

kmeiri.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not to worry Fox has a deep bench

bash.bsky.social•3 days ago

Send in the Money Honey

churchlady320.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's deliberate. It is designed to weaken us so much that the TechBro feudalists can take over. Problem is - they have NO expertise and can't find it.

chaostorgo.bsky.social•2 days ago

churchlady320.bsky.social•2 days ago

Historians, honest ones, will remind you the poor got nothing out of the Revolution either. The non-aristocratic elites did. That's the goal of the pro-Revolution JDs etc. Not poor people. Them. Of course they should remember Robespierre's fate...

cdnhistory.bsky.social•2 days ago

My concern is they won’t care if they have the expertise to run their new country. They will make it up as they go along.

churchlady320.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's what will happen, no question. What will become obvious, esp. in health, is how horrific that will be. Air traffic guidance is already a disaster. As crashes mount, people get more sick and die, this will not go well for them.

grinch67.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s called harassment and that’s been the Dark Money agenda for decades— to drive out federal workers. Remember Grover Norquist?

nba100.bsky.social•3 days ago

Unless you are so wealthy and insulated that government is only a hinderance to your way of life.

danlia1.bsky.social•2 days ago

WHAT TRUMP TRAIT IS MOST EMBARRASSING TO THE US?: BREATHTAKING IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY; BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS AND CORRUPTION; COMPLETE LACK OF MORALITY AND COMPASSION; ENDLESS LYING; APPALLING RACISM; UNEQUALED HYPOCRISY. MY TAKE: HE'S A RAGING ASSHOLE. PURE AND SIMPLE. HE HAS TURNED US INTO A DISGRACE

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