The policy areas where the leader seeks to have the most influence and action will be the ones where he installs the most absurd nominees, in terms of temperament, experience, or expertise. 4/5
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Rubio at State (a normie nominee) tells me Trump isn't interested in diplomacy matters. Gaetz at DOJ (NOT normie nominee) tells me he plans to use the DOJ to do things that the DOJ has not done in the past. 5/5
I'm going to guess that the "celeb" (Oz, McMahon, etc) postings are also because when they screw up (because they don't know the actual job), they're more disposable.
If you're slack-jawed at the low quality of Trump's Cabinet appointees, imagine the kinds of critters who'll be replacing thousands of frontline civil servants he's promising to fire.
Been there. Had the best supervisor of my life at the field level, w marginal-to-competent field workers w reduced budget + staff (W Bush cut 1/2 staff); OK regional director; Elaine Chao was sec. o'labor, gave her publicist & hair stylist permanent gs-14 positions. Ah, them's were the days
I’m not convinced he will replace them. He only needs the ones who stayed to do his mischief. If he kneecaps all of the proper functions in the process because there’s no one left to do the functions, who cares?
I won't need to imagine - we sort of saw it in Iraq when we placed large portions of the infrastructure in the hands of 24 year olds with Biz or Mass Comm degrees and a handshake from Heritage.
It'll be boom time in the contractor sector because once all the talent leaves, or is forced out, they'll have to buy in staff at more than they cost in the first place. Suspect this is going to happen a lot in government IT.
I don't disagree but.....none of these nominees have the experience or skills to run large organizations effectively. That means they'll be getting the bad boss run around.
In other words... "“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/a-carnival-of-destruction-2024-11-17
Narcissists won't surround themselves with anyone who might look smarter than they do. Last time, he got rid of anyone who had the intelligence to do the job because they might make him look bad.
Everything he's doing is by the authoritarian playbook, but who's telling him how to do it? I never got the impression he reads books, let alone history.
TV skills are in these job descriptions because they’ll need to BS their way through everything and respond to a lot of public criticism due to their gross incompetence.
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Because I have very serious concerns about the youth of Americas ability to crack open clams on their belly using a small stone.
It'll be boom time in the contractor sector because once all the talent leaves, or is forced out, they'll have to buy in staff at more than they cost in the first place. Suspect this is going to happen a lot in government IT.
https://youtu.be/iaJsmoXLaiQ?feature=shared
Policy isn’t high on his list of priorities. Just not going to jail for the grift he’s about to undertake.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-coming-changing-domestic-world-orders-under-trump-ray-dalio-v4yge?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via
“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen”
He thinks Gaetz has the media skills to sane wash seizing voting machines & other extreme things
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-4e7e68e2ff57aadd96d09c873a43a317