I am very much in favor of merit-based hiring and high standards for jobs with life and death implications. Which is why I oppose confirming Pete Hegseth, RFK JR, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel.
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This what people lie about when it comes to DEI. It isn't based on hiring unqualified people who are not white men. It's to help make sure people who are the best qualified are hired.
TRUMP IS BURNING DOWN EVERYTHING THATS TAKEN 249 YEARS TO BUILD. HE HAS NO MANDATE. HE WON BY THE SMALLEST IF MARGINS AND HAS LITTLE WIGGLE ROOM IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. Blaming Garland, or the SCOTUS is a thing of the past. NOW WE MUST STOP HIM IN HIS TRACKS. And venting won’t help.
The bar has been lowered to the point that Republican Senators have stomped it into the ground. They are all on the wrong side of history if the Liar, the Traitor, the Predator are confirmed.
I appreciate everyone who makes statements like this, and I honestly feel the same way. But ultimately, if you're not a Republican Senator statements like these are about as useful as screaming into the void.
Well naturally Donald Trump should be on the top of that opposed list. Clearly the American people is fine with voting for low standards for life & death implications ...
Yet the one one on the right talks about “meritocracy” as if he’s the gold standard! 🤨
The one on the left doesn’t have to say a word, he’s proven what merit-based stands for 🤷♀️!
It is with much gratitude that other countries find understanding in their hearts. Half of us are mentally damaged, and the other half are paralyzed, momentarily, I hope. This is most serious and may destroy us.
Tell your Senators and Representatives that are up for reelection in 2026 that you will vote against them, if they confirm Kash Patel, Kennedy Jr, and Tulsi Gabbard.
Hegseth already broke military respectful norm of NOT DISCUSSING ANYTHING ABOUT personnel killed within 24 hour period.
Nothing!
No names
No ranks
No position held
Nothing for min 24 hrs
Pete hegseth not qualified
I listened to you talk about this w/George Conway today. I appreciate what you're saying about the finger-wagging component, but I genuinely don't think either of you have a fulsome idea of what DEI is. Maybe ask a company like Microsoft why they remain committed to it. You might learn something!
The discrimination in government now is ideological. It doesn’t matter if you’re a woman, an Asian, even a black person, you just need to sell your soul to Trump and you are in.
A transparent process which enumerates the criteria and reveals relevant qualifications, and disqualifications, of all considered candidates would be a real merit-based system.
Team fit cannot be an overriding criteria if the process is truly merit-based.
You know what else? The above paragraph will earn the score and disrespect of probably 31% of eligible voters in this country, because it sounds "too smart.". Whether they understand what it says or not, they just don't like people who talk like that.
Listen, Trump is in the process of putting the pieces (people) in place for his Dictatorship so please tell folks to open their eyes and look at what's going on!
There are some rabbitholes RFK has that are almost reasonable, thing is the man kept digging and disregards some science. Totally for getting petroleum based food dyes out of food, but going after vaccinations can only lead to more death from preventable diseases.
Absolutely agreed. I would like to know why they decided to pick an alcoholic for Defense, a guy with his own page on RetractionWatch for health, a Russian asset for DNI and a stooge with zero brain cells for FBI. My best guess is that the #trustfundbro thing is what got them the job.. rich people?
When senior officials, civil servants see these things happening, or are bullied to resign, which law firms or legal organisations are available for them? Who should they approach?
Trump, his sycophants and followers are despicable and clearly have no allegiance or faith in the republic’s founding principles. To say, they are the most unpatriotic kind of Americans.
Sarah you forgot the least qualified for the position bought for him. Is there anybody less qualified than the lying, misogynistic, fraudulent rapist?
Anybody?
It baffles me how people think that DEI means "We have to hire incompetent people to make quota" rather than "let's make sure we have a workplace that means that competent people from under-represented groups want to come and work for us".
Put another way, if trump was right, and everything Biden was the worst ever, then all of trump's nominees should be objectively better. They aren't even in the same league. The whole lot of those four are apt to work directly against the American people's interests.
It’s apparent that President Musk, his fat orange sidekick and the cowardly MAGAt politicians are doing the bidding of America’s enemies by nominating & voting for these unqualified and dangerous candidates to these sensitive positions. Putin must be very pleased his stooges are doing this for him.
I wouldn’t headhunt any of Trump’s nominees for business
Taking aside their sheer incompetence, their character & morales are deeply questionable
Trump doesn’t hire/appoint based on merit; he is weak & would never appoint a’one smarter than him; & let’s face it - he isn’t smartest tool in the shed
Right, ideally it means opening our eyes to the merit of people we'd likely dismiss. Anybody different from those in the majority.
This is GOOD for white Christian people, who will someday be a minority in the US. They will need DEI-type policies to remain relevant as the country and world move on.
But to your point - DEI shouldn't be contrary to meritocracy but it can be. I have at times seen individuals appointed to roles not because of merit and qualifications but because they ticked a DEI box.
But that is not what I am saying in my original note.
It’s not, you’re right, it’s just leveling the playing field so qualified people, people with merit, regardless of their identity, get the same chances.
Why aren't you SAYING WHY THEY ARE A PROBLEM instead of this "unqualified" routine? They are here to dismantle, privatize, weaponize, and monetize these departments for Trump and his friends. SAY IT.
What a coincidence that the GOP is totally not racist and that it just so happened that the most qualified person for every job in the last 150 years was a white straight Christian male #trump #gop
You just know that if RFK Jr. hadn't sucked up to The Orange Menace after he dropped out of the race, there's zero chance that he would have been nominated for HHS. He is capricious, vain, and easily swayed by flattery. Same with the puppy killer and crazy eyes Kash. Just play along, and get a job!
If Kash Patel gets confirmed and we get a Democratic president in 2028, I don’t want to hear he has a 10 year term. Fire him on Day One and install a Democrat as FBI director. No more Republican FBI directors.
I hope they are all constantly followed by paparazzi as tho they are huge stars. I can just imagine photos of drunken Pete Hegseth on the cover of the Enquirer at the grocery check out counter!
But this is not the show. The lies are the smoke screen. If we get upset with all of them, we will not have enough energy to fight the real battles… They’re gonna be lies constantly, and I respect the people that taught me not to invest in all of them.
There does not need to be any conflict between merit based hiring and diversity efforts. Effective diversity hiring efforts should improve the quality of hires.
Diversity programs allow for EVERYONE to be ELIGIBLE to be hired based on MERIT and LEADERSHIP. Removing it provides bigots the ability to remove those WITH MERIT and LEADERSHIP QUALITIES that they dislike, from even being considered.
I'm in favor of mental capacity & and psychology tests for all presidential candidates. Wouldn't it be a good idea to eliminate the criminal psychopaths up front?
As is every reasonable person! In real life we have to show our qualifications for our positions, and know that a more qualified applicant might be chosen. This shit is not real life, it’s a club putting on a play, just going through a pre-written script.
Me too. MAGA 3rd raters like those you've named won't admit that the purpose of DEI hire is to ensure selection truly is merit based, not the traditional pattern of favouring white men.
That Trump would even consider nominating the manifestly unqualified Hegseth, RFK Jr., Gabbard, Patel, et al. suggests this is less about fealty and control than revenge, if not sabotage.
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The one on the left doesn’t have to say a word, he’s proven what merit-based stands for 🤷♀️!
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It’s so frustrating for those of us who volunteered and donated for the Harris campaign
It is the year of the bigots.
Nothing!
No names
No ranks
No position held
Nothing for min 24 hrs
Pete hegseth not qualified
Never trumpers and they are so 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Infuriating and upsetting
And vance
individuals mirroring himself.
A transparent process which enumerates the criteria and reveals relevant qualifications, and disqualifications, of all considered candidates would be a real merit-based system.
Team fit cannot be an overriding criteria if the process is truly merit-based.
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Sheesh!
NOTE THE TEN WHITE STRIPES on the sleeve of General Mark Milley's uniform
These indicate a six month period of service, (typically in combat zones)
US military vets with that kind of service should be SecDef, not a drunken sex criminal like Hegseth
Project 2025 Is Real!
Sadly, there are apparently no such standards for a president.
Anybody?
Congress needs to be reminded they answer to the PEOPLE.
Call your Senators. You can leave a voicemail.
Taking aside their sheer incompetence, their character & morales are deeply questionable
Trump doesn’t hire/appoint based on merit; he is weak & would never appoint a’one smarter than him; & let’s face it - he isn’t smartest tool in the shed
This is GOOD for white Christian people, who will someday be a minority in the US. They will need DEI-type policies to remain relevant as the country and world move on.
But to your point - DEI shouldn't be contrary to meritocracy but it can be. I have at times seen individuals appointed to roles not because of merit and qualifications but because they ticked a DEI box.
But that is not what I am saying in my original note.
Just didn’t want to give the impression I am against DEI / far from it…
But I am against the morons appointed by Trump
"DEI means hired without meritocracy?
Fine.
You're all DEI hires."
But he lets the real work of the takeover be done by the unapproved - Musk & Associates, going out to departments and taking over the computers.
And Dems are befuddled.
-bankrupt trump 6 times
-crash Trump helicopter in 1989 https://pressofatlanticcity.com/3-trump-execs-2-pilots-die-as-helicopter-crashes-in-parkway-median/article_4071dbca-24e3-11e4-8835-0019bb2963f4.html
Patel is :
Feigning
Bro-righteous
Indignation
So the DEI ugliness and hate does not factor in as a convenient lie right here
it’s hard to follow cause it’s lies
Dipshit Appointing Idiots
I didn't like the word 'superior' in his press brief
soon as he said it all I could think was Nazi's considered themselves 'superior' and 'master' race
I was fine w/ merit-based and high standards but the record screeched in my head when he said 'that' word