You are 100% right. This is why Biden’s appointees are “firsts” instead of “bests”. Mayor Pete, KJP, and Janet Yellen have no qualifications whatsoever and are garbage at their jobs, yet they were appointed to important positions. Why? To destroy from within through incompetence
every time you see "first" next to a hire/appointee, how do you not read it as "unqualified"?
if they were qualified, you'd speak to qualifications, steady hand, track record, etc.
and then you get a system of B's and C's regulating B's and C's and it generates collapse. no one has any idea what they are doing and every eye is on the wrong ball.
Amazing to me that Stanford law students, Harvard Med students, etc, are not smart enough to see through this nonsense. I guess they have already been selected as B's and C's.
Harvard 2022 grads disgraced themselves by giving a standing ovation to New Zealand fascist Jacinda Ardern at their graduation ceremony, all masked. There once was a time, when observers actually found intelligent life at Harvard.
The A’s have to work so much harder to get into law or med school. My nephew who achieved 99% in his MCAT was rejected by schools that accepted kids from his courses that had a far lower MCAT result but we’re on the intersectional ladder. what is surprising to me is he’s not resentful.
What a time! That is the case for many. My brother who used to do the daily POTUS intellience breifing advised me and my wife to give our newborn twins American tribal styled names: like "DeerRunner", or "WhiteCloud", etc for that reason. He knew the field and its plantings, eh? That was 1982 or so.
They probably are. It's just realistically, if they want decent paying jobs, they have to play this disgusting game, which, I imagine for them, they might do while sleeping off a giant bender precipitated by desperation at their inability to implement an alternative immediately.
Most A’s figured out years ago that your life could be destroyed by accusations and innuendo. They are not at the Stanfords and Harvards. Only “get along” muppets go to those schools. Most A’s are hiding in the state schools or walking amongst us as electricians and plumbers. None of this changes as long as the older A’s with power allow the younger A’s to keep being destroyed and relegated to hiding.
My parents have subscribed to Imprimis for years! Good stuff to have hanging around! They also required me to take Econ 101 before graduating since they paid for my degree. These days it feels that the “experts” seem to understand less than those of us who have only learned the basics.
The indoctrination and dumbing down start much earlier than that, now. The efforts to dumb down our children really started in the early 20th century, and they made (obviously) steady progress ever since.
Don't assume that they are not. many probably are. But have learned that their views are not welcomed, not tolerated, in the university. They are learning to be suppressed in order to succeed. Tow the line or at least keep your mouth shut.
so my idea to combine as many firsts as possible into each hire wouldn't work, because the idea was never to "once we do this we will go back to hiring competent people." I was hoping to find a blind little person lesbian amputee person of color and check a lot of boxes, but sadly, intersectionality is not the intent.
This! Exactly, this! You put to words precisely what most people think when hearing of a "first." And your explanation of why DEI happens makes utter sense, yet, I doubt I initially saw weakness as the cause. Yet, it is. And here we are.
What do you think precipitates this? Is it affirmative action? Big donors? Two party system? No term limits? Did we ever have A’s running many enterprises? Seems to me we did but perhaps I was deluded or biased or something. Do we see this ever happening in sports?
Ah! Interesting answer. I was going to include women in the workplace and see that I forgot. However, not all women are programmed for equity. I am one that isn’t. I am an old female who had a business career among nearly all men. The few women working there had attitudes not so different from the men there. After retiring worked in a local library with mostly women. These women were very different from those in my former workplace. I’m not sure of the cause of the differences but these women had not made their own ways in life but had been dependent on the income of their spouses. I know that this is dangerous talk and I don’t claim to have an answer. But, I thank you for answering my question.
I'm over-generalizing, but I'm certain there are large genetic differences between male and psychology, analogous to the difference in height. There is overlap in height, for example, but it is also obvious that men are inherently taller on average.
A media ecosystem - TV, Press, WEB 2.0, social media - generating the double mentality compassion + anger (= victims and victimizers). Dogooderism from universities to companies, passing through media and government offices. Using social media any rube can stylize himself to "victim" and successfully demand compassion, solidarity against the As displacing him. So comes the elimination of math and writing text for black people and Latinos, for instance.
Hell, Biden & Harris were put into place for the exact same reason. Literally, it's time to wipe nearly all of DC and start with a clean slate of public servants. And I put emphasis on the word public, as opposed to corporate, which is what we have now....
Depends on the nature of their role. Some jobs can be virtual from anywhere, some need to be co-located with other co-workers in a specific location, but not necessarily in DC. I'm all for distributing staff as widely as is practical. Having worked for USDA for a few years in the past, my personal opinion is that most (not all) of the GS-13/14s and up are too firmly entrenched in prior undesirable practices and just need to go. The GS-12s and below are the ones who do all the real work and it would be much more of an operational disaster to cut all them loose too. Most of them are decent people and understand the public service mission.
And Mayor "Pothole" Pete as Secretary of Transportation. What a clown show. I believe the PTB decided it was time for the US takedown in a spectacularly humiliating fashion.
Yes, the luggage-stealing queen! I remember the photo of him and Asst HHS Sec Dr. Levine (in full uniform with skirt) in heels, proud of their political achievement. Crayons.
The rest of the world, if they have time to care about US idiocracy, must be having a good laugh at our comeuppance.
This was not some grand conspiracy, it's the secondary effect of putting controllable puppets in charge in the first place.
An AAA president cannot be controlled by the powers that shouldn't be, but a B line can. But the B recruits C to ensure that he won't be replaced, and over time this eats away at the entire institution, the rot started at the head. The powers didn't plan for this, they got here as a long term effect of their short term goals.
Which is why cryptocracies built around control over key institutions have a determined shelf life, unlike open societies built around open debate and truth.
The gang in charge got in charge after jfk, and they are now over, no-one around them can take over. The 50 years timespan is identical to what killed the usssr. That gang took power after Stalin, and lasted 50 years. Then the collapse happened fast, as neither the geriatrics nor the incompetent bureaucrats couldn't keep the show running.
Putin is grooming a successor gang, and they probably have 30 years ahead of them, like the current crop of Chinese.
Then the cycle starts over again.
So it's not a grand orchestrated collapse, it's organic. It's what happens when you rely on kompromat for control. B recruits C... the A are not willing to become immoral to get unearned power and status. It's why they are A, and thus purged.
I am immediately suspicious when some begins a comment, "As a ..." You can fill in the blanks: "Black American," "Single mother," "Jewish person," "Proudly gay man," "Non-binary, person of color," "A woman of power," and so on. There are so many alternatives to the implicit and unmentionable category.
Claiming you are a woman and not going through menopause is sort of like claiming you are a doctor without going through med school, internship and residency. Back in the day, we would call someone like that being an IMPOSTER.
You forgot to include The Admirable Richard "Rachel" Levine. But I get it, you cannot put forth a complete list of Biden's career clowns due to space limitations......
You are 99% right. You only needed to add Treasonous Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton…and all their appointees, starting with The Federal Reserve—Powell, all of the Security Agency Directors & their Security Briefers and Lawyers who protect them. It’s both the left and right paradigm masters of corrupt PAC monies (particularly APAC) that control them all, then us, the imbecilic masses. It’s amazing to me how lost people really are; why We The People Majority never gravitate to natural-normal moderate-center and elect our leaders as Independents (I) rather than extreme Republicans and Democrats? This unnatural divide is what’s truly killing U.S.
You forgot to include The Admirable Richard "Rachel" Levine. But I get it, you cannot put forth a complete list of Biden's career clowns due to space limitations......
You are 100% right. This is why Biden’s appointees are “firsts” instead of “bests”.
Mayor Pete, KJP, and Janet Yellen have no qualifications whatsoever and are garbage at their jobs, yet they were appointed to important positions.
Why?
To destroy from within through incompetence
very much this.
every time you see "first" next to a hire/appointee, how do you not read it as "unqualified"?
if they were qualified, you'd speak to qualifications, steady hand, track record, etc.
and then you get a system of B's and C's regulating B's and C's and it generates collapse. no one has any idea what they are doing and every eye is on the wrong ball.
Amazing to me that Stanford law students, Harvard Med students, etc, are not smart enough to see through this nonsense. I guess they have already been selected as B's and C's.
Harvard 2022 grads disgraced themselves by giving a standing ovation to New Zealand fascist Jacinda Ardern at their graduation ceremony, all masked. There once was a time, when observers actually found intelligent life at Harvard.
Harvard already discredited itself entirely when it started to have "separate but equal" black only graduation ceremonies.
Must atomize/divide the serf population.
The A’s have to work so much harder to get into law or med school. My nephew who achieved 99% in his MCAT was rejected by schools that accepted kids from his courses that had a far lower MCAT result but we’re on the intersectional ladder. what is surprising to me is he’s not resentful.
What a time! That is the case for many. My brother who used to do the daily POTUS intellience breifing advised me and my wife to give our newborn twins American tribal styled names: like "DeerRunner", or "WhiteCloud", etc for that reason. He knew the field and its plantings, eh? That was 1982 or so.
See https://patrick.net/post/1378732 for confirmation.
Question: What do you call a person who graduates at the bottom of their class? Answer: Doctor.
Exactly what he said.
"not seeing through the nonsense" is currently a mandatory requirement for entry into the elite class, Emperor's New Clothes etc etc...
if u admit to seeing through the nonsense you will be denounced and banished.
Honesty is an immediate disqualifier.
I see that that's true, but why exactly do the real A players put up with it? Are they just outnumbered?
They are neutralized and fired, or--now--not hired in the first place.
They probably are. It's just realistically, if they want decent paying jobs, they have to play this disgusting game, which, I imagine for them, they might do while sleeping off a giant bender precipitated by desperation at their inability to implement an alternative immediately.
Most A’s figured out years ago that your life could be destroyed by accusations and innuendo. They are not at the Stanfords and Harvards. Only “get along” muppets go to those schools. Most A’s are hiding in the state schools or walking amongst us as electricians and plumbers. None of this changes as long as the older A’s with power allow the younger A’s to keep being destroyed and relegated to hiding.
I’m sure there are lots there just frustrated as hell at the goings on and trying to find a “sane” school to apply to.
Hillsdale College is sane.
But, Hillsdale will not give you the whole truth, that is the most important part. You WILL get Churchill worship.
fair criticism
My parents have subscribed to Imprimis for years! Good stuff to have hanging around! They also required me to take Econ 101 before graduating since they paid for my degree. These days it feels that the “experts” seem to understand less than those of us who have only learned the basics.
...from high school onwards
The indoctrination and dumbing down start much earlier than that, now. The efforts to dumb down our children really started in the early 20th century, and they made (obviously) steady progress ever since.
This progressive movement, the thing we call woke has achieved complete control over the means of cultural production.
Go speak to your kids, they are indoctrinated.
Don't assume that they are not. many probably are. But have learned that their views are not welcomed, not tolerated, in the university. They are learning to be suppressed in order to succeed. Tow the line or at least keep your mouth shut.
so my idea to combine as many firsts as possible into each hire wouldn't work, because the idea was never to "once we do this we will go back to hiring competent people." I was hoping to find a blind little person lesbian amputee person of color and check a lot of boxes, but sadly, intersectionality is not the intent.
This! Exactly, this! You put to words precisely what most people think when hearing of a "first." And your explanation of why DEI happens makes utter sense, yet, I doubt I initially saw weakness as the cause. Yet, it is. And here we are.
Why do you think Biden picked Harris?
She was the best insurance against Impeachment.
bingo.
if you want to keep people in the frying pan, be sure the fire looks much, much worse.
This is the equivalent of the rule by rube in the government Rube Goldberg Machine:
https://twitter.com/Colinoscopy/status/1255890780641689601?t=o-fHlI9Bj-OCqO7CZHCmZA&s=19
This guy must have stolen top secret government bureaucratic IP to build this.
The machine would be flawless if theyd just hire more bureaucrats!
I have stolen your Government Rube Goldberg Machine for future use.
I will, of course, attribute to you in all future postings.
Well, some of them for sure. Meh - maybe the first time.
's OK Pi. Steal away. RG will never miss it. Of course, I'll steal it too.
It's so far been very effective for him, I think!
What do you think precipitates this? Is it affirmative action? Big donors? Two party system? No term limits? Did we ever have A’s running many enterprises? Seems to me we did but perhaps I was deluded or biased or something. Do we see this ever happening in sports?
The answer which no one must ever say out loud: women voters.
Seriously, women are programmed for "equity" by evolution, to make sure all the children were fed. Merit is not a concept.
Men aren't like that. Merit is everything to men.
Very VERY dangerous to say any of this, I know.
Ah! Interesting answer. I was going to include women in the workplace and see that I forgot. However, not all women are programmed for equity. I am one that isn’t. I am an old female who had a business career among nearly all men. The few women working there had attitudes not so different from the men there. After retiring worked in a local library with mostly women. These women were very different from those in my former workplace. I’m not sure of the cause of the differences but these women had not made their own ways in life but had been dependent on the income of their spouses. I know that this is dangerous talk and I don’t claim to have an answer. But, I thank you for answering my question.
I'm over-generalizing, but I'm certain there are large genetic differences between male and psychology, analogous to the difference in height. There is overlap in height, for example, but it is also obvious that men are inherently taller on average.
A media ecosystem - TV, Press, WEB 2.0, social media - generating the double mentality compassion + anger (= victims and victimizers). Dogooderism from universities to companies, passing through media and government offices. Using social media any rube can stylize himself to "victim" and successfully demand compassion, solidarity against the As displacing him. So comes the elimination of math and writing text for black people and Latinos, for instance.
Yes, it has been noted for a long time that vice presidents are picked specifically not to be a threat to the president's job.
Kennedy apparently didn't get that memo and it cost him his life.
Biden didn't, JuQu. She was picked by Brandon's handlers, who have at least a few brain cells banging around up there. They picked him, too.
Hell, Biden & Harris were put into place for the exact same reason. Literally, it's time to wipe nearly all of DC and start with a clean slate of public servants. And I put emphasis on the word public, as opposed to corporate, which is what we have now....
Corporate is hardly synonymous with competent in the post-pandemic business world
What I meant was we need public servants who are truly committed to serving the public, not serving corporate interests (which is what we have now)
Indeed, we need health care professionals who are committed to improving the health of the public, rather than serving the propaganda of Big Pharma
That would require intelligent voters, not voters easily swayed by wedge issues.
How about headquartering them- the absolutely necessary ones only- scattered all over the country? No need for a DC establishment at all.
Depends on the nature of their role. Some jobs can be virtual from anywhere, some need to be co-located with other co-workers in a specific location, but not necessarily in DC. I'm all for distributing staff as widely as is practical. Having worked for USDA for a few years in the past, my personal opinion is that most (not all) of the GS-13/14s and up are too firmly entrenched in prior undesirable practices and just need to go. The GS-12s and below are the ones who do all the real work and it would be much more of an operational disaster to cut all them loose too. Most of them are decent people and understand the public service mission.
And add Garland and Blinken to your list. The bureaucrats love it when this happens. It entrenches their power even more.
And Mayor "Pothole" Pete as Secretary of Transportation. What a clown show. I believe the PTB decided it was time for the US takedown in a spectacularly humiliating fashion.
The nut job they picked to be the nuclear waste disposal czar takes the award for most absurd. They couldn't tell just by looking at it?
Yes, the luggage-stealing queen! I remember the photo of him and Asst HHS Sec Dr. Levine (in full uniform with skirt) in heels, proud of their political achievement. Crayons.
The rest of the world, if they have time to care about US idiocracy, must be having a good laugh at our comeuppance.
I suspect, (fear?), that "the rest of the world" doesn't give a flying f#$@ about the US any more.
I agree. The people are just trying to stay alive. The elites have time to laugh.
Oh god that POS.
This was not some grand conspiracy, it's the secondary effect of putting controllable puppets in charge in the first place.
An AAA president cannot be controlled by the powers that shouldn't be, but a B line can. But the B recruits C to ensure that he won't be replaced, and over time this eats away at the entire institution, the rot started at the head. The powers didn't plan for this, they got here as a long term effect of their short term goals.
Which is why cryptocracies built around control over key institutions have a determined shelf life, unlike open societies built around open debate and truth.
The gang in charge got in charge after jfk, and they are now over, no-one around them can take over. The 50 years timespan is identical to what killed the usssr. That gang took power after Stalin, and lasted 50 years. Then the collapse happened fast, as neither the geriatrics nor the incompetent bureaucrats couldn't keep the show running.
Putin is grooming a successor gang, and they probably have 30 years ahead of them, like the current crop of Chinese.
Then the cycle starts over again.
So it's not a grand orchestrated collapse, it's organic. It's what happens when you rely on kompromat for control. B recruits C... the A are not willing to become immoral to get unearned power and status. It's why they are A, and thus purged.
Good additions to the list
Your identity is not a job qualification!
It's also not a substitute for a personality.
I am immediately suspicious when some begins a comment, "As a ..." You can fill in the blanks: "Black American," "Single mother," "Jewish person," "Proudly gay man," "Non-binary, person of color," "A woman of power," and so on. There are so many alternatives to the implicit and unmentionable category.
not sure I follow your meaning
It means that just because Mayor Pete likes it up the butt doesn't mean he can handle the actual job of being the Secretary of Transportation.
Does he have any experience in that sector or industry? Surely you would be able to demonstrate some expertise to get a job like that?
No one voted for Biden on the basis of competence, obviously.
Biden returns the favor to his electorate by also selecting without regard to competence.
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
Yet this is exactly how Biden picked his VP.
Let's not forget the women who are men elevated to the top power positions. I wonder if they had to go through menopause?
Claiming you are a woman and not going through menopause is sort of like claiming you are a doctor without going through med school, internship and residency. Back in the day, we would call someone like that being an IMPOSTER.
They say they "feel like a woman" ..
....doesn't that count?
I feel like a doctor!
You forgot to include The Admirable Richard "Rachel" Levine. But I get it, you cannot put forth a complete list of Biden's career clowns due to space limitations......
Call him Dick.
Add the VP to your list.
You are 99% right. You only needed to add Treasonous Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton…and all their appointees, starting with The Federal Reserve—Powell, all of the Security Agency Directors & their Security Briefers and Lawyers who protect them. It’s both the left and right paradigm masters of corrupt PAC monies (particularly APAC) that control them all, then us, the imbecilic masses. It’s amazing to me how lost people really are; why We The People Majority never gravitate to natural-normal moderate-center and elect our leaders as Independents (I) rather than extreme Republicans and Democrats? This unnatural divide is what’s truly killing U.S.
You forgot to include The Admirable Richard "Rachel" Levine. But I get it, you cannot put forth a complete list of Biden's career clowns due to space limitations......