This caught my attention:
President-elect Trump on Wednesday said he would not consider individuals affiliated with a host of Republican rivals and critics for jobs in his incoming administration, singling out former Vice President Mike Pence, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), among others. [The Hill]
If the salient characteristic of your hires isn’t competence, but, instead, loyalty – especially loyalty to such a grossly incompetent as Mr Trump – it is virtually inevitable that competence isn’t only not at the top of the list, but doesn’t even make the list. Competence is the enemy of the grifter.
This is not how you Hire only the best. This is how you hire brown-nosers who, having found success and prestige by being as extreme as they possibly could be while shooting rivals in the back, are going to be bound and determined to repeat that performance when they find themselves occupying positions of national prominence.
And that Presidential Office will seem so close that they can touch it.
It’s gonna be a shitshow for the next four years, or at least until Vance takes Trump’s place due to mental incapacitation. If we’re lucky, Trump will try to sell us ‘scandal-counting apps’ in order to take advantage of suckers every which way.
