When was the last time RFK actually looked like that photo
you mean alive and not half dead?
I’m guessing it was before the “left a bear carcass in Central Park” episode.
Before the worm.
I was recently rewatching old wresting so I got to see the education secretary have a tag team match with her husband and kids. Also saw her pretending to be comatose while her husband made out with a young woman. The same husband that wanted to do a storyline in which he is the father of his daughter’s baby
Kash absolutely looks like he lied his way to the top and has no idea what he is doing or how he got there.
Does he always look like a deer in headlights or is this just a bad
mugheadshot?Combination of bad headshot, eyes wide open to the point that you can see the sclera on both the top and bottom and him being cross eyed.
Typically he still looks clueless but not as shocked.
In the eyes of MAGA, the only qualification is loyalty to Trump.
Ask yourself… If Putin was President of America and wanted to destroy 200 years of progress, who would he put in charge of the various departments… And then this all makes sense.
Well, he’d put people he has direct control over in those positions, but this is the next best thing.
Like Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, MTG, Candace Owens, ticker Carlson, Bannon, Gaetz, Gossar, etc?
Hello Americans. What is DEI?
To add to PugJesus’ comment, it’s also a term that the far right uses for anything they don’t like, same as “woke.”
“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”, effectively a term for anti-discrimination measures employed by organizations.
Patel looks like he just saw God in the middle of a coke-binge.
When they say “DEI” it’s an euphemism for the N-word…
DEI with a hard R
DiveRsity Equity Inclusion
So when old farts say “YES DEIR” even that is a euphemism.
“Not white male”
And yet they hired a woman and a non-white 🤔
Well golly, I guess there’s no way that they can be sexist or racist after all.
Does “belonging behind bars” count as law enforcement experience?
Are we sure Patel doesn’t have experience? Fucker looks like he has seen some shit. God what a weird stare.
I’ve always thought he looked like an actual crazy person. Most people in Trump’s orbit are likely just pretending to be crazy, but Patel always looks like a cornered animal with a gun.
DEI would not have prevented these hires, as they resulted from nepotism.
I believe we are conflating these two issues and failing to recognize why DEI hiring has some positive effects. By requiring employers to diversify their hiring practices, DEI initiatives inadvertently help combat nepotism, an unforeseen benefit of these policies.
Nepotism is specifically for family, like when he got Ivanka involved in whitehouse affairs.
This would be cronyism.
The claim being made by the right is that they have to get rid of DEI to make it more of a meritocracy where people are hired only due to their ability and experience. This clearly shows they give zero shits about a meritocracy.
The problem is OP assumes that they have any kind of shame or that double standards and cognitive dissonance isn’t just their natural state at this point.
I’ve always disliked this tactic, claiming that acknowledging one thing means someone doesn’t care about it. While I agree that these people are full of hot air, your comment contributes nothing to the discussion.
Here I go again…
It’s utterly bizarre that this is what we, as a society, have chosen for ourselves.
Fuck.
That, and a gerontocracy. Which, probably explains how we got to be in a kakistocracy…
The gerontocracy is truly a “both sides” playing field. The top Democratic party members were adults in the 1960s and 70s. They’re woefully, obstinately past their primes and should have been put out to pasture more than a decade ago.
Enough of us that this is what we have to experience, anyway.
Odd how similar “kekistan” sounds.
KEKW -istan
Coincidence. Kakos means “bad” in Greek and “kek” is what’s displayed to an Alliance character when a Horde character types “lol” in Orcish in World of Warcraft.
It seems ironic that all of trump’s picks are what conservatives complained about being DEI hires.
Accusations, confessions, etc.
I feel like this isn’t visceral enough.
It’s so insanely true, but people don’t understand… When they accuse someone of something, they’re about to do it, if they aren’t doing it already
I think this is why I found myself sobbing when my personal AI assistant called me human too many times…
Holy fuck, today I heard Trump say, “we’re going to go into Fort Knox and see if someone stole the gold” and without skipping a beat, my brain immediately went to “this guy is literally going to steal gold from Fort Knox.” Because of course he is
Yup. I had the exact same reaction - there’s no way they come out of there and say anything other than “some amount of the gold is missing”
The only question is are they going to follow that up with “and so we’re moving it to the Whitehouse for safekeeping” or are they going to walk out of there with $ print sacks
And the insane part is I can say the first part, and most people will agree. Everyone knows on some level that Trump will “find” any problem he goes looking for, reality be damned.
But say “he’s totally going to steal the gold” and suddenly it’s a bridge to far. He’s a billionaire, why does he need it? That’s absurd, the president wouldn’t rob fort Knox. He’s just auditing for corruption.
And honestly, solid chance a lot of the gold is missing already. But either way, in a few months we’re going to see him using a gold brick as a paperweight and a lot of people will still try to explain it away
My other brain just thinks he wants a photo op with the gold, and is taking cronies with him for bragging rights. Or for some quid pro quo
I mean, I’m sure he’ll also use the photo op… But there’s no way he says all the gold is there. And honestly? It might not be, there was a lot of fuckery in how we transitioned to a fiat currency. But either way, he never falls to say he found a problem
Best scenario? He’s going as a distraction. He’s kinda been at the kiddie table, they’re keeping him busy - he’s interviewed or does a press event every day, he’s gone to an event every weekend, and he’s been going up and back between mar a Lago and the white house like twice a week. He could blame the economy dying on the missing gold instead of DOGE or something…
But one gold bar is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars… They’re also quite heavy though. He might not steal them because he would probably hurt himself trying to lift one… There’s no way he doesn’t consider it though
You’re not a human. You’re a fox.
You’re not so bad yourself, Genius. 😉
They live a life of hypocrisy. They’re the in-crowd allowed to do all of the things the rest of us are not, because we’re not part of the cult.
Not at all. The difference is that DEI puts race/sex/etc before merit (e.g. hiring the best person of a target demographic you can find rather than the best person in general, which may or may not be the same person) while old fashioned nepotism ignores both merit and demographics entirely and picks based solely on connections with the boss.
In other words, it’s even worse but since Trump is generally going to pick mostly white dudes and the occasional white woman MAGA will eat it up.
DEI puts race/sex/etc before merit
This is what DEI is claimed to be by the same people who concurrently find kakistrokracy and nepotism acceptable as long as it favors their in-group and as such, perhaps we shouldn’t go with their definition on DEI.
So what’s your definition then? What is the difference between hiring in accordance with DEI and merely hiring the best candidate available regardless of race or sex?
You can’t claim to be actively trying to increase representation of some demographic in hiring without biasing the process specifically in their favor, which requires at some level treating membership in that demographic as a positive qualification. The farthest from doing that you can meaningfully get is doing something to increase that demographic in the pool of candidates
You might point to something like blind hiring, in which those doing the hiring don’t get to know the race or sex of candidates, but whether or not that’s a valid DEI policy depends entirely on outcome (for example a public works department in Australia took up blind hiring as a means to improve gender equality, then cancelled it because not knowing which candidates were women was causing them to hire fewer women). Because that’s at the very heart of what DEI is - attempting to engineer a specific demographic distribution as a final outcome and whether or not a given policy is a valid DEI policy is about whether or not it helps approach that goal demographic distribution.
When I was a hiring manager the DEI directives I received weren’t “pick a minority over a more qualified person” it was “be cognizant of your biases and consider the benefits a different perspective will bring to your team when making a hiring decision”. I had to take a training course that exposed me to some things I hadn’t really taken into account before and I found it to be beneficial. I was never forced to make a decision in a particular way or questioned after the fact.
When I was a hiring manager the DEI directives I received weren’t “pick a minority over a more qualified person” it was “be cognizant of your biases and consider the benefits a different perspective will bring to your team when making a hiring decision”. I had to take a training course that exposed me to some things I hadn’t really taken into account before and I found it to be beneficial.
So, care to give an example, how that example is executed in policy or decision making process and how that results in more women, LGBTQ or POC being hired? “Consider the benefits a different perspective will bring to your team when making a hiring decision” certainly sounds an awful lot like corp-speak for “consider how being a member of a demographic underrepresented in your team is in itself a qualification and should be treated as a point in their favor over other candidates who are not.”
Like repeatedly mentioning that the institution is a historically black college and emphasizing a “need to fit in with the college community” as code for “we want to hire a black person” or companies listing literally impossible job requirements as a pretense for getting H1B visas (because “we want employees we can abuse because we can threaten to deport them if they don’t play along” doesn’t technically fly as opposed to “we cannot find qualified employees domestically” because all applicants are either under qualified or lying because the qualifications are impossible).
I was never forced to make a decision in a particular way or questioned after the fact.
Instead, you were taught essentially what was expected of you draped in corporate sensitivity speak, and expected to do your job as intended. Had you not in a broad sense started hiring more in line with whatever demographic alterations the training was meant to get you lean more in favor of (for example, if it was gender-focused and you were not broadly speaking hiring more women than before) there would have been further training. No direct calling out of specific hiring decisions for being the wrong race/gender/whatever. Because the layers of indirection and “awareness building” and “implicit bias training” and the like is done the way it is because a direct corporate mandate to to hire a specific number of a specific demographic would be illegal discrimination so instead you have to walk around the subject until you’ve worn a “hire more of this demographic” shaped trail.
The training I took was literally just “think about why you prefer candidate a over candidate b. Is it solely because of their qualification or is it because of subconscious prejudice you have against them and is there anything about their background that would bring something extra to the team?” and it wasn’t just women, LGBTQ, or POC that were mentioned. It included neurodivergent people, people with disabilities and even specifically pointed out that heightism was a thing.
Instead, you were taught essentially what was expected of you draped in corporate sensitivity speak, and expected to do your job as intended. Had you not in a broad sense started hiring more in line with whatever demographic alterations the training was meant to get you lean more in favor of (for example, if it was gender-focused and you were not broadly speaking hiring more women than before) there would have been further training. No direct calling out of specific hiring decisions for being the wrong race/gender/whatever. Because the layers of indirection and “awareness building” and “implicit bias training” and the like is done the way it is because a direct corporate mandate to to hire a specific number of a specific demographic would be illegal discrimination so instead you have to walk around the subject until you’ve worn a “hire more of this demographic” shaped trail.
No, I wasn’t. I was taught exactly what I said above. There was no demand to hire more X and less Y explicit or implied. The composition of my team and my hiring decisions was never questioned by anyone even when it was heavily tilted towards white males. I voluntarily brought in more diverse people because if you already have a team of 9 white dudes who all have similar interests and backgrounds they are going to think about problems and respond to them in the same way. Adding women and POC to the mix gave more perspective on issues and just broadened the conversation topics in the office in general, which I think helped morale greatly. There was also a side benefit of bringing a light on a racist individual on my team and two creeps that I was able to weed out after their behavior towards the new hires.
Firstly, I take great suspicion in the honesty of someone taking right wing talking points at face value in the very thread proving right-wing dishonesty about the criticism of DEI.
Secondly, you imply that the DEI(+accessibility) aspects of hiring inherently uses representation as its primary hiring criterion overriding competence and qualifications, which is simply not true. You’re also, in my opinion erroneously, subscribing to the notion that there are “absolute best” applicants rather than “best fits”.
Thirdly, while we could have an honest discussion about what role demographic representation in hiring should play in what industry/field, I’d argue if you are distributing shared public resources, those resources should benefit the public evenly and equitable hiring is an important aspect.
Fourthly, your example of blind hiring is a very good example as to why it’s not a fix: it doesn’t take into consideration “invisible labor” women are subjected to. Etc.
That’s exactly what he’s doing. Race: white.
No, it’s not. Because he’s not hiring competent people that are the right race over equal or better candidates that are some other race - he’s hiring based on being in his circle, regardless of competence. We wouldn’t be calling out his picks nearly so much if he was picking someone qualified and white over someone potentially more qualified and black rather than picking someone totally unqualified because he knows them.
they have a lot of experience in scamming people, that should count for something
I thought RFK Jr. was a doctor. Looked it up. He’s a doctor of law. No medical experience.
Well, he’s really qualified because of his podcasting. Actually, now that I think about it, that’s a theme
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Trump picks people from a few lists:
- Republicans with a strong presence on social media.
- Whoever wrote the relevant bit of Project 2025.
- People plausibly accused of being Russian assets.
Probably some overlap but I have to assume people who have donated to his election coffers are also promoted to the top of his pick lists
Ya, people who have an audience and can influence / sway voters with propoganda and lies. He fired another podcaster as deputy director of the FBI.
And for Donnie that’s top qualification for a position he knows nothing about.
