Only the Best People

[finnbow]

When Donald Trump ran for president, he brushed off concerns about his own lack of governing experience by repeatedly promising to hire “only with the best and most serious people,” as he said in 2015, adding, “We want top-of-the-line professionals.” When asked, just weeks before Election Day 2016, what his criteria would be for choosing senior staff, he answered: “Track record. Great competence, love of what they’re doing, how they’re getting along with people, references” and, the candidate added a bit later, “you need people that are truly, truly capable.”

... His inability to recruit, or to even to listen to, top people has hampered everything from Trump’s foreign policy to his own legal defense. His hostility to sound advice, coupled with reliance on his frequently terrible instincts, has produced a kind of synergy (to use a newly infamous word) of incompetence in the White House and beyond: Things go wrong on the world stage, Capitol Hill or with the media. Trump never blames himself, instead blaming everyone else, including the people who work for him. Experts — also known as people who know they’re doing — have had two years to observe this and have understandably become less willing to work for him. Their numbers inside the administration dwindle, lesser lights take over, more mistakes are made; lather, rinse, repeat.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...d-rate-talent/

[finnbow]

Senior Official (Washington DC)

A prominent federal government agency seeks a top-level manager for a staff of approximately 2000. We are looking for someone to improve the performance of a staff consisting almost entirely of D-list opportunists.

Requirements:

Experience working closely with the elderly in the early to middle stages of dementia.
Experience running a family business rife with nepotism and meddling, incompetent relatives.
Willing to be on-call 24/7 to respond to national emergencies, urgent calls from world leaders and Twitter shit-storms.

Nice to have:

Russian language fluency.
Established relationship with a personal criminal defense attorney.
Ability to obtain a high-level security clearance a plus, but not strictly required, apparently

https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...769672891.html

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Tuesday that she hopes to be remembered as being “transparent and honest” when her tenure in the role comes to an end.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...r-her-as-being

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by finnbow

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Tuesday that she hopes to be remembered as being “transparent and honest” when her tenure in the role comes to an end.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...r-her-as-being

ROFL! Is she serious? Is she really this self-unaware? Hard to imagine, but then look at her role model, her dad...