"Flooding the Zone"

[berg80]

The High Price Of Kakistocracy

As we inch toward the holidays and the news slows, I wanted to step back and offer a bit more context on the slew of absurdist Trump nominations. The sheer number of unqualified miscreants that Trump has chosen to cast for his second season is overwhelming to the mind and to the mechanisms in place to screen out the worst and dimmest.

“The volume of controversial nominees will force senators to prioritize their battles, allowing some to advance simply due to limited time and attention,” law professor Alan Z. Rozenshtein writes at Lawfare.

I highly recommend Rozenshtein’s piece. It places Trump’s approach to nominations in a broader historical and political context. Here’s a sampling:

Trump’s nominations represent an unprecedented triple assault on constitutional appointment norms: First, many are unqualified or hostile to their agencies’ missions. Second, rather than making a few controversial picks, Trump has flooded the zone, nominating an entire slate of problematic candidates that burdens the Senate’s capacity for proper vetting. And third, Trump has signaled willingness to circumvent the confirmation process through legally dubious tactics such as forced Senate adjournment. Together, these moves threaten to transform the appointments process from a constitutional safeguard into a vehicle for installing loyalists regardless of competence.
Trump Casts The Worst And Dimmest For Season 2

The term "kakistocracy" (rule by the worst) emerged from obscurity during the first Trump administration. The word, which was previously used to describe troubled foreign governments, gained mainstream usage as critics pointed to controversial appointments such as Tom Price at the Department of Health and Human Services and Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection Agency—officials whose qualifications and conduct drew widespread criticism.

With President-elect Donald Trump's imminent return to power, "kakistocracy" is back in public conversation. As the Economist noted by making it “word of the year,” Google searches for the term spiked in November: first after Trump's victory, then after he nominated controversial officials for cabinet positions, including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of health and human services, and again when Gaetz withdrew his nomination amid criticism. And Trump's recent nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI has only intensified concerns about an impending kakistocracy.
The Constitution of Kakistocracy

I had been thinking about writing a post with that title for a while. Due to the number of outrages already piling up. Once I saw the linked article I decided to go ahead. The corruption involving Musk's Tesla car company being advantaged by ending accident reporting for self driving cars, the rampant crypto conflicts of interest following trump's foray in to the crypto biz, the onslaught of unqualified cabinet nominees, the attempts to intimidate the media and political opponents, being some of the more obvious examples.

It brings back memories of the chaos and corruption of trump 1.0. Cabinet nominees being forced to resign for legal and ethical violations. trump firing IG's who were investigating the admin. The refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas. The broken promise, and lies, about the wall. The obstruction of Mueller's investigation. Mike Flynn and Comey being fired within weeks of the inauguration. The lies about the inauguration itself. Many more incidents trumples have stuffed down their memory holes.

Whether by accident or design it can be disorienting. How do you fully examine the background of unqualified cabinet nominees when there are so many of them? How do you stop the cronyism regarding Musk when there's so much regarding crypto? But it must be done. Now it not the time to falter. Now is the time for vigilance.

 

[TNHarley]

ZOMG he cant have an administration that he wants! What a tyrant!

 

[struth]

The High Price Of Kakistocracy

As we inch toward the holidays and the news slows, I wanted to step back and offer a bit more context on the slew of absurdist Trump nominations. The sheer number of unqualified miscreants that Trump has chosen to cast for his second season is overwhelming to the mind and to the mechanisms in place to screen out the worst and dimmest.

“The volume of controversial nominees will force senators to prioritize their battles, allowing some to advance simply due to limited time and attention,” law professor Alan Z. Rozenshtein writes at Lawfare.

I highly recommend Rozenshtein’s piece. It places Trump’s approach to nominations in a broader historical and political context. Here’s a sampling:

Trump’s nominations represent an unprecedented triple assault on constitutional appointment norms: First, many are unqualified or hostile to their agencies’ missions. Second, rather than making a few controversial picks, Trump has flooded the zone, nominating an entire slate of problematic candidates that burdens the Senate’s capacity for proper vetting. And third, Trump has signaled willingness to circumvent the confirmation process through legally dubious tactics such as forced Senate adjournment. Together, these moves threaten to transform the appointments process from a constitutional safeguard into a vehicle for installing loyalists regardless of competence.
Trump Casts The Worst And Dimmest For Season 2

The term "kakistocracy" (rule by the worst) emerged from obscurity during the first Trump administration. The word, which was previously used to describe troubled foreign governments, gained mainstream usage as critics pointed to controversial appointments such as Tom Price at the Department of Health and Human Services and Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection Agency—officials whose qualifications and conduct drew widespread criticism.

With President-elect Donald Trump's imminent return to power, "kakistocracy" is back in public conversation. As the Economist noted by making it “word of the year,” Google searches for the term spiked in November: first after Trump's victory, then after he nominated controversial officials for cabinet positions, including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of health and human services, and again when Gaetz withdrew his nomination amid criticism. And Trump's recent nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI has only intensified concerns about an impending kakistocracy.
The Constitution of Kakistocracy

I had been thinking about writing a post with that title for a while. Due to the number of outrages already piling up. Once I saw the linked article I decided to go ahead. The corruption involving Musk's Tesla car company being advantaged by ending accident reporting for self driving cars, the rampant crypto conflicts of interest following trump's foray in to the crypto biz, the onslaught of unqualified cabinet nominees, the attempts to intimidate the media and political opponents, being some of the more obvious examples.

It brings back memories of the chaos and corruption of trump 1.0. Cabinet nominees being forced to resign for legal and ethical violations. trump firing IG's who were investigating the admin. The refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas. The broken promise, and lies, about the wall. The obstruction of Mueller's investigation. Mike Flynn and Comey being fired within weeks of the inauguration. The lies about the inauguration itself. Many more incidents trumples have stuffed down their memory holes.

Whether by accident or design it can be disorienting. How do you fully examine the background of unqualified cabinet nominees when there are so many of them? How do you stop the cronyism regarding Musk when there's so much regarding crypto? But it must be done. Now it not the time to falter. Now is the time for vigilance.

you all can't define what a woman is, and think men can get pregnant...

and you want to talk about a Kakistocracy? hahahahha

 

[berg80]

ZOMG he cant have an administration that he wants! What a tyrant!

The Constitution’s framers were obsessed with the quality of American public officials. Thomas Jefferson extolled "a natural aristocracy among men[,] the grounds of [which] are virtue [and] talents. … [T]he natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society." He argued, "[M]ay we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristo[crats] into the offices of government?" Similarly, in the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton recognized that personnel is policy, predicting that "judicious choice of men for filling the offices of the Union" would determine the "character of its administration," while John Jay predicted that “when once an efficient national government is established, the best men in the country will not only consent to serve, but also will generally be appointed to manage it.”

trump is obsessed with nominating loyal hacks, not qualified public servants.

 

[TNHarley]

The Constitution’s framers were obsessed with the quality of American public officials. Thomas Jefferson extolled "a natural aristocracy among men[,] the grounds of [which] are virtue [and] talents. … [T]he natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society." He argued, "[M]ay we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristo[crats] into the offices of government?" Similarly, in the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton recognized that personnel is policy, predicting that "judicious choice of men for filling the offices of the Union" would determine the "character of its administration," while John Jay predicted that “when once an efficient national government is established, the best men in the country will not only consent to serve, but also will generally be appointed to manage it.”

trump is obsessed with nominating loyal hacks, not qualified public servants.

Yeah bring up thomas jefferson on a subject that involves a govt 40 times the size than what was envisioned. lol

 

[Mac1958]

The sheer number of unqualified miscreants that Trump has chosen to cast for his second season is overwhelming to the mind

It's has been like this since Escalator Day™. Just a hurricane of lies and hyperbole and juvenile comments and and sedition and "I plead the Fifth" and rotten behavior and insults and crime and everything else.

You can't focus on any of it, because something else takes its place within hours, at most.

The American public is now numb to it, and that's one of the worst possible things that could have happened to this country. What standards we had left are gone. We just don't give a shit any more.

 

[EMH]

Yeah, another Zionist Fascist whining that THIS TIME Trump is not packing his Administration with fellow Zionist Fascists.... except his CIA pick.

 

[berg80]

Yeah bring up thomas jefferson on a subject that involves a govt 40 times the size than what was envisioned. lol

The size of government has no bearing on the principle Jefferson espoused.

 

[struth]

The Constitution’s framers were obsessed with the quality of American public officials. Thomas Jefferson extolled "a natural aristocracy among men[,] the grounds of [which] are virtue [and] talents. … [T]he natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society." He argued, "[M]ay we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristo[crats] into the offices of government?" Similarly, in the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton recognized that personnel is policy, predicting that "judicious choice of men for filling the offices of the Union" would determine the "character of its administration," while John Jay predicted that “when once an efficient national government is established, the best men in the country will not only consent to serve, but also will generally be appointed to manage it.”

trump is obsessed with nominating loyal hacks, not qualified public servants.

The Farmers knew men couldn't get pregnant. You all don't know that.

 

[berg80]

You can't focus on any of it, because something else takes its place within hours, at most.

Exactly the point!

 

[TNHarley]

The size of government has no bearing on the principle Jefferson espoused.

I just found it ironic.
He would be bitching about the existence of those alphabet agencies more than who runs them.

 

[EMH]

The OP is a Left Wing Zionist Fascist who loves


W
Cheney
Bolton
Romney
Murkowski
Faux News


everyone who supports wars in the Middle East over lies and nothing in US national interest solely to help Israel.

 

[blackhawk]

TDSSSDD.

 

[whitehall]

Alan Rosenshtein?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Gaetz and the other goofball are out.
Kennedy Jr. and Gabbard will not make it.
The GOP is going to have to make a good trade to get Musk and Ramaswamy.
Maybe the Dems can work with the GOP this time.

 

[Darkwind]

I guess the OP doesn't believe in attribution for other people's work.

 

[Foxfyre]

The High Price Of Kakistocracy

As we inch toward the holidays and the news slows, I wanted to step back and offer a bit more context on the slew of absurdist Trump nominations. The sheer number of unqualified miscreants that Trump has chosen to cast for his second season is overwhelming to the mind and to the mechanisms in place to screen out the worst and dimmest.

“The volume of controversial nominees will force senators to prioritize their battles, allowing some to advance simply due to limited time and attention,” law professor Alan Z. Rozenshtein writes at Lawfare.

I highly recommend Rozenshtein’s piece. It places Trump’s approach to nominations in a broader historical and political context. Here’s a sampling:

Trump’s nominations represent an unprecedented triple assault on constitutional appointment norms: First, many are unqualified or hostile to their agencies’ missions. Second, rather than making a few controversial picks, Trump has flooded the zone, nominating an entire slate of problematic candidates that burdens the Senate’s capacity for proper vetting. And third, Trump has signaled willingness to circumvent the confirmation process through legally dubious tactics such as forced Senate adjournment. Together, these moves threaten to transform the appointments process from a constitutional safeguard into a vehicle for installing loyalists regardless of competence.
Trump Casts The Worst And Dimmest For Season 2

The term "kakistocracy" (rule by the worst) emerged from obscurity during the first Trump administration. The word, which was previously used to describe troubled foreign governments, gained mainstream usage as critics pointed to controversial appointments such as Tom Price at the Department of Health and Human Services and Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection Agency—officials whose qualifications and conduct drew widespread criticism.

With President-elect Donald Trump's imminent return to power, "kakistocracy" is back in public conversation. As the Economist noted by making it “word of the year,” Google searches for the term spiked in November: first after Trump's victory, then after he nominated controversial officials for cabinet positions, including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of health and human services, and again when Gaetz withdrew his nomination amid criticism. And Trump's recent nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI has only intensified concerns about an impending kakistocracy.
The Constitution of Kakistocracy

I had been thinking about writing a post with that title for a while. Due to the number of outrages already piling up. Once I saw the linked article I decided to go ahead. The corruption involving Musk's Tesla car company being advantaged by ending accident reporting for self driving cars, the rampant crypto conflicts of interest following trump's foray in to the crypto biz, the onslaught of unqualified cabinet nominees, the attempts to intimidate the media and political opponents, being some of the more obvious examples.

It brings back memories of the chaos and corruption of trump 1.0. Cabinet nominees being forced to resign for legal and ethical violations. trump firing IG's who were investigating the admin. The refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas. The broken promise, and lies, about the wall. The obstruction of Mueller's investigation. Mike Flynn and Comey being fired within weeks of the inauguration. The lies about the inauguration itself. Many more incidents trumples have stuffed down their memory holes.

Whether by accident or design it can be disorienting. How do you fully examine the background of unqualified cabinet nominees when there are so many of them? How do you stop the cronyism regarding Musk when there's so much regarding crypto? But it must be done. Now it not the time to falter. Now is the time for vigilance.

I could go through the list one by one and show how the OP is pure garbage. But I'll just say that Trump is appointing this:

Instead of this:

 

[SeaMajor7]

I'm convinced that Stalinberg is a certifiable PSYCHOPATH.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I guess the OP doesn't believe in attribution for other people's work.

Open the links.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Foxfyre can deal in false memery all she wants.

They are meaningless as is the message she posits.