Reminds me of the Office: "I thought this was a meet and greet".
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Well this doesn't boad well for the branch.
You let's Tusli get away with her shit, maybe I should have fucked her too!
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Why would any of Trump's administration care? None of them have been held accountable for anything, except to Trump.
The only people held to account in the US are the poor, disabled and non white.
They aren't even held to account, they're mostly abused for trying to survive the abuse.
Hey us poor whites get screwed over too! It’s not a race war (only) - it’s a class war.
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yeah, Trump was accountable af, given that he ia now thw president again
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Hold him contempt or stop clutching your pearls.
I'm sure Schumer will move quickly to form a search committee to form a task force with plans to complete a strongly worded letter by late 2027.
After a prolonged investigation taking many months and costing the taxpayer millions, the search committee regretfully concludes that they have been unable to find their balls.
that strongly worded letter will contain upwards of 12 strong questions. that way you'll know he's taking this serious
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As opposed to what? Asking DOJ to issue a warrant for the director of the FBI?
The fucking clownshow continues.
This is you going in to your Professor's office hours to ostensibly turn in your final paper for a course, it is half your grade in the class, and you actually just sit down and explain you are 'still working on it' and 'can i get it to you maybe by the end of next academic quarter?'
I am honestly so, so relieved by this high level public idiocy.
I really am not kidding.
I've struggled with impostor syndrome much of my life.
All gone. Done. No more.
I am legitimately more competent than almost everyone in this administration at their own jobs, despite the fact that I hardly have any relevant credentials to most of their positions.
The "education" system is almost entirely based on privilege and indoctrination. Politicians are the cream of the crop.
My work involves emptying dog shit bins in public parks, and I'm also pretty sure I could do a better job than this guy. We could swap roles - except that I couldn't bring myself to kiss trump's flaccid saggy butt. I'll stick with the dogshit bins - I've got standards.
Don't sell yourself short. I bet you're more competent than everyone in this administration.
I am only hesitant to agree because:
1: I have terrible social anxiety (yay autism and trauma)
2: I assume, at least, some of them are competent people... at... at least something.
That being said, I also cannot think of a single one who falls into category 2.
Hrmm.
Not only are you personally more competant than anyone in this administration, but you're also not a Nazi (I'd imagine), which alone already makes you better than any Republican politician.
The fact that you think you might not be competant at the job is one of the things that makes you more competant (because you actually think before you act/speak).
Its the age old problem of government:
Anyone who strongly desires to be in a position of power likely is not the kind of person you would want in a position of power.
I appreciate you saying that though. =D
Impostor syndrome is basically the inverse of the Dunning Kruger effect, as it is known in popular culture.
If you actually read the actual studies by Dunning and Kruger, and subsequent work based off of it:
Idiots consistently wildly overestimate their correctness.
... But people who actually are quite correct, quite competent... well they actually tend to self evaluate themselves as somewhat less competent than they actually are.
Because humility and a fundamental idea of 'i could be wrong' are foundational to a rigourous system of critical thinking that can actually allow for that true, detailed knowledge to be gained.
So, ironically, Dunning Kruger effect also describes more or less impostor syndrome, its just that that isn't the aspect of those kinds of studies that pop culture focuses on...
So we now have a situation where understanding of the 'Dunning Kruger effect' itself is subject to the 'Dunning Kruger effect.'
There are a couple evil yet competent people in the administration. Russell Vought is one, a hire direct from the Heritage Foundation. Another is Stephen Miller. Heritage seems to be full of actually competent yet completely evil men. But I guess that what happens when a majority of your funding comes from oil, gas, and now tech barons.
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I’m so tired of the theatrical outrage and shock and surprise. Of fucking course they’re working in bad faith. But no - let’s give all the fucking fascists the benefit of the doubt. You’re not allowed to be fucking surprised by this. It was all in the playbook. The playbook has been published openly on the internet since early 2020.
I doubt a single one of our Democratic party elected officials actually sat down and read all of Project 2025.
I think some of the young progressives probably did, but I still think the count is probably in the single digits.
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Dismantling the FBI seems like a good idea to me anyway. It's not like their mission is a good one. Maybe in the next government the FBI can be brought back as a federal agency that is narrowly focuses on investigating/punishing local/state level law enforcement.
But of course the Dems will just approve whatever budget the republicans come up with and facism will continue unabated.
Not if it means giving all their funding to the military and ICE...
Guess who is in charge of auditing and investigating local cops and police stations?
click to reveal answer:
NOBODY ANYMORE!
It's actually a worse idea. There will still be, nominally, federal control, centralized in him. Other than that, every local and state FBI branch will act as, effectively, a terror cell - they work their own leads, make their own arrests on their own recognizance, and generally conduct business as they see fit. This makes for an incredibly dangerous form of secret police - they have no leaders above the local level, no real command and control, and they're all tasked with only one thing: make less crime.
Imagine the Cheka, but they're organized like al-Qaeda.
If their budget was zero'd out on the federal level where would the local FBI officers get their funding?
Get real, homie. The state will never defund itself.