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Ocelot II

(127,758 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 01:54 PM Oct 7

I can say this much for the Trump administration's version of DEI/affirmative action:

The women he hired and appointed are just as vicious, incompetent, arrogant, smug, stupid and useless as the men (not to mention lip-filled, botoxed, hair-extended and cleavaged in order to display the obligatory Mar-A-Lago Look). I give you Bondi, Gabbard, Leavitt, Noem, Halligan, Habba, and "advisor" Loomer, to name a few. I'm sure there are others, and for sheer awfulness they give his heinous collection of men a run for their money.

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I can say this much for the Trump administration's version of DEI/affirmative action: (Original Post) Ocelot II Oct 7 OP
As my coworker calls them, "trump's DUI Hires" Torchlight Oct 7 #1
They give a new meaning to COL Mustard Oct 7 #11
Wannabee cheerleaders or hopeful Trophy wives. Ping Tung Oct 7 #2
They are not useless, they are dangerously useful kerouac2 Oct 7 #3
They're useless as anything but pawns of the regime. Ocelot II Oct 7 #5
You left off the facelift queen McMahon. Klarkashton Oct 7 #4
There's an old joke about facelifts: Ocelot II Oct 7 #6
That one looks like she has one of those old achool Klarkashton Oct 7 #7
I've been calling them "DKE hires" -- for Dunning-Kruger Effect. eppur_se_muova Oct 7 #8
I like it! Redleg Oct 7 #9
And: he probably has dirt on them, so he can control/blackmail them. fierywoman Oct 7 #10
WSJ agrees question everything Monday #12

kerouac2

(1,329 posts)
3. They are not useless, they are dangerously useful
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:12 PM
Oct 7

Useless is the one thing I would not call them. They are very useful to the regime. Of course, as soon as they become less useful, or speak up, they will be cast aside... like Nikki Haley.

End of the day, these thugs are very efficient at creating chaos and awful outcomes, which is useful to their evil cult leaders.

Ocelot II

(127,758 posts)
5. They're useless as anything but pawns of the regime.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:18 PM
Oct 7

If they had to be regular people they'd be failures. Halligan would still be an obscure insurance lawyer and Habba would still be an obscure parking garage lawyer. Bondi would still be a corrupt Florida politician. Gabbard might be a low-level Russian agent processing paperwork in Moscow. Noem could find satisfying work in a slaughterhouse. God only knows what Loomer would do. Some of them could go to Fox "News," of course, whence some of them came, proving their uselessness to civilization in general.

Ocelot II

(127,758 posts)
6. There's an old joke about facelifts:
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:20 PM
Oct 7

They tried to give her a facelift, but when they lifted her face and saw what was underneath it, they put it back down.

Klarkashton

(4,332 posts)
7. That one looks like she has one of those old achool
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:22 PM
Oct 7

translucent Halloween masks with a human face with blush highlights.

That's when it's gone way too far

eppur_se_muova

(40,309 posts)
8. I've been calling them "DKE hires" -- for Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:41 PM
Oct 7

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the systematic tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability. It was first described by the psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is sometimes misunderstood as claiming that people with low intelligence are generally overconfident, instead of describing the specific overconfidence of people unskilled at particular areas.

The Dunning–Kruger effect has been demonstrated across multiple studies in a wide range of tasks from fields such as business, politics, medicine, driving, aviation, spatial memory, examinations in school, and literacy. The original study by Dunning and Kruger focused on logical reasoning, grammar, and social skills. The effect is usually measured by comparing self-assessment with objective performance. For example, participants may take a quiz and estimate their performance afterward, and their estimates are then compared to their actual results.

A number of explanations for, and criticisms of, the Dunning–Kruger effect have been proposed. The metacognitive explanation holds that poor performers misjudge their abilities because they lack the ability to recognize the qualitative difference between their performances and the performances of others. The statistical explanation holds that the empirical effect may largely be the result of a mere statistical effect and the fact that people have a general tendency to think that one is better than average. The rational explanation holds that overly positive prior beliefs about one's skills are the source of false self-assessment. Another explanation claims that self-assessment is more difficult and error-prone for low performers because many of them have very similar skill levels.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Redleg

(6,660 posts)
9. I like it!
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:55 PM
Oct 7

From one twisted perspective, all of Trump's picks for these positions have merit- they will do Trump's bidding. So I guess they are there on their merits.

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