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"Last week, Trump officials reportedly left behind documents describing
confidential planning for the Trump-Putin meeting in a public area of an
Alaskan hotel.
That’s nothing compared with the actions of Emil Bove, Trump’s new nominee for
the US court of appeals for the third circuit, who reputedly told subordinates
at the Department of Justice that they should “consider telling the courts
‘fuck you’” and ignoring any court order blocking a planned deportation flight.
Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who
Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal
Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a
fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the
treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS
this year.
Let’s not forget EJ Antoni, whom Trump just nominated to lead the Bureau of
Labor Statistics after firing former chief Erika McEntarfer for presiding over
a disappointing jobs report earlier this month.
Antoni is that rarity who has drawn harsh criticism from economists on the
right as well as the mainstream for being ignorant, unprincipled and
incompetent. He recently celebrated that “all net job growth over the last year
went to native-born Americans”.
I haven’t even mentioned the towering ineptitude of Trump’s cabinet picks, such
as Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Robert F Kennedy Jr and Kristi Noem.
How to explain the rise of so many incompetent and unprincipled people?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
