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They do this intentionally, it's part of Trump's populist cult, White house messages under his last admin had intentional spelling and grammar errors and when asked staffers said they did it intentionally to match Trump's 'style' breaking norms is a big part of populist cults of personally.
There are certain things which are required of those who wish to serve in the Trump Administration. None of those things happen to be intelligence.
Covfefe
In her case, T&A don't stand for talent and ability.
Training and approachability?
She’s a core respondent. Get woke libtard.
I almost wish that hadn't been sarcasm, only because I haven't seen libtard in the wild in a long time. 😀
Also, looking past that spelling mistake, what the hell is a War Room White House? Is that meant to refer to the situation room? The briefing room? Is it that she's in two places at once, the White House and a virtual War Room of whatever media organisation she represents?
Or is it, as I may be forced to suspect, a perpetual state of mind, a designation not in conflict of course with any of the above, but indicative of someone who not only cannot spell their job but is just there to, as the phrase goes, perpetually and obsequiously stir shit?
War Room is a podcast of Steve Bannon. So she's the White House correspondent for that podcast.
White House correspondent for a fucking podcast. Look where we've arrived at.
Yep Trump new press sectary said thsy would go beyond legacy media and allow influencer and podcast in on all briefing..
I am sure it meant only the right wing Podcaster and influencers though. No left wingers will be allowed.
So this lady and whoever Joe Rogen sends etc.
IDK if this helps, but at least in IT a "war room" is usually a dedicated and specialized support team temporarily put in place when large changes or updates are rolled out.
It would make sense for the incoming administration to set up a war room to handle questions, exceptions and comments about both the administration change, and the sweeping (probably illegal) XOs issued by the President.
Edit: I just looked her up. She is not related to an internal "War Room" but is actually affiliated with Bannon's stupid podcast.
I think you might be right. She may be one of Eris's representatives in the current administration.
Marrytocracy maybe
It certainly sounds more "educated" than blowjobtocracy
they dont need her to do the job in the title they just need her to be a populist
The term meritocracy was originally created as a satirical joke. It was never meant to actually be taken seriously
So was"The Donald" subreddit.
Maybe sarcastic people should stop inventing shit ideas ironically for a minute while we clean up this mess.
Sarcasm and parody were tools used against corrupt oppressors for centuries. The problem is, it requires education, context, and the capacity for abstract thought to process and understand. If everyone requires we put “/s” after everything, then they are just taking everything at face value without any attempt at critical thinking or reading between the lines. Which I guess is why we are where we are today.
I dont see the reason why it shouldnt be used. Merit - earned, cracy - to rule. Seems like its self described well. Imo its a useful word and don't see why we shouldnt use it just because it was meant to be satirical. Art imitates life and life imitates art.
The issue is how do you "meassure" merit? How do you decide who has earned what they have and who hasn't?
If you are a conservative it's very easy, the status quo defines merit. Those who have are those who deserve because the system is working as expected. So rich people ruling is meritocracy for them.
If you are a racist/xenophobe/etc then it's also very easy, those who are in the "good" (read white in the USA) group are the ones with merit, so they are the ones that should rule.
A few years back, when college degrees where just for rich people with connections, merit was having a college degree because that proved you where educated and hard working jajajaja. Now that a lot more people can get college degrees it no longer means that for some reason jajajaja.
Etc, etc. In general, people use meritocracy to justify their own biases and the decisions they make based on those biases. The USA is of course the current poster child of this, but by no means it's exclusive to them.
The reality is that when you think about it there is no such thing as merit in the general sense. For example, I get paid well by working as a programmer. And I'm the first one to say that I'm very good at it and deserve my pay. Yet, if my toilet is broken I need to call a plumber and defer to them. So, who says I deserve to earn more than a plumber? I do say so because it greatly benefits me of course jajajaja. But if push come to shove I would absolutely prefer to have a society without programmers than a society without plumbers. So who has more merit?
The simple truth is that we are all valuable in our own context and we should try to build a society where we all can participate and contribute as needed. Ideas like meritocracy are used by right wing people to justify the existence of hierarchies and social classes. If there are better people (with more merit) then of course they should be in charge and everyone else must obey. But the more you dig into the idea, the less it makes sense. Meritocracy is just a very easy trap to fall into because it's the kind of idea that sounds good to people until you really think about it, but in practice it's just a useless idea if you want to make rational decisions.
Seems like its self described well.
In theory. But in practice what you're describing tends to be the licensure of corruption. Rather than paying off a guy for a no-show job, you pay a school for a degree to show the guy (getting kickbacks from the school) that gives you the no-show job.
Great example of this was Bob Jones, Liberty, and the assorted christian conservative schools injecting whole graduating classes into the '00s Bush Administration.
When your "meritocratic" institution really starts to pay off is when it looks more and more like an MLM. The modern Ivy League/Federalist Society-based judicial system looks a lot like this. You need to be a member of a school who joined a club to get access to the clerkship that qualifies you to join a firm that will fast-track you into the appellate judiciary. So these "elite" institutions get swarmed with applicants, and now you need to go to a particular prep school or join a certain social group to get into the school/club. Now those schools/groups get flooded. So you need to join a partisan organization or work your way into a country club hierarchy to get access to the prep school / social group, and they start assigning ranks for members and fees to climb the ranks.
Now "meritocracy" is just a massive web of patronage, with access to the inner layer predicated on outclassing all your peers in the outer layer. Whole industries exist to prove "merit" either through cheating explicitly (straight up buying accreditation) or implicitly (paying for study guides that contain the exact questions to be asked) and get you special access to the people doing manual selection of applicants. Its almost exclusively pay-to-play and a lot of it is scams.
Elon is a DEI hire because of his Asperger’s that causes sudden nazi salutes.
As someone who was diagnosed with asperger's syndrome when I was like three, I want to skin him alive for that piss poor excuse. The South African Nazi is just a maladapted sub-human who incapable of owning up to the fact that he is aggressively mediocre. Also im calling him sub-human cause je thinks he is better than anybody, its meant to be demeaning to his ego.
Also because he is an immigrant. This is like Dr. Strangelove, except he’s not in a wheelchair. He’s jumping around on stage. MEIN FUHRER, I CAN WALK!
$10 says she'll speak out about sexual harassment like that cunt Megyn Kelly.
Don't get me wrong, Megyn Kelly is a victim and is also a fascist.
<Al Pacino’s voice>
“Uh-oh… we’ve got a moron.”