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  1. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    Being called a racist, exactly what purpose is served by insisting that sex, or, race, or sexual preference is a job qualification?
    But that is exactly what Biden is being compelled by the left to do.
     
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    Where?
     
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    Everywhere women are insisting he hire women, African-Americans an African-American, LGBTQ whatever one of their own, nowhere is anyone insisting that we get the mist qualified available candidate, note you won't get that from Biden anyway.
     
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    People want to be represented especially in areas that directly impact their lives (ie women don't want to see a man making decisions that impact their reproductive system and gay people don’t want people writing laws on healthcare that once called them evil or a coal lobbyist writing clean air regulations), this shouldn’t be that hard to comprehend.

    One of the issues in government currently is that the common (wo)man isn’t represented — only the rich to the super rich.

    As for Biden not hiring the most qualified (there is always someone better), they are all substantially more qualified than who they will be replacing.
     
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    Huh?

    Every person that Biden has picked is eminently qualified.

    Trump is the one who hired incompetent people.
     
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    The notion that you can only be represented by someone who looks like you is both narcissistic and stupid. I want someone who shares my views not my pigmentation to represent me. But that's a congressional or legislative job. For something like the joint chiefs I want an experienced military commander, with a knowledge of logistics, and the vision strategic and tactical to make sure his branch is well equipped and well trained to fight a modern war, and the wisdom to understand that not every problem is a amenable to that hammer he has in his back pocket. The over riding question is, based on his or her passed experience can he or she do that job. I wouldn't appoint anyone involved in the Libyan fiasco to any senior position.
    Joe's picks thus far are a who's who of crony capitalist swamp monsters and bottom feeders whose only demonstrated talent is enriching themselves at taxpayer expense.
     
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    Dude, you supported Donald Trump, who hired Omorosa and The Mooch. Watching you criticize Biden for who he hires would be amusing if it wasn’t so sad.
     
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    Yeah eminently qualified To rip of the tax payers and cause unmitigated disasters purely by accident.
     
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    That's an excellent description of the Trump presidency.
     
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    Not to mention a compulsive level of projection.
     
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    For the first 200 years being white, male, and straight were the qualifications......change can be frightening...
     
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    And fired them as soon as it became clear that they either couldn't or wouldn't do the job.one if the rules if good management is that you don't double down on your hiring mistakes.
     
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    One of the rules of good management is to not make so many hiring mistakes.
     
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    Nope got the first 200 years the qualifications were that you be competent at the job you were hired to do. A lot if white dudes stank and we're summarily fired. skin color didn't allow them to keep the job.
     
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    The reverse would be true the above however is a figment of your imagination.
     
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    It's about representation. Nothing more. That's what Biden means by saying the government will look like the people.
     
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    Talking about issues involving a specific race is NOT racist. Making hateful comments and/or treating someone differently SOLELY because of their race IS racist.

    I think the biggest problem in these race issues is that people simply won't talk to one another. It would go a long way toward healing if we all just listen better.
     
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    I would think that filling open positions with the best qualified candidates would be the primary objective, if we are to be a truly colorblind society with equality for all.
     
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    The political Left embraced Identity Politics as a nationally enforced rule long, long ago. It's just that they used to be more subtle about it, but now that they KNOW that the Mainstream Media has collectively got their 'interpretation of events' backs no matter what, they are open and above board that skin tone and gender IS the primary sliding scale qualifier with actual abilities to perform the specific task being waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down at the bottom of the list.

    Meh . . . it seems to work for the leadership and their Social Engineer fetish elites; as being selectively bigoted is now a Dem Party thing.
     
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    Someday that will happen.
     
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    Everybody makes mistakes. Especially when most of the people applying are mistakes for one reason or the other.
     
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    I would agree. It's a Shame the modern left continues to make a fetish of pigmentation...
     
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    Trump has the highest number of staff fired, released do to ethics violations, and those who have quit of any modern President.
    The entire group that put together his tax bill quit within 6 months of passing that bill.

    If Trump were the head of HR in any Fortune 500 company, he would have been fired after the first two years ( better late than never - bye Trump).
     
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    Yeah had he done what he should have done he'd have fired everybody above the rank of GS 12 and hired no one who ever previously worked in DC. And of course they quit or got fired swamp monsters aren't used to having to actually work for those big pay checks
     
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    You realize I was taking about people Trump hired, right?
     
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