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The new "merit" hiring plan wants applicants to write an essay on their favorite Trump Executive Orders.


"Going forward . . . all Federal job vacancy announcements graded at GS-05 or above will include four short, free-response essay questions:​
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3. How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.​
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TangledUpInBlue06 said:
The new "merit" hiring plan wants applicants to write an essay on their favorite Trump Executive Orders.


"Going forward . . . all Federal job vacancy announcements graded at GS-05 or above will include four short, free-response essay questions:​
. . .​
3. How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.​
. . ."​
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Sounds like a job for Grok or other AI …
 
heelinhell said:
nycfan may have posted news already, but WTF ???

www.huffpost.com

Pam Bondi Locks Bar Association Out Of Vetting Trump’s Judicial Nominees

America's main legal organization “no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications,” said Trump's attorney general.
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I found it so unsurprising it didn’t occur to me to post it, TBH. The W. Administration also disclaimed ABA vetting of their judicial nominees claiming the ABA was too liberal.

In any event, look at who Trump just nominated to run the Office of Special Counsel and the nomination of Bove (who at least has reasonable legal qualifications even if quite a leap to nominated him to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals) and his attack yesterday on Leo Leonard and the Federalist Society vetting of Trump appointees in his first term. Clearly he isn’t taking ABA or other advice on his nominees anyway.
 
Put this in the Tariffs thread but it TOTALLY deserves wider viewing.

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I deleted my snark about “civil unrest” because there were some significant protests about wages and jobs, so the civil unrest description is not completely unwarranted considering what it takes to get people to protest in China.
 
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BlooVooDoo said:
A bruised ego can be life threatening for narcissists.
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Narcissists present a false self that Trump displays to the public...arrogance, grandiosity, self importance, belittlement of others

The projection of the false self is intended to mask and protect the true self which is vulnerable, afraid, feeling inferior to others

Your post about a "bruised ego" is on target. In the psych biz we call it sustaining a narcissistic injury. This occurs when protection of the false self has been pierced and the narcissist experiences the pain of his true self frailties
 
altmin said:

Last month, Harvard released the 50th edition of their Youth Poll, and while it was focused on larger issues like financial hardship and declining trust in institutions, the crosstabs told a very interesting story. If all you knew about the podcast bro-verse was what you heard from panicked Democratic politicians and consultants on cable news, you would think that every 22-year-old man came off an assembly line straight from Elon Musk’s Twitter mentions. In fact, according to the Harvard Youth Poll, most of these right-wing podcasters barely make a dent in the zoomer zeitgeist.
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Interesting poll, but there are a few caveats. The manosphere is a very ideologically fluid label. There are a plethora of shows that could slot into the manosphere, so I’m not all that convinced when a poll shows certain men haven’t heard of certain figures. Several major figures aren’t listed in the poll at all. Plus, in my experience, the manosphere podcasts are more of a young Gen Z phenomenon than an old Gen Z phenomenon.

This poll does reveal the bigger dynamic, IMO. It’s the culture that’s driving these podcasts, not the other way around. That’s why Dems can’t bring these men back with their “own” Joe Rogan. We have to address the systemic issues.
 


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In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.

Mr. Trump has not publicly talked about the effort since. But behind the scenes, officials have quietly put technological building blocks into place to enable his plan. In particular, they have turned to one company: Palantir, the data analysis and technology firm.

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work across the federal government in recent months. The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Mr. Trump took office, according to public records, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. (This does not include a $795 million contract that the Department of Defense awarded the company last week, which has not been spent.)

Representatives of Palantir are also speaking to at least two other agencies — the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service — about buying its technology, according to six government officials and Palantir employees with knowledge of the discussions.…”
 
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