Quote Originally Posted by Lullapie View Post
He made a few mistakes with his administration first time around but he is a very clever bloke. He isn't making the same mistakes again. He was undermined by the US Civil Service from 2016 and so this time he is getting rid of career Civil Servants, who have never had a job in the real world and bringing in people he can trust.

He is trying to resurrect a meritocracy rather than the technocracy that is currently in place. He's not alone, many countries are moving that way - not the UK though, but many other countries are.

You should rise through the ranks on your ability, not because you have the 'right' name, or went to the 'right' university, or progress through term of service.

This is how the word is upside down. To me, from a working class family, I want the ability to better myself. A technocracy prevents that. A technocracy enforces a form of caste system, that you can't rise through.

As an aside, good news out of the Middle East as a ceasefire is on the horizon. Nothing to do with the fact that the political onus has changed since the US election in the Middle East, I'm sure.

Hamas will have to cede many of the things that they have insisted on and territory lost, but they have been abandoned by many of their supporters in the Middle East since the US election.
I have seen no evidence that he's clever. Cunning, yeah. A solid con-man (the greatest in history perhaps) but not particularly bright at all.

I agree he will have learned from last time though. If he a pulls a Jan 6 again, for sure he will stack the Pentagon first. I expect him to deal with the military's lack of personal loyalty to him early on.

But a meritocracy? The guy inherited his wealth and then spectacularly mismanaged it. He is the least representative of meritocracy of any name I could think of. He isn't your champion, that's another of his cons. People like him (generational wealth) are holding people like us back.