Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
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PALLADIUM ^
| JUNE 1, 2023 | HAROLD ROBERTSON
The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent. This
has continually weakened our society’s ability to manage modern systems. At its inception, it represented a break from the trend of the 1920s to the 1960s, when the direct meritocratic evaluation of competence became the norm across vast swaths of American society.
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Court orders abortion for 11-year-old who said pregnancy made her feel ‘special’ A UK judge ruled a pregnant 11-year-old 'lacked competence' to carry on with the pregnancy
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FOX NEWS ^
| October 21, 2023 | Emma Colton
A U.K. judge ordered a pregnant 11-year-old to get an abortion, ruling that termination was in the girl’s best interest, according to local media reports. Court
documents stemming from a private hearing last month have since been publicly released and show that a 10-year-old girl only identified as AZ was raped by a 14-year-old boy she met online. She was reportedly raped a few weeks later by another 14-year-old boy after her 11th birthday, the Independent reported. "She became pregnant after being raped by a 14-year-old she met on the internet when she was aged 10, on the 18th or...
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Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
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The Palladium ^
| 6/1/2023
At a casual glance, the recent cascades of American disasters might seem unrelated. In
a span of fewer than six months in 2017, three U.S. Naval warships experienced three separate collisions resulting in 17 deaths. A year later, powerlines owned by PG&E started a wildfire that killed 85 people. The pipeline carrying almost half of the East Coast’s gasoline shut down due to a ransomware attack. Almost half a million intermodal containers sat on cargo ships unable to dock at Los Angeles ports. A train carrying thousands of tons of hazardous and flammable chemicals derailed near East Palestine, Ohio. Air...
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WATCH: MSNBC ‘Nut Job’ Donny Deutsch Claims Spending Obsession Makes Dems ‘Party of Competence’
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NewsBusters ^
| 2/27/2023 | Joseph Vazquez
MSNBC blowhard Donny Deutsch insisted the Democrats’ laundry list of inflation-exacerbating spending initiatives throughout President Joe Biden’s time in office was just the epitome of competence. Insufferable
MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough belched that the the people running the Michigan and Arizona GOP are supposedly “even bigger insurrectionists, bigger weirdos, bigger freaks” than the 2022 electoral cycle. The smug Deutsch, who once claimed that one in three Americans were racists, regurgitated Scarborough's anti-GOP drivel and praised the Democrats’ “blocking and tackling” starting “with our president.” Deutsch started throwing out economically disastrous leftist pipe dreams like “the climate bill,” Biden’s...
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Competence is dead and diversity killed it
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American Thinker ^
| 8 Feb, 2023 | M.B. Mathews
Have affirmative action hiring practices caused overall competence to plummet? The
record appears to show exactly that. For no good reasons whatsoever, competence was allowed to die on the vine in order to give the less competent a leg up. Not equality but superiority rules the hiring, firing, and education of Americans. Worse, many of those who were affirmatively hired do not do as good a job as those whose excellence was obvious. You can see it in customer service, which for many businesses is abysmally incompetent. There is a resentful casualness in those who are hired to serve others...
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The Race To The Bottom Accelerates: This is What Happens When Competence, Transparency and Accountability are All Punished
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Of Two Minds ^
| 01/27/2023 | Charles Hughes Smith
Race to the Bottom describes the process of competitive devaluation, where value is gutted to remain competitive with those who are grabbing market share by stripping out quality, value, durability, transparency, accountability and competence.We see the global Race to the Bottom in everyday products: the quality of goods has plummeted as manufacturers
compete to reduce costs to maintain high profit margins by stripping out the quality and durability of components. We see it in shrinkflation, where the cereal box contains less cereal while the price ratchets higher.We see it when cereals that once contained no sugar are now sickly-sweet because...
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The War on Competence
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American Thinker ^
| 22 Jan, 2023 | Clarice Feldman
The Left has replaced the class-war game with a war on competence and achievement, hiding beyond claims of racial and sexual equity. Decades
ago, the Left played the class-war game. These days it’s a war on competence and achievement, hiding beyond claims of racial and sexual equity. In Virginia, we are to believe that on their own, high school administrators in seventeen schools decided not to inform those of their students who had scored high enough on their scholastic aptitude tests to be named National Merit semi-finalists. Of course, it was not coincidental. Two factors are involved: The spurious claim...
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AP Analysis: Documents probe dents Biden’s claims to competence
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The Associated Press ^
| January 14, 2023 | By ZEKE MILLER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden offered himself to Americans as a president they wouldn’t have to think about after the tumult of his predecessor. But
an excruciating week of awkward disclosures and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate classified records found at his Delaware home and a former office dating to his time as vice president is beginning to strain his claim to competence. The surprise revelations that on three different occasions Biden’s lawyers found improperly stored classified documents and official records evoked the turmoil surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency, a four-year ruckus from which Biden has tried to...
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Maricopa County Made Arizona’s Elections Even More Of A Disaster Than People Realize: ‘This was a horrible thing to experience. Poll workers conveyed a shocking lack of competence — it actually looked like willful incompetence,’
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The Federalist ^
| 11/24/2022 | Shawn Fleetwood
After it trained upwards of 50,000 poll watchers, poll workers, and other roles for ongoing citizen engagement in the election process over the year leading up to the 2022 midterms, the Election Integrity Network sent out a survey to its on-the-ground volunteers following Election Day to gauge how things went.The responses from
election workers in key battleground districts and states around the country showed a mostly calm election cycle compared to 2020, with one massive and overwhelming exception. In Maricopa County, Arizona, election workers were appalled and aghast at how things had been run there.“As soon as we sent the...
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Swalwell: Voters Rejected Republican ‘Chaos’; Rewarded Democrat ‘Competence’
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Breitbart ^
| 11/15/2022 | Pam Key
Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the midterm voters rejected the Republican “chaos.” Anchor
Nicolle Wallace said, “Congressman, you were a voice on what voters really seemed to come out and respond to, and that was a call to protect our very democracy. Tell me how you are feeling one week after the midterm elections?” Swalwell said, “Feeling very good, Nicolle. The voters clearly rejected chaos, and that’s what the Republicans ran on. And they awarded competence. We ran on the infrastructure bill, the CHIPS Act, the Rescue Plan, and that frame worked in our direction....
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This Veterans Day, let’s listen to what our veterans say is wrong with our woke military - Military now values identity over competence as woke mandates chase veterans from service
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foxnews ^
| 11/11/2022 | Michael Pompeo
Today on this Veterans Day, I pray that all Americans will set aside our differences to honor those men and women whose sacrifices have allowed us to live in freedom. Thirty
years ago, I arrived at the United States Military Academy at West Point as a cadet with amazing young men and women from around the country. Throughout my time at West Point and then the U.S. Army, I served with people of every faith, race, social-economic class, and creed. They were literally from all walks of life in America, but they shared something in common: a love and respect...
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Your Manners And Competence Are Deeply Problematic
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David Thompson ^
| 20 Sep 2021 | DavidThompson
At a time when, despite increases in school funding, almost 80% of black and Hispanic eighth graders have been deemed “not proficient” in maths or reading, it’s unclear how improvements might be made while simultaneously graduating high-school pupils regardless of their performance, or even their attendance, and while shying from the existence
of such terribly oppressive things as correct answers. But as we’ve been told, more than once, “suspending proficiency requirements” will – in ways that are somewhat unobvious – “benefit” those on whom these things are inflicted. And parents will doubtless take comfort in the feats of mental contortion...
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Biden Ran on Competence and Empathy. Afghanistan Is Testing That
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The New York Times, via Yahoo News ^
| August 21, 2021 | by Peter Baker
For most of the past week, in the fires of the worst foreign policy crisis of his young administration, the president who won the White House on a promise of competence and compassion has had trouble demonstrating much of either. The
chaos in Kabul and his own conflicting messages have left Joe Biden struggling to assert command over world events and seemingly more intent on washing his hands of Afghanistan than expressing concern over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding on the ground. The tumultuous endgame of Biden’s withdrawal has undercut some of the most fundamental premises of Biden’s presidency — that...
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Joe Biden is facing a crisis of competence
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CNN Fake News ^
| 16 August 2021 | Chris Cillizza
After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence in, well, everything, the Biden argument was that the country badly needed a steady hand on the tiller -- someone who had been there and done that. Someone
who didn't need training to do the job. Someone who was exactly the opposite of the guy currently in office. - snip - Seven months into his first term, however, Biden is faced with nothing short of a crisis of that competence, beset on a number of fronts with developments that it appears all of his experience and know-how didn't prevent. The glaring example is,...
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Black and Latinx conservatives 'upshift' competence to white audiences: study
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phys.org ^
| 07/30/2021
When communicating in mostly white settings, politically conservative Black and Latinx Americans use words associated with competence more often than their liberal counterparts, distancing themselves from negative racial stereotypes, according to a new study by Yale social psychologist Cydney Dupree. The study, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, combined several experiments
to show that Black and Latinx conservatives, specifically those who are less concerned with social and economic inequality ("hierarchy-based conservatives"), are more likely to adopt language associated with power, status, and ability than liberals when addressing white people or operating in predominantly white spaces, including the halls of...
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'Competence Is Actually at the Helm': MSNBC Regular's Laugh Line of the Day
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NewsBusters ^
| Mark Finkelstein
In a line that was one where you had to rewind the show a few times to make sure it was real, MSNBC regular and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. appeared on Monday's Morning Joe and, in trying to explain Americans' relatively positive mood nowadays, got off this laugh line: "We cannot
underestimate the importance of competence...Competence is actually at the helm."Seriously? Try this thought experiment, if you dare: Imagine Joe Biden at the helm of the Ship of State. Estimated time to capsizing -- over/under 30 seconds! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
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Streisand: Joe Biden shows the competence, decency, and experience we hope to have in a President.
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Babs's Twitter Account ^
| Barbra Streisand
"In his CNN interview tonight Joe Biden shows the competence, decency, and experience we hope to have in a President. It is a stark contrast with Donald Trump."
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Biden: Lack of Trust in Trump Is Causing Market ‘Collapse’ – Trump Has ‘No Competence’ on Handling Coronavirus
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Breitbart ^
| 03/09/2020 | Ian Hanchett
During an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stated President Trump has “no competence” on handling the coronavirus and that the market is falling because people don’t trust what the president says. Biden
stated, “[T]his gets down to competence and capability. And the — unfortunately, the president has very — no competence in how to handle this crisis. Not that there’s any clear answer that you’re just going to make this all go away, but the idea that he shows up at the CDC and says that...
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America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence
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The Atlantic ^
| March 5, 2020 | Megan Garber
In November 2019, as the Democratic presidential candidates prepared for the primaries that had been taking place unofficially for more than a year and that would begin in earnest in February, FiveThirtyEight’s Clare Malone profiled Pete Buttigieg. In the process, Malone spoke with two women at a Buttigieg event in New Hampshire.
One liked Joe Biden, but felt he was a bit too old for the presidency. The other liked Buttigieg, without qualification: “I feel he’s well positioned,” she explained. “The country is ready for a more gentle approach.”
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Study: White liberals perform ‘competence downshift’ when talking to a black person
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Hotair.com ^
| 11-27-18 | John Sexton
This article on Yale’s website was published almost two weeks ago. The
author of the article, Cydney Dupree, is one of two researchers who started out looking at how white presidential candidates talk when they are addressing a mostly black audience compared to when they are speaking to a mostly white audience. Dupree, who is black, and co-researcher Susan Fiske of Princeton found the candidates were less likely to use words that expressed competence and more likely to use words that expressed warmth when talking to a minority audience: The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words in...
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