I know this is going to sound flippant but honestly: is anyone surprised? This admin’s response said it all. It was, as usual, inconsistent from person to person and vague on details. Half the people speaking on it sounded like a student called in class who is trying to BS their way through an answer because they never read the book.

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ahmedfromtunis 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some might think of it as a feature, not a bug.

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jimmydoe 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Trump essentially rebuilt GOP, so this is a brand new party taking over governing a large county, you will expect a lot of inexperienced people put into the positions. things will get better in the next 1~2 decades as they learn.

btw I don't like Trump or MAGA, but this is what happens when the regime changes. When CCP won civil war and took over China, they had a lot of stupid policies, but decade later they are able to grow China to a super power.

	▲	BolexNOLA 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s been a decade and this is their second admin. This “new to the job” line wore out years ago, though if you’re going to be president I just don’t think that’s a suitable excuse to begin with. His entire pitch has always been “Me and my folks are the best for the job, everyone else is incompetent and corrupt.” The promise he made has turned out to be quite the disappointment. Hell how can anyone learn when his admin is such a revolving door and they vilify career civil servants? Here’s an idea: maybe don’t bring on Fox News pundits, podcasters, and anti-vaxxers to run your admin. Maybe don’t let the ketamine-fueled, unpredictable billionaire run around indiscriminately cutting federal programs in a legally dubious (at best) fashion. It’s not like these people were thrusted on him. As for your china example: I’d rather not go through periods of completely manufactured starvation and death. Maybe it’s naive of me to think there’s a better path forward here. People who think the only way forward is to break everything strike me as the kind of people who don’t understand how bad things can get when everything is broken.