Much has been written in these parts about the crisis of competence that is creepy up on all aspects of life like the fog. Every day, competent people are aging out and being replaced by people who lack the competence. A complimentary problem, one also driven by demographics, is the Dunning-Kruger crisis. This the problem of incompetent, but highly confidence people, getting elevated into positions for which they are unqualified, simply due to the new ethics of the elites.
The difference here is that the crisis of competence is somewhat correctable, as the unqualified millennial replacing the retiring boomer, has some hope of learning what he needs to learn to do the job. He and his organization will have to suffer through the learning curve, but there is hope he will become competent. Alternatively, the race to supplement or even replace the incompetent millennial with technology offers the alternative of a robot competently doing the job.
The Dunning-Kruger, in contrast, offers no such hope. The person elevated into the position to satisfy the needs of the new morality has no chance to ever become competent at the task. Replacing them with technology is impossible, because it would undermine the whole point of the process. Instead, the system is simply expected to adapt to these new islands of confident incompetence. Every organization is being loaded up with crosses to bear as a form of contrition.
You see how this works with the Kamala Harris campaign. Regardless of the result, it will be remembered as one of the most inept operations in modern history, perhaps rivaling the 2004 Howard Dean campaign in Iowa or even the 1988 Mike Dukakis presidential campaign. After the initial media gaslighting, it has been one unforced error after another, all stemming from the fact the people running the campaign are sure they know everything, but in fact know nothing.
One small example is the Joe Rogan flap. Rogan is the biggest carnival act in so-called new media, so doing his show would be like doing Johnny Carson back in the 1970’s or the Rush Limbaugh show in the 1990’s. It offers a unique setting in front of a huge audience, which itself will attract an even bigger audience. It is the sort of platform a candidate needing attention craves. You take the gig, hope for the best and prepare for the explosion of post-show media coverage.
The Harris campaign never understood this. Instead, they tried to strong arm Rogan into rolling over for them, even leaving his comfy studio to meet them at a hotel somewhere to record a one-hour interview. They should have known he had no reason to take that deal, but stupid people lack second order thinking. Their unearned confidence in themselves compounded the error by carrying on as if they were doing him a favor by entertaining the request.
Rogan, who never liked Trump, did the shrewd thing and invited Trump on his show and Trump happily accepted the millions in free media. The resulting program broke the internet and further humanized Trump. The theme of his campaign this time is that he has dropped the sharp edges, having learned from the past. Hamming it up with Rogan, who was a smitten kitten the whole time, underscored this theme. Team Dunning-Kruger handed Trump a huge win as a result.
This one incident among many is a microcosm of the growing Dunning-Kruger crisis we see unfolding everywhere. It is not just that these people lack the required talents or experience for the task. It is that they lack the innate ability for the roles and the self-awareness to recognize it. Stupid people who realize they are outmatched can be managed, but stupid people who think they are geniuses are a danger to everyone and everything they touch. Invisible stupidity is lethal.
Look at who is running the Harris campaign, and the problem is obvious. The campaign boss is named Julie Chávez Rodriguez. She has three names because her only reason to exist in politics is she is the granddaughter of Cesario Chavez. Her qualifications for politics are that she is female, brownish and related to a famous brown guy. She has parlayed that into a career doing busy work, so that the nice white ladies could put her face on the organization brochure.
Julie Chávez Rodriguez no doubt looks in the mirror each morning and sees a world bestriding figure, when in reality she is a hapless simpleton. She is in this role because of her long relationship with Kamala Harris, another strong diverse female who is brimming with confidence despite having done nothing on her own worth noting, other than being a concubine of Willie Brown. The Harris campaign operates like the marketing pitch for the Christopher Rufo project.
There have been terrible national campaigns in the past, but the cause was always a candidate with little to sell running against a favored incumbent. Mike Dukakis never had a chance in 1988, so his people had few good choices. Bob Dole in 1996 was simply running to pad his obituary. He had no chance against Clinton, and he certainly knew it, but played the role anyway. Harris has the full support of official Washington and the political regime but is still losing.
Given the reality of our politics, this sort of ineptitude may seem trivial, but the Dunning-Kruger crisis is rolling out everywhere. It is why certain members of the economic elite are panicking about DEI at elite universities. They suddenly realized that their good deed installing someone like Claudine Gay as president of Harvard could come at a price to them beyond embarrassment. Handing power to entitled stupid people brimming with unearned confidence is playing with fire.
It is comforting to think that maybe the outbreak of incompetence among the elites due to the cult of diversity will cause them to pull back, but that is not the way to bet because of the religious fanaticism around the cult of diversity. If Harris loses next week, expect to hear endless cries of racism. If she wins, the resulting catastrophe will be blamed on the bogeyman. The Dunning-Kruger crisis ends only when the forces and people behind it come to an end.
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Every chance we get we should impose diversity on the elites (and on every liberal we know). Shame your liberal friends into getting black doctors. Demand our military and top level officials fly on jets with black pilots. Tell them to take migrants into their neighborhoods. Encourage feminists to let transsexuals into their locker rooms. You’ve got to be vicious and strategic. The character of these people never changes but they do feel pain and they will back off.
Well you hit the nail right on the head, T. I got into the workforce just affirmative action was ramping up. The diverse workplace back then was in the shipping department and out on the shop floor with the peons… but you never saw it in the office where the management worked – and for good reason. Management HAD to be taken seriously, dontchya know!!! Whenever I was hunting for a job hunting I kept a very sharp eye out for diversity. If I had to work in close proximity to it I turned my nose up at it. F… Read more »
In general I concur, but there will always be exceptions to the rule. For example, if some of the co-workers were women that looked like Halle Berry (in her prime) I would swallow my racist pride and try to make the best of a difficult work environment.
They will, of course, refuse to do it, with myriad excuses…LIberals are completely untroubled by hypocrisy…
Being a Leftist means never having to be aware of yourself.
This is a point I make a lot. They’re not even hypocrites. Being a hypocrite assumes you have the same rulebook, but hold yourself to a different standard (or exempt yourself). What people don’t understand is that there are two completely different rule books. One for the Chosen People and one for the Bad People. The Team Blue rulebook doesn’t even contemplate the idea that they might have to conform to rules in the Team Red rulebook. Which is how you get to be a complete racist who hates white people. Team Blue? Totes cool. Abortion? Not even required to… Read more »
There is a vast gulf between the liberals and the elites. You might force DEI on the former, and that will happen if this proceeds (it may collapse soon), but the latter–never. You never will see video of the pilots who ferry the anointed to Davos.
Providing security to the Klaus Schwabs of the world must pay really well. Cause I dunno how else they live with themselves.
I’ve commented before on the White pilots who fly around black ‘celebrities’ like JayZ or provide security for them. Unfortunately, there have always been Whites who will do despicable things for money.
White people in professional fields try to be professionals. When you drive the truck you don’t get to decide what is loaded in the back. A pilot is still an employee with a family to feed, quitting over bad freight is rather silly.
By your reasoning, then, the ‘professional’ nurse who assists in ‘gender reassignment surgery’ is just an employee doing her job and declining to participate or looking for other work in the field would be ‘rather silly.’
There have been nurses who quit and blew the whistle on abortionists and their illicit operations. There is a point where one can not rationalize taking part in evil.
How about a surgen saving the life of a child you don’t like the race of. Should an airline pilot refuse to fly the pax who are the wrong race.
Your example is rediculus and extreme. Gender affirming care is not a public service last I checked. I think everone in the field are abusing children in the worst possible way and should be jailed.
I think transportation services fall in a slightly different catagory.
I’m not talking about public transportation or even chartered planes. These are private planes and private pilots who are highly paid to fly around trash and they do it for the money. You obviously see commerce and businesses as race neutral. I do not. And a surgeon is not a public servant and ought to be able to decide to whom he is willing to provide his services and expertise. No, I do not consider health care a God or government-ordained ‘right.’
An ER is somewhat of a public utility.
A lot of celebrities fly commercial and corporate. The pilots have no choice on who is in the back. You imply they should quit and walk away over flying trashy celebs and politicos.
You should be specific that the pilots who fly their personal planes are bad humans and not generalize.
The vast majority of profesional pilots are just workers. Maybe we are all just scum to work in the corrupt American sustem. YIMV.
Tell me you haven’t drove a truck without telling me you haven’t drove a truck…You are responsible for what you carry and can damn sure decide to not drive it if it’s carrying something you don’t agree with…
We have plenty of evidence and get more daily that there is no shortage of white people who are willing to betray and sell out their own people in a way that other races simply do not. We saw it vividly in Ohio just a couple months ago. Maybe it is due to the centuries of strife in Europe but there is something in our make up that leaves us unable to look out for each other.
Something tells me very few Davosians live in the Parisian banlieues, Brixton or East Saint Louis.
We can’t impose because we don’t have power. However, your sentiment is most commendable.
Yes. If I had ever gotten tenure I would have trolled the fuck out of them. I would have had a blast. I would have gone into the Faculty Senate and demanded that they change the name of the college to “George Floyd University,” LOL.
Alas… I never got tenured because they figured out that you don’t give people who are not on Team Left the ability to use the same power they use against everyone else.
You mean as when Texas bussed migrants to Martha’s Vineyard?
One of the rare times that the Right made the Left live up to the edicts that they impose on us underlings
Way, way more of that is needed. Make the consequences of their totalitarianism hurt, personally. This is the only lingo they understand and respond to.
The Right must stop apologizing and wanting to Be Friends with enemy elements. Like Trump’s first term — immediately wanting to Be Bygones with Hillary. Let’s all get along b.s. That told me he ain’t got what it takes.
To be fair to Trump, he did put his hand out across the aisle to unify what was a very divided country.
Where he failed spectacularly was not realising early on that you can’t make deals with people who go only for the kill.
He compounded that error by putting his enemies into positions of power in the government where they could do a Julius Caesar on him.
The left then went on to impeach him twice and he still didn’t get it.
“The left then went on to impeach him twice and he still didn’t get it.”
In fair measure because the traitors around him assured him this was all a nothingburger.
Way too many of them care more about what they say and how it makes them feel than what they actually do and whether the results are beneficial to anyone. They’re just as likely to tell you “I’d go see a black doctor, but you know, I have a very unique and rare situation, and medical schools discriminate against blacks, so the white doctor was my only choice.” I personally enjoyed women getting the snot beat out of them at the Olympics last summer. I can chirp from the cheap seats until I turn blue, or I can just widely… Read more »
I concur with your approach. I don’t go around demanding group boycotts, and almost every retail company is equally loathsome, but I have to buy food and household goods somewhere, so I grit my teeth and generally try to get the best deal I can. But I have never bought Chobani and I refuse to by Tysons – and now that I know they’ve joined with Ulukaya’s immigrant scheme, I refuse to buy Boar’s Head. It helps to have an alternative (where we now live I buy Kretschmar cold cuts). I, too, enjoy watching women squeal about the trannies –… Read more »
AINO is both a corporocracy and a copraocracy…
As I’m fond of saying at rightie sites like Breitbart, there would be NO ‘trans’ anything were it not for a century of preceding feminism, which demanded trans, homosexual celebrationism, drag queen story hour, and all the rest of it. The Breitbartians hate hate HATES hearing that they and their entitled daughters and wives birthed transsexualism. Better to roar and rage and pretend they had nothing to do with it, whilst borrowing an aggrieved and innocent tone. When in fact, those very dotter-daddies approved and paid for it. American women and weak men created the frankenstein of trans. Now he… Read more »
First or second stage of Marching Morons.
I was at the border crossing shopping mall the other day (Sam’s Club) and it hit me worse than it usually does. Sunday must be diversity plus day but all I could think was, how do you govern these people? Win or lose next week we are still stuck with all of this.
My special hell is waiting behind diversity attempting to master self-checkout.
I live in a metropolitan exurb on the edge of farm country.
You wouldn’t believe how many different tongues I hear spoken there on any given night of the week.
Yesterday in the sole grocery store in our small town (15 miles from home) I saw a black woman. And then in the nearest Walmart (another small town 8 miles further away) I saw a black woman, and a White woman with a mulatto daughter. Absolutely ruined my day.
Since this was mentioned in the group, I’ve begun to notice White grandmothers with their half caste grandchildren. Very sad sight indeed. I often wonder upon the story of how such came about.
No need to wonder… mudshark daughter on drugs, baby daddy in prison.
I would bet you large sums that those sad grandparents never discussed racial reality with their children and never lay down unambiguous lines about what they would and would not accept as far as future family members (our boys knew early on). Weak, shriveled fruit from poorly-rooted trees. The fact that they are willingly accepting and caring for mixed-race grandchildren tells you all you need to know.
We need our own country again…
It’s a must. In the final analysis, no other option is acceptable.
It took baby steps to get where we are. Whether you think this all started in 1865 or 1965, or whenever, it’s not like we woke up one morning and, “Oh, noes, our country is full of ferriners!” It took decades at the very least, though it was heavily weighted in the last few.
It’s going to take baby steps to get back from where we are, too. Probably more time than it took to get here, because entropy.
Hopefully progression on that path is acceptable, or might as well throw in the towel now.
Immigrants and faggots, they make no sense to me,
They come to our country and think they’ll do as they please,
Like start some mini-Iran or spread some fucking disease,
They talk so many God damned ways, it’s all Greek to me.
— Guns ‘n’ Roses
“mini-Iran”?
I always thought the phrase was, “media rants,” but what the heck do I know?
“Fuckin’ Foreigner, comes here and wants to know what love is.”
It is wise to avoid dieversity wherever one encounters it. And that goes a fortiori for checkout lines in any business venue.
When we take power, the people who invented self-checkout are going to camps!
When self-checkout first started, they were a godsend. Even the express aisles were a couple miles long, and a lot of the people had well over 20 items. A single clerk could handle maybe a dozen checkouts, so I was able to get out of there with my bottle of scotch, maybe waiting 30 seconds for the ID check, because they always prioritized people who had few items.
It’s still faster than the old way, no matter what complaints people have about it
Perhaps, but chains are reducing and eliminating them due to theft. And of course “faster” than the old way means little to me when my neighbor is out of a job due to such automation.
Since moving to rural, heritage America I’ve developed unknown reservoirs of patience. The people here all know each other, and chat a bit, but they are still mindful of those waiting behind them. I just smile and remind myself I am not in a big hurry, and I remain thankful for the people and the place.
Wouldn’t have expected to see that response from someone in the tech field. How many clerks and typists and accountants got fired because of your field?
Been hearing a lot of that. I live in an average American city that rarely makes the news and has no reputation for being minority-filled. It’s 80% white, steadily so since an Asian influx in the ’80s—says this official graph here. I live near one of their churches, so I see those Asians all the time, in graph-appropriate numbers. But I only see white people—more than a pair of white people—when I do white-people-specific things, like shop for specialty gasoline or go see some avant-garde chamber music. The numbers are fake. Our eyes are just starting to adjust to the… Read more »
The primary language at the Costco in southern San Diego County is Spanish. Several years ago some Norwegian relatives of mine wanted to visit Tijuana. We passed a schoolyard near the border and after surveying the composition of the children at recess, they asked me if we were still in the USA.
Poor silly Scandi bastards! They don’t realize that the US is turning into one of those third world countries that borders other third world countries. The official government of country A controls its capitol city while, hundreds of miles away, you have the capitol of country B, which is totally controlled by their government. The intervening territory just slowly fades from the A type of peasants to the B type with local “security” being provided by whatever local warlords or narco-gangs happen to have the most firepower. I can easily imagine that eventually the “USA” will be greater DC and… Read more »
That applies across much of AINO today. The Texas public school in a neighboring DFW suburb, a few blocks from where we drove our older son to his private, Christian primary school was almost entirely mestizo. The public primary school in the prosperous ‘safe’ suburb in which we lived (and thankfully left 20 months ago) and where our younger son attended first grade is today 26% White. Yet another example of why I despise voting. Demography is destiny.
@David Wright –
Bingo. Nail on the head. There is this strange idea that all of this damage is somehow reversible. It is not. All that lies ahead is figuring out how you will survive the new ‘Murica. There is no going back to the place it once was. It may as well be called Little Africa now.
So many are WAY the hell too gloomy. The solution is that the Empire must die. ALL empires die, so this is not some wild fantasy, but a certainty. It’s also true historically that the imperial elite governing empires that are about to die rarely see it coming, and most were a lot smarter than the trash running the GAE. It’s like predicting rain. The ‘when’ and the ‘how much’ is hard, but predicting that it is going to happen at all is trivial. Even the Sahara Desert has precipitation events. It’s not about ‘country’ any more. It’s about people,… Read more »
Horace – official borders or precise territory is the least of my concerns. White people are under 10% of the world’s population. Whites in AINO are perhaps 53% – including however many shitlibs. About 64% of the US population below age 40 is non-White. Those millions either need to be expelled or exterminated by fewer and fewer White youth (again including shitlibs). I consider that more than gloomy, and will not rely on hopium.
Agreed there is too much DOOM, but an EMP or Carrington event is not going to affect TPTB all that much. They probably won’t have to cut their air travel all that much. Most of the .mil hangers are EMP protected, as well as a fair share of commercial. Plenty of generators and transformers safely hidden away, as long as you are only taking care of thousands, not tens of millions. A financial collapse would leave most people to busy with root hog or die to do anything, either. AINO is going to be resilient. Like it or not, you… Read more »
This is rampant in the corporate world. But in olden tymes, the “first” to be elevated to a position was generally smart enough to understand the game that was being played. So they would surround themselves with competent people and it all worked out. Worked indirectly for two of those early in my career. Problem now is you have these “new” university cohorts that have been told how “special” and “smart” they are from grade school (as well as how “bad” whitey is), thus hubris + no self reflection. And they surround themselves with Chavez types. You can’t work around… Read more »
I recently saw this with a former client. Girl boss replaced old white guy who was there forever. She then cleared out the finance department of the pale and stale, replacing them with diversity. Soon, I started receiving calls about how various programs and processes were not working. These are things that were put in place long ago. I would get emails like “I entered all of the data but now it is missing. The system must have erased it.” Turned out that she did not understand how to save her work. Something that compounds this is the millennial assumption… Read more »
Your second path is worthy of Websters in defining a key aspect of millennials and younger.
You say this, but have you ever considered competent millennials are not promoted on purpose because they’re viewed as “mean”?
D-K effect aside, competent individuals are often not promoted because they are competent and therefore threatening to incompetent superiors. There are variations of this. I recall this happening to me in a position I held. I completed a project for which I was recruited directly by the CEO to complete (it was months overdue)—in 6 weeks. The powers that be (between me and the CEO) assembled to discuss the roll out and process and see the demo. I was then specifically not allowed to present such, but rather had to “train” superiors to make the presentation. I was naive in… Read more »
That happened to me. I’ve found imcompetent bosses give you a run down of a problem, ask for your opinion, then present your opinion to superiors and then take credit for it. Or they just flat out don’t manage, a team of three i was once on, myself and two women. If you combined both of their outputs i still out performed them by 50%. You can only do this so long before you begin to burn out, but don’t you dare ask your manager to have the girls pick it up, even though you’re all paid the same amount.… Read more »
First, I meant “Second paragraph.” Second, he is not talking about talented exceptions; he is discussing the unwashed median. Third, the world has become a bumper car ride or padded room for young folks (the proxy for tech), but they have no understanding of how this ride or room works, and, therefore, they cannot maintain the system that insulates them, and they lack the self-awareness and efficacy to address that issue. I work with young folks, about 18, that are probably the top 5% of the nation’s youth in this age bracket. I like them and they like me. I… Read more »
Understood, but its a double edged sword. Those kids were raised by someone, and those incompetent parents were also raised by someone. It’s a slippery slope.
I agree. I don’t lay the blame at their feet. But, given a bad hand, what else can you do but play it as best you can? Bemoaning the Boomers does no good, except to diagnose where they went wrong.
i wasn’t bemoaning the boomers, you were bemoaning my generation. My dad is a boomer, and he hates his generation. Free love and drugs and nothing matters!
Ah yes! PICNIC! Problem in chair not in computer.
PEBKAC – Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Computer
The military equivalent in my day was “Operator Head Space.”
I believe it was Confucius who first said that…
EBKAC
Error between keyboard and chair
The guard rails are just the latest manifestation of a general disinterest in learning the “why” of things. Starting somewhere in the late Boomer, crescendoing in mid Z, underlings wanted to know the answer to the problem, like their teachers trained them, instead of understanding how the system works.
“Shut up, old timer! Just tell me what to set the dials to so I can go out drinking.”
That’s why there are so many incompetent over you. There are just that few competent ones left.
Goes the other way IME
I always wanted to know “why”. I don’t mind doing it, but I like to learn why we’re doing it this way so i can understand and learn.
90% of the time. “Just STFU and do it cuz I told you to”
Older GenX
There are some of those, to be sure. I find it very difficult to believe that even in a 25-ish person company, there wasn’t one Silent or older Boomer who, if asked, wasn’t happy to share what he knew. Sometimes in excruciating detail. Which is largely why they had to be asked, and, eventually, were hesitant anyway — too many, “Don’t you ever shut up?”
As an older X, you’ve seen that, I’m sure.
Resist pressure, keep your head down and don’t hire them so you don’t have to fire them (which you can’t).
I hired a negress once for the simple reason that on objective measures, she was the best candidate among an indifferent lot. I now regret it. She has become a social pest, and particularly right now as the tsunami of Trump derangement reaches its crest. If such a situation arises again, I will hire the “second-best” candidate. Lesson learnt.
That shows that IQ isn’t everything. Even the “talented tenth” can bring unforeseen problems.
As the plandemic clearly and painfully demonstrated, IQ isn’t everything among whites either
Spot on. Among things I learned from Covid is that intelligence, like autism, is on a spectrum. I never was overly trusting but the little I imagined vanished between March 2020 and that August.
There was always this line about You can trust everyone or you can trust no one, there really isn’t much difference”
I used to be in camp A. After 2020 I”m in Camp B.
Yep. I realized long ago that there is no upside to associating with blacks — even the “good ones” — because everything becomes fraught with the potential for racial tension.
There is nothing — NOTHING — I need in life that I cannot get from the other 87% of the population.
So small-minded are they that blackness is their entire universe. And anything that doesn’t comport in an expressly positive way with blackness becomes an immediate salient for conflict. There’s no living with these people. Even the “good ones.”
“So instead we just get civilizational entropy.” Well put.
The worst part is that, because these people are superstitious primitives, there will never come a “you won’t have Nixon to kick around moment” for the white race. Surely, if a state were to hypothetically lose one-hundred percent of its white population, they could not blame that state’s failures on the white man? Oh, but they could, and would (and will, if they get the chance.) There could literally be no white people left in America, and, like a neolithic cult, the diversity would gather around statues and paintings of white people and shout at them. “There’s no more glow… Read more »
Well, as we know, black neighborhoods are terrible because White people had the audacity to flee them and take all the magic dirt with them. Damn White people.
One of the attributes of civilisations in decline and dissolution is the lack of attention to detail and quality, the lack of emphasis on quality and performance. And this is throughout the collective West, not just the USA. Sure, DEI is a major culprit — but the malaise goes deeper than this and one might argue that the tolerance of DEI is itself a symptom of broader decadence. Performance and accomplishment have largely ceased to matter in both popular and elite culture. Hence my running around manically to find a competent mechanic, a competent electrician, a competent plumber, a competent… Read more »
A few years ago my wife wanted our kitchen cabinets redone. The older white guy who built them originally gave us a bid my wife considered to be high, so she went with some Mexican guy instead (she is part Scottish and something of a cheapskate, so when she goes cheap I tell her inner Scotswoman is showing). The Mexican made a mess of it, so she hired the white guy to undo the mess and refinish the cabinets, which cost more, of course.
Same here. If it’s an old white man, I accept his bid without haggling. You get what you pay for. You want quality, you pay for it. One of my mentors decades ago hammered into my skull the saying, “Not cheap at any price.”
“You can have it done cheaply, quickly and competently. Pick two.”
Just got a tooth pulled. Millennial twat dentist with woke stickers on her car who inherited Daddy’s dental practice referred me to a couple of greasy Pajeets who took my insurance. Um, no thanks, I want my oral surgeon to come from a country with toilets. I paid out of pocket for a practice staffed by white goys with an Eastern European surgical tech to do it. Worth every penny.
Oooooo! To do the needful please, and bite down on the lamb seekh kabab!
A penny wise is a pound foolish.
Yea that’s what happens when you let women make decisions that will cost you if the right one isn’t made…
That last sentence. Keep your eye on the Middle East, because the incompetence that has infected our institutions has reached into the military-industrial complex and into the highest reaches of the Pentagon. It will be difficult to gaslight 300 million Americans should one of our aircraft carriers get split in two by a Persian missile.
That’s what it’s going to take, unfortunately. A Battle of Sedan-type disaster is wonderfully clarifying for the national mood. Alas, it’ll have to be in a declared war against a near-peer opponent. Not just Houthi and the Blowfish doing it, as that will be written off as sneaky Arabs getting lucky (as they so often do, vs. AINO). But since Netanyahu is so obviously trying to drag AINO into a war with Iran, at the same time the Neocons are so obviously trying to drag AINO into a war with Russia, many opportunities to lose a carrier or three should… Read more »
Yes. This has been my point here recently. Thermodynamic/kinetic events bring about change. Disasters and crises bring about reform.
I’ve seen this concept called a ‘1905 moment’, a reference to the Russians being surprised at the ass-kicking the Japanese gave them during their brief 1905 war, which did massive damage to the old regime’s legitimacy. The Russians were so used to fighting central Asians with mid 80’s IQ, that they failed to make the distinction that Japanese (iq 105 population mean) were simply not more of the same. It damaged the regime’s auras of invincibility when it was needed most in the years before WW1 when they were attempting massive social and economic reform. The mistake was pretty unforgivable,… Read more »
Losing a carrier in the Persian Gulf won’t be enough. There will be plenty of excuses to go around and while it would hurt, it wouldn’t be devastating. A devastating blow could be launched against the Houthis or Iran or whoever. This would cause a lot of problems, but probably not spell the end of the empire. Losing a carrier in the Taiwan Straight is another story. Sending in another carrier to deal a blow could easily end up with another carrier on the sea floor. There would be no chance of replacing them in a timely manner. Given these… Read more »
I suspect it was economically convenient.
Not entirely true. The Shanghai district became the first “free-trade zone” in China in the ’90s. (As “free-trade” as China has, or even the USSA, for that matter.)
Their economic boom is largely correlated to their liberalization. The wogs’ mistake was thinking the Chinese would prefer a high standard of living and freedom to communism and authoritarianism.
Liberalization of trade and commerce is not general liberalizaton (“Democracy”).
There was never any reason whatsoever to assume China would embrace globohomo.
People don’t stop doing something that is creating an outcome they wanted. This is why I also don’t believe China is going to embrace a new Maoism either, despite the recent crackdowns.
Things with China did not go as predicted because the people running AINO could not admit that the Han Chinese have a far stronger ethnic, political, and psychological will than AINO.
This is why the Han Chinese were able to resist converting their society to a political system that would have been compatible with the long-term goals of AINO.
Fair. Didn’t know that was what you were talking about. I was replying to,
“What kind of moron believes that when you do something and it causes you to become wealthy, once you become wealthy, you will see the ‘error of your ways’ and entirely change?”
The Han did change, but only in some market reforms. They assumed once Chinese people saw what the market would do for them, internal pressure would do the rest. Sometimes that’s been true, sometimes not.
I’ve heard a lot of people say that, if a carrier is sunk near Taiwan that the US would be forced to nuke Beijing and Shanghai.
Somehow I don’t find that credible. But there are lots and lots of Americans who believe WW II was won by bombing, so I suppose anything is possible.
Today’s aircraft carriers are as obsolete as battleships were in World War II. The only thing keeping them afloat, should the United States pick a fight with the wrong country, is the residual fear of its military left over from the 1940s.
10 years ago, even 5 years ago, everyone was droning on about how 2gw was obsolete and how even 3rd gen warfare was fading slowly and everyone would have to learn how to do 4th gen warfare. Here we are, back at 2nd gen warfare. When they stop building new carriers, I’ll believe they are obsolete. People were saying tanks were obsolete. War requires a lot of shipping. A lot of movement of people on the seas. Having an offshore mobile base for planes seems like a pretty big advantage in war. Perhaps they are obsolete, but only against peer… Read more »
Plenty of battleships were built during WWII . . . despite their no longer being queens of the seas.
My 4-D theory is someone in the Pentagon has been tasked with tipping the Iranians off about what Israel is doing in order to prevent the big war between Israel and Iran. Lots of rumors about the last Israel attack having to be aborted. They supposedly put a hundred planes in the air and then fired a few dozen missiles at some abandoned buildings. The rumor is they encountered air defenses they did not know the Iranians possessed and had to abort the mission. Of course, if Iran knew what was coming, they would be better able to intercept the… Read more »
The American military industrial complex (MIC) have been running a scam on the taxpayer for decades now, whereby they wage lopsided conflicts against third world peasants with overpriced weapons of questionable efficacy. The end of the Cold War could have been a problem for them, as no one was funding the farmers and herdsmen, but they solved this by funding both sides themselves (perhaps unintentionally). The Middle East is a far bigger problem for the MIC. They cannot say no to the Jewish-influenced politicians upon whom their funding relies, any more than they can risk having their scam exposed. Dead… Read more »
Yes. The Izzys pulled their punches for some reason. The confirmation is that no one is bragging about the attack. If it was at all successful we would be seeing endless reports from the neocons concerning their defeat of the “mad Mullahs” of Iran.
Supposedly the latest, greatest gen 5 F-35Is were easily tracked by Iranian radar and had to turn back after an early launch. The Israeli F35s are probably better than the scrap heap ones in our military and have a much higher in-service ratio compared to ours well under 50%. Yet the neos are slavering for a shot at backwards Russia.
From the descriptions I’ve read and heard, it sounds as though the radar warning receivers (RWRs) in the Israeli aircraft lit up like a Christmas tree and reported, “Signal Unknown,” which spooked them.
That RWR report absolutely should spook them for a couple reasons. One is the obvious idea that they were being tracked and a firing solution was being developed.
The second reason is that it signifies a serious lapse in AINO’s signals intelligence, which is one of the areas of electronic warfare where AINO was believed to still hold a significant advantage versus the Russians.
My “info” (rumors, really) is a few decades old, but I would question the foregoing narrative just a bit, never the less. No sensible big country in its right mind is going to share its latest signals intelligence or other “above top secret” tech with an ally. Not Russia with Iran, and Not the US even with Our Greatest Ally. What does almost surely exist is espionage by friendly allies. Technical know-how, classified and otherwise, has been exiting the US for longer than I’ve been alive. We’re speaking here mainly of the classified stuff. China gets most of the press… Read more »
It’s a retarded theory any competent war planner would bust a chuckle at. If there were a faction in the Pentagon leans towards seeing that kind of war as a problem, it follows they see Israel as a rabid animal. That kind of conflagration would likely wipe Israel out before the US had time to react in the way Israel desires. Self-correcting problem.
It flies under the radar mostly, but there have been numerous leaks from DOD of late, to your point, and charges have not always followed. A woman suspected of leaking to Iran over the last foray was transferred rather than even suspended pending investigation. We live in an essentially totalitarian system now, so factionalism is all the rage. The factions at odds here seem to be Defense and State/IC.
Yes, yes…eventually the only real “experts” left at the DOD will be experts in procuring $$$ for boondoggles like the F-35.
You mean this salty sea dog does not inspire confidence in you and fear in our enemies?
“Mr. Putin, I want to talk to the manager!”
If that pic doesn’t give you a blast of the deep down willies, your cerebral cortex has been severely maimed.
She should be baking cookies for her grandchildren. Instead, she is leading the U.S. Navy.
We are limping deer in front of the wolfpack.
Can’t you just picture the sort of ‘man’ who put a ring on that?
Might not be a man…..
Unfortunately, the reverse is as likely to happen as not. Think Pearl Harbor, 1941 . . . . “surprise attack” and a disaster of the first order for the U.S. Navy. Why was the fleet at Pearl? Because FDR had insisted on putting there a year or so prior over the objections of the commanding admiral at the time. Without getting into the backdoor to war thesis, on the face of it, the public should have blamed the president for his incompetence, putting American sailors and soldiers in harms way. Instead, it was off to WWII. What happened to the… Read more »
The focus won’t be racism, but mostly sexism. The childless cat ladies will be outraged and may focus part of their rage on black men if they don’t turn out for Kamala in high enough numbers. My theory on her lagging numbers with black men is that she reminds them of the worst ex girlfriend they ever had. I doubt the black vote even matters that much in key states, but these women are not rational about anything and are just looking for anyone else to blame.
Living around NYC for decades, saw plenty of these. Long ago called them “DUBBs” Dried up bitter bitches. They bought into the Cosmopolitan mag “you can have it all” myth and either waited too long and remained single or did end having kids late. But had to subcontract raising them, messed the kids up, and were exhausted all the time. Then eventually drove their husbands away and are alone, angry and with seriously screwed up offspring that don’t like them.
Obama was the ideal black candidate because he was polished enough for black men to admire and safe enough for black women to view as a role model for their sons. He was their favorite actor, Denzel Washington, as a politician. Harris reminds black men of their baby momma and black women find her alien and false. Blacks will still vote 90-10 for her, but turnout will be much lower than typical. It will not matter all that much, outside of PA or MI, maybe.
My favorite part of the election so far was when Former President Polly Prissy-Pants went out to lecture black men about voting for Kamala and coming across as “disappointed” in them because they wouldn’t vote for her. I saw the video and he was the most tin-eared I’ve ever heard him. It was like even HE didn’t believe what he was trying to sell. But it was all hectoring and I imagine the men he was talking to were fighting mightily NOT to roll their eyes. 🙄 Between him and Michelle his wife nagging men to vote for Kamala, oh… Read more »
“We’re not the problem, you voters are the problem” really began with The Precious. Before him, politicians never criticized the voters. Ever. He started it (“clinging”), and in the years since it has snowballed into a burgeoning trend, such that now even Republicans are beginning to do it (“cat ladies”).
hollywood and games industry (both democrat) have started telling their customers they’re racists and bigots now since they produce shit, all started in 2016. Things that make you go hmmmmm
Wasn’t it a certain German leader who, at the end of a certain war, was constantly talking about how the German people had let him down.
The cat ladies might think better of that plan and instead focus their anger on “Mormons” like they did after the gay marriage referendum didn’t pass in California (largely due to the high number of blacks and hispanics voting against it)
It will be interesting to watch the “progressive stack” fall apart as the country’s planned “browning” proceeds. The media had generations to coax Whites into accepting all sorts of evil perversion, now including the idea that you simply cannot object to trannies going after your kids. The same elites who did that have seemingly spent all their time on just encouraging non-White migration willy-nilly. The result is that the incoming brown hordes have not been properly “trained” at all in the virtues of letting their women run wild and then watching their sons become women themselves. You see an especially… Read more »
It will matter a lot in PA. Probably over 20% of the population is in like 5 or 6 counties, all with high black populations.
According to the 2020 exit poll 11% of Pennsylvania voters were black and they went 92-7 for Biden. I don’t think the candidate split will change much, Trump might hit 10-12% and the percentage of the electorate might drop to 9-10%. He needs to improve his share of the white vote to win the Rust Belt states.
And Michigan. Detroit is 85% Negro.
“unqualified millennial replacing the retiring boomer” As a card carrying member of Gen-X, I want to thank you for skipping us. Hopefully we can continued to slide by unnoticed.
That seems to be the plan. Everyone my age I know in the business world is just hoping to lay low until retirement.
Just playing out the string Boss. 🍹😎
We’re like the new Silent Generation. All of the benefits, none of the blame
Dunning Kruger may be our only hope for the failure of globohomo’s burgeoning tyranny. If they can’t run basic utilities then they can’t very well impose an effective CBDC regime. Bearing this in mind, we should probably demand all the dieversity we can in the federal government. Does anyone have a more feasible or more effective idea of how it can be crippled?
For the true believers it is about diversity. For the scheming misanthropes it is a patronage network and an enforcement network. This is about burning the ladders and shutting the doors. The country has been occupied for a long time. Now it is conquered. The, “diversity”, is a permeate satrapy designed to wall off any and every avenue to those who have been conquered. It is the failed leaders of the conquered who were so incompetent that they put themselves into this position and fell for such a stupid idea. Now some people who are extremely competent are going to… Read more »
Upvoted for the phrase “burning the ladders and shutting the doors.” This is the future unless changes are made and competence is restored. We will be shut out of everything until finally the end comes.
Crazy that we just sit around and wait for it to happen to us…
I dunno, Z. I’m inclined to agree about declining competence… but a week or two back, I saw the first stage of a mighty rocket fall out of the skies, punch a hole in the clouds on the way down… and then stand on its tail, and gently lower itself on a column of flame back onto a gantry and shut down. It is my contention that technology like that may indeed allow the upcoming Artemis program to put diversity on the moon. Then you can beat on the bongos for me while I recite freestyle poetry about Blackie On… Read more »
Isn’t the Musk-owned SpaceX company that built that rocket being sued by the Justice Department for not hiring illegal aliens?
Musk is always in trouble with the DEI folks.
If NASA does it, you can safely bet that they’ll get a non-white male to be the next one small step for (man)kind on the moon. My guess would be a black person or a white woman. I put $50 on Jeanette J. Epps. If Elon does it, I can see him just picking the best individual(s). I think all the news about Elon’s rockets has discredited NASA, and you also have the ongoing discrediting of Boeing, the Armed Forces, and DEI in general. People see what great men can do, after a long period of media-created “great men” like… Read more »
Oh, they’ve already announced the required diverse gender and racial mix for the crew. They did that before they even had a fucking clue what the required skill set would be and who the best candidates would be. For that alone, I kinda want the first landing capsule to crash into the moon at high velocity while Pilot Jontavious screams “bitch cut me off!”
Why I don’t mourn the Challenger crew.
Even better if it missed the moon alltogeather, to infinity and beyond !
I understand there will be plenty of pervs in the old cockpit, so we can safely assume Uranus to be their ultimate destination…
That set me laughing. Thank you. It also reminded me of the last seconds of the relatively recent Amazon jet crash with the diversity pilot trainee being screamed at too late by the white flight instructor “PULL UP! PULL UP!” That got me laughing again. I’m laughing as I’m writing thinking about it.
“If NASA does it,…”
I might add here, NASA has extensive contracts with Musk for the latest “moon race” endeavors. I’ve not pursued what they ask of Musk, but I suspect NASA needs help.
I imagine the Moon Coon memes are already warming up in the on-deck circle.
I’ve been playing with Gab’s image generator. The free account only lets you do a couple a day but you’ve given me today’s extremely inappropriate topic.
Do be so good as to favor us with your latest opus when it’s complete.
Musk’s success at rocketry can be simply attributed to the fact that he refuses to kowtow to DEI in any fashion…of course he’s being sued, and doesn’t care…Musk hires the best he can get his hands on, pays them well, and most important, turns them loose….That used to be common in America, but now is a rarity….
everyone always forgets that the lunar landing camera man was named Tyrone, those cameras don’t pan-up on their own 😉
And we’re all learning that teams of black women were needed to keep those white boys heading straight, or they would have been lost in space!
SpaceX is a White Guy operation.
We’ve discussed this before, but bears mentioning again since your example is so often cited in discussion of declining intellect and ability. People often use such examples to rebut those who claim we are declining as a first world technological society. The answer here lies in the theory of the “Smart Fraction” or what percentage of the population has to be at a level to keep this “shitshow” running. Nothing in this theory states that intellectual decline affects all areas of the country equally. So we see a Musk can attract the talent he needs, whereas Boeing declines to mediocrity… Read more »
Not disagreeing, C – you and Z are undoubtedly right to an extent. But stupidity and incompetence are nothing new. Nor is idiot-proofing the trappings of modern life. We are literally in a position to put an AI babysitter onto every vibrant and retard in the country. Machines can make your Big Mac, keep you driving between the lines, park your car, remember the phone numbers of all your friends etc etc ad nauseum. If we can put monkeys like Shitavius and Tyrone on the moon, surely we can make machines to either replace him or supervise him on the… Read more »
‘Twill give “dark side of the moon,” a whole nuther meaning, it will…
I can see the fried chicken bones and watermelon rinds bouncing in the moon dust already.
Popeye’s is already laying in a franchise in the Sea of Tranquillity…
The Dunning-Kruger thing requires one key system feature: no short-term feedback loop. Foreign policy failure – total military hegemony to enforce our will. Financial failure – reserve currency printing, endless bailouts and welfare. Educational failure – confer worthless degrees and forgive student loans. Societal failure – SSRIs, pot, narcotics to numb the hopeless masses. Of course, eventually thermodynamics assert themselves.
‘Julie Chávez Rodriguez no doubt looks in the morning each morning and sees a world bestriding figure, when in reality she is a hapless simpleton’ America has to replace tens of millions of white male boomers who are semi-competent to maintain national infrastructure and techno-creative potential. What the nation has replacements are gazillions of three-named empowered wimmin. Julie Chavez Rodriguez and Kammie Harris are prime examples of government-by-snowflake that is the modern American Deep State. Bureaucracy is over-run with fifty years of increasingly empowered princesses, few of whom are fit to replace the white male boomers they have degraded, toxified… Read more »
The irony of ironies is that Cesar Chavez was absolutely opposed to illegal immigration, for the obvious reason that it depresses wages. He was really an old-school leftist.
Yes I’ve been reading about JCC’s attitude toward illegals. Of course if he was still around he’d have to do a 180 or face oblivion. I remember in the mid-2000s, seeing, I believe it was the Sierra Club, which had always opposed more immigration, being harangued into “seeing the light”, and dropping their opposition. So much for the environment…
The whale donor of the Sierra Club became an open borders fanatic with a predictable early life, so the thinking evolved. I would hazard a guess that AGW is no longer as big of a thing since it conflicts with mass migration, which is the endgame.
The (fortunately) late David Gelbaum was that donor.
Yes I recall his activities when I was a teen. During the Late Pliocene I think.
Influx of foreign young males (vast majority of whom are at the lower end of desirability) will only increase smv of White males.
It’s a short-term fix.
The toll that diversity has taken at my company is immeasurable. I have to be honest though, my company doesn’t make it as bad as others. I have a rule that deletes all of the “culture” emails before I see them. I do not attend any “all hands” meetings as they are simply a “white people bad” seminar. We have a chief diversity officer, a fat Shaniqua who has been in the racket since the early 2000s. So far all that she has done to earn her 450k per year salary is not allow us to use “ladies and gentleman”… Read more »
Should start your own company and have all the White Guys come work for you and then charge that company double or triple what they were paying you for being stupid and implementing DIE…
Good essay. The proposed peace agreement in Ukraine must have also been cooked up by a simpleton. The Secretary of State landing in the Middle East in a war in which the United States should seek peace and then declaring himself a Jew first is the act of a simpleton. Alowing a person from the board of the Hebrew Aid Society promoting importing refugees into the United States to be in charge of the security for very border of the United States is the act of simpletons. The list of the acts of simpletons never ends in the 21st century.… Read more »
I still think it’s harsh.to compare Kamala Harris to Michael Dukakis. If you were to transport Harris and walz back to 1988, I doubt either of them crack 35 percent. That’s.hoq dumbed down society has gotten
*that’s how
In 1988 Harris be wearing something filmy and red on Fremont Street in Vegas and Walz would be teaching seventh-grade social studies at Valentine, Nebraska Junior High.
“Handing power to entitled stupid people brimming with unearned confidence is playing with fire.”
That’s a keeper.
My wife’s medical group is floundering financially because the schedulers can’t competently schedule patients. The company does big time-and-motion studies to try and figure out why their patient throughput is so low.
Exasperated, last week, my wife came home and detailed how managers scrutinized every tiny step in the process. Every tiny step, save one.
Guess which one?
I’ll give you three guesses why, but you’ll only need one.
The company would rather go bankrupt than confront this reality.
Well, you can’t scrutinize a step if the step isn’t present.
Just pretend it’s not there. Like a black hole.
“The company would rather go bankrupt than confront this reality.”
Small taters, my man! America fell squarely on its bayonet rather than accept the reality of negro inferiority.
On the subject of campaign incompetence, I’ve been kind of amazed at how ridiculously out-of-touch Harris’ ads are with the actual campaign being run by Trump. A few weeks ago they started up with a bunch of “tax breaks for the rich” ads because Trump’s a “billionaire” don’t you know. Even setting aside the fact that they’ve been painting Trump as a failure in business lying about his wealth for the past 8+ years, Trump has said absolutely nothing about tax cuts. It’s the kind of ad that might have made sense in 1980 during the Reagan/Carter campaign but means… Read more »
She’s gone to the Democrats’ playbook for eighty years: Trump’s a Nazi. Old Adolf is the most popular politician in American history. He has been on every ballot since the 1940s. Even Barry Goldwater masqueraded as AH.
The biggest problem with elected politics is the overwhelming presence of lawyers running for office. These mouthpieces have the gift of gab and an enormous ego, but no real experience running anything. We could happily trade 30 lawyers in power for 30 engineers and tradesmen. The goal of a harmonious society should not only be to maintain the status quo but to improve things. Lawyers improve nothing. They are troublemakers and busibodies, honing their skills like wasps. It should be noted that both Lenin and Castro were professional lawyers in a peasant country. Setting a lawyer to run an economy… Read more »
Handing power to entitled stupid people brimming with unearned confidence is playing with fire. Hence, Ukraine and being forced to the brink of nuclear war. The people in today’s Pentagon and State Department would have been hard-pressed to be middle managers only a generation ago, but today they assure us mushroom clouds are overrated. Women and Incompetents of Color loom large in their ranks. I disagree with you that there will be doubling down if Harris loses, which seems possible. In fact, her vapidity and incompetence will provide a chunk of the elite the cover to move past DEI on… Read more »
If Shakespeare in Love were filmed this decade instead of in the 90s then ol Bill would definitely be a negro
That’s ridiculous. Oh, wait…
black Ann Boleyn
ETA: I’m almost positive the real Ann Boleyn never wore a big blingy necklace with a gold glitter B.
Maybe the bling would have saved her neck
Perhaps D-K Effect is not quite appropriate for our DIE and AA folk. Is such hubris as to one’s competence and ability simply the result of stupidity, or a lifetime of indoctrination fueled by wokism? Imagine being told every setback one experiences is not one’s own fault, but due to racism of one sort or another and then coming up through a system that evaluates you differently and allows you to be passed “up the ladder” regardless of your ability. That’s pretty heady stuff.
Is such hubris as to one’s competence and ability simply the result of stupidity, or a lifetime of indoctrination fueled by wokism?
It is definitely both. A non-white who can vomit out a coherent sentence, no matter their intelligence, is viewed by a Wokie as a sage. The stupid non-white comes to believe it. That’s a pretty vicious cricle.
This is definitely at play in Hollywood. Bob Iger’s pet Board chair was dumped for a guy from Morgan Stanley, a big Elon Musk fan. Musk is bankrolling Gina Carano’s lawsuit against Disney which is in Discovery phase as a retaliation for Disney’s labeling X as racist, etc. The reason is Disney is bleeding money with no respite in sight. While Blackrock and State Street and Vanguard are fine with losing money to send the message, the rest of Wall Street is not and Disney has heavy, heavy debt. Murdoch Sr. was astute enough to have Fox News generate $1… Read more »
The slow death of cable tv is really what’s killing Disney’s bottom line, since Eisner married Disney’s fortunes to cable 30 or 40 years ago and nobody has come up with a new plan since then, or at least not a good one. (Iger’s outwardly successful tenure just riding Eisner’s coattails). Parks haven’t been a growth business in many years and movies have always been hit or miss. Indeed, the problems plaguing Disney’s movie business are hardly exclusive to it, those problems are Hollywood wide. It was the formerly burgeoning cable business that propelled Disney in the modern era, until… Read more »
So off topic, I was at the humane society last weekend and noticed something interesting. As a white guy walking past the dogs they just would come up to the bars and give me the sad eyes, but when a white woman came in with a small group of niglets all the dogs just started going ballistic and barking their heads off. A few walks in with my new little precious princess I’ve already detected a simple path to the ethnostate that gets around civil rights. Now this dog is an extroverted Siberian Husky who never bites or gets aggressive… Read more »
Generally, dogs belonging to negros will hate whites, just as dogs belonging to whites hate negros. The famous South African Boerboel, one of the world’s great guard dogs, is trained thusly: When a puppy, it is placed in a sack that is tied to a tree limb. A negro is paid to beat it with a stick. This is repeated for several days. Henceforth the dog, which knows the negro by his smell, hates negros forever. When visiting friends in South Africa, I was greeted warmly by their (HUGE) and friendly boerboels, and I would say “some guard dog,” to… Read more »
How did the Picts keep the Romans out of Scotland? War hounds. Before their front line berserkers went into battle, they’d line up 500 war hounds and say, “Sic ’em, boy”. Also, I didn’t know wolf hounds were still a thing. They still exist! I saw pictures from the 1890s of wolf hounds…they are literally 8 feet tall, when standing, and like Great Danes, as tall or taller than their trainers on all fours. (I once felt breathing on my neck, and turned around to find a couple GD’s staring at me eye-to-eye. They came with bikers to Sturgis, back… Read more »
What do you get when you combine a redneck and a pit bull?
An all white neighborhood
There’s a lot of thrust vectoring combining to fly this plane into the ground… Dunning-Kruger married up with the Peter Principle, Parkinson’s Law, and more! “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” & “In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.” – Peter The number of workers within public administration, bureaucracy or officialdom tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done, attributed mainly to two factors: First, officials want subordinates, not rivals, and second, officials make work for each… Read more »
The military actually has more generals and admirals now then in WW II. That is rising to a very high level of incompetence.
The Harris campaign is in flailing mode, desperately reaching for anything shiny enough to distract away from their inept candidate. She is like the beauty pageant who when asked her most important issue, she’ll reply, “world peace, or ending world hunger.” A vacuous person who began her political career on the arm of SF political heavy Willie Brown, she was introduced to the right people at important dinner parties, who then utilized her as a front for their own interests. Imagine getting picked as a VP for Harris so you can make her look smarter. That’s not an achievement. Walz… Read more »
It is playing with fire to nominate someone for president who has never before had to win a competitive race. This was true of Hillary also. One could cite Dunning Kruger as the culprit in both cases.
In many ways Kamala Harris is the perfect representative for the Banana Empire, and you listed several of those.
Walz is the perfect example of “rising to their level of incompetence” aka “The Peter Principle”. Tampon Tim worked fine as long as he stayed in Minnesota. He fits in with the “You Betcha” Socialist Germans and liberal Scrowegians that populate that state. After all, who really looks at the Governor of a state that’s not New York or California? Sure, Florida and Texas have Governors that have made their names in the public sphere, and Michigan and Illinois have self-promoting governors who don’t understand The Streisand Effect when they seek publicity, but Minnesota? Where it’s cold all around? So… Read more »
“Walz is the perfect example of “rising to their level of incompetence” aka “The Peter Principle”.”
If I remember correctly, according to that principle you rise to your level of incompetence and stay there because it can be seen you’re incompetent at that level. But today, you keep getting promoted regardless of how incompetently you’re doing your current job.Walz was incompetent as governor but no problem making him a VP candidate. Other examples abound. What matters today is your attitude and image and performance be damned.
I’ve seen online ads for them where it looks like they are jumping up in the air with ridiculous forced-looking shit-eating grins. I don’t think either of them could spell the word ‘gravitas’ much less cultivate it within themselves.
Gravitas died with the ascent of Slick Willie.
The “Peter Principle” made quite a splash in the 70’s, but does it hold up today? Remember, in the 70’s there was no DEI, no AA. Folks did indeed work in corporate American of the time and rose through the ranks as employees based upon their achievement record in their position. (Yes, there are always exceptions—such as nepotism. But in the main…) Now comes along AA, followed by DIE, and such evaluation of achievement is no longer pertinent wrt hiring/promotion. The employee wears his “achievement” rather than earns it. I maintain that today more often than not, there is no… Read more »
Dunning-Kruger is the Peter Principle on steroids, amplified by ideology.
It wasn’t just his arm.
All true. And yet I consider it better than even money that these two bird-brains wind up in the Anti-White House.
“Handing power to entitled stupid people brimming with unearned confidence is playing with fire.” Pretty much describes the vast majority of blacks to a tee.
Much has been written in these parts about the crisis of competence that is creepy up on all aspects of life like the fog. Every day, competent people are aging out and being replaced by people who lack the competence. This is the reason why many who hate the boomers so much right now will come to regret their attitudes in time. Despite their shortcomings, and they are many, the boomers as a generation were generally competent and had a decent work ethic in whatever fields of endeavor they went into. Their replacements, by and large, do not. This is… Read more »
When Millennials are fully in charge, the time of the boomers will be a golden age in comparison.
Perhaps the greatest metaphor for this administration I have ever read is the following: “Watching this administration in action is like watching a toddler being given a loaded gun to play with, while you’re strapped to a chair and forced to stay in the same room with him.” Or something to that effect.
Hopefully the lizard people who control the nuclear codes don’t have opposable thumbs.
Happy Halloween, all. Here’s a seasonal meme. My caption would be “That’s the Shapiro’s house, darling.”
Today’s exhibit – the Secretary of State who could be an actual secretary if she was smarter.
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1851749943171584328
Saw this video with clips from CNN, Jimmy Kimmel, etc., showing how critical the MSM used to be towards Kamala. Now she’s the candidate of Joy, lol.
https://youtu.be/5CWd1H9L5bo
She was polling around 1% when she dropped out of the race. Her explanation? Racism, of course. These were Democratic voters, mind you, not Trumpers.
“The Dunning-Kruger crisis ends only when the forces and people behind it come to an end.”
Not sure it can *ever* end—because it’s a remark on human nature, and that’s not going to end soon. If one thinks of the concept and is familiar with history, one can describe many important figures throughout antiquity with this problem. Alcibiades comes immediately to mind.
I seem to recall, and it may be apocryphal, that the great 16th century Spanish religious reformer St Teresa of Avila said that she would rather have as her confessor a smart priest who was not so pious than a pious priest who was dumb.
Some of the incompetence is feigned, like with my PCP. I had my annual physical yesterday. He came in wearing a mask. He’s a white man, gen X. He’s pretty sharp though. He’s not really incompetent, but fakes it to keep in the good graces I suspect. He asked me about the atorvastin (again) that he prescribes but I ignore. He’s always worried about my cholesterol. I told him I don’t take statins. He giggled and said that explains my cholesterol. My bro’s doc told my bro to get out of his office for not taking some vitamin he recommended.… Read more »
As I recall, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager in 2016 was a homosexual. He was really someone who could connect with the masses.
A very recent complaint about Democrat campaign managers was that they couldn’t find any straight white guys, so they had to go outside.
One interesting angle to the Trump-Rogan beef is that Rogan is terminally a Boston Southie, whereas Trump is literally the personification of 1980s NYC.
That said, and maybe I’m reading the situation wrong, but I feel like the Trump-Rogan beef is a bit oversold.
They’ve been at mixed martial arts events in the past, they must’ve had some brief conversations at those.
Way oversold. Non-existant and fake, like most Leftist campaigns. Rogan and Trump promo’d the interview with a dual cameo at a UFC event.
One of your finest posts.
Outstanding.
Another good essay. Technically, Z is repeating the popular yet not completely correct view of Dunning-Kruger. Yes, it’s usually applied to the case that a dumb fuck overestimates his competence in a given field; indeed that’s the safe way to bet when dealing with virtually any Democrat or Progressive organization’s staff picks. However, the formal theory says nothing about a person’s intelligence, the definition only requires that a person have a misperception of competence in a particular field or specialty. In most cases probably it’s to over-estimate one’s abilities, but it could also be a person under-estimating his knack at… Read more »