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Quiet Em

(2,937 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 05:33 PM Feb 2025

"Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,"

“Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”


Beattie’s appointment—along with those of Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, and others—is another indication that white supremacists are flooding Trump’s White House.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-taps-ex-staffer-fired-163230646.html

It's right out there in the open. It was right in the open before the election and it was on the ballot. It's time to stop pretending this is not an Authoritarian White Supremacist takeover of our Government.

It was never about the economy.
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"Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work," (Original Post) Quiet Em Feb 2025 OP
Actually the opposite. 2naSalit Feb 2025 #1
. dalton99a Feb 2025 #2
Well, Darren, you let me know when you find some. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2025 #9
The thought of Donald John or ANY Republican allowing competent men and women of ANY Vogon_Glory Feb 2025 #3
THE TRUTH: CousinIT Feb 2025 #4
Trump has females in cabinet positions Tickle Feb 2025 #7
Susie Wiles is being completely ignored by the con artist Quiet Em Feb 2025 #20
How is she being ignored? NT Tickle Feb 2025 #24
I thought this was from The Onion.. BattleRow Feb 2025 #5
This explains why MAGAs voted for Chump FakeNoose Feb 2025 #6
Want to explain the following then competent, fucking white men? Aviation Pro Feb 2025 #8
Our species is standing on an ecological brink brought on by the policies of rich mostly white men, CrispyQ Feb 2025 #10
What happened in just 7 years to transform this competent white male... skypilot Feb 2025 #11
And who gets to determine competency? the nelm Feb 2025 #12
Don't you get it? sellitman Feb 2025 #16
GENDER AND SKIN COLOR Skittles Feb 2025 #23
What on earth will mediocre white men do Demobrat Feb 2025 #13
"Competent" like DJT who started life on home plate and managed to wreck everything he touched in the 78 years since? nt Blasphemer Feb 2025 #14
If the "competent white man" thing is true, boonecreek Feb 2025 #15
The guys have been running things for the last 4000+ years. scarletlib Feb 2025 #17
This is all what the screaming of DEI is about DSandra Feb 2025 #18
and they are saying this while pimping for DONALD FUCKING TRUMP Skittles Feb 2025 #21
"Competent" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. alarimer Feb 2025 #19
THEY are the ones who need coddling Skittles Feb 2025 #22

2naSalit

(102,804 posts)
1. Actually the opposite.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 05:39 PM
Feb 2025

Just like every other misogynist prick, takes credit for work women do.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,143 posts)
9. Well, Darren, you let me know when you find some.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:01 PM
Feb 2025

Because there are not any in the new administration so far, and I doubt there will be.

Vogon_Glory

(10,297 posts)
3. The thought of Donald John or ANY Republican allowing competent men and women of ANY
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 05:54 PM
Feb 2025

color to do their jobs is ridiculous.

CousinIT

(12,541 posts)
4. THE TRUTH:
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 05:56 PM
Feb 2025

Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of white men and demoralizing competent women and minorities.

 

Tickle

(4,131 posts)
7. Trump has females in cabinet positions
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 07:48 PM
Feb 2025

Susie wiles is the first female chief of staff , which I found a bit off but there's like 10 women for cabinet positions.

Quiet Em

(2,937 posts)
20. Susie Wiles is being completely ignored by the con artist
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 12:36 AM
Feb 2025

i.e., Elon Musk. So I'm not sure what your point is.

Again, an Authoritarian White Supremacy has taken over our government.

FakeNoose

(41,637 posts)
6. This explains why MAGAs voted for Chump
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 07:48 PM
Feb 2025

... but it doesn't explain what Chump and Musk are trying to do right now.

If Chump ad Musk really were "competent white men" they wouldn't be doing any of this stuff, which is trying to burn down the federal government and destroy the strong blue states.

No it's just another lie that Repukes are telling themselves, to avoid looking at what Chump is really doing to them.

Aviation Pro

(15,580 posts)
8. Want to explain the following then competent, fucking white men?
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 07:50 PM
Feb 2025

1. Viet Nam.
2. Shuttle disasters (two of them).
3. 9/11.
4. Khobar Tower.
5. Beirut bombing (USMC barracks).
6. Eastern Airlines 401 (Everglades).
7. Apollo 1.
8. 2008 housing crisis.

And last, but certainly not least.

9. COVID 19.

Yeah, you're a bunch of fuck ups if you ask me.

CrispyQ

(40,970 posts)
10. Our species is standing on an ecological brink brought on by the policies of rich mostly white men,
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:03 PM
Feb 2025

yet they still think they're superior & should be in charge. What's sad is how many other people apparently think so, too.

Demobrat

(10,299 posts)
13. What on earth will mediocre white men do
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:20 PM
Feb 2025

when they don’t have DEI to blame for their failures anymore?

Yes, boys take care of boys. I have worked all my life, for the past 40 years in advertising and marketing. I have seen it all. But even the boy’s club will take them only so far. Eventually they have to produce.

What then?

Blasphemer

(3,623 posts)
14. "Competent" like DJT who started life on home plate and managed to wreck everything he touched in the 78 years since? nt
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:23 PM
Feb 2025

boonecreek

(1,511 posts)
15. If the "competent white man" thing is true,
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:25 PM
Feb 2025

then why do we have an incompetent orange man baby at the helm?

scarletlib

(3,568 posts)
17. The guys have been running things for the last 4000+ years.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:38 PM
Feb 2025

Seems to me that they have created wars, pollution, holocausts,poverty, hunger and environmental destruction just to name a few things.

Some few women have run a few countries and made some headway in other occupations for about 50 years or less.

Women could do no worse and maybe a whole lot better as caretakers of the world.

DSandra

(1,719 posts)
18. This is all what the screaming of DEI is about
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:43 PM
Feb 2025

Insinuating that women and minorities are somehow not as smart as white men and are thus "taking away" jobs that they "rightfully deserve." So many DEI people are smarter and more competent and qualified than much of the white men working in their field, but never got a chance because of employment racism / sexism.

Skittles

(171,718 posts)
21. and they are saying this while pimping for DONALD FUCKING TRUMP
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 04:25 AM
Feb 2025

easily THE most unqualified piece of crap to EVER occupy the White House

 

alarimer

(17,146 posts)
19. "Competent" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:46 PM
Feb 2025

Why are they assuming only white men are competent? (I know the answer is racism/sexism).

What a horrific timeline.

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