A competent person does not summon every senior leader in his worldwide organization to be physically present for an hour in an auditorium while he blusters and attempts to deliver TV-ready one-liners. A competent person also does not take over a massive organization that relies on these senior executives’ decades of experience and immediately fire a non-trivial number of them because of their gender or skin color.
I’m no admirer and I’m speaking relatively here. That’s why I said surprising. I think we could agree he’s a level above Matt Gaetz or “special envoy” Witkoff.
A competent person does not summon every senior leader in his worldwide organization to be physically present for an hour in an auditorium while he blusters and attempts to deliver TV-ready one-liners. A competent person also does not take over a massive organization that relies on these senior executives’ decades of experience and immediately fire a non-trivial number of them because of their gender or skin color.
I’m no admirer and I’m speaking relatively here. That’s why I said surprising. I think we could agree he’s a level above Matt Gaetz or “special envoy” Witkoff.
This article kind of mirrors my thoughts about his speech https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/opinion/pete-hegseth-spee....
What about this is showing competence? So far it’s just a wild promise of success
At leaking war plans on Signal?
He is competent at firing more competent people than himself.
Indeed that is a low bar to cross.
Sadly so.
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The metric of competence here is that he spends less time on his makeup on a daily basis than his boss.
I’m not certain that’s true. One of many absurdities buried by the avalanche of corruption and malfeasance: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hegseth-orders-makeup-studi...
I think this article mirrors my thoughts well: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/opinion/pete-hegseth-spee....
Yeah I kinda figured but thanks for the confirmation.
> Out of all of the hires of this new administration, Hegseth is the most surprisingly competent.
He is indeed the worlds tallest midget.
I gotta remember that one!