Greetings good citizen, while it's pretty simple to fool strangers it's considerably more difficult to 'fool' your co-workers...as Trump's nominee to replace the Obama era director of the Veteran's Administration is finding out.
His chickens are coming home to roost and I'll bet he'd be shocked to learn it wasn't his 'inner circle' that ratted him out. Nope, the 411 usually precedes a boss before he takes the reins and people make it a point to learn all they can because regime change can be more than a little, er, 'unsettling'.
In what has increasingly become the 'screw-up/move up' conveyor belt, those unfortunate enough to be saddled with clueless/tyrannical/infantile supervisors dig up the dirt from those who have had the misfortune of dealing with this fellow previously.
Tarred them all there which isn't fair to the above and beyond kind of guy that keeps thing running smoothly, the ones that understand it's their responsibility to make sure you have EVERYTHING you need to be effective on your job. If you don't then he's not doing his!
Herein lies the importance of 'vetting' candidates for positions of responsibility.
Did you read the headline about the cop DNA found to be a serial killer? How do you suppose his boss [probably dead] feels about that revelation and the reflection it makes on his command, talk about incompetence and more than a little too much 'blind eye' going on.
I belabor the obvious when I point out we have a SERIOUS problem with Law Enforcement and a perverse lack of oversight nevermind accountability.
Close to the same subject we have the former governor of my state and scuttled presidential hopeful Mitt Romney tossing his hat back into the ring to become his home state's senator!
We all remember how Mitt was secretly recorded in a meeting with billionaire party heavyweights talking plainly and using terms every member of his audience held dear when he trash talked 50% of the electorate for being lazy, shiftless money-grubbers.
You'd think that would have made him toxic politically but he's hoping his fellow Mormons will overlook his little slip and he certainly didn't lose the favor of the monied crowd, it's a sentiment they all share when it comes to 'the rabble'.
Dickens wasn't being humorous when he gave Scrooge the opinion that Christmas was a "pretty poor excuse for 'picking a man's pocket' every 25th of December..."
And that's mild compared to how conservatives and libertarians view their (in their eyes) less ambitious peers.
It's when they mount the hobby horse of 'entitlement' that they really hit their stride.
I'll spare you the spiel, you've heard it many time before [especially the part about if they put HALF the effort they channeled into COMPLAINING about the issue it would have been done and over already [which isn't true at all but everybody know a windbag is a windbag is a windbag and there's no shutting them up. The ONLY way to change a windbag's mind is to KILL them!]
While you can get a pretty decent 'bead' on your neighbors and your co-workers, the 'anonymous' are harder to define and YOUR trust is based on the willingness of others to work with them.
But when it comes to badges, all bets are off.
Now you are relying on the 'system' [of nepotism] to vet people handed a weapon and a tacit if not explicit authority to kill anyone they feel 'threatened' by.
Funny what direction that fact has when it comes to talking out of class. If you KNOW Fred's a freak with a capital F, do you tell anyone?
It's your DUTY to but there are things that happen to those labeled 'RAT' when you work behind the Blue Wall.
Beginning to see why ASP has ZERO policemen [The Uh-oh squad is something else entirely and they will be vetted from the get-go.]
If we dance another step up this ladder we come to who 'the Palace Guard' (nominally) works for, the politicians.
Most of these guys (and gals, sadly) ooze slime. They have the 411 on each other but you don't want to throw stones lest someone else starts hurling boulders!
So here 'vetting' becomes a non-issue. [Worse, Trump did little to hide he was a sleaze-ball and he still got 'elected' (appointed) thanks to the Electoral College (which supposedly exists to prevent precisely such a thing from happening...oh well!)
I'd eliminate this decision-making ability by eliminating elected officials altogether and voting directly upon new projects and policies.
No more 'stolen elections' or defacto voter fraud via the media 'declaring' winners and losers without ever counting a single vote.
[Yet another elephant in the room ignored by our glorious 5th Estate.]
I'm okay/You're okay and circles of trust are born out of the value 'vetting' brings to society. What does it say about a whole segment of people that want nothing to do with the rest of us [who are, not so coincidentally, holding all of the cards?]
Who keeps short sheeting your bed?
You know but the card holders knows you won't complain about it if you know what's good for you! [And this is how Serial Killers with badges get away with it...]
No, it's NOT safe to go back in the water and it won't be until we drain the swamp COMPLETELY!
Thanks once again for letting me inside your mind,
Gegner
His chickens are coming home to roost and I'll bet he'd be shocked to learn it wasn't his 'inner circle' that ratted him out. Nope, the 411 usually precedes a boss before he takes the reins and people make it a point to learn all they can because regime change can be more than a little, er, 'unsettling'.
In what has increasingly become the 'screw-up/move up' conveyor belt, those unfortunate enough to be saddled with clueless/tyrannical/infantile supervisors dig up the dirt from those who have had the misfortune of dealing with this fellow previously.
Tarred them all there which isn't fair to the above and beyond kind of guy that keeps thing running smoothly, the ones that understand it's their responsibility to make sure you have EVERYTHING you need to be effective on your job. If you don't then he's not doing his!
Herein lies the importance of 'vetting' candidates for positions of responsibility.
Did you read the headline about the cop DNA found to be a serial killer? How do you suppose his boss [probably dead] feels about that revelation and the reflection it makes on his command, talk about incompetence and more than a little too much 'blind eye' going on.
I belabor the obvious when I point out we have a SERIOUS problem with Law Enforcement and a perverse lack of oversight nevermind accountability.
Close to the same subject we have the former governor of my state and scuttled presidential hopeful Mitt Romney tossing his hat back into the ring to become his home state's senator!
We all remember how Mitt was secretly recorded in a meeting with billionaire party heavyweights talking plainly and using terms every member of his audience held dear when he trash talked 50% of the electorate for being lazy, shiftless money-grubbers.
You'd think that would have made him toxic politically but he's hoping his fellow Mormons will overlook his little slip and he certainly didn't lose the favor of the monied crowd, it's a sentiment they all share when it comes to 'the rabble'.
Dickens wasn't being humorous when he gave Scrooge the opinion that Christmas was a "pretty poor excuse for 'picking a man's pocket' every 25th of December..."
And that's mild compared to how conservatives and libertarians view their (in their eyes) less ambitious peers.
It's when they mount the hobby horse of 'entitlement' that they really hit their stride.
I'll spare you the spiel, you've heard it many time before [especially the part about if they put HALF the effort they channeled into COMPLAINING about the issue it would have been done and over already [which isn't true at all but everybody know a windbag is a windbag is a windbag and there's no shutting them up. The ONLY way to change a windbag's mind is to KILL them!]
While you can get a pretty decent 'bead' on your neighbors and your co-workers, the 'anonymous' are harder to define and YOUR trust is based on the willingness of others to work with them.
But when it comes to badges, all bets are off.
Now you are relying on the 'system' [of nepotism] to vet people handed a weapon and a tacit if not explicit authority to kill anyone they feel 'threatened' by.
Funny what direction that fact has when it comes to talking out of class. If you KNOW Fred's a freak with a capital F, do you tell anyone?
It's your DUTY to but there are things that happen to those labeled 'RAT' when you work behind the Blue Wall.
Beginning to see why ASP has ZERO policemen [The Uh-oh squad is something else entirely and they will be vetted from the get-go.]
If we dance another step up this ladder we come to who 'the Palace Guard' (nominally) works for, the politicians.
Most of these guys (and gals, sadly) ooze slime. They have the 411 on each other but you don't want to throw stones lest someone else starts hurling boulders!
So here 'vetting' becomes a non-issue. [Worse, Trump did little to hide he was a sleaze-ball and he still got 'elected' (appointed) thanks to the Electoral College (which supposedly exists to prevent precisely such a thing from happening...oh well!)
I'd eliminate this decision-making ability by eliminating elected officials altogether and voting directly upon new projects and policies.
No more 'stolen elections' or defacto voter fraud via the media 'declaring' winners and losers without ever counting a single vote.
[Yet another elephant in the room ignored by our glorious 5th Estate.]
I'm okay/You're okay and circles of trust are born out of the value 'vetting' brings to society. What does it say about a whole segment of people that want nothing to do with the rest of us [who are, not so coincidentally, holding all of the cards?]
Who keeps short sheeting your bed?
You know but the card holders knows you won't complain about it if you know what's good for you! [And this is how Serial Killers with badges get away with it...]
No, it's NOT safe to go back in the water and it won't be until we drain the swamp COMPLETELY!
Thanks once again for letting me inside your mind,
Gegner
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