[filoeleven]

> If you believe they're worse at their jobs, you should demonstrate that in some other way.

Signalgate. The initial occurrence, the lying after, the demonizing of the reporter, the dismissal of its importance.

[rbanffy]

Hegseth’s nepotism is another interesting example. Or that episode when he was drunk, standing on top of a table chanting “kill all Arabs”.

The list goes on and on. There was no single nomination that didn’t have a lot of reasons not to go through, but they went anyway.

[AnimalMuppet]

In my view, the lying, demonization, and dismissal of importance were pretty typical for a government scandal. They all play out that way, as the guilty parties try for damage control.

The initial occurrence was spectacularly incompetent in a way that seems to me to be worse than normal.