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oyster  ·  2239 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump and the End of Smugness

I find this kind of desperate and reaching. I mean on his list of achievements....

    two Supreme Court appointments

I mean how is hiring somebody to fill a previously filled position an achievement ? Somebody quits at your company and you’ll fill the job, ya ? That’s not an achievement, if that person goes on to do good things then you can say you pick employees well. Or let’s say your employees generally stay with the company you could, unlike the trump administration, claim your workplace culture helps you retain staff.

This isn’t the end of smugness this is the lowering of the bar on what’s considered an achievement in an attempt to make everything okay again.