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Comment by bjelkeman-again | Hacker News Reader

I would find it hard to argue that any of the current POTUS work has been competent.

We just had a thread on hacker news where most folks agreed the administrations changes to the H1B program were welcome.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Competence is demonstrated over time, not in a vacuum of individual decisions. Someone that is competent at Chess proves it over an entire game. A novice can still make a few good moves over the course of that same match.

Pretty much any competency can be demonstrated that way.

No need to move the goalposts. The original comment wasn't arguing whether POTUS was competent or not, which is what you are trying to argue.

The original comment was arguing whether any of the POTUS work was competent. And that H1B change seems to have been competent, according to the general consensus on HN.

Is the entirety of the rest of POTUS' work incompetent? Maybe. That wasn't the original claim though.

But did POTUS do any of that? Part of his administration may have some competence, but the wast majority don’t seem to have the greater good in mind nor interested in respecting democracy. To me that is part of competence in government.

I think that a very real argument could be made that this PoTUS was elected as a direct intolerance of the corruption and intolerance of the normal citizenry of the US by the professional politicians. To expect him to be competent at the job was to be naive (which a lot of people were), but it was a knee jerk reaction to the options left to them, I think.

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