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.

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.

> Out of all of the hires of this new administration, Hegseth is the most surprisingly competent.

He is indeed the worlds tallest midget.