Meritocracy?

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Earlier this year, large swaths of the tech industry declared death to DEI and ushered in the era of Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence. I wrote about it then noting that hypocrisy rhymes with meritocracy. They made themselves a website to celebrate each other.

https://www.meritocracy.com/

That website has a list of familiar faces if you’ve been paying attention to the random tech people that have donated money to Trump and his super PACs, or were first in line to kiss the ring on Nov 6th.

It seems the hypocrisy continues if you pay attention to Trumps cabinet picks.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2024/trump-cabinet-picks-2025-tracker/

Nothing says meritocracy like:

  1. A random fox news host as secretary of defense
  2. A probably sex offender as attorney general
  3. An anti-vaxxer as secretary of health and human services.

The list goes on and teaches us that the “m” in bootlicker stands for merit.

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