Was that excerpt from a satire column? Also, that's not because of a prosecutorial background. That's called being a competent professional. Granted, a rarity these days.
Nah the tweet/post is just kinda weirdly clickbait-ifying the article to make it sound like people are complaining about competence.
My very first thought was, “Is this guys tweet quoting an Onion article?”
Yep!
TL:DR she’s exceptionally good at her job and some people find it difficult to keep up with such a high, demanding standard.
This is not a quality unbecoming of a president and in fact should be a requirement for any high level government official.
Yeah...this honestly just makes me want to vote for her more
Too bad she's not republican, if she was we could vote for her twice!
... do I have to say it?
People who have worked for Harris say her interactions with staff can resemble a prosecutor prying details from a witness, asking pointed questions about everything from her schedule to policy briefings. And her cautious approach to big decisions has frustrated deputies rather than inspire them.
how dare she gasp schedule her time?!?!
Man, I WISH I had bosses like her. Ask me questions, make sure, then explain why I'm wrong if I am. It ain't hard. Don't micro-manage, just exist as someone I can trust to actually speak up.
staffers are used to politicians that don't read shit and just move about sponsoring laws they don't know or care about.
this is actually a great endorsement for Harris. she reads, highlights, takes notes, asks questions and demands reasons? sign me the fuck up.
And also important: changes their mind when confronted with evidence that their administration or themselves might have the wrong position on a topic. Some may call that flip-flopping, but it isn't when it follows the facts.
Flip flopping implies indecision regardless of validity of fact and switching without good reason. If there is good reason to switch, then it is simply making an informed decision. People who don’t change their stance when presented with convincing evidence to the contrary are cultists.
Unlike a certain someone who showed a pattern of strongly believing in whatever the last person he spoke with told him when he was president.
Which is even worse than what "flip flop" is supposed to refer to: someone who says whatever they think will resonate most with their current audience. At least that person might have a plan that they just aren't sharing, whereas "gets convinced by anyone he speaks with" is going to end up pulled along with who knows how many other people's covert plans.
Actually yeah, the billionaire class do think it's bad to have a president who asks for sources on the data and calls out hand-waving.
OMG she reads and uses critical thinking and also wants to know the reason behind things.
What a monster. Lock her up!
s/
A boss who reads stuff I write in reports for them? What kind of nightmare is this?
If she were a tech lead, she would be reading the git logs !?!!
*shuddering and shrieking*
You joke, but it's exactly the sort of anti intellectualism that will work with trump's base.
"We can't just bullshit her into doing what we want. It sucks!"
She's not a spineless puppet like Trump. Boohoo!
I'm sold.
Even fake news sometimes delivers.
This is the equivalent of being bullied for being the only one who actually does your homework
Why did you remind the teacher we were supposed to have a quiz?
I work with local-level politicians and we constantly complain about the ones that don't do the reading. At our level, they nearly all have other jobs, so I get it, but we LOVE when they actually read what we give them and can ask relevant questions. It's a thousand times better than the ones that just sit there and embarrass themselves every time they open their mouths.
God I want someone this competent in office so badly. I'm tired of bad politicians conning the system and "good" politicians just running things on autopilot. I want a leader that understands their government so badly.
This echoes what I've been feeling about Kamala's campaign too. I feel she'll be great at the job of presidency, but may have to rely on Walz to grease the wheels of congress to actually pass things.
The president is just a face. It's the 100 invisible billionaires standing behind the president that make the decisions.
I wanted to dispute your sentiment based on the number of billionaires.
I was wrong, Wikipedia list 2, 781 billionaires in the world.
It sucks when your manager is prepared and sees through your bullshit.
I'm not your manager, but you should have used "your" there.
"We prefer the guy who likes everything to be pictures."
N makes his own data up with sharpie
Look, at least he can keep inside the lines...sort of...when coloring.
He might be confused by complicated things like the American flag though.
Remember when Donald Trump fired experts and specialists at all levels of government and put in people who bribed him or provided him favors? And to this day, we are still rolling back a lot of their initiatives?
Like Wilbur Ross? The guy that bailed Dementia DonOLD the weird racist rapist with 34 felonies out after bankrupting a casino during the casino boom. The same Wilbur Ross that is a coal baron and miraculously was appointed to be our Secretary of Commerce.
Can you imagine a Democrat doing some bullshit like that? The republikkklown party stands for nothing but hypocrisy.
If they didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.
"It would be such a dream job to work for Trump. He doesn't read anything, and as long as you call him sir and agree with him, you can basically do whatever you want. It just be amazing!
Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out what the hell I meant in my memo because Harris is probably going to give me a pop quiz. Ugh, I hate homework."
You have to actually do your job because you're boss does hers? Oh boo fucking hoo. Welcome to being an ordinary working class citizen, assholes.
Look at this loser who walks around WITHOUT shit in his pants.
A president that reads all the briefs? What a monster!
I remember 2016.
2016 is when the corporate media world - in particular the newspapers showed their ass and decided profit was more important than a functioning democracy.
It was abhorrent and there was even a few tiny scattered mea culpas afterwards, but of course nothing changed and it even got worse as we can see by right-wing billionaires buying up CNN to make it "a voice of conservatives" specifically - and CNN was already one of the worst!
Anyway - this article is just more of the same. Talking about "nothing" while making it very clear they're trying to smear the candidate in one of a hundred ways. Her emails, probably.
2016 is when the corporate media world - in particular the newspapers showed their ass and decided profit was more important than a functioning democracy.
No, 2016 was when the corporate media world decided to continue doing the same shit they've been doing for many decades.
Yes but in the face of this:
The most overtly racist, dishonest, incompetent, ignorant, and compromised candidate possible. EVER. And that’s saying something.
This wasn’t “GW Bush and his war on terror”-level bullshit this was light-years beyond that.
I'm feeling more optimistic lately though because while it seems like the bigger media companies are being made to turn hard to the right, it also seems like their brand of propaganda isn't working as effectively as it once did. Seems like they might have even lost the younger generations entirely.
We say this every time there’s a temporary moment of a vague sense that not everything is going to shit immediately. After Obama won, for example. When Bill Clinton was about to win.
It’s an occasional problem when working in reality. The corporate media will make adjustments soon to ensure rage and fear carry the day as always. It never lasts too long.
"so i can't ask my boss to do something, i need a reason for them to do so, it's so stressful."
🤔
Yeah gotta be honest this is just what (competent) lawyers do. A major part of law school is teaching students to consume large amounts of legal documents.
Talking about staff turnover; meanwhile the other candidate's own VP no longer supports him, for some weird reason...
Might want to specify former VP. Unless I completely missed some monumental news about JD.
haha. Luckily JD hasn't earned that title yet, and hopefully never will!
LOL. So she's like an English teacher, heaven forbid!
She had to hit the pedal to the metal and blitz events across the country with zero notice. Duh, she's going to be pretty picky about how her schedule is organized and what she deems most effective. That sounds like leadership material to me.
It is a fluff piece though, so should be taken with as many grains of salt as positive press pieces for Trump.
And Trump wouldn’t even read his dumbed down bulleted daily briefings. Instead he watched TV.
As a lawyer, it was literally her job to be well informed and ask the right questions to make sure she didn't receive an inquiry on something she wasn't aware of.
I'd rather have someone like that at the helm instead of someone who works only on assumptions and prejudices.
Did they really frame it as a bad thing in the article?
Yeah, I never read this as "Oh, that's terrible"; sounds pretty reasonable to me to think about your actions before doing them. Moreso if your actions affect other people.
How evil of her to expect people to use their brain at work?
They need to keep their brain unused for when they smoke their state sponsored tobacco, which has all the right to use that brain.
So what they thought they’d just skate through their job as aides to the VP of the USA. I mean I know it’s not as demanding as POTUS but come on
My old boss who is now my bosses boss is like this. It's the best leader you can have IMHO. I don't want a yes man. I want someone to challenge my ideas and similarly I will challenge theirs.
I prefer a tough boss as opposed to one that wants everybody to like them. Lazy workers will walk all over the nice boss and good workers get stuck carrying the weight.
In the presidenty? Absolutely. At the vast majority of jobs? I disagree. I want my boss to have my back and take care of his guys, to act as a shield between me and any ridiculous requests from higher levels.
I'm starting to think we should have all candidates pass a basic leadership and competency challenge to be able to be president. (This is not a series take)
If this is how these assistants talk about their boss, imagine how they treat their underlings.
The nepobaby interns or the people actually working their way up from the bottom.
I wonder which get treated worse.
This article was written by Jeff bezos' awkward laugh.
Its terrible when they want a reason why they should do something I want them do. How can I the unelected minion get what I want when I have to work for someone like this.
Even if it is presented more mildly in context, I hardly see it as a shortcoming. Sure, someone that doesn't just go along with whatever people are saying makes one's job difficult but it can lead to better outcomes.
Perhaps some would want to work with Trump and Vance instead so that every brief will have to be in the form of a picture book?
Don't forget to include article clippings praising Trump too.
Lest anybody think this is a joke. It's not. Trump's staffers literally had to shorten his briefs and fill them with pictures and positive article clippings telling him how awesome he is.
A mindless mind will find a way to take a neutral or positive trait and find a way to spin it into a negative narrative, or in the case of the current journalism industrial complex and its' mindless little drones who fancy themselves "the fourth estate" - something alarming, shrill and hysterical, something to amplify high blood pressure.
Testing
Ok I get that though. Sometimes I’m the expert but not the decision maker in a room. When leadership has the attitude of “we’ll do what the engineer says” it’s really nice. When they’ve read everything and start asking questions sometimes it’s wonderful though annoying as I can explain my reasoning and feel my expertise is appreciated. Other times it’s clearly filled with gotchas, bad ideas that I don’t have an easy and simple argument against just a “well gut feeling says it’s a real bad idea, but tomorrow I can explain why”, and a bunch of other stuff that leads me to ask why they bothered hiring me. There’s also the annoying but it’s definitely for the best of making me financially justify my requests.
So yeah I get why advisors might find this annoying. Harris seems to be somewhere in the middle of these scenarios where she’s very smart but I can see her asking questions far past her understanding
To be clear, that's annoying from a figurehead position like veep to some. Being the perfect veep doesn't really qualify you to be president.
And yet, here we are.
Yeah I'm not really excusing the Post so much as excusing the staff for complaining. If they get a directive from the West Wing, they're just out to jump and not ask why.
What makes you bad at being VP can make you good at being president.
not to be racist and whataboutist and trashy but oprah got everyone new cars
Kamala ... where is my new car ?
Looking over your shoulder before you say something obviously racist doesn't make what you said any better.
Wtf
What does Winfrey have to do with Harris?
