Summary
Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has reportedly hired a 21-year-old senior advisor and a freshly graduated high schooler, showing the administration’s unconventional hiring approach.
Many new appointees have ties to Elon Musk, including OPM’s chief of staff Amanda Scales, formerly of xAI.
The administration is restructuring government staffing, influenced by Musk’s cost-cutting model.
A White House memo, echoing Musk’s 2022 Twitter overhaul, offers buyouts to employees unwilling to meet new performance standards.
Unconventional hiring approach? Give me a break – these are clearly award positions for loyalists, kickbacks to their friends and relatives. Merit is out the window.
Sanewashing, everything, all the time.
We’re gonna party like it’s 1882.
Where’s Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
Spinning in his grave fast enough to power the entire country with some to spare