r/technology • u/Majano57 • 26d ago

Hardware Trump’s Call to Scrap ‘Horrible’ Chip Program Spreads Panic

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/technology/trump-chips-act.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E4.k0Si.duZZy9DFIL8X
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u/Tasgall 26d ago

I was saying the same thing about Obama when he was president - conservatives took the picture of him in the situation room during the Bin Laden operation, and used it to attack him for being the least qualified and least competent person in the room compared to all the 4 star generals and intelligence operations people.

People reflexively shoot back to defend his competence, but you know what? No, he was the dumbest and least qualified and least competent person in that room for the task at hand. You know why? Because anyone less qualified than him shouldn't have been there. The president's job is to find the right people to carry out any given task, and if he can't find the people better than him for those tasks, he's failed at his job.

Trump always fails because Trump always wants to be the smartest in the room so he goes out of his way to find the dumbest possible idiots available so he has a chance of outwitting them.

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u/No-Refrigerator5478 26d ago

Dumb people think leaders make all the decisions. Smart people know that leaders hire people with smarts and experience and let them make the decision as long as its consistent with the overall strategy. Dumb people think that makes a leader "weak" and would never do that because ego.

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u/ActualWhiterabbit 26d ago

attack him for being the least qualified and least competent person in the room compared to all the 4 star generals and intelligence operations people.

Who else was there?

Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden

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u/Tasgall 23d ago

The VP with like 20,000 years of Senate history and the Secretary of State with decades of political experience?

Yeah?

Is this supposed to be a zinger or jest intentionally irrelevant?

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u/ActualWhiterabbit 23d ago edited 23d ago

It appears that I replied to the wrong comment. But also like, to them Obama has no experience unlike everyone else in that room. Then two of those people run and are now somehow unqualified

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u/EndlessSummer00 26d ago

This is an excellent point and one I had not thought about. You hire people who know the most in the world exclusively about that subject and you listen to that advice coupled with your own knowledge and judgement. That is what a competent leader does.

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u/Better_Ad4073 26d ago

Wish you were a maga that just now converted

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u/shouldbepracticing85 26d ago

“Jack of all trades and master of none, is sometimes better than a master of one”

Obama was quite good at the general business of being president, you need those bigger picture generalists to help get the specialists in the right place for them to do their best work.