LOSING THE PLOT

White House Plagued By PEI Hires

Privileged entitled idiots are destroying the country

Carlo Zeno
The Haven
Published in
3 min readJul 29, 2024

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One of the White House’s many confidently incompetent PEI hires / Photo by Darren Halstead on Unsplash

There’s a lot of smoke and uproar about ‘DEI hires’ lately, referring to hiring based on ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion.’ Anytime anything goes wrong anymore, many unthinking people love to parrot the new MAGA talking point of blaming DEI hires.

But have you seen the PEI (privileged entitled idiot) hires lately?

We all know any person with a criminal record, a pending criminal conviction, and a record of bankruptcy and failed businesses, would struggle to get a job at McDonalds, Amazon, a Call Center, Retail, or any other low paying job, let alone a higher paying one.

Unless your daddy was a millionaire who gave your pink ass a silver-spooned boost to launch a real estate empire, you would generally be chronically unemployed and sifting trash cans for edible rubbish with such a record.

But here the exception proves the rule in these United States.

If you belong to the right tribe, demonize the right scapegoats, have a big enough purse for criminal lawyers, have a big ego with a big platform to spread even bigger lies, you will then

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Carlo Zeno
The Haven

Top writer in poetry and satire. Migrant. Expat. INFP. Poet. Satirist. Tragedian. Tutor. Public Servant.