Last month, Senator John Kennedy stumped a Biden administration appointee to the federal district court in Eastern Washington with an astonishing series of trick questions like this: “Tell me what Article 5 of the Constitution does.” The follow-up: “How about Article 2?” The nominee couldn’t answer — in fact, couldn’t begin to hint at an answer.
This is simply political patronage at work. It’s easier to hide the incompetent political appointees lower on the food chain, because they don’t have to walk and chew gum in Senate hearings. It reminds me of Venezuela when I was there in 2010. The country had continual rolling blackouts because the Chavistas couldn’t build and maintain their power plants. So they had American companies coming in to keep the power on, but didn’t want the masses to know they were relying on the gringos. So when they inaugurated a new plant, they would kick the Americans out of the control room for the TV cameras and install some Venezuelans for an hour. Then the Americans would come back and run the plant. The Biden Simulacrum is no different. The facade is everything. Think how cynical you have to be to appoint people with no knowledge or experience to highly technical leadership positions at agencies tasked with public safety. They love trashing the country, making a mockery of every Federal bureaucracy while they rip off the taxpayers. What else can you say?
I still want to know who is ACTUALLY running the clown show known as the Biden Administration. It ain’t Joe Biden. Why humiliate this man, who might be really competent in another job, and put so many at risk by insisting that he lead an agency that he knows nothing about. It IS indeed the Cultural Revolution mentality, and who cares if a “few” people are sacrificed for the greater good
Are you suggesting that standards are being lowered because diversity hires are less competent? That's racist! And it's totally false, per the very diverse fact-checkers at Politifact (this claim was handled by a black neurodivergent transspecies platypus female metrosexual onanist, who is such a talented debunker that she didn't even need to do any research before debunking it as totally false). Moreover, we are making progress by lowering standards, because all standards are racist (except the standard of having 100% of your new hires be diverse, i.e., no white cis-males who don't have anal sex with other men), so the fewer standards we have, the better.
Do you like indoor plumbing? Or electricity? Too bad. We've got equity in the engineering departments now.
South Africa has been running this experiment for years. The results are exactly what one would expect, but no one wants to acknowledge that a country with nuclear power plants and a space program developing an incipient launch capability degenerated into a failed state with rolling blackouts and roads made of potholes in the span of a single generation. But hey Black Economic Empowerment, gotta make sure the right faces are occupying those prestigious jobs amirite? Nelson Mandela, yay, he was a hero, now stop asking questions, bigot.
To borrow your hilarious metaphor, we are living in a reality adjacent magical era, where only true believers accredit facts, sanctify science, and ordain experience adjacent 'professionals' and poof, all the bad dissappears. Until the train derails. And the plane crashes. And the well is poisoned. But no worries there's a pin cushion orange man around here somewhere to get even for those distasters.
Ask that little creep Garland about the Constitution and you’d get the same blank stare.
At some point these people started to look at government jobs as resume-builders and simply ignored the actual job to be done.
This is simply political patronage at work. It’s easier to hide the incompetent political appointees lower on the food chain, because they don’t have to walk and chew gum in Senate hearings. It reminds me of Venezuela when I was there in 2010. The country had continual rolling blackouts because the Chavistas couldn’t build and maintain their power plants. So they had American companies coming in to keep the power on, but didn’t want the masses to know they were relying on the gringos. So when they inaugurated a new plant, they would kick the Americans out of the control room for the TV cameras and install some Venezuelans for an hour. Then the Americans would come back and run the plant. The Biden Simulacrum is no different. The facade is everything. Think how cynical you have to be to appoint people with no knowledge or experience to highly technical leadership positions at agencies tasked with public safety. They love trashing the country, making a mockery of every Federal bureaucracy while they rip off the taxpayers. What else can you say?
OMG:
The nominee had, again, absolutely no clue at all, suggesting a cluelessness so complete it rises nearly to the level of the Buttigiegian.
Buttigiegian!
I can’t stop laughing. I thank God for Chris Bray, a key player in my stay sane plan. 😂
I still want to know who is ACTUALLY running the clown show known as the Biden Administration. It ain’t Joe Biden. Why humiliate this man, who might be really competent in another job, and put so many at risk by insisting that he lead an agency that he knows nothing about. It IS indeed the Cultural Revolution mentality, and who cares if a “few” people are sacrificed for the greater good
i fear we're headed for a lysenkoism
Are you suggesting that standards are being lowered because diversity hires are less competent? That's racist! And it's totally false, per the very diverse fact-checkers at Politifact (this claim was handled by a black neurodivergent transspecies platypus female metrosexual onanist, who is such a talented debunker that she didn't even need to do any research before debunking it as totally false). Moreover, we are making progress by lowering standards, because all standards are racist (except the standard of having 100% of your new hires be diverse, i.e., no white cis-males who don't have anal sex with other men), so the fewer standards we have, the better.
Chris, thank you for "Buttigiegian". An admirable addition to the lexicon.
Unreal. He had no idea what a stall or spin are, or what causes them. This cannot continue. He should have been tossed out of the building.
Do you like indoor plumbing? Or electricity? Too bad. We've got equity in the engineering departments now.
South Africa has been running this experiment for years. The results are exactly what one would expect, but no one wants to acknowledge that a country with nuclear power plants and a space program developing an incipient launch capability degenerated into a failed state with rolling blackouts and roads made of potholes in the span of a single generation. But hey Black Economic Empowerment, gotta make sure the right faces are occupying those prestigious jobs amirite? Nelson Mandela, yay, he was a hero, now stop asking questions, bigot.
Buttigiegian. Brilliant. I’m diving into that phrase-
“Son, the way you cut the grass this week is Buttigiegian”. Of course then he wouldn’t do anything about it for two weeks.
Reported for thought-crime.
Credentials, facts and knowledge are social constructs. To be able to think otherwise is wrongthink. Report for renewed Kallocain-injection.
She expressed a WILLINGNESS to google the Constitution (probably written by a man!), didn't she? What more can we ask?
I’m sure he has flown in an airplane at least once so that certainly makes him highly qualified to run the FAA.
Meanwhile, I will keep running my fossil fuel guzzling automobile wherever I want to go until they pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
Forget it, Chris, it's Equity!
To borrow your hilarious metaphor, we are living in a reality adjacent magical era, where only true believers accredit facts, sanctify science, and ordain experience adjacent 'professionals' and poof, all the bad dissappears. Until the train derails. And the plane crashes. And the well is poisoned. But no worries there's a pin cushion orange man around here somewhere to get even for those distasters.