Does the Biden Administration Intentionally Go Out of Its Way to Hire Stupid People?

 

Someone (possibly Jim Geraghty at National Review) recently offered up the opinion that Obama’s “E Team” (those left after the A, B, C, and D teams had left the White House over two terms) were Biden’s “A Team.” Clearly in the Biden Administration, we are not getting “the best and brightest.” Does the Biden Administration intentionally hire stupid people, or is the problem that only stupid people will work for the Biden Administration?

I am posting this because of a story so idiotic it would be unbelievable, but we have seen so much idiocy at the Biden Administration, maybe it’s true (and not Babylon Bee).

The Secretary of Education (Miguel Cardona) reportedly said arming teachers was a stupid idea because, in his mind, doing so would require giving the teacher’s substitute the gun if the armed teacher was absent. Is anybody really so stupid as to come to the conclusion of what the Secretary of Education is saying?

The new press secretary (Karine Jean-Pierre) demonstrates daily that she is an idiot. Her predecessor, Jen Psaki, lied almost every time she opened her mouth, but at least she made an effort to be convincing in her lies. Ms. Jean-Pierre is just plain incompetent. She rarely has an answer of any kind, even to questions that can be anticipated. And the answers she does give are clearly scripted and rarely relevant to the question asked.

The now-approved-but-not-yet-seated Supreme Court justice who was selected for her race and sex (Ketanji Brown-Jackson) demonstrated in her Senate hearings that she is not intellectually curious enough, nor mentally facile enough, to be a proper Supreme Court Justice. Surely among black women lawyers and judges there was someone with greater intellectual curiosity and capacity than Ms. Brown-Jackson.

But an Education Secretary who thinks that a proposal to let willing teachers carry firearms requires that the teacher’s substitute carry that same firearm is a special kind of stupid.

Is the Biden Administration intentionally hiring stupid people, or is their problem that only stupid people are willing to work in this administration?

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  1. kedavis Coolidge
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    American Abroad (View Comment):

    I don’t think they are stupid. They are ill-educated and have been affirmed their whole lives for their idealism and right-think. They generally come from comfortable backgrounds and don’t have any experience with the blue-collar economy which forms the foundation of their fortuitous prosperity. They sincerely believe that government solutions work because their high school teachers applauded for their science fair projects on solar energy and calls for alleviating poverty by taxing the rich. They do not understand the complexities of the economy or society, and their childlike naivete is causing great harm.

    Well put.

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