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You’re Fired!
A few weeks ago, Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal noted that in spite of multiple examples of incompetence and non-performance in the Biden Administration, Joe Biden hasn’t fired anyone. Since it’s been reported that he has 560 people in the Executive Office, he certainly has plenty of people to choose from. So I have to wonder, after almost two years, is there no one he’d like to replace with somebody more knowledgeable and competent in any position?
Having the same staff in place after all this time is a mystery to me. Does Biden think his people are more talented than the rest of us who see how disastrous their performance is? Is there a secret prohibition against letting people go? Does he think firing someone will make him “look bad?” (Is there a way he could look any worse than he does?) Or did he demand that everyone needed to take a loyalty oath when they were hired that would guarantee them lifetime federal government employment?
More than that, why would people want to stick around with his crashing ratings in the polls? Are people threatening to quit and people in the Executive Office forbidding them to do so?
Or maybe there is a Progressive in the shadows who decides who leaves and who stays. Maybe that person takes his or her direction from George Soros. Maybe Soros has had to bribe them all to stay.
Who would you fire first if you had the power to do it (and no cheating and picking Biden)? My top pick would be Mayorkas, DHS Director.
Do you have any theories on the reasons that no one has been fired? Doesn’t it seem odd to you, too?
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To the OP, it could be another sign of cognitive decline.
Does our president value familiar faces around himself more than any consideration of competence?
I think you give Joe way, way too much credit. He is just an amoral, venial, dishonest, ultra ambitious life-long political hack whose hubris and ambition for power finally found its opening through Donald Trump. Once at the peak of political power, he was too far gone to do anything with it. What we now have is a dementia affected querulous husk of an old man who, in public events, must be told where to stand and when to sit.
You’re assuming that he’s still able to recognize people. I wouldn’t bet on it, at least with some of them . . .
In addition to many of the well reasoned points, I’d add that they can order crew members off a sinking ship but finding new crew members at that point – you won’t find many takers.
I don’t doubt that the staff ranks are populated with anarchists/Leftists purposefully working to take the US down, that there are diversity hires-too trapped/stupid to realize they’ve hitched their wagon to horse on his way to the glue factory.
The “stink of failure” is all over this White House, those smart enough would never be on that side politically in the first place. Those that corrupt but intelligent don’t want to ruin future prospects. I disliked Jen Psaki a great deal but she was savvy enough to get the hell out. As someone who lies and spins for a living, even she knew there’s only so much disbelief people can willingly suspend. If you’re ‘selling crap’, you may as well do it for more money and better hours, hence the MSM gig.
Conservative Treehouse had a really interesting point that he made about Trump’s personnel turnover/issues. I agree it sure was chaotic but many of those people were ‘ok’d’ and members in good standing in The GOP Swamp. DeSantis (if he’s the Real Deal, if he’s serious, is going to have problems staffing as well).
I like DeSantis and Rand Paul a great deal but have to admit, the TDS Trump has produced in that town – I have never, ever seen a GOP politician induce that type of reaction ( not Nixon, not Reagan) that level or terror(?) in that city. That alone still makes him attractive as a candidate, warts and all.
It worked for Mayor Pete!
Yeah, it’s probably more like this. The complex of lies bind them together with cords that cannot be broken — without risking the whole charade being uncovered.
In the real world, nobody who worked in this disastrous administration would ever find work again.
Alas, Washington isn’t the real world.
Neither is Hollyweird. Same kinds of problems.
For an administration / party / political tendency that seems to fervently believe in the primacy of PR over reality, they are really bad at PR.
Objectively, yes. But they think they’re doing great. Their analysis is as bad as everything else they do.
Propaganda can also function through displaying the raw power to issue ridiculous statements and policies and have them taken at face value, despite obvious falsehood. The Democrats are no longer in the “good PR” business — they don’t need it. They’re in the “I dare you to point this out” business.
Biden is the one who has to go because the Chinese hide behind him. Once he goes it should be a cascade with no end, leading to a special election. Three years is too long and the Chinese will have done what they can in that period.
My dream is for all 560 of them to file into the unemployment office and have them introduced to the clerk by Karine Jean-Pierre. Of course, she’d have to leaf through her notebook to come up with their names but, hey, that’s no worse than she’s doing now.
There is no provision for a “special election” in the Constitution. If the President is removed from office, resigns, or dies, the VP becomes President. A new VP is nominated by the new POTUS and confirmed.
Given the number of people who’ve quit, he doesn’t have to fire anyone!
JK. Yes, it is odd. Trump fired a lot of people because they couldn’t – or wouldn’t – advance his agenda . . .
Seriously, how can you?
Then you will be firing them because you hate them and you are a hate-ist or hate-ophobe
It makes sense if everything we’re seeing is happening just as planned. The globalists and communists are sitting in control of American government, they’ve worked decades for this moment. They’ve got their foot on the gas pedal and if anything his people are going to be getting medals, not pink slips.
It’s a messaging problem. All of it. Always.
How is it a messaging problem when it’s been demonstrated, time and again, that what they want simply doesn’t work?
Why fire anyone? He would have to be sentient enough to know things are going horribly wrong. He is not and whoever is whispering in his ear tells him to blame Trump, Putin, MAGA, white supremecists, whatever. So why would he fire anyone unless they denied him ice cream and little girls’ hair to sniff?
What they want is graft. It works over and over and over again. For them. They aren’t stealing elections because everyone is voting for them.
I’m sure that many/most/all of the hangers-on are just in it for the graft, but the people at the top – at least of the “movement” if not of any particular government – seem to actually believe that garbage.
I’d bet we’ve been having that debate since civilization started: Are the people of the left evil or merely stupid? I think the answer is both. They believe the lie, but only because lying pays.
You are going to own nothing and be happy about it. You’ll eat bugs, and be hapy about that too if they win.
(And here, the Spartan replies: “If.”)
Naw, the lie doesn’t pay for many perhaps most people who believe it. They believe it because they think it makes them better people.
Maybe we’re running up against Cipolla’s 2nd quadrant, that he had to bisect. All of the believers are stupid, but the smarter ones are bandits too.
Like mentioned above, Garland deserves to be first because his dereliction has hurt the most people the most.
However, due to sheer incompetence and horrible results for the job they were hired for:
Secretary of Energy
FILE PHOTO: Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm takes questions during a media briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 23, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
You’ll know it’s really too late when someone makes a youtube of Harris cackling for TEN HOURS.
Unfortuneatly it was not enough.