Posted on 09/10/2021 6:55:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joe Biden in his 2020 basement presidential campaign made a big deal about his quest of "unity" and the importance of taking the advice of "experts."
That's now a joke. It got obvious last week when we learned he chased out two top Food and Drug Administration research scientists, both strict non-partisans (I checked), from their positions, in a string of such exits. White House interference, specifically from truth-challenged White House chief science advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was what he meant by 'experts.'
Now it gets worse. Turns out a whole host of unpaid Trump-appointed advisors on departmental advisory boards, with fixed three-year terms -- at Defense, Education, Homeland Security, and more -- have been fired. The boards are historically bipartisan -- "advisory bodies that can offer suggestions and a different perspective from service academy leadership on a variety of issues, ranging from diversity to education" as the Washington Times put it. Now they'e not.
It was also apparently legal, same way a president can fire the chairman of the Federal Reserve, but normally doesn't do it. Some argue it's not legal and we know that Biden doesn't care if something is legal. However, we know for sure it was against precedent. After all, recall that Obama spin operative, Ben Rhodes, whose expertise is creative writing, and Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, whose expertise is slumlording, got themselves advisory positions at the Kennedy Center at the end of Obama's term, and President Trump left them alone to serve out their terms.
Biden's rationale is quite mendacious, given White House spokesweasel Jen Psaki had to say:
“The president’s objective is what any president’s objective is: to ensure you have nominees and people serving on these boards who are qualified to serve on them
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
At the service academies' Board of Visitors:
H.R. McMaster, a three-star general and graduate of West Point, identified on his Wikipedia page by the army's chief of staff as "probably our best Brigadier General." He served as Trump's National Security Advisor but left on negative terms and Trump actually speaks ill of him. He's somehow not an expert? He doesn't even have the scent of Trump on him but somehow he's not an expert.
Sean Spicer, make that Commander Sean Spicer, who serves in the U.S. Navy Reserve, and like McMaster, left under a cloud in the Trump administration, too. Spicer's Wikipedia page says: "In 1999, Spicer joined the United States Navy Reserve as a public affairs officer; he currently holds the rank of Commander.[38] As of December 2016, he was assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff's naval reserve contingent in Washington, D.C.,[39] and in 2017 was a member of the Department of Defense Criminal Investigative Task Force." But somehow he's not an expert, either.
Kellyanne Conway made a spirited defense of herself and her qualifications for the board as well, noting that as one of President Trump's aides, she continuously dealt with military family issues. But somehow, she knows nothing. Perhaps that makes sense to the Biden team given that they consider military families nothing. See here.
Non-experts? Don't think so.
Here's more nonsense from the Homeland Security board firings, which happened in May:
Thomas Homan, former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and somehow he's no expert?
Ken Cuccinelli, former deputy director of Homeland Security, and somehow he's no expert?
Here's one from the San Francisco Presidio Trust, with a firing that happened in June:
Michael Savage, famous as a radio host, but more to the point decades-long San Francisco resident and environmental activist, with a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in a related botanical discipline. He's not an expert, either? (And by the way, look at the political hacks he was replaced with -- four people best-known for their money.)
Now for some ugly:
Over at one of the Department of Education's advisory boards, here are two who got fired by Biden, too, in May:
Steve Hanke, economics professor at Johns Hopkins University, probably the world's foremost monetary expert, with a string of accomplishments in currency, statistics, and on the ground experience quite unlike any other economist. Get a load of his work listed here. That's not an expert?
John Yoo: Professor of Law at the University of California, at Berkeley, with expertise in Constitutional and international law. He's not an expert?
Note that both he and Hanke have somehow manager to survive in prestigious leftist academic institutions that otherwise live by going woke -- their expertise is known to be too great and so they're still there despite the leftist direction of academia. Now Biden is trying to smear even these heavyweights as somehow not knowing much about education.
Don’t turn around,
Der Kommissar’s in town
Just a reminder from the vile Biden cabal that on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, there no longer exists a common fabric of values and purpose to unite Americans.
Biden must be an expert at something.
He’s been in office for nearly a half a century and none can think of one great thing he has ever accomplished.
That take a certain kind of talent.
THIS is who Biden is.
THIS is who Biden has ALWAYS BEEN.
THIS is who Biden WILL CONTINUE TO BE.
He has NEVER BEEN A ‘MODERATE’.
He has ALWAYS BEEN A PARTISAN.
He is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN AND EVERYTHING HE DOES WILL SUPPORT THAT.......................
CORRUPTION............................
So the next Republican president elected needs to clean house of all the Democrats that infest the bureaucracy of the U.S. Government. This bureaucracy of Democrats (or Deep State) is what helped bring down Trump. Now we know what the first action should be when Republicans take control. Biden just set the precedent.
PERVERSION is also one of his specialties
That’s his ‘side hustle’......................
John M. "Jack" Keane (born February 1, 1943) is a retired American four-star general, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. He is a national security analyst, primarily on Fox News, and serves as chairman of the Institute for the Study of War and as chairman of AM General.
“...to ensure you have nominees and people serving on these boards who are qualified to serve on them..”
Like General Keane isn’t qualified? FU scumsack.
Biden an expert at taking America downhill-—as quickly as he can.
The day after Trump takes the office again, he can fire all of the Biden appointees, including all of the Justice Department District Attorneys, on his first day of office. Not only can he, he should.
“So the next Republican president elected needs to clean house of all the Democrats that infest the bureaucracy of the U.S. Government. This bureaucracy of Democrats (or Deep State) is what helped bring down Trump. Now we know what the first action should be when Republicans take control. Biden just set the precedent.”
Actually the precedent was set with the Clintons who started the process of inserting social justice warriors into the bureaucracy at all levels and converting political appointments to civil service appointments at the end of the term. George W. Bush made no effort to weed the leftists out at lower level. Obama and his team continued the Clinton program on steroids and worked hard to politicize the military, intelligence services and federal law enforcement. This 20 year effort culminated in the Trump administration where the bureaucracy was in open warfare with executive leadership and a bi-partisan majority of the Republican controlled Congress (first two years of Trump’s administration) slow walked his conservative appointees and force him to appoint Washington insiders for most key jobs.
The leftist administrative state is now in control of the government. It matters not who is president or who controls Congress. The leaders of the leftist administrative state are firmly in control of the levers of power (money and the justice system). Colluding with the press and the justice system they have the power to ruin (reputation, job, money) anyone who opposes them.
Biden’s speech was a prime example. The cadaver with the title of President was propped up to read a declaration written by the power players in the administrative state hiding behind the curtain. It mattered not that the “powers” Biden talked about wielding are not enumerated in the Constitution. The Constitution has been thrown out.
Election cheating has now been perfected. Expect the 2024 election to be won by the Democrats and several red state governorships and legislatures to fall. At that point we will hear calls to throw out the racist Constitution of the founders and replace it with a new Constitution which will cement the tyranny of the state in law.
Well written, thank you for the details. Biden’s masses media never covered the details. Only his claim of “qualifications “. Meaning of course, that only democrat-socialists are “qualified.”
Thanks RACPE.
Ken Cuccinelli, former deputy director of Homeland Security, and somehow he's no expert?
Dingbat Biden thugs going full commie? The above two men know the score...
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