Why have the Biden/Harris puppet masters been such abject failures?
Everyone agrees that Joe Biden has not been running the country for the past four years. During the 2020 race, he already showed advanced signs of dementia, which have only gotten worse over time. Kamala Harris has exposed herself to the world as less than skin deep. She does not grasp any important issue and has no coherent policy ideas for the future administration she wants with her name first. Every interview includes wild laughter, word salads, and endless discussions about growing up middle-class and loving small businesses. I would never want to be around the dinner table with her and her hubby, Doug.
So if these two incompetents are not running the shop, who is? Most agree that a cabal of Obama leftovers such as Samantha Powers, John Kerry, Tony Blinken, and Valerie Jarrett are the real movers and shakers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Let’s work on the assumption that those behind the scenes are the ones really making policy and more or less doing whatever they want under the cover of two useful props. If so, why have such highly-qualified over-accredited folks failed so badly? Around 80% of the population feels that the country is heading in the wrong direction. From high prices that do not go down to the US being pushed around the globe, Americans do not believe that things have gotten better during the past four years. But we had the best and brightest running the show under an incapacitated president and policy-averse vice president. Why didn’t they do better? It’s like having the best doctor for a given condition only to have the patient die under his care.
The answer is always the same: we use the wrong metrics to describe success. Picture a football team that loses badly. Its coach is desperate to keep his job, so he points out that they controlled the clock, had fewer penalties, gave up no turnovers—in short, they did everything but win. But winning is the true metric in football and politics. Even if it is ugly, comes in at the last second, and is fraught with a controversial call, it is still a victory. And these people do not understand that.
Look at General Mark Milley. He has more hardware on his chest than an Abrams tank has around its turret. Yet, what did he accomplish? Did he win any wars? Wasn’t he the guy pushing the gender and pronoun program, declaring white fragility a thing? Wasn’t he the guy who threw out patriots who refused to take an experimental drug? Wasn’t he the guy presiding over the worst departure of American forces in the history of the Republic? But he has so many medals! He is a four-star general! He told the Chinese he would warn them before Trump could attack them! Whereas the greatness of Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, LeMay, MacArthur, Nimitz and Halsey was that they won, Milley’s “success” is being accredited. Victory is optional. All of those named above had far fewer medals on their chests and many more victories in their pockets than our former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Look at Kamala. What has she accomplished? She sent a lot of California drug users to jail. She sent parents of kids who skipped school to jail as well. What did she really accomplish in all of those DA and other jobs she held? What did she accomplish in the Senate? As vice-president? We’ve all seen the video of her introducing herself to others, saying that she is a woman wearing a blue suit. That is the person who is one heartbeat away from the most difficult and important job in the world? Kamala, unfortunately, does not understand the joke that she has become. Look at her rallies. She always brings some famous person or two: the Obamas, a famous singer or actor. In a normal setting, the candidate is the star and the props brought on the stage are only there to strengthen the one running. In Kamala’s case, due to her lack of appeal and missing accomplishments, people come to hear a concert or to see if Barack Obama or Bill Clinton still has the speaking skills that propelled them to eight years each in the White House. The main course, Kamala Harris, has become the backup band for some star who is needed to bring people to the hall. She has done nothing and she is the vice president running to be the boss—based on no accomplishment other than having been born black and a woman.
I remember when we were finishing up at Harvard, the yearbook people sent out to all of the seniors a request for us to list our activities, clubs and the like. The tendency was that even if one only went to an organizing meeting for some recognized campus group, he would list it on his yearbook entry. This made for long and impressive entries: track, singing club, Latin club, student for justice in the dining hall, and the like. This mentality next moved to one’s resume: adding any activity or skill so as to make it look more impressive. The person was no better, no more accomplished, but his paper version of himself made him look like a Nobel laureate and Olympic gold medalist.
The Obama leftovers who have held the levers of power in Washington during the supposed Biden presidency wish to have four more years to further destroy the United States. Their failures are rewarded with promotions. Have you ever seen anyone in Washington fired for cause? Which heads rolled after the disastrous exit from Afghanistan? None. Who got canned for all of the failures that led to the 9/11 attacks? Nobody. Donald Trump, through his business and TV career, made a point of firing people. When people are fired, both they and those still on board learn that producing results is the best way to keep a job and earn a promotion. We need to change our definitions of success from paper accomplishments to indisputable success in whatever the job is supposed to be. A general who wins a war should be praised and promoted. A general who loses 13 Marines and billions in military equipment should be demoted and fired with no pension.
Let performance and not paper successes be the guides for success. Elon Musk did not go to Harvard, and Steve Jobs dropped out of college—yet they became fabulously wealthy, and we all use their products on a daily basis. Let’s get the most successful to Washington and not the most accredited. The difference could be monumental.