“The Cabinet is a majority of people of color for the first time in history. The Cabinet is a majority female for the first time in history. A majority of White House senior staff identify as female,” Karine Jean Pierre explained earlier this week. “Forty percent of White House senior staff identify as part of racially diverse communities. And a record seven assistants to the Presidents are openly LGBTQ+.”
Yeah, and how’s that working out, Karine? Spoiler alert: not so great. For example, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg brought LGBT representation into Joe Biden’s cabinet — and pretty much nothing else. He makes headlines for all the wrong reasons, such as taking paternity leave amid the supply chain crisis, calling bridges and highways racist, and frequently taking personal trips. Buttigieg also oversaw the Southwest Airlines fiasco, the FAA outage, and, more recently, the mishandling of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment disaster.
And then there’s Richard “Rachel” Levine, who was nominated by Joe Biden to serve as Assistant Secretary of Health despite being under a cloud of scandal. In 2020, Levine faced calls for his resignation over “the horrific results of the [Pennsylvania health] department’s COVID-19 policy” at nursing homes and long-term care facilities. He also removed his mother from such a facility while others could not do so. Had Levine not identified as transgender, there’s no way he’d have been picked.
Biden has often put diversity considerations ahead of qualifications. He promised to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court and landed on Ketanji Brown Jackson, a potentially anti-Semitic supporter of critical race theory with a long record of leniency for child porn offenders who couldn’t define what a woman is.
Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, is another example of a lackluster diversity hire. She couldn’t talk her way out of a paper bag, but was chosen because she’s a black lesbian.
And don’t get me started on Kamala Harris.
Yeah, and how’s that working out, Karine? Spoiler alert: not so great. For example, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg brought LGBT representation into Joe Biden’s cabinet — and pretty much nothing else. He makes headlines for all the wrong reasons, such as taking paternity leave amid the supply chain crisis, calling bridges and highways racist, and frequently taking personal trips. Buttigieg also oversaw the Southwest Airlines fiasco, the FAA outage, and, more recently, the mishandling of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment disaster.
And then there’s Richard “Rachel” Levine, who was nominated by Joe Biden to serve as Assistant Secretary of Health despite being under a cloud of scandal. In 2020, Levine faced calls for his resignation over “the horrific results of the [Pennsylvania health] department’s COVID-19 policy” at nursing homes and long-term care facilities. He also removed his mother from such a facility while others could not do so. Had Levine not identified as transgender, there’s no way he’d have been picked.
Biden has often put diversity considerations ahead of qualifications. He promised to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court and landed on Ketanji Brown Jackson, a potentially anti-Semitic supporter of critical race theory with a long record of leniency for child porn offenders who couldn’t define what a woman is.
Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, is another example of a lackluster diversity hire. She couldn’t talk her way out of a paper bag, but was chosen because she’s a black lesbian.
And don’t get me started on Kamala Harris.
