Don’t shed a tear for resigned Secret Service head Kim Cheatle. The Woke crowd will find her another Diversity, Equity and Inclusion position.
It actually is DEI (DIE as some critics call it) that was on trial here as much as Cheatle.
The Secret Service, you might have read, is in the midst of a 30 by 30 push, as in 30 percent of recruits to be female by the year 2030.
What better punctuation to that effort than to have a woman running it all?
I have no problem with that on the face of it. Being a traditionalist, I’m married to a woman. I have three granddaughters. I don’t think limits should be placed on their abilities to succeed due to them being females.
But here’s where I differ from the Woke crowd. I also don’t want to see women, or various other protected groups in the Woke ideology, ramrodded into positions for which they are not qualified just because it fills imagined quotas.
That brings us back to Cheatle, who went from protecting displays of Cheetos and two-liter soda bottles for PepsiCo, to ostensibly protecting prominent politicians and their families for the Secret Service.
Cheatle might have been great with snacks and beverages, but has been less than great at her most recent job.
In the wake of the near-assassinaton of Donald Trump, Cheatle went into hiding, emerging for a brief TV interview a day later to admit the buck stopped with her regarding the failure in Butler, Pa. It’s the second part Cheatle missed, that being that she should resign since the organization she headed had failed so miserably.
But Cheatle, perhaps expecting all the never-wrong Woke types would ride to her rescue, tried to hang on despite mounting examples of misinformation.
Her explanations were wild, including the rooftop from the which the sniper struck was too sloped to risk agents atop it. This flew in the face of video of snipers at the same event on a roof that seemed to have more of a slope.
I’m bad at working on heights, but looking at that roof used by the assassin — it was low and slightly sloped — I’m certain I’d have no problem functioning on it. One elderly member of Congress stood atop the roof just the other day mocking Cheatle’s explanation.
Cheatle and her operatives tried to pass the buck to local law enforcement.
They denied, then had to admit, that the Trump effort had requested greater Secret Service resources but had been refused.
Cheatle tried more stonewalling before Congress Monday, having no answers to obvious questions and prompting bipartisan outrage, including calls from both Republicans and Democrats that she resign.
Now that Clueless Joe Biden is on his way out, taking the power behind the throne from DR. JILL BIDEN !!!! (a huge Cheatle supporter by the way) Cheatle finally saw the light.
Maybe those same Democrat puppeteers who made Biden an offer to get out that he couldn’t refuse, did the same with Cheatle.
They might have said, your management style is questionable and your inability to answer basic questions about failures is a concern, but what bothers us the most is you will be linked to fellow Democrats and hurt us in the election this fall.
It is not overly cynical to theorize that Cheatle got the nudge to fall on her sword for reasons of cleaning up yet another political mess for the Democrats.
But, regardless of the why, what is important here is that the correct result was achieved — she’s gone.
Now we await with bated breath what sort of Woke replacement will be offered up to succeed Cheatle.
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