Watching segments of the confirmation hearings/inquests of Donald Trump’s cabinet has produced several epiphanies for me.
Begin with some excerpts involving proposed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. I loved it when he pointed out to one hack Democrat Senator who was pursuing Clueless Joe Biden’s oligarch witch hunt path, that Clueless Joe himself recently had awarded medals to several guys who would fit the oligarch definition.
But it was another segment of Bessent’s testimony that struck me. If you pay attention, you recognize what these antagonists are trying to put on the record simply by the way they get around to asking their questions. In this example, the Democrat woman’s goal seemed to be to let the public know that Bessent is gay. She made a great point of congratulating him for having his “husband” there. It seemed she even paused for effect.
So, why would a leftist Democrat want to make that point, seemingly in a negative way? Perhaps to hope that supposedly homophobic MAGA types would be shocked and outraged.
I’m going to confess right here and now that I didn’t know Bessent is gay. I didn’t care and I still don’t.
And that’s where Trump and his cabinet picks have differed from the Biden Potemkin Village cabinet, which was picked largely for appearances over substance.
This is a common theme of the DEI crowd. Recently Michelle Obama has been displaying her equal opportunity ways, saying she’d pull a daily double by skipping both Jimmy Carter’s funeral and the Trump inauguration. On the latter, Michelle said she couldn’t sit there again and smile when there was not enough diversity on display.
I guess, considering Trump’s election victory, Michelle no longer is proud of our nation.
But, ostensibly she is proud that the Biden cabinet includes a lot of hapless DEI hires. For example, Mayor Pete Butt (something) seems to be the Transportation Secretary largely because he is gay, not because he brings any particular skills to the job.
So it is with DEI hires, long on filling quotas such as being gay, nonwhite, women, or just generally sexually confused, but short on qualifications and production.
The person Bessent is in line to replace, Mother Hubbard Janet Yellen, qualifies as DEI in part because she is a woman. More important, her life has been spent either in academia or in the public sector, where one never has to live with the economic consequences of spewing misinformed tripe. Janet is a complete stranger to the private economy.
She’s made a mess of things fiscally by refusing to go out the yield curve on refinancing U.S. debt, and thereby missing the chance to lock in interest rates before they started what now is a steep upward trajectory. Instead, Mother Hubbard ran cover for Clueless Joe in trying to artificially keep long-term interest rates low by not re-financing debt long-term and instead leaving a flood of short-term refinancing that will be a challenge for Bessent.
At least Yellen isn’t like another poster child Biden employee, a cross-dressing, luggage-stealing guy/girl formerly working in the nuclear energy office.
Bessent, by all accounts, is brilliant. He has been nominated not as a nod to the gay community, but rather because he is the best person available. That he is gay does not enter the calculus, nor should it.
And so it is with other Trump nominees, some of them accomplished and strong women (despite Mark Cuban’s venom), some of them talented non-whites of various ethnicity, and, yes, there are some white men who don’t carry DEI cred by being gay, but who are equipped to do their job.
You want an idea of what this nation would be headed for had Trump not won? Look to California, a DEI dreamland currently in the process of paying the price for putting the unqualified in positions of influence, authority and responsibility.
There but for the grace of God and Trump go we.
Monday can’t get here soon enough.
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