A few days after being inaugurated Joe Biden issued a warning to his presidential appointees.
“If you’re ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect or talk down to someone, I promise you, I will fire you on the spot — on the spot. No ifs and or buts. Everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity. That’s been missing in a big way the last four years.”
“We’re going to be judged whether or not we
restored the integrity and competency of this government I need your help
badly.”
The cheerleaders in the media amplified this message as much
as they could. They claimed this return to ‘civility’ proved that the “grown-ups” are back in control.
Biden had also pledged that his
administration “would look like what America looks”. This was Biden’s big ‘diversity’ push.
Once again the cheerleaders were jubilant again. They
baselessly (as always) claimed that the era of white supremacy under President
Trump and Biden would not only hire the best but be inclusive.
It has been one and a half years since that pledge was made.
Time to examine if Biden's White House is really a heavenly Utopia?
Let's begin with what we see.
Biden who is accustomed to his cheerleading media has
frequently displayed his foul temper when presented with tough questions.
See here, here, here, and here.
Beyond Biden’s outburst at rare press conferences, Biden’s White House generally appears to be in utter disarray. Biden himself is anxious and peeved by this.
When White House Reporter Simon Ateba from Today News
Africa challenged the Biden administration's travel ban on eight African
countries following the emergence of Omicron and appeared on Tucker Carlson's
show to talk about the travel ban, then-White House press sec Jen
Psaki, stopped
taking Ateba's questions.
Even his cheerleaders are turning on Biden.
NBC
News reported that “Biden is rattled by his sinking approval ratings
and is looking to regain voters’ confidence that he can provide the sure-handed
leadership he promised during the campaign, people close to the
president say.”
There is also a possibility of a staff shakeup, with reports
“that chief of staff Ron Klain will depart at some point after the midterms,
and one has heard him discuss leaving.”
NBC News also reported that Biden’s White House is far from a
smoothly running administration despite personnel with decades of experience in
public office.
The report also claims managerial breakdowns have angered both
Biden and the Democrats in general and Biden is displeased about a pattern
where he makes 'a clear and succinct statement’ — only to have aides rush to
explain that he actually meant something else.
It is hard to know who made up the laughable 'clear and
succinct statement' claim, was it a writer of the piece attempting to soften the
blow to Biden or does Biden have an inflated opinion of himself?
Declaring war with nuclear-armed
Russia or claiming that the U.S. would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan
against China is reckless and irresponsible. It also violates US foreign
policy. Statements such as deserve need to be walked back.
The report also claims that Biden feels these ' clean-up
campaigns’ undermine him and enable a Republican talking point that he’s not
fully in command.
Does anybody really think Biden, who struggles to recall the
names of his colleagues and frequently addresses Kamala Harris as President
Harris is capable of this sort of thinking that is based on memory and
analysis?
If that wasn’t terrible enough Politico
reported yesterday that
“At least 21 Black staffers have left the White House since
late last year or are planning to leave soon.
They describe a work environment with little support from
their superiors and fewer chances for promotion.
The departures have been so pronounced that, some Black aides
have adopted a term for them: “Blaxit.”
The first big exit came in December, when Kamala Harris’
senior adviser and chief spokesperson Symone Sanders announced she was leaving,
ultimately for a gig at MSNBC.
Since then, Harris senior aides Tina Flournoy, Ashley Etienne, Vincent Evans, and public engagement head Cedric Richmond have left.
Public engagement aide Carissa Smith, gender policy aide
Kalisha Dessources Figures, National Security Council senior director Linda
Etim, digital engagement director Cameron Trimble, associate counsel Funmi
Olorunnipa Badejo, chief of staff Ron Klain advisers Elizabeth Wilkins and
Niyat Mulugheta, press assistant Natalie Austin, National Economic Council
aides Joelle Gamble and Connor Maxwell, and presidential personnel aides
Danielle Okai, Reggie Greer and Rayshawn Dyson have all departed too. Deputy
White House counsel Danielle Conley and Council of Economic Advisers aide
Sahara Griffin are among others planning to leave in the coming weeks,
according to White House officials.”
Staffers leaving en masse is perhaps because they do not want to be
seen presiding over myriad disasters and perhaps it is the work culture and the office environment.
Last year, Biden's top science adviser Eric Lander was found guilty of creating a toxic work environment where he frequently bullied, cut off yelled at, dismissed, and made subordinates feel humiliated in front of their peers. Once again the toxicity created by Lander that the accusers requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.
An internal
White House investigation found credible evidence that proved the
accusers' claims and Lander was let go.
Politico also
reported that three Black staffers under the condition of anonymity because of
fear of reprisal — said the exodus has hurt morale, compounding problems that
exist elsewhere. They described an operation in which mentorship is hard to
come by and the opportunity to move up the ranks of a tight-knit operation is
exceptionally rare.
This despondence proves in promotions in Biden’s administration
are given not because of output or ability. Perhaps only those with the right connections
reach the top?
The fact that staffers are mortified to talk to their superiors
and petrified to talk to the media for fear of reprisal feel like the functioning
of a totalitarian regime.
It is also shameful that this is happening to staffers of
color that the Democrat claims to care about deeply.
So what does one make of all these articles?
It all seems rather strange that the cheerleaders would do it at a time when the mid-terms are not too far away.
The crisis is perhaps so deep that the cheerleaders are
compelled to report facts just to retain some credibility. Maybe the Democrat
leadership is using the media to prevent Biden from seeking re-election. Perhaps the Democrat leadership is kicking Bien when he is down merely to assert their leadership
This chaos in the White House is another of the many Biden-made disasters much like open border, 40-year high inflation, supply chain crisis, crime wave, Afghanistan, and Ukraine that make the US look incompetent and untrustworthy!
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