"It's been a rocky first month for White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Her answers have baffled reporters, and even made some of her White House colleagues wince."Imagine how bad her performance really has been to induce neoliberal Politico into writing such an unflattering intro paragraph.
That's like a Hindu priest beating a sacred cow. Ordinarily, while covering a sacrosanct immigrant lesbian Person of Colorยฉ in such a position, Politico would fawn.
Just how historically awful has Jean-Pierre been? More importantly, what lesson does her failure teach on the hollowness of leftist identity politics?
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At her coronation as Biden's new press secretary, Team Biden explicitly marketed Jean-Pierre as a diversity hire:
"So, I just want to take the opportunity to celebrate and congratulate... Karine Jean-Pierre...
First, as you all know, she will be the first Black woman, the first out LGBTQ+ person to serve in this role, which is amazing, because representation matters." โ Outgoing Press Secretary Jen Psaki, May 6, 2022
Since taking the podium, no individual has done more to singlehandedly undermine the affirmative action principle.
This specimen of mediocrity has been a spectacular failure. Without exception or exaggeration, each and every Jean-Pierre press conference has been an unmitigated trainwreck. I suffered through most of them, because I'm a masochist.
Words alone can't do justice. Some disasters have to be witnessed firsthand, up-close to appreciate, like a class V hurricane:
Consider her performance on June 2, 2022, in the throes of the baby formula shortage:
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"Q: Did the President have any conversations with any Cabinet Secretaries or the FDA commissioner once he was confirmed in February about the formula shortage before April?Look how many hyphens the transcriptionist had to insert there. Stammering and stuttering, Jean-Pierre muddled through the pre-written talking points script in her notebook that someone competent prepared for her.
A: Look, you know, as โ as more โ as you all know, the President spoke to โ to this yesterday: As more abnormalities were seen in supply and sales started to decrease in April โ you know, because people have asked about this โ senior White House staff made โ made the President aware of the problem, and this was in April. I don't have any calls to read out for you."
Even so, she failed to directly answer the question about whom the president talked to and when - or even come close.
The reporter politely followed up, not having received an answer, and she rambled further:
"I โ so, as you know, the President deals with issues on a regular basis and that โ that boils up to him. And it's just an โ there's no specific person that I can call out to you. But it's the regular way that we โ we move forward through the regular channels. I don't have a specific person. But that's โ that's kind of how it goes."How it goes, indeed. That's how unaccountability and the incompetent bureaucracy of a failed state goes.
The handpicked, compliant press corps attempted to get an answer to the same softball question - when and from whom Joe Biden first learned of the baby formula shortage - a minimum of eight more times.
Each time her answer was equally nonsensical. In response, she flipped through her notebook full of pre-canned answers, fingered one that might somehow tangentially connect to the question, read it (poorly), and moved on.
Literally, a well-trained sixth-grader could deliver a more inspiring product. Again, she wasn't speaking extemporaneously off the cuff - she attempted to read basic sentences off of her notebook, and failed even at that.
The whole charade is a disgusting affront to the American people who pay Jean-Pierre's and Biden's salaries to role-play stewards of state.
Remember when the Biden administration and the corporate media promised, with the blackest humor, that "the adults are back in charge"?
When diversity takes precedence over competence, the "adults" aren't in charge of anything. Unless, of course, by "adults," one means the oligarchs who actually run the gears of state to rob the American public.
Those "adults" don't care how dysfunctional the executive gets so long as the gravy train of favorable regulation and public subsidy for their private gain continues.
At least Jean-Pierre's predecessor, Jen Psaki, could lie with a modicum of grace. Granted, Psaki was equally soulless and her moral compass equally broken. Yet she could at least string together a single-sentence lie without reading.
No one in their right mind believes Jean-Pierre would have gotten within a mile of that podium if she was a white man - unless maybe she was a trans white dude. Those are cool, and diverse.
Of course, the woke inmates who run the White House asylum pin the blame squarely on the nearest white man for Jean-Pierre's failings:
"Some Black communications officials in and outside the administration, along with allies of Jean-Pierre, feel White House leadership has set her up to fail by having Kirby, a white man who was in the running for her job, hovering nearby and taking the lead on foreign policy."No way! Who could have predicted the blame-whitey routine?
By "hovering," of course, they mean Kirby doing Jean-Pierre's job for her on the high-stakes foreign policy front so as to avert nuclear holocaust.
The Biden administration finds itself between a rock and a hard place. Every single newsday that Jean-Pierre is trotted out to the world to humiliate herself and her colleagues, the whole presidency's credibility sinks even lower. Yet, the administration can't get rid of her because that would be racist, homophobic, misogynist, etc.... all the isms. Then, it'd have a mutiny on its hands.
If you close your eyes, you can already divine the Buzzfeed headlines: KKK Biden Throws Diverse, Talented, Sacred Person of Colorยฉ Press Secretary Under the Bus After Two Months on the Job!
Biden's handlers unleashed the SJW monster on themselves; they made their bed; now they have to lie in it. That's called sweet, savory karma.
Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose and/or Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.
Reader Comments
In any case, America is doomed and I vote for it being "a part of the Plan" - since wealthy middle-class people are endangering the status quo of the super-rich anywhere on the planet, as organized counter-culture is the only thing that can get us rid of
immoral eliteour great overlordsLet's see how far it can go without a great uprising - something they'd like to provoke so they'd have an excuse to go after traditional family on grounds of fake "white supremacy" danger which they want to wage war against and snatch everyones kids away for grooming and "drag pride shows" - they'd see it as their own perverted version of justice, what else would anyone expect from psychopaths is beyond me
The social engineers are light years ahead of the herd. If there were to be any 'great uprising' the coming food shortages will take care of that.
Still I wonder if they can keep the timing to make it all look like a "natural course of things" and not let it blow back in their faces by impatiently pushing forward to obliteration (which could be theirs in a rare case, if we manage to keep our heads cool and not fall for any of their manipulations)..
Then again, it was no different with the past civilizations, Babylon and Sodoma & Gomorrah being merely a few examples of how does this end, when humanity loses all of its guidance and descends into madness, trying to play God and embracing the Devil
When we began to play by their rules, we've lost the battle.. that's also why they don't play by our rules either
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Now there's really nothing to be done. It's going to run it's course. Enjoy! We're witnessing major history being made.
At this point, an asteroid strike would seem like a positive development.
Regardless, old ideas die and new ideas emerge.
The coup of 1913 is outlawed by the 14th Amendment which preceded the coup, and therefore, legal recourse is beckoning.
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edit - on re-reading, I'm thinking there are other ways to read it, so sorry if I offended...
(that is called a presumptive apology....)
So, it comes down to the "type" of hunger. You got hungry and you got starving.
You got hypnotized and you got anarchist.
You got libertarians and authoritarians who like to be self-fulfilling....
you got this and that...
you got what you got and
I got what I got
I'll trade you my pepper
for a River Rock.
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BK, Poem of the Day on the new keyboard, 72022 1631
We are at war and its going to be a long one. These people have been working on this agenda for hundreds of years, so they aren't going to go home just because people around the world are starting to fight back. I do see signs of hope out there, but we are in for the fight of our lives and up against pure evil.
Thanks....
Ken
I once worked for an online poetry magazine. 20 years until I got cancelled for speaking out against Cancel Culture. Ironic, huh?
Once they ran a contest for 'Long Poem Masterpiece.' Everyone had an entire year to write a poem.
This was my entry. I'm going to share it because I was proud of it.....
THIS IS NOT THE AGE OF DEFEAT
This is the age of lossโnot the age of defeat
Drone strikesโkill lists
Murderers and torturers approved for high office
Austerity for the poorโrecord profits for the rich
Truth tellers shackled
Liars lauded
ignorance exalted
Cruelty and callousness gilded with righteous piety
Everywhere Goodness is driven to its knees
And this brutality is not decried but celebrated
As in that Age of Iron that lowered over our forbears during the dark night of the Thirties
You see faces once thought kind and kindred turn suddenly feral
Fear is behind itโbut not just fear
A self-hatred for what fear has turned them into
A self-hatred that cannot be borne and so is turned outward
Violently thrown outward
Into harsh projections of hatefulness
Violence and desolation
The avid embrace of what was once avidly denounced
Or the sad but โsavvyโ acceptance of the โlesser evilโ
This is what we see at every turn today among ourselves
Among those we thought were our own
And sometimes maybeโ
When the lowering is darkest heaviestโ
In mirrors as we pass
When the lowering is darkest
When the soul is lost
In themโin us
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This is the age of loss
But it is not the age of defeat
What do you think goodness is?
Some commodity
A material substance that can be wasted utterly
Atomizedโmade inert?
Do you think it is a thing that can be destroyed
Organic matter that can die?
Do you think it is an idea that can lose its force
Its coherenceโits context?
Can be rendered quaint or antiquated by timeโs passing
Or by any suppression or negation?
Exactly what do you think goodness is?
Goodness is like fire
โit is a processโ
Not an entity
Not even a mental entity
It is process โit is relation
It exists only in the moment of its enacting
In the moment of ignition
Where matter and energy become one
Become nothingโbecome all
Goodness is like fireโbut it is not fire
The matter it feeds upon is existence itself
Inexhaustible
In all of its uncountable coalescences of innumerable elements
Right down to the quantum switchings in the invisible cores
Rising decaying recombining
Rising againโdecaying recombining
On and onโin every directionโat every level
Until the end of whatever time is
If whatever time is has an end
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Fearful damaged creatures rule us
It is because they are more fearful and damaged than we are that they want to rule
That they arenโt content with mere images of projected self-hatred
(like so many of their sycophants and followers)
Noโthey must have the viscera in their hands
Smell the overpowering stench of death
Hear the wail of suffering
See the damageโthe destroyed body that is the image of their own soul
They think that in this way what is fearful and damaged inside them will be expelled
But of course the opposite is true
The hateful damage is only increased exponentially
The rot grows deeper and deeper inside them
This is what our politics is
This is what power is
โthe maniacal attempt to overcome relation โ
To blot it out
Stop the endless process
Put out the fire
And impose a deadened stasis on the reality that pains them so
But this is impossible to doโbecause the flame of reality cannot be extinguished
Individual points of consciousness can be destroyed
โan abysmal, irreplaceable, inconsolable lossโ
But not the always changing
Rising falling
Recombining process that is reality
What do you think goodness is?
Goodness is realityโit is Being itself
Evil is the attempt to quell realityโto quell goodness
To stop itโarrest it
Indefinitely detain it
To beat itโterrorize it into submission
to assassinate itโsequester it
To make it go away somehow
And stop reflecting back to us the damaged thing we have become
But this cannot be done
It cannot be done
Goodness can loseโbut it cannot be defeated
It can be balkedโbut it cannot be quelled
In every single moment of existence the choice for goodness is there
Every single momentโthe choice
And you can make it at any point
You can begin the process of acceptingโenacting
Igniting goodness at any point
Even the darkest and most degraded
Sometimes we donโt have the strength of course
Sometimes we donโt know whatโs working on us
Turning us away from reality
the processโthe flame
Drawing us down into hatefulness
Into the dead world of projection
Sometimes we know
But canโt control these forces
In any given age the lowering clouds can bear down more heavily than in others
Ours is indeed a very hard ageโanother Age of Iron
It is an age of lossโof grievous loss
But it is not the age of defeat
IT IS NOT THE AGE OF DEFEAT
Reality remainsโthe process goes on
The choice for goodness is alwaysโalways there
No matter what
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I honestly read it all, it was long, but it was a long-poem contest, and it was riveting, and it rang true to me really....as most of what you express does.....so I hope you appreciate the song as much as I appreciated the poem.
Peace,
Ken
I prefer my river rocks smooth, but I take whatever is offered (large or small) and sometimes the little ones hold treasure the big ones bluster over.....a good pepper has seeds that grow and a good river rock holds firm in rough water.....ha, ha.
The other night, after a day like today, I put on my new sandals, and I walked down to the river in the dark soft evening rain and I dipped my feet and calves in the new river as I treaded into the rocks......before I typed this I don't think anybody else knew, but being you are a poet, and a fine one at that - a master of the long-poem.................well anyhow, it was a good dip in the river. The old riverbed.
I think no matter what happens the fact that we know there are others out there, other poets, other lovers, others who care; I think that will make the difference in the end because as you say: The choice for goodness is always there .
I send a salute your way Maxx Paine - I consider it a pleasure to have opportunity to share thoughts with you and others here. I plan on contributing more financially when the new year is upon us and I'm ready for whatever comes next - as ready as a man can be!
Best Regards to you and your kin,
Buffalo_Ken
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in pair with your up to date poem..
Did Humankind Just Have Itโs Genome Poisoned? More Doctors Demand Investigation - [Link]
this world has now, hit the shit scale to 100.., America is doomed
an ugly fella at that, wearing a skirt and lippy dont make it any more likeable..
I'm afraid the people suffering in WWII were a vital part of this course of things, as they've played the pawns in the conflict created by oligarchy and for the sake of oligarchy and greater control over anyone (WWII made women work 8 to 12 hours a day in factories and anywhere else for a living, since men were drafted into the meat-grinder of war and could not sustain the family alone, especially if they got killed on the frontline..), thus spelling their (and our) doom at the hands of so-called elite OWNING 95% of worlds riches EXCEPT our SOULS, as of yet.. According to the number of jabbed & boosted mutants, they're pretty much advancing with "Warp Speed" on that goal, too..
You see, we always fall for their dichotomy, "Trump good, Democracy bad" and "Trump bad, Democrats good" are enough to make people divide into opposing camps of fanaticism and lunacy (what else would be the QAnon or BLM movements if not crystallized lunacy controlled by the three-letter agencies?)
Yep, we're in the mortal plane for the learning experience, like kids on the playground, making castles out of sand and learning to interact with each other.. No wonder so many people say "Life is like a kindergarden", as many people behave just the same way throughout their lives, struggling to learn how to behave themselves and live in peaceful cooperation instead of trying to steal each others toys all the time
But if humanity manages to live through this lesson (and I know no-one will truly, as nobody survives this life anyway) and pass the knowledge onto the next generations, then we might have won the battle.. but the war will rage on for eternity - the war between wisdom and ignorance, Good & Evil - as that is the "class subject" of this mortal plane we've incarnated into
Then again, they say "As above, so below", which might suggest some changes being made in the Astral plane as well, suggesting us being mere pawns of the higher order as well.. Hierarchy seems to be an inherent component of Being on any plane/dimension, regardless of the location in the Universe.. all serve a purpose in the Divine Plan of Creator
I'm afraid God is an atheist - he doesn't like anyone relying on other strength than that of ones own
And He (and us to an extent too) needs the Devil, because what is a game played without an opponent, like for example Solitaire? It would become just a predetermined set of movements, without any free will or unexpected outcomes, always leading to a mathematically predictable result of finite possibilities.. That's why there is a need for both God and Devil in the Divine Plan without which the Reality would not make ANY sense as it would be purposeless and futile beyond comprehension, with no reason to exist at all, if it was not for the evolution of souls and Consciousness.. Or maybe it's just a human biologically hard-wired need to have a purpose amidst all this chaos, who knows.. Then again, I never believed Life was a random result of atoms and molecules merging in primeval soup of matter without any higher order or Divine Architecture personally, so.. Sorry for the rant
IMHO there's only degrees of ignorance. We just need to figure out what it is we're ignoring.
Then again, too much good can also lead to evil and vice versa.. Dynamic balance is the best possible state I guess, as you don't want to go into the extremes too much, especially if they lead one into the another as the pendulum swings both sides
But philosophy has never fed anyone, has it? So we'll have to put our hands to use to make any impact on the world we're living in, after all there's a saying "God helps those who help themselves first" so no way out of this mess without a lot of hard work, eh? Alternatively we could wait it out and see how it ends up, but that's predictable and too much into the extreme for me
Truman was president when I was born so I guess I'll just ' wait it out and see how it ends up ...'
Is it really amazing that someone who is black, female or gay is suitable for a job - strikes me as being racist, sexist and homophobic to think such "non-normal" people, if suitably qualified, would be any less suitable than a "normal" person
Now that's what I call a diversity hire, it's such a yawn fest hearing about the most recent under-qualified BIPOC, LGBTQ+ or gender-fluid "diversity hire"
Come on Brandon, do the right thing
Edit....oh shit, flipping hell....I'm puking it all up now....oh shit....need to not puke on my keybhbaaa... :barf: :barf: dry heaves now.....oh shit.... :barf:
oh god....let me go.... :barf: :barf:....
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e d i t - holy crap.....ok, take a breath.....ohhhh..ohh....oh...ok, o go.....dsheetpiep...ohhh. Eff that. I'm done puking....now I'm just fedup.
OK, I didn't really have any dry heaves and my keyboard is intact, and now I might as well spill the beans. I've been with two girls at one time....I've been with three. Hells-Bells, I've got two daughters, and truly, there is no way you can scare me!
Come to think of it, there have been times in my home, when it was just me and my bitch dog (a female) and a whole bunch of ladies and girls - it was ME against all of them! I prevailed I think - or at least I survived to type about it. Ladies - don't you just love them?
Ha, ha.
Ken
Wishing you well fellow SOTT reader. And I shan't say anything about your, used with gusto, emojis.
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BK
Peace,
Ken
Sort of like the elephant in the room?
BK - You can always just reply to a previous comment for that post not to show up in Recent Comments