America or DEI!

Because you can't have both...

“It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day.” 

~ Deep thoughts with Kamala Harris

Joel Bowman, with today’s Note From the End of the World: Hot Springs, Arkansas...

The plot thickens...

For months now, The Party apparatchiks assured us that President Joe Biden was compos mentis... that the Republic was in firm, unwavering hands... and that questions regarding his mental acuity constituted slanderous mis/disinformation, perpetrated by members of the “far-right,” by “conspiracy theorists,” hopped-up loons and deranged cranks...

The mainstream media, too, lined up in incurious defense of their Commander in Chief, dismissing videos of Mr. Biden’s blundering as “cheap fakes” and assuring us that what we were seeing – with our lyin’ eyes, apparently – was the “very best version of Biden.” 

After we dared wonder in these very Notes whether the president was, indeed, all there, a dear reader wrote in to suggest that perhaps we had joined a cult, which was news to us. 

It’s Not Me, It’s You

Even after his dismal debate debacle, when millions of Americans realized they were being gaslit by a fibbing media, the president’s closest allies, including his Vice President, assured us he was indeed the best man to “finish the job.”

Day after day, headline after headline, we were drip-fed the official Party Narrative. Until this past Sunday when, just like that, Mr. Biden vanished from the crime scene. Like an abashed schoolboy unable to confront his girlfriend face-to-face, Mr. Biden posted his break-up letter on social media. 

“Dear America... It’s not me, it’s you, etc., etc...”

The communiqué has since disappeared from Mr. Biden’s X account. And the man hasn’t been seen in public since. 

In his absence, the media has tellingly begun referring to “the Biden administration,” a soft admission that it is not the “Big Guy” himself who is calling the shots, but a faceless, unelected cabal of “administrators.” 

Biden administration announces $4.3 billion in climate grants ~ Reuters

Biden administration urges tech companies to step up child safety efforts ~ The Washington Post

Unions tell the Biden administration to stop sending military aid to Israel ~ The New York Times

The question “If he is not fit to run, how is he fit to govern?” now hangs over the remainder of Biden’s presidency like the Sword of Damocles. Likewise does it call into serious question the judgment of those who stood by him, knowing he was unfit to lead. 

Meanwhile, in the President Unelect’s place stands the multi-talentless Kamala Harris, the poster woman for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

Here she is, as Vice President of the United States of America, a heartbeat away from the highest office in the land, reminding herself who, what and where she is...

“I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.”

Sensible, intelligent Americans, on the left and the right, in both red and blue suits, must be scratching their aching craniums: How did it come to this? Weren’t we once the envy of the world, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, the Shining City on the Hill? 

Dude, Where’s My Country?! 

Yes, dear reader, it is a sorry sight to witness. The decline of basic standards, the lurch into absurdity, the babbling, tragi-comic utterances of so-called leaders. And yet, should we really be so surprised that it has come to this? After all, for at least the past decade, we’ve been lectured from on high about how it is not merit that ought to be the deciding factor in who gets the job, but considerations of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI).

Here’s how the real life Veep herself explains it:

So there’s a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, “oh everyone should get the same amount.” The problem with that, not everybody’s starting out from the same place. So if we’re all getting the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here, we could get the same amount, but you’re still going to be that far back behind me. It’s about giving people the resources and the support they need, so that everyone can be on equal footing, and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place. 

~ Kamala Harris 

And of course, it’s Harris and her misguided troop of know-it-alls who will determine where that magical “same place” is and how we best get there. Naturally. 

If this all sounds frighteningly similar to Marx’s “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” doctrine, perhaps that’s because you’re a racist misogynist who hates America and sneers at puppies. That, or you have a clue about just how disastrous centrally planned “equality of outcome” has proven over the past...forever. 

Sill, one needn’t have thumbed the pages of history to see where “needs based” (as opposed to rights based) philosophy leads us. Look around at the state of the world today. 

DEI and DIE

About the same time Vice President Harris was checking the Democratic Party’s quota boxes, another DEI-hard enthusiast, Kimberly A Cheatle, was resigning in disgrace from her post as the director of the Secret Service after what she herself called the “most significant operational failure” in decades. 

Under Cheaetle’s stewardship, the United States Secret Service was one of 14 federal law enforcement agencies to join the 30X30 Initiative, which aims to achieve, per its own website, “30% Women Recruits by 2030.”

Not “the best recruits, regardless of sex, race or orientation”... not “the best candidates for the job”... not “most deserved for the position based on merit and ability”... not even “person who can perform given task.” 

Rather, Cheatle actively selected candidates based on their sex... which up until five seconds ago used to be called “sexism.”

Other agencies on board with the 30X30 Initiative include the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the US Marshals Service (USMS), US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the US Capitol Police (USCP).

Gee... what could go wrong?

The Austrian School economist Friedrich Hayek warned against the precursor to DEI (known in the olden days as “socialism”). From Individualism and the Economic Order:

“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means, as De Tocqueville described it, ‘a new form of servitude.’” 

Lest we be accused of quoting “dead white males” to make our point, we’ll leave the final word to Mrs. Harris in the expectation that she will do it for us. Here is the aspiring President of the United States of America, explaining the intricacies of geopolitics:

“So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong.” 

Stay tuned for more Notes From the End of the World...

Cheers,

Joel Bowman

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