by Victor Joecks
The people who drove America’s institutions into the ground are upset that Donald Trump isn’t leaving the “experts” in charge.
Following his convincing victory, Trump has swiftly announced his nominees for cabinet secretaries and other key roles. His selections include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services Secretary, Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense and Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence.
The Washington, D.C., establishment is beside itself.
“Trump signals a ‘seismic shift,’ shocking the Washington establishment,” The New York Times reported. The Atlantic repeated that refrain with this headline: “Washington is shocked.”
Apparently an elected official keeping campaign promises is scandalous to the propaganda press. Trump talked about draining the swamp for years. These are the kinds of nominees who could actually do it.
And this is what worries the political elite the most.
“We need to strengthen the CDC, and the public health infrastructure, not dismantle it as RFK has suggested,” a health care industry leader told Politico.
“Folks are shocked,” a current DOD official said, according to Politico. “He’s just a Fox News personality that’s never worked in the government.”
That’s not accurate. Hegseth is a veteran who served as a major in the Army National Guard. He deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, earning two Bronze Stars. He has degrees from Princeton and Harvard. He ran two nonprofits focused on veterans, too.
“‘We are reeling’: Trump’s pick of Tulsi Gabbard alarms intelligence community,” a TIME headline stated. The article said, “Gabbard, a former Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii, has no background in intelligence.”
The common theme of these critiques is that Trump’s choices don’t have the expertise needed to run these agencies. In many cases, they hold positions that are radically outside the “expert” consensus.
Now, if America’s institutions were doing a great job, that might be concerning. But they aren’t. The public health “experts” told the public not to mask, then to mask, then to double mask. Anthony Fauci eventually admitted that the 6-foot social distancing rule “sort of just appeared.” The COVID vaccine was supposed to essentially stop virus transmission. It didn’t. Fauci eventually admitted that vaccines “don’t protect overly well” against infection.
The “experts” kept schools closed even as it was obvious COVID posed a negligible risk to children. Students still haven’t recovered from the learning loss. Many never will.
Even aside from COVID, Americans aren’t healthy. Sixty percent of Americans have a chronic disease. Forty percent have two or more. Among school-aged kids, it’s also 40%. More than 40% of Americans 20 and older are obese. Around 20% of children are obese. America is a deeply unhealthy society.
The health experts say a man can become a woman. That men don’t have innate physical advantages over women. That doctors should cut off the healthy breasts and penises of children who think they are a different gender.
The military is a woke mess. Navy ships keep having accidents. The Houthis are attacking U.S. warships in the Red Sea. The military is struggling with recruiting. Earlier this year, West Point removed “Duty, Honor, Country” from its mission statement. The school does offer a minor in “diversity and inclusion studies.”
In 2020, more than 50 intelligence “experts” signed a letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop looked like a “Russian information operation.” It wasn’t. The intelligence community pressured social media sites to censor information it didn’t approve of. FBI officials undermined Trump’s first term by pushing the false narrative that he colluded with Russia.
Trump’s selections won’t be perfect, but at least they understand this reality.
This is why the establishment’s “Chicken Little” routine rings so hollow. The sky — or in this case, the institutions — have already fallen, destroyed by the very elites who now scaremonger about the damage outsiders will cause.
I hope Gabbard has Flynn on speed dial.
I just hope the time has come that the left gets payback for all their lies. And the hurt they have caused.
Trump’s moves are throwing the politicians in the Senate into a spiral. The politicians without their usual leakers from the FBI and the MSM cannot play their games as much to shoot down the people Trump has put forward. The Senate will try to kill many people Trump has put forward but they will hurt themselves instead and they are learning that.
Ivy League experts failures
My dad’s dad was a carpenter (chain smoked cigarettes, hammered nails in planks. 3 paks a day for 75 years; at 80 retarred his house -pushed a hot tar mop 5 hours away. For those <70 that was strenuous work!) for Conoco. In ’52 he took my sibs and I to Signal Hill. Said, “In 1920 Harvard an Yale “experts” said we’d be pumped dry by 1930. This year (22 years later) we’ll pump 7 times as much as we did in ’20!”
2024 Signal Hill still pumps millions of barrels!
In 1952 Ivy League experts said DisneyLand would be a total failure. Roy would not let Walt have company sell bonds to finance it! Walt had to sell his Pollo post rich in Palm Springs and mortgage his mansion (he called it a “house”; but it cost over 50 times what our house did!) To finance 3 new partnerships that built DisneyLand.
7/17/55 the pro opened. The Ivy League “experts’ said only 4,000 would attend! Walt said 16,000 to 18,000. In fact 29,000 were there! A 5 th grade girl from Downey was one of the crowd. I lived in NoCal so I did not know her; then. We met 8 years later in college. Been my wife almost 59 years!
Like Signal Hill the Ivy League “experts” were totally wrong on DisneyLand!
I think “the experts” lie because of politics. Walt was a Ronny conservative (Ronny was a D)when DisneyLand opened; but had said ‘Better dead than red! “And “Govt cant solve the problem. …GOVT IS THE PROBLEM!” Probably 500 times by 1955.
Roy was a “Bush Republica” so like GWB he followed the Ivy Leaguers.
Late disclosure
I was Ronny Dem in 1955. Admit biss.