Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Gelson insisted he could feel the will of Gordon Ramsay possess him whenever he was making frangipane.
When the Democrats decided to roll with Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential election, they chose the oldest, whitest guy they had available. The party that loves to talk about youth and diversity had begun the 2020 cycle with a huge primary field that was, in fact, relatively young and diverse, but their voters said, “Nah.”
As soon as Biden had secured the nomination, the efforts to make amends to the secular diversity gods were underway. It began with Biden choosing Kamala Harris as his running mate and it went downhill in a hurry from there.
It should be noted that Democrats get very chippy if you refer to placing a premium on diversity when hiring people as “diversity hiring.” Our sister site Twitchy provided an example of that chippiness yesterday.
They do like to brag about it a lot, though:
KJP: "The cabinet is majority people of color…The cabinet is majority female…a majority of White House senior staff identify as female. 40%…identify as part of the racially diverse communities and a record seven assistants to the president are openly LGBTQ+." pic.twitter.com/n1cWF6aAzC
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 23, 2023
When those of us in conservative media write about Biden’s diversity hires, we are merely going along with his administration’s playbook.
Perhaps the biggest mediocrity to secure a position in Joe Biden’s clown car by doing little more than flashing his Diversity Cred card is Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
By the time Buttigieg decided to run for president in 2019, his stint as mayor of South Bend, Ind., was winding down with a never-ending series of dumpster fires. There’s a good chance that, had Mayor Pete actually made it as far as the 2020 Indiana Democratic open primary, all of South Bend would have voted for him in the hope that it would get him the hell out of town.
His destiny was, as we all know, to fail upward, as so many Democrats do. Mayor Pete checks off the all-important “G” box on the Democrats’ LGBQT+ (everyone knows it’s the “+” people who make the big bucks, though) diversity list, so he was soon to become a cabinet member. Never mind the fact that black people in South Bend hate the guy; the Dems needed someone from every column.
R&I – txPAT
