Playbook.
THE BIGGEST SHIFT in Washington in January won’t only be that Democrats are taking the White House. It will be that the BIDEN administration will be — as @BrendanBuck pointed out — “delightfully boring.”@harrispolitico calls it “Joe Biden’s Team of Careerists.” pic.twitter.com/kFcC8EpG1u
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 24, 2020
THIS IS AN ADMIN filled with people who have deep experience in government and in the agencies they will be running. THE POST puts it this way: “By design, they seem meant to project a dutiful competence, as Biden creates a government overseen by those who have run it before.”
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 24, 2020
Here is 2016 and 2020 in a nutshell
George W. Bush, Obama, Hillary Clinton, all these people are career politicians. Under them and the “conventional wisdom” of Washington DC, life for the average middle and working class Americans who lived outside a handful of major metropolitan areas got steadily worse.
The well connected in politics, banking and business management, and digital technology got more wealthy and more powerful as people in the Rust Belt and Middle America fell further behind.
In 2016, faced with Hillary as President, working and middle class Middle America rebelled and elected Trump.
The elite of the media, social media, Big Tech, and DC, the very people who prospered under the old ways fought back with a campaign of lies, slander, and corruption that would have made the KGB envious.
They were going to tamp that populist uprising back down and remind all those Trump supporters that they are no more than peasants and peons in flyover country.
In 2020, they won. They lied, cheated, and corrupted our electoral system, but they won.
Now they are celebrating their victory, where whey get to be on top again. Unchecked in their ability to profit by harming the hoi polloi in the parts of this country they don’t care about.
The Washington Post just published an article called: "Washington’s aristocracy hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again."
They quickly changed it to "Washington's establishment." Someone must've worried how the plebes might react: https://t.co/jeSd7v4FIm pic.twitter.com/EyHPWU35uU
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) November 23, 2020
They are going to spend the next four years or however long we have left, reminding us of our place in the lowest American caste.
Has Trump held a press conference and conceded??? No? Than STOP ACTING LIKE FUKKIN BIDEN WON. He aint won yet. Buncha defeatists round here.
It’ll be business as usual until they 25th Biden and install Harris. Then it’ll get lit.
Ah, yes. The “competence” that got us unfair trade deals, perpetual wars and perpetual “peace processes”, over regulation and government subsidized racism.
Meanwhile, Trump’s supposed “incompetence” got the Arab world talking to Israel — even a meeting between the Saudi royalty and Netanyahu — and built a real alliance against Iran. He renegotiated bad trade agreements. He stepped up border enforcement — and we saw wages for the lowest earners increase and record low unemployment among minorities.
So let’s have some more of that “incompetence” that works so well, and a little less of the “competence” that’s obsessed with feathering their own nests.
The swamp fights back.
Watching the swamp creatures ooze back out of their cozy 501(c3) to the sunlight, into cozy “czar” positions. Each “Czar” replete with a fat exec salary, and staff. Makes me want to vomit.
Obama had something like 40 nitwit friends I want to pay to further my pet projects called czars. Trump has zero.