Couple of Biden Things

[Ben]

Couple of things of interest (to me anyway) going on:

Angela Merkel got Biden to freeze the troop withdrawal from Germany. He seems to also be caving on some other issues. The Richard Grenell quote probably sums it up: She is happy to be dealing with a weak US President. Trump put America first, now Biden is putting other countries first.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/merkel-under-fire-failing-choose-sides-communist-china-capitalist-us

Also Biden is throwing 56 Trump appointed US attorneys to the curb. I don't know if this is normal with administration changes or not. Obviously there will be 56 rabid anti-2nd amendment attorneys in place whenever he starts going after gun owners.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-doj-ask-trump-appointed-us-attorneys-to-resign-by-end-of-the-month-sources

[RoadKingLarry]

One of, if not the biggest mistake Trump made was not immediately purging every Obama appointee he was constitutionally entitled to kick to the curb.

[Andiron]

One of, if not the biggest mistake Trump made was not immediately purging every Obama appointee he was constitutionally entitled to kick to the curb.

Yep.

Man grossly underestimated the power of the Swamp,  and made the mistake of appointing a bunch of swamp creatures to his detriment.

[Ron]

You guys make an assumption that there are actually good men, on the right side of the issues, with good character, that are available to fill those emptied slots.

Our higher education has been pumping out graduates who have been programmed in the current moral and philosophical garbage philosophy for decades. Nihilistic hedonists, promoting the egalitarian race to the lowest common denominator through bureaucracy is all there is to choose from, there is no deep bench, there is no bench of alternates. They are all the same, all are NPC's.*

We are a nation of "men without chests"* as fistful has pointed out before.

How do you drain a swamp when the whole nation is a swamp?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPC_(meme)

* https://blog.acton.org/archives/87047-c-s-lewis-on-men-without-chests-and-what-that-means.html

[Hawkmoon]

You guys make an assumption that there are actually good men, on the right side of the issues, with good character, that are available to fill those emptied slots.

Our higher education has been pumping out graduates who have been programmed in the current moral and philosophical garbage philosophy for decades. Nihilistic hedonists, promoting the egalitarian race to the lowest common denominator through bureaucracy is all there is to choose from, there is no deep bench, there is no bench of alternates. They are all the same, all are NPC's.*

We are a nation of "men without chests"* as fistful has pointed out before.

How do you drain a swamp when the whole nation is a swamp?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPC_(meme)

* https://blog.acton.org/archives/87047-c-s-lewis-on-men-without-chests-and-what-that-means.html

I think any number of member of this forum would be capable of serving without being beholden to the swamp. The problem is that cabinet level and senior presidential appointments aren't based on qualifications, they are based on political capital -- who owes who a sinecure. As long as the President has to give jobs to major donors as rewards, we're stuck with the system we've got.

A long, long time ago I worked briefly for a municipal public housing authority. When I came on board, we had three fairly major construction projects that were just about to go out for bid, and I was the guy who was supposed to select the winners of the bids. My supervisor (a nice, honest, but timid woman) was concerned about attempts to rig the bids (and there were multiple attempts). I told her she didn't have to worry -- I told her my price was a pickup truck, and they were all offering Cadillacs.

[HankB]

You guys make an assumption that there are actually good men, on the right side of the issues, with good character, that are available to fill those emptied slots . . .

The place to start looking for them is among the ranks of those banned, blacklisted, or suspended by Twitter or Facebook.

[T.O.M.]

When I was in law school, I interned at the US Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Ohio.  It is pretty much par for the course when there is an administration change, especially when it's a party change as well, for all of the US Attorneys to be replaced.  Nothing nefarious in this move by Biden.  Who gets appointed in large part depends on the state.  In some states, an attorney with the right political connections will get suggested by the state party.  In other states, they will look for someone with actual experience as a prosecutor, again with ties to the party in power.  The rank and file aren't purged, but new hires do tend to fall along the party lines of the current US Attorney.  As for gun grabbing, I'll say this... I was an intern when Clinton was elected the first time.  There was no change in policy as to what charges were filed in federal court.  With the existing case load and backlog of cases in Federal Court, I can't see this change resulting in a sudden deluge of antigun criminal cases in federal court.