Karine Jean-Pierre: Simply the Worst
If talent and ability had any role in her career, she wouldn’t have one.
There is one universal truth in politics in the United States of America: Liberals fail up.
It doesn’t matter how awful they are, either as people or in their jobs (or both), liberals will always fail upward to a better position, more money or whatever else is a step-up in their careers. Talent and ability have zero role in this, no place whatsoever.
Exhibit A in this new and decidedly political phenomenon is Karine Jean-Pierre, the fumbling, stumbling former public face of the rabid left-wing Move On group created to excuse Bill Clinton’s every sin, moral or criminal, imploring the country to just “move on” from them. It’s funny how someone who used to make their living telling people to “move on” spends most of her day blaming the previous administration for her current boss’s failures.
But that’s how the left works – the administration of Barack Obama was nothing more than celebrating him for his skin color while scrambling to blame the George W. Bush administration for every one of his failings. Somehow, after eight years, Barack Obama wasn’t responsible for never having achieved three percent growth in any given year, but under President Donald Trump, when the economy finally kicked into gear after his economic policies were implemented, that was because of Obama…or something.
Democrats are exceedingly good at moving the goal posts. They are that guy who shows up to the job site at the end of the work, breaks a sweat standing around in the hot sun, and used the word “We” loudly about the project when the boss is around.
But Obama is considered a “great” president by people who aren’t critical thinkers, particularly in media (and there are a lot of people who are not critical thinkers in media).
That lack of ability to think critically brings us back to Karine Jean-Pierre.
I don’t know, maybe when not on camera she’s whip-smart; an eloquent genius able to convey complex ideas in a clear and easy to understand way. But at the podium in the White House press briefing room she can’t even read what you have to assume she either at least had a hand in writing or had time to familiarize herself with a little beforehand in her huge binder.
White House Press secretaries have always had notes and papers with them to aid them in the job; something to refer to for stats and specifics. KJP lives in hers. Can’t live without it.
In media appearances she’s lost. KJP, like the president and vice president, only does appearances where no difficult or even remotely challenging questions will be asked. It’s sad that a grown adult can’t handle a challenge, sadder still that an administration would order their mouthpiece to ignore half the country, and saddest of all that a grown adult would comply. Often times KJP ignores Fox News in the briefing room, unable to handle even polite challenge.
But the saddest thing about KJP is all the profiles of her, the glowing write-ups in newspapers and magazines, or the polished pieces on television about her, which are about her gender, sexual orientation and skin color. When you’re as bad as she is at her job, anything else has to be the focus. And you can count on Democrats to immediately go to the least relevant, most divisive characteristics. People, when pushed, will usually end up there, but Democrats start there too.
They have to. Imagine having to cover for someone so horrible at their job that they tweet under their own name when writing for the boss, as KJP did just on Tuesday. Or, even more pathetically, when there is a natural disaster that destroyed parts of Hawaii, this woman who has worked in Democratic Party politics her entire adult life, could not be bothered to pronounce the names of the state’s two Democrat Senators properly. Everyone makes verbal gaffes, people with an IQ larger than their shoe size notice and correct them almost immediately. KJP never notices them and makes them constantly.
The saddest part of all is she’s reading what she’s saying, having apparently been deemed untrustworthy or incapable of speaking off the top of her head. A person with any amount of self-respect would resign, refusing to be a puppet to their bosses behind the scenes. KJP isn’t about to resign out of self-respect because if she had any she wouldn’t have taken the job in the first place.
Of course, if talent and ability had any role in her career, she wouldn’t have one. The same goes for pretty much all of them, yet they keep failing up to new, higher paying positions. At this point, when she finally does leave the White House, KJP won’t just get a show on MSNBC like Jen “Ginger Goebbels” Psaki did, she’ll be running NBC News. Given how bad they are, you probably wouldn’t even notice the difference.
Biden Commerce Secretary To Visit Beijing After China Hacked Her Emails
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will travel to China next week for meetings with senior Chinese government officials and U.S. business leaders, the department said on Tuesday, marking the latest in a recent series of high-level visits.
Last month, Raimondo vowed to go forward with the visit despite the reported Chinese hacking of her department's emails.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Raimondo will carry a message that the United States is not seeking to decouple from China, but will protect its national security. She will reinforce that the United States is focused on sustaining an economic relationship with China, he added.
Raimondo met with Xie Feng, China's ambassador to the United States, on Tuesday ahead of the trip.
Raimondo "raised issues of importance to the United States and American businesses and workers and discussed issues relating to the U.S.-China commercial relationship, challenges faced by U.S. businesses, and areas for potential cooperation," the Commerce Department said.
On Tuesday, China welcomed the department's decision to lift export control restrictions on 27 Chinese entities, saying it is conducive to normal trade between Chinese and U.S. firms. The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday removed the 27 Chinese companies from its "Unverified List."
Companies are given that designation if the United States cannot complete on-site visits to determine if they can be trusted to receive sensitive U.S. technology exports. Companies on the list cannot use license exceptions for exports.
Commerce said the removal "demonstrates the concrete benefit companies receive when they or a host government cooperates" to complete checks.
Raimondo "looks forward to constructive discussions," during the visit to Beijing and Shanghai from Aug. 27-30, the department said in a statement.
Last week, China said it welcomed Raimondo's expected visit.
Raimondo said recently that she wanted to raise "really serious concerns about the way they are targeting U.S. tech companies, about the way they don't respect intellectual property but also try to find lanes of commerce."
Her trip follows a four-day visit last month by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who held more than 10 hours of meetings with senior officials in Beijing.
The U.S. and China agreed this month to approve twice the number of passenger flights now permitted by air carriers between the two countries, in a rare sign of cooperation between the world's largest two economies.
Raimondo was among a group of senior U.S. officials whose emails were hacked this year by a group Microsoft said was based in China, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Earlier, China's embassy in Washington said that identifying the source of cyber attacks was complex and warned against groundless speculations and accusations.
In July, Raimondo said the Biden administration was seeking to carefully target U.S. controls on exports to China.
Raimondo met Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in May, discussing trade, investment and export policies in what was until then the first U.S.-China cabinet-level exchange in months, after a string of trade and national security disagreements derailed plans for re-engagement.
In April, Raimondo warned Chinese cloud companies could pose threats. Some Republican senators want her to add such companies to the entity list that imposes U.S. export controls on foreign companies.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Clarence Fernandez, Marguerita Choy and Bill Berkrot)
Published under: China , Gina Raimondo
Sherrod Brown Demands Financial Transparency. For Years, He Failed to Disclose Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Assets.
Ohio Democrat attacked GOP opponent for late financial disclosures before botching his own
During his second Senate run, Sherrod Brown attacked his Republican opponent for failing to disclose financial holdings. Now, the Ohio Democrat is acknowledging he failed for years to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets.
Brown last week admitted in a letter to the Senate Office of Public Records that he omitted from his financial disclosures his wife's retirement accounts, which are worth up to $750,000. Brown's incomplete financial disclosures go all the way back to 2007, when the former state lawmaker first joined the Senate. The upper chamber requires both members and candidates to disclose their spouse's assets, including retirement accounts.
Brown's failure to disclose the assets runs counter to the campaign rhetoric the Democrat used when seeking reelection to the Senate. Brown in 2012 hammered Republican challenger Josh Mandel for filing his financial disclosure six months late, arguing in a blog post that the blunder proved Ohioans could not trust Mandel. Former Brown communications director Justin Barasky went as far as to argue Mandel "broke the law and illegally refused to disclose his personal finances," a move he called "completely unacceptable."
"The lack of transparency Ohioans are seeing from our absentee treasurer is completely unacceptable," Barasky said in 2011. "Josh Mandel is in violation of the law."
This is far from the first time Brown has landed in hot water over financial issues. Brown has on at least seven occasions failed to pay property taxes on time, and the Democrat for years claimed primary residence tax credits on two Ohio properties, a move that saved him more than $1,000, according to NBC News. Brown, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, has touted efforts to "crackdown on wealthy tax cheats."
The missing assets from Brown's financial disclosures include a mutual fund valued between $250,001 and $500,000 and a pension plan valued between $100,001 and $250,000. Brown's wife, journalist Connie Schultz, accumulated the assets as a Plain Dealer reporter and Kent State University professor.
Brown campaign manager Rachel Petri said in a statement shared with the Washington Free Beacon that "Connie's retirement was not included" in Brown's disclosures and that "the previous reports have now been updated." Petri did not explain what caused the oversight.
Brown's financial disclosure fiasco comes as the Democrat faces a difficult reelection bid in Ohio, a state that backed former president Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in both 2016 and 2020. Recent polling puts Brown's reelection bid at a dead heat—the Democrat is tied with Ohio secretary of state Frank LaRose (R.) at 45 percent, according to a July USA Today poll.
Published under: Ethics , Josh Mandel , Senate Democrats , Sherrod Brown , Transparency
KAMALA HAS LONG BEEN ON THE SIDELIMES OF THE CLINTON,OBAMA, BIDEN CRIME LIVES WATCH AND WAITING FOR HER TURN TO SERVE AS THEIR ANNOINTED LAWYER AND LIAR!
The best-case scenario is that she’s a progressive who repeatedly violated her own principles so that she could promote her career. In the worst-case scenario, she’s just another corrupt, rotten, regressive prosecutor. JESSER HOROWITZ
Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career politician, with a reputation of having been a proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar, a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris.
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How Kamala Harris Made Her Millions NO, THEY DIDN'T COME FROM HER POLITICAL PIMP, GAMER LAWYER-POLITICIAN WILLIE BROWN!
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Kamala Harris Is Rebooting Her Vice Presidency—No, Seriously This Time
Kamala Harris is once again rebooting her historically unpopular vice presidency, and as usual, the mainstream media are here for it.
Politico on Monday published a nearly 2,000-word profile of Harris as she supposedly puts "the rockiness" behind her and shows Americans the real Kamala.
Politico, "'I Can't Get Into People's Heads': Kamala Harris Tries to Reshape Her Public Image Ahead of 2024":
Backstage, as she prepares for a not-so-intimate "fireside chat" about gun safety in front of hundreds of people, Kamala Harris is unscripted and seemingly at ease, no notes or teleprompter in sight. …
Now, there's a hope the rockiness may finally be behind them. And there is a concerted effort underway to ensure that she not only has the support she needs from the White House but that the broader public can see the side of her that—they believe—has been overshadowed by the toxic elements of D.C. To that end, her aides are trying to remind the public of that person, in part by inviting reporters to witness her behind the scenes. …
Aides say Harris' current, more fitting portfolio as the administration's front person on abortion rights, gun violence, climate change and civil rights will be front and center during the campaign. They view her key constituencies as people of color, especially Black voters, young people and women.
Kamala 4.0: Harris has been "stepping up," taking "center stage," finding "her voice," and hitting "her stride" as a progressive Amazon for the past few months, according to headlines.
New York Times, "Kamala Harris Takes on a Forceful New Role in the 2024 Campaign"
Washington Post, "Kamala Harris seems to be stepping up her 2024 role"
CNN, "Kamala Harris takes center stage in Biden reelection campaign's rapid response to GOP"
Politico, "Why Kamala Harris Is A Better VP Than You Think"
CNN, "Kamala Harris found her voice on abortion rights in the year after Dobbs. Now she's making it central to her 2024 message"
Vanity Fair, "Kamala Harris's 2024 Role Crystallizes Around Abortion Rights"
Time, "Joe Biden Finally Gets It: Kamala Harris Is the Key to 2024"
Bloomberg, "Kamala Harris Is Finding Her Stride as Team Biden's Voice to Black Voters"
New York, "Abortion-Rights Fight Finally Gives Kamala Harris a Chance to Lead"
CNN, "The battle over abortion rights helps Kamala Harris find her voice as vice president"
Washington Post, "As Harris touts abortion rights, backers hope she finally hits her stride"
Kamala 3.0: It's not Harris's first vice presidential reboot. In between her cringeworthy public appearances and damning leaks from her team, the media have been anticipating her vice presidential comeback since at least early last year.
Washington Post, "Harris team looks to course changes to reset her political prospects"
Los Angeles Times, "Vice President Kamala Harris is making some changes, but don't call it a reboot"
Politico, "She was Zoom'd out:' Veep mulls escape from D.C. bubble"
Kamala 2.0: Really, Harris's entire vice presidency was a reboot after she failed to impress as a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
CNN, "These girls see themselves in Kamala Harris"
Politico, "'Harris Has the Potential To Change the Face of U.S. Politics'"
New York Times, "'It's a Big Deal': TV Coverage Notes Magnitude of Kamala Harris Victory"
The glitch: Meanwhile, the public's view of Harris has remained unchanged.
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