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Joe Biden’s nominee as ambassador to the African Union could not be less qualified.

USA for Africa

For at least a decade now, China has been quietly investing billions of dollars in Africa, specifically roads and other infrastructure. Likely they are not helping this troubled but mineral rich continent out of the kindness of their communist party hearts. Never fear, however: Joe Biden’s nominee as ambassador to the African Union could not be less qualified.

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There’s a silver lining to this habit Democrats have of appointing weirdos and nuts to internationally prominent global/regional positions where the United States interfaces with the rest of the world.

The nuttier these appointees get, the more obvious it becomes that Democrat Leftists in America are wholly out of touch with reality. The less ‘good’ that they accomplish the more they are disdained. The end result being that Republican appointees are appreciated all the more.

Yes, it’s embarrassing but it’s more embarrassing to the Democrat Administrations than it is to the U.S. in general.

Those nations affected do not lose respect for the U.S. as much as some might think. The U.S. still has a very, very big stick. So the flavor of respect morphs from admiration and gratitude based respect to the respect one would have for a rabid dog. But it’s still respect and can be restored to the right kind of respect with a new Conservative Administration.

If the goal was to create an international desire to see the U.S. led by someone like Donald Trump (or Ron Desantis) then this is how you go about creating that kind of thing. In this regard, the Democrats are doing a wonderful job of shooting themselves in the foot, internationally speaking.

When I was a kid my parents, missionaries that never went overseas, had other missionaries, that did go overseas, over to stay while they were on leave and fund raising. One told me that one part of Cameroon and one in Zambia both had the land, soil and water to feed all of Africa and the middle east. Both areas are about the area of PA in the USA. Both areas are now developing the infrastructure. But that’s not China or the US. That’s their own efforts and Indian and Japanese small farm technology. Google micro combine harvester.
With the exception of a few pockets of communism and Islamic fanatics famine is now unknown in Africa. Most of Africa is modernizing at a fantastic rate. 80% of the population are now at the same standard of living as the US, Britain or Australia was in the early 1970’s. Power, plumbing, refrigeration and traffic jams.

While the mainstream media wont say it, half the african nations that took belt and road initiative money and stuff have confiscated it and stopped making payments. Some cite the take over of Hong Kong; some cite Covid or the failed Chinese vaccine; some found the cell phone towers were bugged. The biggest player in the game was Sudan. Its now in an awful civil war between the coop leader and his former deputy. Both were pro China, now their trying to kill each other and wrecking several Sudanese cities in the process.
It was always funny money; stolen US and EU technology and chinesium steel. Bill forgets that the people building the belt and road are the same ones that built the buildings in “CHINA’S GHOST-CITY ECONOMY”. In some places its already falling apart.
To top it all off that ship the Iranians confiscated this week off Pakistan was going from Kuwait to Texas but its owned by a Chinese company. Chinese navy in the region are heading for Iran to have a chat. The last time someone confiscated a Chinese freighter was the end of the Somali pirate problem. China sent a navy fleet to wreck the Pirates villages with naval artillery.

China building infrastructure in African nations is like Don Vito Corleone having everyone in the local precincts on the take. It may not pay off tomorrow, but

Or to put it a different way …

A gift with strings attached isn’t really a gift at all. It’s nothing more than a purchase and politicians around the world are notoriously known for failing to stay bought.

LIES! ALL LIES! My Uncle Curt is NOT dead! He’s just… sleeping. You can’t kill Old Iron Pants! The Iron Eagle! The Big Stick!
Bill, don’t believe them. They’re just misinformed. Uncle Curt had himself frozen, like Walt Disney, (actually, the same people did the work) so that he could be brought back when he was needed, to save us all from the Commie bastards!

And the Chinese…

The majority of our fellow citizens voted for the clowns that foist our hundreds of millions of hard-earned tax monies on LGBTQ causes in Africa. Just shows you the power of the MSM, education systems, and Federal Government and how they can mainstream idiocy.

The other day I was talking to someone who works in international circles, specifically improving women’s rights in foreign countries. And yes, they do both good stuff as well as crap. But I was informed that in a recent meeting that they had to pivot to incorporate “green energy” into the mission.
Given how the people running this country are treating our foreign policy, maybe it’s better that these roles are where we shove our incompetent government employees? Until we find a way to prevent the Democrats from rigging Presidential elections and dictating America’s direction this is a moot conversation.

I believe this phrase has some redundancy. Could be tighter and not lose impact.

our incompetent government employees? 

That is an astounding point, but I still tend to believe that those like you are few and far between.
My sincere apologies if I offended.

One of my better friends is a retired Marine Corps intel officer. His last posting was at Dam Neck, VA with SEAL Team 6. (Meaning he worked on intel for the team, not that he was a SEAL.) Prior to that he had done tours in Iraq, Japan and was at Ft. Meade more than once.

He went from wearing a uniform to going to work in mufti as a civilian government employee using the skills he had developed over a lifetime. I know most of the guys in his ‘shop’, they come over here regularly and we have an annual event in my back yard.

These are good men and true and to a man (OK, there’re a couple women too) they’re staunch Conservatives. Of course we don’t discuss the details of their work but I have full confidence in these people to do what’s right for this nation and the responsible management of resources our tax money provides them.

These are men and women of high character and stout moral fiber.

The problem with the way people like us generally think of ‘government employees’ is those employees that are in non-critical makework billets created by Democrats to buy votes. The capacity to create agencies and ‘jobs’ to fill those agencies is just another form of Democrat entitlement vote farming.

The friend I mentioned above has a female family member who works for the USDA. She’s gay, in a committed relationship with another woman and has adopted several kids. She takes the government for everything she can legally get and gives back as little as possible in exchange. My friend is constantly bemoaning her irresponsible, selfish attitude towards her job. A job much better paying in benefits and salary than anything she could hope for in the private sector. A job she bitches about constantly and incessantly. Of course she’s a Democrat, lives in Washington D.C and is a swamp denizen …

This is an example of a person with low character and no moral fiber to speak of. Of course, she thinks she’s a wonderful person.

These two instances are a prime example of what’s right and what’s wrong in government employment. The bad taint the good. The bad are almost universally Democrats and the good are almost universally some type of Conservative.

We need good people like Harry and my friend to work for our government. Democrats don’t care about hiring good people, in fact they’ve made it almost impossible to get rid of people whose performance is substandard. This has the effect of locking in the votes of those substandard performers who know they could not compete in a non-governmental labor market.

That’s the nuts and bolts of why Democrats favor Big Government. They use the excuse that they’re doing good for the nation when in reality they’re only doing what’s good for the Democrat Party. Most of those government employees we could easily do without and if we got rid of them it would lock them even tighter into the Democrat vote farm. The Democrats would then shift them from being ’employed’ to being on one or the other sort of dole, where they would still vote Democrat no matter what.

Those people, and likely their children and their children’s children, are thus life long Democrat voters. They don’t care about the wellbeing of America, they only care about themselves and are unreachable by logic or reason. Like ticks their orientation is not the wellness of the system that feeds them, it’s their own welfare and the body politic they feed off can be damned for all they care.

A couple of quibbles, because, well just because.

This has the effect of locking in the votes of those substandard performers who know they could not compete in a non-governmental labor market.

I would argue this group of people is locked in. There is no red pilling the people who think they are on the inside and part of the ruling elite.

Most of those government employees we could easily do without 

And we need to try. Part of the problem are those good people like Harry and your retired Marine cohorts who would then be out of a job, an we don’t want to do that.
However, I would submit that good people will find a way to demonstrate their usefulness and find other employment. Perhaps working for a smaller government agency that then has to rely on its employees to be productive.
The Democrats would then shift them from being ’employed’ to being on one or the other sort of dole, where they would still vote Democrat no matter what.
Just another reason to take away the various “doles”
I am reminded of a Thomas Sowell quote. See image.
Well, look at me rambling on. 😉

Quibble to your heart’s content. Ramble all you like. You can relax and speak your piece here, you’re mostly among friends and like minded people. We often hear admonitions towards gratitude, that’s something to be grateful for. I’ve spent considerable time out there in the ‘wild’ and I’m grateful to have a place like this to exchange ideas with (mostly) non-hostiles.

Anyone who has a problem with that is petty, small minded and limited in grasp.

There are elements in government work/employment we should not and cannot eliminate. I don’t know what Harry does but my buddy’s job is one of those types. His “shop” supplies intelligence products to the Navy and Marine Corps. It is an amalgamation of uniformed active duty personnel and retired military civilians. That easily falls under the “Provide for the common defense” clause of the Constitution.

That’s a legitimate government endeavor. Some things need to be wholly owned and operated by the U.S. Government.

Wherever and whenever possible things that do not need to be owned and operated by the U.S. Government should be contracted out to the private sector. Unlike many elements in government employment, the private sector responds to merit.

There are still wastes and overruns in the contracting scenario but even with those inefficiencies we still get a lot more bang for our taxpayer dollar when compared to bureaucracies.

Thomas Sowell as usual is right but … I don’t think that the effect you cite is incidental. I think it’s intentional. Intentional or incidental it’s detrimental. Politicians who do not want to eliminate the detrimental are not our friends and they are not patriots.

With all the ills of modern society there’s plenty to focus on. Eliminating detrimental government practices and policies is way more important than passing laws allowing male perverts to use female restrooms.

The official Air Force webpage about General LeMay does not indicate that he has died. Meanwhile, the Wikipedia page says he died on Oct 1, 1990.
Way down near the bottom of the Wikipedia article it says that LeMay raced sports cars and owned an Allard J2! Whoa! The J2 is an extremely cool and legendary vehicle.

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