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So does anyone remember what happened a month ago to former President Donald Trump? When his ear looked like Van Gogh’s? Funny how all that is already getting a little fuzzy. The story, not the ear. Thanks to our ever-curious media, it is now fading like Joe Biden’s memories of breakfast today. But could that ugly event be part of a larger problem? Could it be that there is a shift in modern life where norms of behavior and competence have been upended by the very questioning of norms and standards themselves?
You can see and feel it in stores, in customer service, in doctors’ offices, or just on the next street. At pharmacies you now have to call someone to buy deodorant. You’re asked for tips on a screen after you’ve poured yourself some. The illegal who punched a cop is free to commit another crime. Protesters destroy public and private property and all charges are dropped. Teachers take down world maps and put up Pride flags. And free speech is oppressive, but the threat on the subway is not. It’s like we’ve replaced the foundation of our country with quicksand. The idea that meritocracy is oppressive has finally fulfilled its dream. We’re all equally incompetent now. You can give DEI credit, to be sure — advocates love to praise it until you see the results.
Meanwhile, we forgo experience and training because we view previous generations as oppressive and irrelevant. Add to that the ubiquity of smartphones, and you have a workforce too distracted to care. Heck, even I check Facebook when Judge Jeanine starts rambling about how we don’t execute enough teenagers. Which brings me back to the Secret Service. Turns out Trump’s mess wasn’t a system failure. It’s the system. A new report from RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree cites sources within the service who claim the agency has suffered more failures than Kat’s car insurance.
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First, two Secret Service agents were recently photographed fast asleep while on duty at Mar-a-Lago, and instead of being nudged awake, the photos were circulated among other service agents. The sleepers were never disciplined, but everyone laughed. In 2019, two Chinese nationals simply walked onto the grounds of Trump’s Florida home, perhaps thinking it was Disney’s Magic Kingdom. Worse, the Secret Service can’t even protect itself. Two months ago, a man in shorts and a T-shirt walked through an open door at the Miami field office and spent the night there. He first took a shower, then downloaded porn on a computer. It’s weird. I usually do those two things backwards. Do you, too?
The next morning, he asked the employees where he could get a cup of coffee, and they brought him coffee. Hell, I don’t get treated that well at Starbucks, and I own Starbucks! He only got caught when he walked into a defensive tactics class, and someone finally asked him who the hell he was, which is like Brian Kilmeade at a Brian Kilmeade book signing. Now, look, no agency is perfect, but when a clown can walk into a classified facility, watch porn, wash up, spend the night, eat breakfast, and then attend a tactical training session, is it any wonder a madman can ride up on a bike and shoot Trump? Best Buy has better security, but there’s more to it.
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In April of last year, a drunk neighbor broke into the home of national security adviser Jake Sullivan. He probably left when he saw him. The guy seems to have escaped an autopsy. Now Sullivan is in the Secret Service, but somehow, a drunk managed to outwit this squad of security experts and confronted Sullivan in his home in the dead of night. Who was on guard that night? Paul Blart? Two intruders recently breached security at Obama's home in Hawaii. There were no guard dogs, except on the menu. And when Barack was president, an intruder jumped the White House fence and got in.
So forget about conspiracy theories, unless it's a conspiracy of decay, and it's everywhere. Real nepotism and hiring for diversity, equity and inclusion have real-world consequences, but the antiquated notion of meritocracy seems a long way off. As we realize cities are deteriorating, schools indoctrinate but don't educate, and law enforcement is more on the leash than criminals.
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It's not just the Secret Service, it's society. We didn't just break a few eggs to make an omelet, we broke the frying pan that makes the damn omelet. The Secret Service's mistakes seem to be the result of a distracted, uncontrolled generation divorced from all direction and discipline. This isn't what America was like. This isn't the America that won two world wars or even the Cold War. We couldn't win the war on gingivitis today.
