Adam Carolla He’s old enough to remember when the phrase “the buck stops here” actually meant something.
It’s what you say after someone makes a serious mistake and is willing to face the consequences. Except there are no consequences in the Biden era.
- Hand over Afghanistan to the Taliban? Keep your jobs.
- Turn the border into a sieve? Keep your job.
- Let a 20-year-old punk shoot the former (and future) president? Show up for work on Monday morning.
That’s exactly what’s happening with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle. President Donald Trump was nearly killed on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a young man fired several bullets in his direction. One bullet hit Trump in the ear. The others hit people in the crowd, wounding two and killing Corey Comperatore.
It’s the Secret Service’s worst blunder in decades, and the more we learn about the shooting, the bigger the scandal becomes. You only need to Google “slope” and Cheatle’s name to understand why.
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told ABC News the shooting should never have happened. “The responsibility is on me,” she said. “I am the director of the Secret Service. It was unacceptable and it is something that should never happen again.”https://t.co/26a67CX7xS
— TribLIVE.com (@TribLIVE) July 16, 2024
Cheatle played the ““The responsibility lies here” in a softball interview with ABC News while insisting that she wouldn’t be going anyway.
Carolla smelled something fishy. More specifically, he smelled some harmful DEI policies.
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“You’re calling DEI hiring into question all the time. It’s not going to stop happening,” the comedian said on the latest “Adam and Dr. Drew Show” podcast. He recalled the embarrassing testimony of three female Ivy League university presidents about the rise of anti-Semitism on campus.
And later we learned that Harvard President Claudine Gay was a serial plagiarist
“Is she the best person for this job? Oh, but she’s a black woman,” he said in a whisper before moving on to Cheatle and his incompetence linked to the attempted murder.
CBS News report reveals what Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has been focusing on: diverse hires image.twitter.com/IoKnY4uj6M
—Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) July 14, 2024
“Oh, we have a woman in charge of the Secret Service. Is she the best?” [for the job]“It didn’t seem like the best,” Carolla said. “The biggest problem with DEI is that we question things all the time.”
“Before DEI, we had Janet Reno,” Carolla said of the late attorney general in President Bill Clinton’s administration. “And nobody said anything.”
“And Madeleine Albright,” added co-host Dr. Drew Pinsky.
“We never questioned his qualifications,” Carolla said before lamenting a worrying trend in modern culture.
“When someone made a mistake, they were immediately fired at the top of the food chain,” Dr. Pinsky said of the “old” normal. “Immediately.”
“When you hire under DEI, you can’t light the fire because by doing so you’re exposing a bad hire,” Carolla said.
Take Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who is presiding over a border crisis like no other.
“Millions of people are crossing the border, the tonnage of fentanyl is unknown, people are dead, there are murders and rapes now, and who knows how many al-Qaeda sleeper cells have crossed the border,” Carolla said. “If that is his job, he should be removed from his duties.”
The couple then blamed the media for refusing to hold them accountable. Cheatle repeated the “the buck stops with me” slogan during a fawning interview with the press. What was missing? Real consequences.
Without them, they are just harsh, meaningless words.
“If you’re in charge of this, you should be fired,” he said of Mayorkas. What else was left unsaid? Cheatle deserves the same fate.
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