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So, does anyone remember what happened to former President Donald Trump a month ago? When his ears looked like Van Gogh’s ears? It’s funny how it’s already starting to all blur. Not the ears, but the story. Thanks to our ever-curious media, it’s fading like Joe Biden’s breakfast memory today. But is that ugly event part of a bigger problem? Is there a shift in modern life where norms of behavior and competence are being disrupted by questioning of the norms and standards themselves?
You can see and feel it in stores, customer service, at the doctor’s office, or down the street. At the drug store, you have to call someone to get deodorant. After self-service, a screen asks for a tip. An illegal immigrant who punches a police officer is free to commit another crime. Protesters vandalize public and private property, but all charges are dropped. Teachers take down world maps and put up Pride flags. And speech is oppressive, but intimidation on the subway is not. It’s like we’ve replaced the foundations of our country with quicksand. The idea that meritocracy is oppressive has finally realized its dream. We are all equally incompetent now. DEI is a success, because advocates love to praise it until the results are plentiful.
Meanwhile, we dismiss older generations as oppressive and irrelevant, abandoning their experience and training. Add to that the proliferation of smartphones, and employees are too distracted to care. When Judge Janine starts rambling on about not executing enough teenagers, I check Facebook. Which brings us back to the Secret Service, and it turns out the Trump debacle wasn’t a bug in the system. The system is the problem. In a new report by RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree, insiders at the Secret Service claim the agency has more lapses than Cat’s car insurance.
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First, two Secret Service agents were recently photographed fast asleep on duty at Mar-a-Lago, but instead of waking them up, the photo was circulated to other departments. The sleeping agents were not reprimanded, but everyone laughed. In 2019, two Chinese nationals wandered onto the grounds of Trump’s Florida home, presumably thinking it was Disney’s Magic Kingdom. To make matters worse, the Secret Service can’t even protect itself. Two months ago, a man in shorts and a T-shirt entered through an open door at the Miami branch and spent the night there. He showered first, then downloaded porn on his computer. Strange. I usually do the two in reverse. You too?
The next morning, he asked an employee where he could get coffee, and they brought it to him. Seriously, I don’t get treated that well at Starbucks. I own Starbucks. He got caught when he walked into a defensive tactics class and someone finally asked him who the hell he was. It was like Brian Kilmeade was at a Brian Kilmeade book signing. Now, no institution is perfect, but if a clown can wander into a classified facility, watch porn, get dressed, spend the night, have breakfast, and then show up to a tactical training session, it’s not surprising some weirdo would get up on a motorcycle and walk up to Trump and shoot him. Best Buy has good security, but that’s not all.
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Last April, a drunk neighbor broke into the home of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. He probably ran when he saw Sullivan. This guy looks like he escaped autopsy. Sullivan is currently guarded by the Secret Service, but somehow a drunk man slipped past the professional security team and broke into Sullivan’s house in the middle of the night. Who was on guard that night? Paul Blart? Two intruders recently breached security at the Obama residence in Hawaii. There was no guard dog, except on the menu. When Barack was president, an intruder jumped the White House fence to get in.
So forget about conspiracy theories, unless they’re conspiracies of decline. And they’re everywhere. True nepotism and DEI hiring have real-world implications, but old-fashioned meritocracy seems a long way off. We’re waking up to declining cities, schools that indoctrinate but don’t educate, and law enforcement that holds back more than criminals.
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This isn’t just a Secret Service problem. It’s a societal problem. We didn’t just crack a few eggs to make an omelet; we broke the pan the omelet was made in. The Secret Service’s mistakes seem the result of a distracted, unconstrained generation, detached from direction and discipline. This is not who America is. Not the America that won two world wars and even the Cold War. Today, we cannot win the war against gingivitis.
