PPEcel
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I saw these headlines today:
Biden instead chose to nominate this guy:
See, Flournoy was never a shoo-in for the DoD's top post under a Biden administration. Sure, she probably would've become SecDef under a Clinton administration, but Biden's appetite for interventionism was and is still considerably less aggressive than that of either woman -- as evidenced by his vocal opposition when both Flournoy and Clinton pushed Obama towards the 2009 Afghanistan troop surge and the 2011 intervention in Libya.
There were also two other main factors which probably led Biden to nominate Lloyd Austin instead of Flournoy:
1) The Congressional Black Caucus lobbied hard for a black SecDef nominee, and Biden owed Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, a huge favour after Clyburn's endorsement ahead of the South Carolina primaries back in February 2020. That endorsement was one of the turning points for the Biden campaign after falling behind in Iowa and New Hampshire.
2) Anti-war SJW hippies raised a huge stink over Flournoy's connections to the military-industrial complex -- positions at WestExec, Pine Island Capital Partners, and Booz Allen Hamilton. (Not that Lloyd Austin is innocent of this charge, since he's on Raytheon's board.) But Flournoy has long been a far bigger target in the minds of the progressive left; she founded CNAS back in 2007, a hawkish think tank whose biggest donors are Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin.
Flournoy's supporters waged a public campaign to encourage the Biden transition team to nominate her.
Guess what argument some of them fell back on? You guessed it.
View: https://twitter.com/MiekeEoyang/status/1327300779183644672
View: https://twitter.com/MiekeEoyang/status/1327307622853337089
BuT mUh SeXisM
Oh man, it's so fun to see the SJWs tear each other apart.
Considering that Biden just nominated Avril Haines to become the next Director of National Intelligence, there already are white foids in the national security establishment. But I guess that wasn't enough to pacify this one:
View: https://twitter.com/NatSecMulligan/status/1336101423323426816
Just lol.
Biden instead chose to nominate this guy:
See, Flournoy was never a shoo-in for the DoD's top post under a Biden administration. Sure, she probably would've become SecDef under a Clinton administration, but Biden's appetite for interventionism was and is still considerably less aggressive than that of either woman -- as evidenced by his vocal opposition when both Flournoy and Clinton pushed Obama towards the 2009 Afghanistan troop surge and the 2011 intervention in Libya.
There were also two other main factors which probably led Biden to nominate Lloyd Austin instead of Flournoy:
1) The Congressional Black Caucus lobbied hard for a black SecDef nominee, and Biden owed Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, a huge favour after Clyburn's endorsement ahead of the South Carolina primaries back in February 2020. That endorsement was one of the turning points for the Biden campaign after falling behind in Iowa and New Hampshire.
2) Anti-war SJW hippies raised a huge stink over Flournoy's connections to the military-industrial complex -- positions at WestExec, Pine Island Capital Partners, and Booz Allen Hamilton. (Not that Lloyd Austin is innocent of this charge, since he's on Raytheon's board.) But Flournoy has long been a far bigger target in the minds of the progressive left; she founded CNAS back in 2007, a hawkish think tank whose biggest donors are Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin.
Flournoy's supporters waged a public campaign to encourage the Biden transition team to nominate her.
Guess what argument some of them fell back on? You guessed it.
View: https://twitter.com/MiekeEoyang/status/1327300779183644672
View: https://twitter.com/MiekeEoyang/status/1327307622853337089
BuT mUh SeXisM
Oh man, it's so fun to see the SJWs tear each other apart.
Considering that Biden just nominated Avril Haines to become the next Director of National Intelligence, there already are white foids in the national security establishment. But I guess that wasn't enough to pacify this one:
View: https://twitter.com/NatSecMulligan/status/1336101423323426816
Just lol.
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