DEI Donald Part One

Wokeness Abounds in Trump’s Government

It seems odd that Trump keeps banging on about DEI when his own administration shows so much evidence of affirmative action.

A Google search gave me this definition of DEI: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which are practices and policies designed to create fair and welcoming environments for people from all backgrounds in the workplace and other organizations. Diversity focuses on a wide range of differences, including race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and age. Equity involves providing everyone with the resources they need to succeed, which may mean offering different types of support based on individual needs. Inclusion is about fostering a culture where everyone feels respected, valued, and able to participate fully.”

Trump is even older than I am (and that is seriously old!), more mentally challenged and physically incapacitated. He should be in a care home under constant supervision but he is enabled to live a positive full life strafing Caribbean fishermen and bankrupting his country.

He has surrounded himself with Jews, Asians, homosexuals, people with learning disabilities and cognitive dysfunction and, notably, a large number of women whose physical attractiveness outweighs their intellectual capacities or competence.

Many of the women who surround the president seem to have been elevated to the high heels of high office for reasons other than ability or experience. Some of them have won beauty pageants in their distant pre-plastic surgery past. There is a person of colour who has no discernible skills. There is an alcoholic whose only skill seems to be abusing women (even his mother condemned him). There is at least one homosexual. There is a beardo whose success depended on a homosexual. A homosexual who worked with George Soros to topple John Major’s government (and saddle mygoodself with a huge mortgage.)

James David Vance

Let us begin with the beardo. He is married to an Asian woman but they do not seem to be very happy with each other. There are rumours that he is attracted (and she to him) to a former beauty queen, St Charlie Kirk’s widow.

Beardo used to be called ‘Donald’.

When Pete Hesgeth summoned all the generals and admirals in the US military to a TED talk in Quantico, he let them have his views on fat people and beards, even though he had sitting beside him a fat president and a bearded vice president. The Fat Out-of-Controller had made it clear on many occasions that he despised the military and had used all his daddy’s influence and affluence to avoid serving in the military himself. Captain Bone Spurs showed remarkable tolerance when he chose as his vice president someone who had served in the marines. Vance served in the US Marine Corps and was deployed to the Iraq War. Hang on, though! Vance did not experience any fighting. He was a military journalist. Trump despises journalists even more than he despises soldiers, so kudos to Captain Bone Spurs for appointing a journalist. Vance had briefly been a lawyer and Trump does not like lawyers unles they are young, attractive and female (and incompetent).

Vance is a spooky shape shifter. He has had a chameleon-like existence with many changes of name and different careers. His first name was James Donald Bowman. His biological father was a Donald. After he was adopted by his mother’s third husband, Bob Hamel, his mother, Beverley, changed his name to James David Hamel. He wrote that any old D name would have done, as long as it wasn’t Donald. Beverley married five times.The triumph of hope over experience. After JD was adopted by his grandparents, he took their surname, Vance. Despite a poor background, Vance completed undergraduate studies at Ohio State University and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School. Po boy done good.

Vance wrote a best-selling book which was turned into a film. In the book, Vance describes his grandparents’ alcoholism as well as his mother’s history of drug addictions and failed relationships. The book provoked a response in the form of an anthology, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll. The essays in the volume criticize Vance for making broad generalizations and reproducing myths about poverty. The personal was outweighed by the cliché.

One major influence at Yale, Vance has said, was a 2011 talk by Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist known for co-founding PayPal and supporting hard-right political candidates. Vance tracked Thiel down and the venture capitalist invited him to his home. Thiel would become a major supporter of both Vance’s venture capital firm and his Senate campaign.

After briefly working as a corporate lawyer and Senate aide, Vance became a venture capitalist at Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital. Vance wasn’t a successful or failed venture capitalist because he didn’t have enough time, spending just six years at three different firms. Nevertheless, this was perhaps his most significant career change. Thiel provided Vance with a good deal of affirmative action.

Vance launched his own venture capital firm in 2019 under the name Narya Capital, which sought to invest in startups in overlooked cities and reportedly received backing from Thiel and other billionaire investors like venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

During his successful Senate run in 2022, receiving record-breaking donations of about $15 million from Thiel, which marked the largest amount of money donated to a single Senate candidate ever. Thiel helped recruit about 10 major donors for Vance.

Thiel’s company, Palantir, has already netted more than $113 million in federal government spending during Trump’s second term. It combines machine learning with military spending, data-driven “intelligence” with naked violence. This is most clear in its longstanding collaboration with ICE, which is now carrying out notorious immigration raids at the behest of the Trump administration.

As the Republican presidential primaries were underway in February 2016, Vance discussed his dislike for Trump in a Facebook message. “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.” Thiel reportedly brought Vance to Mar-a-Lago in 2021 to smooth things over.

Thiel is proud to be gay. He bemoans cancel culture and political correctness, while waging a highly expensive and clearly personal war to bankrupt a media outlet that offended him. (After Gawker printed the “open secret” of Thiel’s gay status in 2007, Thiel funded lawsuits against them until they were shut down.) Thiel views death as a biological flaw to be overcome, rather than a natural endpoint, and actively works to fight it through investments in anti-aging and life extension technologies.

Scott Bessent

Bessent considered attending the United States Naval Academy in Maryland but decided not to as he was unwilling to lie about his sexual orientation. Bessent is openly gay and married John Freeman, a former New York City prosecutor, in 2011. They have two children, born through surrogacy.

George Soros is one of Trump’s many hate figures. Trump claims that Soros is behind any protests against him. According to Forbes, Bessent was a protégé of Soros. In 1992, Bessent was a leading member of the team whose bet on the Black Wednesday collapse of the British Pound earned the firm over $1 billion.

In 2000, Bessent hosted a fundraiser for Al Gore. That year, he also donated $1,000 to John McCain. In 2007, he donated $2,300 to Barack Obama and in 2013, he donated $25,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. At that time, he was described as a Democrat who supported liberal causes.

Kash Patel

Trump betrays his inner, bleeding-heart liberal, woke tendencies by providing employment to Kash Patel who, as well as being vertically challenged and posssssed of a brown skin, is clearly suffering from some kind of mental problem. US authorities informed Kilmar Ábrego García that he could be deported to Uganda. He has no connection with Uganda but Kash Patel does. Patel is the son of Pramod Patel, a Ugandan of Gujarati descent who was among those who faced ethnic persecution and were expelled by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 1972. Just the kind of people that Patel’s FBI are persecuting today.

There is evidence that Patel has had some legal training and courtroom experience. Patel studied criminal justice and history at the University of Richmond and graduated from the Pace University School of Law. Patel participated in the American Bar Association’s “Judicial Intern Opportunity Program”, a diversity initiative. Sounds like affirmative action don’t it? In 2005, he began working as a public defender in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and later as a federal public defender for the Southern District of Florida. Patel worked as a staff member at the Department of Justice from 2012 to 2017.

Any indication of respectability, rationality and competence are undermined by some of his rash actions. Rash Kash. Patel took advantage of his association with Trump to promote several business ventures and he appeared on various podcasts. He founded The Kash Foundation, a charity to help participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack pay their legal costs. Patel has promoted several conspiracy theories about the deep state; false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election; QAnon; and the January 6 Capitol attack.

He has been known to be creative with the facts of his own career. He was removed from the case against the perpetrators of the 2012 Benghazi attack, after disagreements he had with the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. He falsely claimed that he had been the led prosecutor on the case. In his memoir, he wrote that he had been asked to join the trial team against Ahmed Abu Khattala, a militia leader in the Libyan civil war. According to The New York Times, he was not offered that position. At a trial for Omar Faraj Saeed al-Hardan, a Palestinian accused—and later convicted—of providing material support to the Islamic State, Judge Lynn Hughes repeatedly berated Patel for his unprofessional attire and had him removed from the court chambers. Patel had flown from Tajikistan to the courtroom in Texas, although he was not required to be present.

In July 2019, Patel was appointed as senior director of the counterterrorism directorate of the National Security Council (NSC). Patel misrepresented himself as an expert on Ukraine. Fiona Hill, a senior director for Europe and Ukraine at the NSC (a coal miner’s daughter who formerly worked for British prime minister Theresa May), stated in congressional testimony that Patel had directly given Trump information about Ukraine that gave Trump a negative view of the country. Hill warned her staff to be cautious about communicating with Patel. Further testimony by Alexander Vindman, the director of European affairs, corroborated Hill’s statements.

Patel was involved in a military operation to rescue hostages from Nigeria. He falsely told the Department of Defense that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had approval to enter Nigeria’s airspace. The plane was close to landing when Secretary of Defense Mark Esper learned that the department did not actually have authorization. The incident risked the death of the hostage, Philip Walton, or the deaths of several Navy SEALs.

Kash Patel, wrote a trilogy of thinly veiled political children’s books called The Plot Against the King. The Plot Against the King was written for an audience of one: King Donald Trump.

In March 2023, a report compiled by Democrats on the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government detailed the testimony of two former FBI special agents, who said they had received financial support from Patel for promoting misinformation about the January 6 Capitol attack, finding one agent a position with the Center for Renewing America and promoting his book. Patel covered legal fees and paid witnesses who testified before the subcommittee.

Recently, Rash Kash behaved like a poisonous goblin while being subjected to legitimate questioning by a Senate committee. He is currently having another outburst because he has been caught out dating at the taxpayers’ expense. Steven Palmer was head of the FBI’s critical incident response group which is responsible for handling major security threats as well as overseeing the agency’s fleet of jets. Palmer, an FBI official of 27 years standing has been fired after Patel became enraged by press stories revealing RashKash had used a government jet to travel to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match. Palmer was the third head of the unit to be dismissed since Patel became FBI director in February. One of those dismissed, Brian Driscoll, is suing the Trump administration for unfair dismissal.

The flight was first spotted by Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI agent who has been going for Patel’s jugular. “We’re in the middle of government shutdown … and this guy is jetting off to hang out with his girlfriend in Nashville on our dime?” Seraphin said.

More about affirmative action in Part Two.