Saturday Miscellany

First, just for the humor of it all, the inevitably wise James Carville offered this comment on the past election:

“We ran a presidential election. If we were playing the Super Bowl, we started our seventh-string quarterback. . . . You can’t address a problem unless you’re honest about a problem.”

Nellie Bowles continues in her TGIF column:

Carville said people would be shocked to know that there are Dem candidates that “can actually complete a sentence, that actually know how to frame a message, that actually have a sense of accomplishment, of doing something.” Where are they hiding?

Second, at the risk of being repetitious, we remark that 4 percent of black fourth graders in Detroit are proficient in reading. And that 2% of black eighth graders in Milwaukee are proficient in math.

Seeing these results, teachers’ union president Randy Weingarten failed to take responsibility for the failure. She declared that they could solve the problem by giving teachers more money.

Why not tie pay to student performance? They would get their attention.

Third,watching DEI die, via the Financial Times:

Accen­ture has scrapped its global diversity and inclu­sion goals after an “eval­u­ation” of the US polit­ical land­scape, becom­ing the latest big com­pany to ditch its tar­gets since the elec­tion of Don­ald Trump.

A memo to staff from chief exec­ut­ive Julie Sweet said the New York-lis­ted con­sult­ing group would begin “sun­set­ting” its diversity goals, as well as career devel­op­ment pro­grammes for “people of spe­cific demo­graphic groups”.

Sweet said the change fol­lowed an “eval­u­ation of our internal policies and prac­tices and the evolving land­scape in the US, includ­ing recent exec­ut­ive orders with which we must com­ply”.

Fourth, when all else fails, slander. Those who are up in the houghest dudgeon over Elon Musk’s DROGE warriors found out that one of the young people manning the computers once said something that was apparently racist.

Naturally, they wanted him to be canceled. Musk was having none of it. And not jut Musk. President Trump and Vice President Vance echoed the new policy.

The New York Post reports:

 Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer who resigned after being linked to racist social media posts will be brought back after President Trump and Vice President JD Vance both co-signed the idea, Elon Musk said Friday.

“He will be brought back,” Musk, the head of Trump’s cost-slashMusk, 53, announced his decision to rehire 25-year-old engineer Marko Elez after the vice president expressed strong support for giving the ex-DOGE staffer a second chance.

“Here’s my view: I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life,” Vance tweeted in response to Musk’s X poll asking users if the DOGE worker should be brought back.

“To err is human, to forgive divine,” the tech billionaire added.

“We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever,” the vice president added. “So I say bring him back.”

“If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.”

Trump, 78, later told reporters that while he wasn’t clued in to the situation, he backed Vance’s call.

“If the vice president said that – did you say that? I’m with the vice president,” the president said.

Depriving the radical left of one of its most potent tools might be an incentive-- to learn how to govern.