{"id":665,"date":"2024-07-18T04:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T04:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/death-by-dei\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T04:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T04:50:03","slug":"death-by-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/death-by-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Politicians are especially in danger, although we are all&#0160; at risk.&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/p\/a-compromised-secret-service?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1248321&amp;post_id=146639983&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=2548jw&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\">Christopher Rufo<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">To say it plainly: there is no need for women in a president\u2019s security detail. The Secret Service is an elite institution that can funnel down a large number of candidates to select the few who will protect the president. The best candidates\u2014the strongest and fastest, the best marksmen\u2014will be men. That\u2019s just reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s a reality that the Secret Service is determined to circumvent. The agency itself has&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretservice.gov\/careers\/technical-law-enforcement\/fitness-standards\" rel=\"\">published<\/a>&#0160;its fitness standards in two parts: one for men, and a separate, less rigorous one for women.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And who is involved in &quot;assassination prep?&quot; Quite <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/15\/there-can-be-no-unity-with-the-violent-democrat-media-industrial-complex\/\">obviously<\/a>, the Left:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The June issue of The New Republic is explicitly devoted to&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/newrepublic\/status\/1810009748697448541\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comparing Trump to Hitler<\/a>, one of the greatest mass murderers in human history. It\u2019s full of essays about how grim life will be under Dictator Trump. The editors justified this by saying, \u201cToday, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, \u2018He\u2019s damn close enough, and we\u2019d better fight.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians are especially in danger, although we are all&#0160; at risk.&#0160; Christopher Rufo: To say it plainly: there is no need for women in a president\u2019s security detail. The Secret Service is an elite institution that can funnel down a large number of candidates to select the few who will protect the president. The best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/death-by-dei\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Death by DEI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ponerology","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}