Great Moments In Incompetence

 

Recently, due to independent journalist Nick Shirley, many of us became familiar with the “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis, one of a great many Somali-owned daycare centers in Minnesota that are (supposedly “allegedly”) fraudulent entities vacuuming up money from American taxpayers. That an alleged learning center failed to notice that the sign it ordered to help it in its ruse misspelled the word “learning” is a truly extraordinary example of incompetence. This article will highlight other instances of remarkable ineptitude.

For example, also in Minnesota, the NBA’s Timberwolves hosted a “Reading to Succeed Night” in 2009, during which the team misspelled its own nickname on posters it handed out. The posters read “Woves” instead of Wolves. Oops, hate that when that happens. Well, at least it wasn’t “Spelling to Succeed Night.”

Also also in Minnesota, five years later, Minnesota-based Target stores rolled out a Vikings Jersey sporting the name of the team’s newly drafted quarterback, Teddy Bridgewater. Unfortunately, the jersey itself wasn’t entirely on target, as Teddy’s last name was spelled “Bridewater.” How many eyeballs were on those jerseys from conception to production to sales floor? Stunning.  

More recently, another deep blue state, California, lost its federal funding for a high-speed rail corridor in the southern part of the state. Largely because $15 billion has already been spent and precious little track has been laid 17 years after California’s gullible voters approved Proposition 1A, allocating $9 billion to the project.

Also in the erstwhile Golden State, just a relative handful of permits have been issued allowing folks who lost their homes to the Palisades Fire a year ago the chance to rebuild their homes and their lives. You may well recall that the fire raged on because the reservoir and hydrants were dry, even as Mayor Bass was in Ghana and her assistant was being brought up on charges of making a false bomb threat against his own City Hall. To which he pleaded guilty. Amazing.

And then, of course, there was the Biden administration. From the border to the economy to the shameless—and deadly-- withdrawal from Afghanistan, it exuded preternatural incompetence every step of the way. Speaking of steps, remember Biden trying to scale steps to board a plane? Or attempting to stay upright while riding a bike? Or trying to figure out how to exit a stage?

It should be noted that incompetence and ignorance go hand-in-hand, the latter often being the progenitor of the former.

Barack Hussein Obama, whilst on the campaign trail in 2008, once noted how he had been in 57 states, with “I think, one left to go.” The man who was subsequently elected president of the United States—TWICE!—didn’t know how many states there were in the country he would go on to lead. He wasn’t even close! He was eight off! Eight! But of course the same mainstream media that went bat-sh*t crazy when Vice-President Dan Quayle spelled potato with an extra ‘e’ at the end decided this was a non-story.

Moreover, in 1989, the Associated Press dutifully quoted a U.N. official who claimed that “Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000." 25+ years later? Those nations are still there, their beaches are about where they were then, and, sadly, Al Gore is too.

Perhaps my favorite tale of ignorance and incompetence stars Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), who made the following statement during a 2010 House Armed Services Committee hearing on a planned military buildup in Guam: "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.” Amazing.

Whether a person is willing to admit it or not, incompetence proliferates where standards and excellence are mocked, where Marxists rule, and where Muslims—or Democrats-- predominate. Sorry, but that’s the truth. Whether it be Minnesota, California, North Korea, or Somalia.