I’m still scratching my head over Team Biden’s public response to the Colonial Pipeline hack & shut-down.
Let me count the ways:
1. Biden: “The Russian government (i.e. the iron-fisted Putin) had no knowledge and no involvement.”
My take: Biden was probably confusing Putin with Sergeant “I See Nothing” Schultz (from Hogan’s Heroes).
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2. Biden, when asked if he approved the policy-busting ransom payment to terrorists: “No comment”.
My take: If you think that paying people to not work doesn’t disincentivize job-seeking, then it logically follows that paying ransom to terrorists does not incentivize terrorist acts.
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3. Energy Secretary Granholm: “This is another good reason to drive electric cars.”
My take: Does she have any idea where and how the electricity that fuels electric vehicles is produced?
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4. Biden when asked how U.S. will counter cyberterrorism: “More education”.
Let’s go into some detail on this one…
The first 3 are patently incredible on their obvious merits (demerits?).
The last, an off-the-cuff statement is another example of why Biden’s handlers don’t want him to answer questions.
For sure, U.S. needs more American students studying technical STEM subjects.
But, that’s, at best, a long-run fix that won’t provide much near-term protection.
Even then, there is a grand irony that Biden is casually promoting technical education at the same time that he’s supporting (or at least, not opposing) the “equity mathematics” movement that is advocating:
> The end of racially-toxic right answers and “dictated” solution methods … to be replaced by free-form methods, approximate answers and “nice tries”.
> The elimination of advanced mathematics in high school … to mitigate cultural disadvantage and keep all students at the same terminal level of proficiency.
With some American educators seriously considering those misdirections, I doubt that more education will counter the cyberterrorism threat either short- or long-run.
How many cyberterrorists do you think are rushing to enroll in equity-math courses?
If your answer is greater than zero, then I’m betting the under.
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