Not a Joke: The Trump Admin Hired a Dog Breeder to Run Its Coronavirus Task Force

[Galraedia]

The unfortunate thing about the Trump administration, beyond the nepotism, incompetence, mass corruption, idiot kids, white nationalism, wholesale assault on the concept of truth, and pure evil, is that oftentimes it’s beyond parody. For instance, we already knew the federal government’s response to the coronavirus crisis has been catastrophically bad, from the months of insisting the virus was fake news, to a criminal lack of early—and current!—testing, to listening to Dr. Jared Kushner’s advice on the matter, to pushing for a dangerously premature reopening of the country. But despite everything we know, it would just be too much to learn that, at one point, a dog breeder was running the administration’s coronavirus task force. And yet!

Reuters reports the nearly impossible-to-believe news that back in January, Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar “tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency’s day-to-day response to COVID-19.” The aide was Brian Harrison, 37, and the move was somewhat surprising, given that prior to joining the administration in 2018 as Azar’s deputy chief of staff, he spent six years running a company called Dallas Labradoodles, which is not, in fact, some kind of code name for a firm doing cutting-edge medical research or developing vaccines or doing anything remotely related to humans. Instead, Dallas Labradoodles, which Harrison sold for $225,000 in April 2018, pretty much does exactly what you’d expect: sells Australian Labradoodles, which are a cross between poodles and Labrador retrievers. Which are actually quite cute dogs! They are supposedly “friendly, social, loyal, loving, smart, curious, and happy”! Which is nice for the people adopting them, though less helpful vis-à-vis the pandemic that has killed more than 47,000 Americans to date and infected over 850,000! Funny how that works!

Read more: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/brian-harrison-dog-breeder-coronavirus

[klook]

1. Reminds me of Michael "Heckuva Job Brownie" Brown,

Bush’s FEMA director, who, before presiding over the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina, was head of the International Arabian Horse Association for 12 years.

Republicans have no concept of public service. They think government is a scam, and they’re all too ready to do the scamming when they get a chance.

[procon]

4. I was just thinking of the same thing.

Trump has burned all his bridges behind him and there's no competent, experienced professionals willing to risk their reputations and careers in associating themselves with him.

He's got nothing left to pick from except to scape the bottom of the barrel and pick losers like this.

[Chainfire]

2. If you give leadership post

To people who are unqualified to run them, then it is easy to control them.

[doc03]

3. Trump has been screwing the pooch for

three years.