{"id":526518,"date":"2022-12-14T03:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T00:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bidens-return-to-normalcy-brought-us-crazy-instead-like-sam-brinton\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T03:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T00:09:29","slug":"bidens-return-to-normalcy-brought-us-crazy-instead-like-sam-brinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-return-to-normalcy-brought-us-crazy-instead-like-sam-brinton\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden\u2019s return to \u2018normalcy\u2019 brought us crazy instead \u2014 like Sam Brinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a24c162383d8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a24c162383d8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-return-to-normalcy-brought-us-crazy-instead-like-sam-brinton\/#%E2%80%9CBidens_return_to_%E2%80%98normalcy_brought_us_crazy_instead_%E2%80%94_like_Sam_Brinton%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Biden\u2019s return to \u2018normalcy\u2019 brought us crazy instead \u2014 like Sam Brinton&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBidens_return_to_%E2%80%98normalcy_brought_us_crazy_instead_%E2%80%94_like_Sam_Brinton%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Biden\u2019s return to \u2018normalcy\u2019 brought us crazy instead \u2014 like Sam Brinton&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Remember the Trump years? Back then we were told the administration, like its head, President Donald J. Trump, was deeply unserious: impulsive, ignorant, possibly corrupt and always vulgar. All in all, a disgrace to the hallowed history of American government.<\/p>\n<p>One argument for electing candidate Joseph Robinette Biden was that a Biden administration would restore normalcy to Washington. Instead of crazed, self-obsessed MAGA performers, a Biden team would be made up of sober, sensible establishment types. Boring, perhaps, but not crazy.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with that argument, it turns out, is that our establishment nowadays isn\u2019t sober or sensible or boring. In fact, it\u2019s kind of, well, crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit One is the Biden administration\u2019s just-departed top nuclear-waste official, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Nuclear Energy Sam Brinton. You might expect an expert in nuclear waste to be kind of a nerd. But say what you will about the deputy assistant secretary, Brinton is not a nerd.<\/p>\n<p>Often photographed in various ensembles featuring short skirts, bright-red lipstick and a shaved head, sometimes accompanied by a mustache, Brinton identifies as \u201cnonbinary,\u201d with the pronouns they\/them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-012.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"SAM BRINTON\" class=\"wp-image-25001282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-012.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-012.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-012.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Sam Brinton served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Nuclear Energy.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, sometimes physics nerds are a bit eccentric. Richard Feynman, after all, was known to play the bongos at parties. But Brinton\u2019s eccentricities go beyond fashionable gender bending. Brinton seems to have a problem with stealing luggage.<\/p>\n<p>Brinton was charged last month with felony theft after stealing a woman\u2019s Vera Bradley suitcase from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, after which the Energy Department put Brinton on leave.<\/p>\n<p>Brinton claimed this was a simple mistake. But then it h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened again, with a felony arrest warrant issued against Brinton for stealing a woman\u2019s suitcase at the Las Vegas airport. Brinton looks quite aware of what they were doing in surveillance video in support of the arrest. That finally got them fired.<\/p>\n<p>There was some fun to be had with this, and people had it. One wag on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> explained Brinton\u2019s wild outfits by commenting: \u201cSam Brinton\u2019s style makes way more sense when you realize he\u2019s just wearing whatever he finds in other people\u2019s luggage.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-011.jpg?w=810\" alt=\"SAM BRINTON\" class=\"wp-image-25001276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1620 1620w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1215 1215w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=810 810w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=405 405w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\"\/><figcaption>Brinton identifies as \u201cnonbinary,\u201d with the pronouns they\/them.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Department of Energy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"715\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-013.jpg?w=715\" alt=\"SAM BRINTON\" class=\"wp-image-25001284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-013.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1430 1430w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-013.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1073 1072w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-013.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=715 715w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-013.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=358 357w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-013.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\"\/><figcaption>They were charged last month with felony theft after stealing a suitcase from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/ JC Olivera<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But it\u2019s crazy for a top Energy Department official with all sorts of top security clearances to be stealing random women\u2019s luggage from various airports. It\u2019s behavior that\u2019s downright disturbed. Sure, former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was rumored to enjoy wearing women\u2019s clothing in private, but at least as far as we know he wasn\u2019t boosting it from luggage carousels across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of luggage, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has decided he\u2019s too good for regular airports. Watchdog group Americans for Public Trust found he\u2019s already <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed by federal-government private jet 18 times. Compare Trump officials: Mayor Pete\u2019s predecessor, Elaine Chao, got criticism for a mere seven flights, and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price had to resign after an outcry (and threatened congressional investigation) over his 26 such trips. But there\u2019s been barely a peep about Buttigieg flying high at taxpayer expense, even as he lectures the rest of us about our carbon footprints. Crazy!<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Veep Kamala Harris, who famously can barely form a coherent sentence. No one thinks she\u2019s ready to be president, but she\u2019s a heartbeat away from replacing our geriatric chief executive. One of her latest gaffes? She said America has a \u201cstrong and enduring\u201d alliance with \u201cthe Republic of North Korea\u201d \u2014 while she was in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>And climate envoy John Kerry, fresh from an infamous \u201cunplanned\u201d public handshake with Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, has been lecturing the United Kingdom about a new mine being opened to produce metallurgical coal needed to make steel. Presumably Kerry thinks that steel purchased from China is somehow carbon-free. But it\u2019s insane to be criticizing a crucial ally on its carbon footprint even as it suffers a freezing cold winter due to shortages of gas and oil because of sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-014.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"joe biden\" class=\"wp-image-25001285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-014.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-014.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/biden-normalcy-crazy-instead-014.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Many people though Biden\u2019s administration would bring back some normalcy. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Pool\/ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden himself is, of course, notoriously out of touch with reality, constantly making statements his staff have to walk back, often unsuccessfully. Remember when he green-lighted Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, as long as it was just part of the country?<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s the outright hysterical reaction from our political establishment, both within and without government, to Elon Musk\u2019s takeover of Twitter. It treats the purchase of a second-tier social-media company as a threat to democracy tantamount to the rise of Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever else you want to say about our political establishment, it\u2019s not sober and sensible \u2014 it\u2019s anything but. Our ruling class is an ideological monoculture, credentialed in the same schools, imbibing the same attitudes and catchphrases and concerned more than anything else with remaining in good standing with its peers. <\/p>\n<p>This makes it an ideal environment for mass hysteria, crazed fashions and disconnections from reality. Worse yet, these people don\u2019t really know much. They\u2019re credentialed, but they\u2019re not actually very well educated.<\/p>\n<p>Want a return to sober, sensible government? You\u2019ll have to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><em>Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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