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May 15, 2023

THE MORNING RANT: Can We Please Start Looking for Business & Political Leaders from Outside the Faux-Elite Bubble?

Elon Musk has chosen his new CEO at Twitter, and it looks like the era of free speech may have already run its course there.

His appointee, Linda Yaccarino, has previously worked for NBC and the World Economic Forum, and is an outspoken advocate for all the green-woke shibboleths.

In a moment I’ll expand on the idea that it is imperative to break the cycle of selecting business and political leaders from the same faux-elite circles that have produced our current crop of awful leaders, but first let’s take a look at Ms. Yaccarino’s beliefs.

She believes that a huge majority of people (she uses the term “consumers,” but every single person is a consumer) crave the globalist green agenda, including the racially balkanizing idea of DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.)


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People with this belief system are the ones who applauded Bud Light for abandoning its traditional customer base to pursue the transgender demographic.

Musk states that he is passionate about free speech, even if Yaccarino isn’t, so no worries.


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Like all passionate leftists, we can expect Ms. Yaccarino to be comfortable with “free speech,” so long as it is not “offensive” speech, or “misinformation,” or any of the other buzzwords that corporate media censors have adopted.


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I’ve never seen a single person with her belief system and resume who has any tolerance for free speech from those who disagree with those in that bubble.

Maybe she’s a unicorn and will actually tolerate free speech, but why seek out a person from that bubble? Doing so is like seeking out a mate who is not woke, while only dating those who shop at Whole Foods and listen to NPR.

There is a world outside the faux-elite bubble, and it is well past time that we look elsewhere for business leaders, politicians, and judges.

In addition to rejecting those from the media and Davos circles, it’s also time to start disregarding an Ivy League degree as a credential. (Or maybe we should start considering an Ivy League degree to be disqualifying.)

When AB InBev (Anheuser Busch) hired Alissa Heinerscheid as Bud Light’s Vice President of Marketing, they hired a person not yet 40 years old, with degrees from two different Ivy League schools (Wharton and Harvard.) With only that information, it would be safe to assume that she was not a drinker of Bud Light, and that she was contemptuous of the brand’s core customers. Unsurprisingly, she openly acknowledged her contempt for Bud Light’s customers in an interview before hiring Dylan Mulvaney to become a face of the product.

Why would InBev hire such a person? For the same reason Musk hired Yaccarino. Corporate America is seemingly not aware of any other talent pool, no matter how awful that “credentialed” talent pool is.

This applies to politics too. Eight of our nine Supreme Court justices have law degrees from either Harvard or Yale. How about having a Supreme Court justice with a law degree from Regents University, or maybe some double-directional state law school?

Even the Trump-DeSantis battle is an Ivy League matchup. Trump went to Wharton, and DeSantis went to Yale and Harvard. Of course, I’ll vote for whichever one of these guys gets the nomination, but can’t we please start finding leadership which hasn’t been immersed in Ivy League culture?

Now that I think about it, I do favor diversity. I want a country where our leadership is diverse and comes from the world of average Americans, where Ivy League degrees are rare, and where people rise in organizations based on their talent, not based on their connections or their exclusive degrees.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]


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