These Biden-Harris WH senior staff appointments are conspicuously short of old white guys

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Yashar Ali @yashar2h
After announcing @RonaldKlain as his chief of staff, the Biden-Harris transition announces another round of White House senior staff appointments.


twitter.com/yashar/status/1328733115653582851

https://buildbackbetter.com/the-administration/white-house-senior-staff/

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Looks good in my eyes.

[5X]

2. Good

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Good

Happy that upper staff more closely resembles America.

[PatSeg]

12. And Joe said many, many times

his administration would look like America. This is exactly what I'd expected.

[frazzled]

4. Pretty much everyone is younger than me these days

(except Biden). So I'm not surprised on the age count. And welcome the rainbow.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

5. yeah, Love it !!!

We can never go wrong with that, wait i'm one of those old white guys...

[LaMouffette]

6. And none of them is a Biden or Harris family member!

How refreshing!

[Pachamama]

7. Looks like America!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. This is a great list. BUT -- where's Pete? n/t

[luvtheGWN]

9. Pete's going to get a Cabinet post.

These folks are staff appointments.

I'm guessing Secretary of Defence for Pete.

[Wounded Bear]

15. Yeah, cabinet appts will come later...nt

[beastie boy]

29. I think I've seen articles about Pete being lined up for Ambassador to the UN

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. I've seen posts about that too, and I think he'd be perfect at the UN. n/t

[mopinko]

31. i want him at the va.

and hillary at u.n.

[NNadir]

10. As an old white guy, I applaud this post.

[RicROC]

17. finally, we old guys..

can feel that we're handing off the government to a competent next generation. I felt that way when Mayor Pete was campaigning and now I feel the same about the new appointments for the Biden Administration.

[NNadir]

24. God knows, we screwed the world up royally.

I'm absolutely convinced that a new generation and certainly a more diverse set of human beings can do an outstanding job.

They could not do worse.

Although he's much older than even I am, I applaud our fine President Elect for recognizing this and involving those who will have to live with the mess we made after we've kicked off.

[matt819]

11. One-third seems fine (nt)

[Midnight Writer]

13. And no reality show stars, no TV news celebrities, and no professional lobbyists.

[Wounded Bear]

14. You say that like it's a bad thing or something...

[Bleacher Creature]

16. Or people with the same last name of the President.

[KS Toronado]

18. 5 to 4, women are ahead. Keep the ratio going.

[bluecollar2]

19. Works for me....n/t

[sandensea]

20. And those he does have, are pros with the common good in mind - not just the president's interests

This is worth mentioning because ever since Bush, some Repugs have made a point of appointing minority advisers - who are often worse than even the worst white right-wingers.

Think people like Alberto Gonzáles, Pete Navarro, and Kash Patel.

They feel they have to prove themselves to the other Repugs - and they're right. So they are thus often that much more vicious.

[rickyhall]

21. President Biden is all the "old white guys" we need, except for old white voters like me.

[Lithos]

22. Looks a lot more like America

and one this old white guy applauds!

[a kennedy]

26. Just what I was going to say.......

THEY ARE AMERICA

[ancianita]

23. Ah, forgot what good governing decisions feel like. Like f'n normal again.

If he keeps this up I'm gonna feel spoiled. Guess spoiled is the old normal.

[DEbluedude]

25. As an old white guy...

I'm perfectly fine with this!

[murielm99]

28. I'm married to an old white guy.

He approves of this, too.

[IsItJustMe]

27. As an older white guy

I say god bless them all. Some folks cling to their tribalism BS. I am not one of them. The more diverse, the better. Everything changes. That is the only constant in the universe.