The Trump Presidency 2.0

[Devildoc]

No doubt he's qualified. Is he the most qualified? Of course not. But if he, or anyone, meets the qualifications, .

People project who is/isn't qualified based on their own values and judgment.

I hate to try to equate qualified based on education/military experience, etc. We've had plenty of secdefs who looked pretty on paper but were walking clusterfucks. So in absence of correlation between resume and outcome, how can we conclude he's not qualified?

 

[RackMaster]

The FAFO Presidency.

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[AWP]

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That's gonna' be this thread for the next 4 years. Some variation of the above, actual cadence may vary, some restrictions apply.

Republicans have about 2 years to make shit happen, because if history is any indication the House and Senate will flop over and then the Trump agenda comes to a screeching halt. In fact, I'd be willing to bet a lot of folks are going to fight delaying actions until that flop occurs....because they know that's how long they have to hold out.

 

[RackMaster]

That was fast.

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[ThunderHorse]

I think we did this before: Big stick ideology - Wikipedia

 

[Salt USMC]

Pete Hegseth is a DEI hire #changemymind

 

[GOTWA]

Pete Hegseth is a DEI hire #changemymind

I'll give you 1/3.

 

[Marauder06]

 

[Salt USMC]

I'll give you 1/3.

Sorry man. I’m out of practice

 

[Marauder06]

Pete Hegseth is a DEI hire #changemymind

I don't understand the statement. Is this satire?

 

[Muppet]

 

[ThunderHorse]

Pete Hegseth is a DEI hire #changemymind

 

[Marauder06]

I mean, I read that Daily Kos article too and I hope there's more to "Hegseth is a DEI hire" than that tripe.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Rubio writes with the same speech pattern as Trump!

 

[ThunderHorse]

I mean, I read that Daily Kos article too and I hope there's more to "Hegseth is a DEI hire" than that tripe.

I learned from this article that he also attended the Kennedy School of Government and received a Masters in Public Policy. Are we not told that the Kennedy School of Government is a prestigious college within Harvard?

The article also didn't talk about his time on Wall Street which was the entire time he was the CEO of the two veterans advocacy groups. But point is I learned something from the article haha.

 

[Marauder06]

I learned from this article that he also attended the Kennedy School of Government and received a Masters in Public Policy. Are we not told that the Kennedy School of Government is a prestigious college within Harvard?

The article also didn't talk about his time on Wall Street which was the entire time he was the CEO of the two veterans advocacy groups. But point is I learned something from the article haha.

I mean I guess Harvard is OK if that's all you can get into ;)

Yeah, a Princeton-Harvard academic convo is pretty solid. Both of those programs are prestigious and competitive. This goes back to a point I've made several times that most of the people who make the major decisions for our country go to a handful of schools--mainly (but not exclusively) the Ivies and the Academies (or both) and it's in our interests to invest time and effort into the young people at those schools to make sure that the military isn't just an abstraction for them.

 

[Locksteady]

I learned from this article that he also attended the Kennedy School of Government and received a Masters in Public Policy. Are we not told that the Kennedy School of Government is a prestigious college within Harvard?

The article also didn't talk about his time on Wall Street which was the entire time he was the CEO of the two veterans advocacy groups. But point is I learned something from the article haha.

And a graduate of two Ivy Leagues, even, the first being Princeton (EDIT: oops, looks like @Marauder06 already touched on this point a minute or two before this post! ).

Agreed that his spread doesn't match the typical background for this position, but his personal past conduct seems to be the biggest of the red flags, just going off the basic reading I've only now done on him.

 

[Marauder06]

Well it's not Harvard Extension School like one of our infamous ex-members liked to tout ;)

@AWP remembers...

 

[SpongeBob*24]

Pete Hegseth is a DEI hire #changemymind

You are right. Dedicated to Expose Incompetence. We need that right now.

All joking aside, his only disqualification I could find was serving within the last 7 years as on occifer, and both Mattis/Austin had that waived.

End state - I'll be ok if all he manages to do in the next 4 years is hunt down those behind enforcing the jab on our warriors and making them pay.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I mean I guess Harvard is OK if that's all you can get into ;)

Yeah, a Princeton-Harvard academic convo is pretty solid. Both of those programs are prestigious and competitive. This goes back to a point I've made several times that most of the people who make the major decisions for our country go to a handful of schools--mainly (but not exclusively) the Ivies and the Academies (or both) and it's in our interests to invest time and effort into the young people at those schools to make sure that the military isn't just an abstraction for them.

It's also in our interests to severely limit the F-1s that are approved for those schools (especially MIT and Cal Tech).