This. READ THE ROOM BOB.
Looks like a lot of folks can't break through their programming and are choosing to die on some very small hills.
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Looks like a lot of folks can't break through their programming and are choosing to die on some very small hills.
That's a great point re: the Navy and their proclivity to fire folks.
Devildoc
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It's a navy cultural thing, part of which I get, a lot of which I do not. On the one hand, they talk about "failing up" and getting away from zero-defect mentality. On the other, every Admiral Tom, Captain Dick, and Chief Harry seem to get fired, and no one really says why aside from the official "due to loss of confidence in ability to lead." Which to me sounds very Soviet-like and secret-room-in-Lubyanka-ish: Pravda says "they died of natural causes"; autopsy shows "died of 100 grain lead poisoning to the back of the head."
So, no, they really don't allow people to 'fail up' or remove the human factor, but claim they do. It's the old adage in almost every enterprise of saying they put people first, when everyone knows they don't.
My issue is not that they do/don't, my issue is the reasons they give firing people is very subjective and closed. Based on what they did as junior officers, Admirals Halsey, Nimitz, and King should have been relieved. Kinda glad they weren't.
ThunderHorse
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So generally, asylees without work authorization would get an ITIN. Asylees with work authorization apply for an SSN. Also like individual sport athletes who only come in for a race or a tournament get an ITIN.
So for example, a Baseball Player on a P1A from Japan: SSN. A Triathlete from Germany who spends two weeks here and only races IM 70.3 Oceanside and bounces gets an ITIN.
Granting all those asylees SSNs also came with a change in status from asylee without worth authorization to asylee with work authorization. When I was in college, there was a chick whose family somehow got political refugee status from Kenya...she became a US citizen and would serve as an officer in the Army. But she made a very big and negative impression upon me. I still to this day do not understand how someone would qualify for refugee status from Kenya.
So, as we know, open borders under Biden allowed people to cross the border illegally and apply for asylum once in the US. They were "legally" granted the ability to get SSNs. By being granted work authorization they then get on a path to residency and citizenship...with 2M+ that's ends up being a whole lot of votes in 10-15 years.
Next target- pharma. America represents only about 13% of consumption of pharma products... but results in 50% of sales.
China has about 13% of all Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) production facilities, a 20% share of global API by volume, and about 40% of APIs worldwide come from China. As we saw during covid- we can't allow China to bottleneck American medicine. In my personal opinion, if this further destroys China using the soft power of economics, all the better.
Trump reveals the next industry that will face imminent ‘major’ tariffs
China has about 13% of all Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) production facilities, a 20% share of global API by volume, and about 40% of APIs worldwide come from China. As we saw during covid- we can't allow China to bottleneck American medicine. In my personal opinion, if this further destroys China using the soft power of economics, all the better.
Trump reveals the next industry that will face imminent ‘major’ tariffs
Ah, got it. thanks for the education.
My questions would be- are the numbers quoted in the story ITIN's like you mentioned? What other benefits (thinking tax dollars here) are they granted with these SSN's if they are actually ITINs?
To your bolded... cancelled. That's verboten. /sarcasm
ThunderHorse
Verified Military
Essentially ITIN's are for federal tax purposes right. You have two types of people who would have ITINs. Asylees with no work authorization, and those with work authorization that do not meet the substantial presence test. Children can be granted ITINs.
Illegals DO NOT have the ability to have either and ITIN or SSN. A lot of companies are using e-verify. A lot of companies using E-Verify are employing illegals. How do they do that? Because someone is finding them a number that "works".
An SSN isn't granted before legal status, so these people were granted a legal work authorization by USCIS. You have to have the legal work authorization before you can apply for either an ITIN or SSN. So the SSN part is really erroneous in the discussion, except for that it allowed DOGE to ID the volume of legal status with work authorization that the Biden administration granted.
My former unit in Ottawa, the US team had their own space with Bush, then Obama and Gates on the wall.
I can't remember for the other Commonwealth teams but they'd have the Queen up and we already had her up.
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I was working on a response but @ThunderHorse provided a much more in depth response than anything I had typed up.
The only thing I've seen anyone actually find is she was on a list of Woke military leadership.
Her "wokeness" was Speaking at a Women's Day Event in 2015
Publicly criticizing POTUS or SecDef is a UCMJ violation.
If she got the photos and refused to put them up, that would be disobeying a lawful order, another UCMJ offense.
They can question orders, but at the end o the day they are required to FOLLOW THOSE LAWFUL ORDERS, not tell everyone "I can wait him out" (which would be another UCMJ violation).
Well… that was one example, right? Along with her command decision to not put up the pics as directed? Disobeying a lawful order/support good order and discipline in favor of your personal political ideology is pretty ‘woke’, and I’ll go ahead and assume that from 2015-now, there’s probably a time or two in that decade we could find another example.
Again, I’m not agreeing with firing her u til we can figure out what cause justifies it… but just reading these messages we have examples of how she’s putting her penchant for DEI before her service. If I was giving her the least amount of grace I could.
I think I'm on record for my feelings about DEI in the military, which, to be clear, are negative.
At the same time, DEI was what we all did--what we had to do--during the last administration. I went to a whole bunch of DEI training I didn't want to during my last couple of years on active duty, because I was ordered to. Leaders of military formations were ordered to implement DEI policies and support DEI directives. Those were shitty orders but they were legal, just like the ones dismantling DEI in the military (yay!) are today.
...are we going after senior military leaders for carrying out what were at the time the lawful orders of the legitimately elected President of the United States? I hope there's more nuance than that.
At the same time, DEI was what we all did--what we had to do--during the last administration. I went to a whole bunch of DEI training I didn't want to during my last couple of years on active duty, because I was ordered to. Leaders of military formations were ordered to implement DEI policies and support DEI directives. Those were shitty orders but they were legal, just like the ones dismantling DEI in the military (yay!) are today.
...are we going after senior military leaders for carrying out what were at the time the lawful orders of the legitimately elected President of the United States? I hope there's more nuance than that.
The current pattern for determining wokeness is:
Woman
Black
JAG
Anyone who's made comments about "diversity"
Devildoc
Verified Military
Was it "what were at the time..."? Because if so that's a hugely dangerous precedent. But if this was within the past, what, 100-and-something days, I think it's legit.
I like the aggressive-aggressive people like her, she said (presumably) the quiet part out loud, she outed herself. It's the passive-aggressive ones lurking biding time not saying shit about whom I am concerned.
Devildoc
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I would disagree that being a woman is the issue as they comprise just under 20% of all officers in all branches, and 170-something O7-10. If just being female was part of the math, we'd see a helluva a higher number being run out. I think anti-Trump/MAGA and pro-DEI are the triggers.
Come on brother, that's not even remotely accurate. Or fair.
ThunderHorse
Verified Military
I'll be honest, I don't know what Kash Patel is doing, and people talk about the confidence they have...
But like...have a feel, maybe? Can we get a nominee up for confirmation.
Originally the Director of the FBI was granted a term of ten years so as to be more apolitical.
But like...have a feel, maybe? Can we get a nominee up for confirmation.
Originally the Director of the FBI was granted a term of ten years so as to be more apolitical.
Devildoc
Verified Military
I see this in the news, but no one is saying why. Following.
Rare miss, -1.
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