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Anybody with a brain knows the Hegseth pick was crazy. He is a TV personality more than he is an Infantry Officer. I'm not knocking the guy just on experience, but this is a slap in the face to establishment flag officers (all of them) more than it is strategic.

A couple weeks ago when Trump was on Joe Rogan he talked about how stupid he thought Miley was. Miley wanted the ISIS fight to take 5 years. Trump took a flight that landed in the Iraqi? dessert at a JSOC base in the middle of the night, where he talked to some of their generals. They told him they could get it done in months, and that's what happened. I don't see why he didn't find and tap one of those guys??? Surely some of them are a few years removed from active service by now.

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BlackSmokeRisinG said:
Anybody with a brain knows the Hegseth pick was crazy. He is a TV personality more than he is an Infantry Officer. I'm not knocking the guy just on experience, but this is a slap in the face to establishment flag officers (all of them) more than it is strategic.

A couple weeks ago when Trump was on Joe Rogan he talked about how stupid he thought Miley was. Miley wanted the ISIS fight to take 5 years. Trump took a flight and landed in the Iraqi? dessert at a JSOC base in the middle of the night and talked to some of their generals. They told him they could get it done in months, and that's what happened. I don't see why he didn't find and tap one of those guys??? Surely some of them are a few years removed from active service by now.

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Given the way things have been going the last 20 years, I think the establishment flag officers need a slap in the face.

All of them.
 
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BlackSmokeRisinG said:
Anybody with a brain knows the Hegseth pick was crazy. He is a TV personality more than he is an Infantry Officer. I'm not knocking the guy just on experience, but this is a slap in the face to establishment flag officers (all of them) more than it is strategic.
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What do you think the qualifications are? Then, what do you think the qualifications should be?

We've had academics, captains of industry and tycoons, career bureaucrats, but only 3 professional 'warriors' (FOGO). Honestly I am not sure he's any less capable than any of the others we've had; others with more impeccable credentials have performed very poorly.

My biggest concern--really, my only concern--is a lack of management in a large organization, but this handicap can be made up with a strong staff.
 
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I've spent enough time in a lot of those states to know there are decent left, right, and center people. You can't blame the entire population for the fuckery of a few cities.
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Agreed. As someone with family from and spends quite a bit of time on Northern NY State. But sadly just like most of Canada, the decisions are made because of the wackjobs in the city.

Oh and we don't need any more Liberal's, we have enough.
 
Who wants to go to Canada just to watch the Orioles or the Yankees play baseball?
Why would we give up hundreds of miles of prime beach front property to the Canucks?
Why would we let Fidel Castros love child extend his commie sympathizing policies that far into the continental USA ?
...that meme is dumb for a more reason that I can list
 
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I've spent enough time in a lot of those states to know there are decent left, right, and center people. You can't blame the entire population for the fuckery of a few cities.
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Also, in my flavor of conservatism, we don't exile people just because they don't think the exact same way we do. That's what the other side does.

Conservatives and other people who voted (R) in this election also need to remember that our political system is a pendulum and just because it's swinging our way now, doesn't mean it won't swing back the other way. In fact, the harder the swing one way, the more it is guaranteed to swing back hard the other direction.

A lot of people on the left are about to reap the consequences of being unmitigated assholes for the last 8 years. it would be smart to not let a celebratory dunk fest start setting the stage for it to be done to us when they start winning again. Which is absolutely going to happen sometime down the road. because that's the way our republic is set up.

Accountability for the worst actors, yes. Absolutely. There needs to be punishment, and deterrence for future bad acts. But not this level of extreme.

I live in New York. I voted for Trump. Twice. But now some ass clown with a shaky hand and no access to a decent drawing program wants to expel my entire state because more of my fellow citizens voted blue than red this last election? Yeah, fuck right on off with that. Fuck ALL the way off with that.

...and that doesn't even take into account the economics of casting out states like NY or CA, or the military impacts due to the major bases in those states.

This meme is dumb. It's divisive at a time we need to try to start healing. I want every state, and every good citizen, not just the ones who voted the way I wanted them to.
 
If it really is a profit generating vehicle for nancy Pelosi, then I can't see how in the fuck it is even legal for her to have a hand in it - that would be like somebody in the Pentagon opening a fucking lemonade stand in the parking lot...

...but hey, free trade economy - we should all be allowed to participate - I guess
 
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If it really is a profit generating vehicle for nancy Pelosi, then I can't see how in the fuck it is even legal for her to have a hand in it - that would be like somebody in the Pentagon opening a fucking lemonade stand in the parking lot...

...but hey, free trade economy - we should all be allowed to participate - I guess
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I think she just set the stage for it to be permitted/re-opened, I don't think they're saying she runs it or profits from it.

This is a convenience purely for the ruling class. They should be spending their time, and our money, making life easier for us. Not for themselves.

Yeah, scratch this perq.
 
I am a huge fan of efficiency, and I loathe bureaucratic inertia and cumbersome, bloated organizations. Having been in academia, the military, healthcare, and government, I have seen, oh, I don't know, a million examples.

The booze store? Are you kidding me? Axe it. The legislative branch has over 33,000 staffers. House members may hire up to 18 staffers at a salary of just over $151K. The senate? Hire up to the mid-20s, and is population-dependent, also with salaries of $151K. 73 federal law enforcement agencies or organizations. 18 intelligence agencies. I could go on but we all know the drill.

With almost 3 million federal employees even Helen Keller could swing an axe and chop down the inefficiency and bloat.
 
Topkick said:
I've spent enough time in a lot of those states to know there are decent left, right, and center people. You can't blame the entire population for the fuckery of a few cities.
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Yeah, don't lump me in with the fucking city of philly. I can assure you, there's plenty of us in this region that are not blue.
 

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