CongareeCatfish Top fanJanuary 15, 2025 at 10:56 am
Fantastic article, with one caveat. “If both were in the military, they’d already have been fired, as a military officer is “responsible for everything their men do or fail to do.” That was from a different era of our service years, brother – and how do I miss those days. Since the latter half of the Bush second term up to the present day (and yes, including Trump’s prior term), O-6s and flag officers don’t get fired for a damn thing unless it’s hurting some female’s feelings at their command, or failing to carry the DEI and perversion alphabet company line. Getting fired for poor performance of core duties rarely occurs, and when it does, its O-5 and below. And before someone sends me some article about some 2 or 3 star that did actually get fired, let me remind them: we have ten times as many flag officers in the military now than at the height of WWII, when the armed forces was more than three times the size it is now.
And South Carolina and North Carolina have governments controlled overwhelmingly by republicans and there are still people living in tents in the middle of the winter from the effects of Helene—- which using some of the logic expressed above was caused by Democrats. I do agree with one thing the writer expressed near the end—-we get the government we vote for. God help us make it through the next 4 years.
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Fantastic article, with one caveat. “If both were in the military, they’d already have been fired, as a military officer is “responsible for everything their men do or fail to do.” That was from a different era of our service years, brother – and how do I miss those days. Since the latter half of the Bush second term up to the present day (and yes, including Trump’s prior term), O-6s and flag officers don’t get fired for a damn thing unless it’s hurting some female’s feelings at their command, or failing to carry the DEI and perversion alphabet company line. Getting fired for poor performance of core duties rarely occurs, and when it does, its O-5 and below. And before someone sends me some article about some 2 or 3 star that did actually get fired, let me remind them: we have ten times as many flag officers in the military now than at the height of WWII, when the armed forces was more than three times the size it is now.
And South Carolina and North Carolina have governments controlled overwhelmingly by republicans and there are still people living in tents in the middle of the winter from the effects of Helene—- which using some of the logic expressed above was caused by Democrats. I do agree with one thing the writer expressed near the end—-we get the government we vote for. God help us make it through the next 4 years.