No experience? No problem!
Making the military great again!
Oh we’re also cutting veterans benefits!
… a businessman …
And there it is, again, the deification of the “businessman” - as if that is something that is a qualification.
FFS.
divided states of plutocrica
Ferengi code of dysfunction.
At one point I set up an LLC, planning to do stuff with it, but never did.
I am a business man.
I bet you that my non functional business, with 0 assets, 0 liabilities… is in better financial, net worth shape than a whole lot of other businesses.
Hire me for DOGE, Elon.
Private Investment firm.
Motherfucker is a VC bro.
Anyone else remember when the Republicans attacked Mitt Romney in the primaries for basically just being a corporate vulture?
Oh well, sure, why not. A venture capitalist for Sec Navy. Not even business experience as a supplier or contractor for the Navy.
So anyway, the US is now about as legitimate a government as Russia, post Soviet collapse.
Third world country with a Gucci belt, nuclear power with a nakedly corrupt oligarchy in charge.
(Yes I know third world has to do with nonaligned during the Cold War, pretend we all know its colloquial usage.)
Trump ruining all branches of government while simultaneously making us vulnerable to Russian Intelligence with these picks.
All Donny had to do was call the Saudi embassy on Inauguration Day 2017 and politely ask for $50 billion in a Swiss account.
2017
so noted
Wow, he actually looks like a robber baron.
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Stick one of those high-collared 1600s naval uniforms on him and he’d look just like those classical paintings of obese peerage with military titles.
The collapse of the US empire would be incredibly exciting if I did not live in it
This perfectly encapsulates my feelings.
You’d think after the last term that the idea of running the US as a business should be unpopular. It is decidedly not a business (though it can be used for profit, which is the major problem here).
It’s almost like Trump voters had no clue what they were voting for. Or they did, but they had no clue what it meant.
It’s almost like Trump voters had no clue what they were voting for. Or they did, but they had no clue what it meant.
no almost like, it’s exactly what it is.
I knew a second Trump administration was going to be a horror show, but I’m pretty sure Putin orchestrated a lot of this in revenge of the US using capitalism to crush the USSR.
He’s now using capitalism to crush the US. And he’s barely doing anything, he just had to help get a spoon fed capitalist elected and the capitalist would handle the rest.
“businessman”
if you don’t use the quotes it implies that he’s actually a businessman.
The last eight people who have held the title since 2009 had served either in the Navy, Marine Corps, Army or Coast Guard, according to their Naval History and Heritage Command biographies.
Considering the one from 2009 to 2017 didn’t serve in the military that’s some weird phrasing…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mabus
What’s crazy is (including “acting” like the article does) we’ve had 8 Sec Of Navy’s in 7 years…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy
Just an insane amount of turnover under both Biden and trump.
I hated when Obama did this, at least this time the rest of the Dem party will be pissed too.
Edit:
Mabus sucked, but obviously this guy is gonna suck more. The Navy is ripe for corruption with overseas refueling, I think the Fat Leonard case still has some officers in trial, but it might be finished by now.
Mabus was a Surface Warfare Officer for two years and attained the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade. Granted, to make JG, all you need to do is have a pulse, but he still was in the Navy.
You’re right, both that he was and that the requirement for JG is literally a pulse…
It didn’t make it to Wikipedia, and barely got takes onto his defense.gov bio, but it is there.
That makes the phrasing even weirder then…
BJ Penn had it for two months in 09, but he had service time.
The guy who had the very beginning of 09 was in freaking DARPA,but if they’re counting them, why start at 09 instead of 06?
Like, if we go back 8 of them, we’re only in 2017 if we count acting. If we only count permanent then 8 goes back to 2001.
The math just isn’t matching for me.
Well if it wasn’t in his wiki when you posted that, it is now.
Ya, it was always there. They don’t care.
Having a civilian as secretary is not bad, at that level, healthy even. But that requires a type of person who almost certainly would not be in the good graces of Trump. And anyone accepting the position now must fight uphill to prove they are not a mindless, greedy thug filled with evil
I was skimming more and the actual law is that the secretary has to not have served in the military in the past 7 years. It specifically calls out they’re a civilian.
Most of them have had military experience though, it’s probably helpful.
I think it’s kind of random in USA history, wikpedia has a list of them and some do
So…all these clown appointments. The guy just wants to wreck it all, right? WTF.
So the 1% can just buy everything for cents on the dollar like they did during the great depression and great recession
Did they forget that the last gilded age was also the same era as the Union and County wars or are they just fucken stupid. Who am I kidding all these dipshits are new money yuppies who dont know jack shit.
Well, at least we know he’s great at kissing Trump’s ass. Apparently, that’s the only requirement for any job in his cabinet or administration.
I know it’d never happen, but seal team six is still standing by to protect us from threats inside and out.
The USSC gave biden the powers.
The S(qu)eal who killed Bin Laden is openly pro-Trump. We’d probably have a split in the military before any civilian uprising.
There’s zero need to have civil leadership have military experience. That’s kind of the point, to create a buffer. Not that I think there aren’t plenty of disqualifying points for this chode, as he was appointed by Trump so that comes with the territory.
Bush had several with no military experience and Clinton had this one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Danzig. Another had 2 years as a Lt.
“Attack me.”
Y’all need to check yourself before you wreck all of ourselves. Your infrastructure is pwned, you’re putting CEOs in charge of the country, kicking people out of the military, hinting at Geneva convention ignoring, and electing stupid people.
And you think you’ll just win. I swear.
Living in the setup of a shitty WWIII novel as the antagonist and aren’t aware enough of history to know it.
Who’s the “y’all” you’re addressing here? I don’t think there are all that many Trump voters in this forum.
The USA.
No offense but… fuck you.
Why? He’s not wrong. The description may not fit you or I but it fits enough people that it applies to the general direction of our country. Seems accurate enough to me.
You know now that you mention it, I’ve heard that all people who create usernames with the word “krash” in it have IQs well below 80, are generally pedophiles and tend to have really bad body odor. I could just be generalizing, but hey, seems accurate enough to me.
If that fact was recently publicized to the point that you could reasonably say it applied to 150 million people then you might have a point
say it applied to 150 million people
Except the original comment was not. It was applied it to 334 million people and, critically, people on Lemmy, 99.998% of whom are in no way supporters of Trump and are in serious pain over the election results. They are your allies in the world of sane people and you lump them in with the people we mutually detest. That’s not just horrendously insensitive, it’s also stupid.
You can be upset with the results of the election but it doesn’t change them. In a very real sense what you wanted to happen is irrelevant. A second Trump administration is the collective will of the American people and the rest of the world has every right to be annoyed with us for it.
And I’m sure insulting the people you’d like to do better at changing the situation is definitely going to help with your annoyance.
I mean seriously, this is a bit like saying to a trans person like me that while you are annoyed at the transphobia that kills people it’s really my fault for not “doing something” about it.
WTF man.
I don’t mind this. The rank and file will see this cunt for the fake that he is. Which is possibly the best outcome we can expect while under the rule of Putin’s bitch.
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Well, yes, it would be nice if the fucking moron voters elected someone whose allegiance is to the USA. But this is our reality. Expectations must be moderated. We are now in a struggle to simply preserve our country.
