A charitable person might conclude that one shouldn't blame Messrs Trump, Biden, Reagan, etc. - obvious victims of senile dementia. An even more charitable person might extend that toleration to Mr Bush Jr, on the grounds that he could not help being a conscienceless psychopath.
But where do you stop?
After a while, any intelligent mind is going to shift to considering the political system that continually and predictably elevates such lamentable material to the office of Chief Executive. Where they are usually surrounded by a supporting crew of equally deplorable but less dramatic personages.
Should a constitutional republic like the USA have a mechanism for selecting the best people and putting them in power? Rather than the worst?
Somewhere between Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, the Adams, and Tom Paine... and the present-day establishment, something has gone very, very wrong. What could it be?
Unless... simply money? As President, Thomas Jefferson refused to accept any present whatsoever - even a walking stick from a family member on his birthday. He saw clearly that there could be no dividing line or stopping place. Then again, the moment his eyes closed in death, creditors swarmed in and took all his property. He had honour and honesty - but no cash.
As for fox domestication, it seems to have worked like a charm on most of us humans. But about 1% somehow got changed into hyenas.
A mechanism for selecting the best people, you say. Well, this reconnects to the money-worshipping we were talking about a few days ago: the US _has_ a system like this, but its parameters are wealth, and, since the advent of mass media, radio, cinema and especially TV, popularity - which comes from wealth and produces wealth. Competency, honesty, intelligence - these are not required or even detrimental, after all, the average Joe Sixpack LOVES a crafty son of a bitch bending the rules to his advantage (heck, look at Jordan Belfort: in any other country on Earth he'd be rotting in prison for the rest of his life, in the USA he's a celebrity with a movie about him, hosting motivational speeches, hell! Google calls him "entrepreneur and writer"!). A wise man once said that a system cannot be reformed from the inside, it can only be destroyed.
"Competency, honesty, intelligence - these are not required or even detrimental, after all, the average Joe Sixpack LOVES a crafty son of a bitch bending the rules to his advantage..."
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. A Galileo could no more be elected President of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of soft illusion".
- H.L. Mencken (“The Art Eternal”, New York Evening Mail 1918, as quoted in Alistair Cooke, “The Vintage Mencken”)
Meanwhile back at the Rancho Mirage called America, millions are struggling with an inflation shock due to Chumps militarist theatrics/optics.
Not only global supply chain destruction seen during Covid.
Now the U.S. economy is facing demand destruction which the Third World countries had to endure for the last 60 years with IMF Shock Therapy which included forced currency devaluations and "conditionalities" e.g. deindustrialization for 'approoriate technologies' i.e. farming.
I'm sorry you are misinformed about US paratrooper techniques - a combat jump would normally be from 1,000 to 1,200 feet using static lines (and in Grenada they were from 500 feet/152 meters). It takes 2 1/2 seconds for your chute to open. Once open you become a slow moving target. The lower you drop the less time you are a target and the less territory your unit is scattered across. This makes reorganizing and consolidating before moving out faster. The higher elevations you mentioned are for HALO or HAHO jumps. Those would normally be very small pathfinder or tier one teams inserting up to 20 miles away from where they left the aircraft.
I remember reading an anecdote (one of many, many) in Herodotus. A wealthy Greek merchant goes to another Greek's sculpture studio. He watches quietly for a while--and then, makes several ignorant observations, before he leaves. Herodotus thought was that "the merchant should have kept quiet and left others wondering just how much or little he knew, rather than opening his mouth and removing all doubt."
I'm sure I've misquoted some of it. But I'm also certain it applies wholeheartedly to anything President Word Salad says, on or off the record. Too many people are afraid of him (and for perfectly sound reasons, since he holds a grudge like Obama and is as malicious as Truman on a bad day) to laugh at him. But once he's gone from power, no matter how much wealth he's gobbled up, he'll be the butt of endless jokes. And no president will have deserved them more, except (just my opinion) Andrew Jackson.
Sad to see America fall from GREATNESS into ABSOLUTE SHIT, but that’s the historical pattern of every Western Civilization , nor wonder why Western Civilization has always been short
A charitable person might conclude that one shouldn't blame Messrs Trump, Biden, Reagan, etc. - obvious victims of senile dementia. An even more charitable person might extend that toleration to Mr Bush Jr, on the grounds that he could not help being a conscienceless psychopath.
But where do you stop?
After a while, any intelligent mind is going to shift to considering the political system that continually and predictably elevates such lamentable material to the office of Chief Executive. Where they are usually surrounded by a supporting crew of equally deplorable but less dramatic personages.
Should a constitutional republic like the USA have a mechanism for selecting the best people and putting them in power? Rather than the worst?
Somewhere between Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, the Adams, and Tom Paine... and the present-day establishment, something has gone very, very wrong. What could it be?
Unless... simply money? As President, Thomas Jefferson refused to accept any present whatsoever - even a walking stick from a family member on his birthday. He saw clearly that there could be no dividing line or stopping place. Then again, the moment his eyes closed in death, creditors swarmed in and took all his property. He had honour and honesty - but no cash.
As for fox domestication, it seems to have worked like a charm on most of us humans. But about 1% somehow got changed into hyenas.
A mechanism for selecting the best people, you say. Well, this reconnects to the money-worshipping we were talking about a few days ago: the US _has_ a system like this, but its parameters are wealth, and, since the advent of mass media, radio, cinema and especially TV, popularity - which comes from wealth and produces wealth. Competency, honesty, intelligence - these are not required or even detrimental, after all, the average Joe Sixpack LOVES a crafty son of a bitch bending the rules to his advantage (heck, look at Jordan Belfort: in any other country on Earth he'd be rotting in prison for the rest of his life, in the USA he's a celebrity with a movie about him, hosting motivational speeches, hell! Google calls him "entrepreneur and writer"!). A wise man once said that a system cannot be reformed from the inside, it can only be destroyed.
"Competency, honesty, intelligence - these are not required or even detrimental, after all, the average Joe Sixpack LOVES a crafty son of a bitch bending the rules to his advantage..."
Almost exactly what H. L. Mencken wrote 108 years ago! And of course that helps to explain the amazing popularity of the Orange Man. (Or, as Alex from Reporterfy calls him, "the Trader-in-Chief" https://theduran.com/economic-meltdown-everyone-will-be-hit-w-alex-at-reporterfy/)
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. A Galileo could no more be elected President of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of soft illusion".
- H.L. Mencken (“The Art Eternal”, New York Evening Mail 1918, as quoted in Alistair Cooke, “The Vintage Mencken”)
Education.
Meanwhile back at the Rancho Mirage called America, millions are struggling with an inflation shock due to Chumps militarist theatrics/optics.
Not only global supply chain destruction seen during Covid.
Now the U.S. economy is facing demand destruction which the Third World countries had to endure for the last 60 years with IMF Shock Therapy which included forced currency devaluations and "conditionalities" e.g. deindustrialization for 'approoriate technologies' i.e. farming.
.......and US called them Banana Republics?
I'm sorry you are misinformed about US paratrooper techniques - a combat jump would normally be from 1,000 to 1,200 feet using static lines (and in Grenada they were from 500 feet/152 meters). It takes 2 1/2 seconds for your chute to open. Once open you become a slow moving target. The lower you drop the less time you are a target and the less territory your unit is scattered across. This makes reorganizing and consolidating before moving out faster. The higher elevations you mentioned are for HALO or HAHO jumps. Those would normally be very small pathfinder or tier one teams inserting up to 20 miles away from where they left the aircraft.
I remember reading an anecdote (one of many, many) in Herodotus. A wealthy Greek merchant goes to another Greek's sculpture studio. He watches quietly for a while--and then, makes several ignorant observations, before he leaves. Herodotus thought was that "the merchant should have kept quiet and left others wondering just how much or little he knew, rather than opening his mouth and removing all doubt."
I'm sure I've misquoted some of it. But I'm also certain it applies wholeheartedly to anything President Word Salad says, on or off the record. Too many people are afraid of him (and for perfectly sound reasons, since he holds a grudge like Obama and is as malicious as Truman on a bad day) to laugh at him. But once he's gone from power, no matter how much wealth he's gobbled up, he'll be the butt of endless jokes. And no president will have deserved them more, except (just my opinion) Andrew Jackson.
Julian - it's all good news - DaEmpire of Evil is collapsing at an ever increasing rate.
You don't reform a corpse - you bury it!
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
https://bruceohara.substack.com/p/going-for-broke
Sad to see America fall from GREATNESS into ABSOLUTE SHIT, but that’s the historical pattern of every Western Civilization , nor wonder why Western Civilization has always been short
All of those C130 will be easy targets... Unless the USofTerrorism just fly them to some desert area and does a PR stunt!
So after all these years, the “Trump is a Russian agent” accusation finally has some legs to stand on. Oh the irony!
Is that true? Could you be executed for studying genetics? How would that not be materialist inquiry?
Many thanks for the foxy vid !!!👍👍👍