Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

Right - but it turns up the rhetoric and perhaps will cause confrontations and violence that he can use to escalate.

 

That is the problem though - and I pointed this out when Bush was President post 911..... once the door of executive power is opened, it almost never closes. We cannot really stand to have such drastic changes every 4 years because a new President decides that he will just use executive orders. I didn't agree when Biden did it with student loans for the same reasons - that isn't how any of this is supposed to work.

 

I think it is now more the norm than the outlier. you are correct. Pandora's Box has been opened.

 

Yes - and it lets Trump get the person he is going to push as his successor get some primetime in front of the camera.

 

Or at the most an unmuted Zoom call.
Remember during covid when everything was a zoom call, and one jackass never muted his phone.

 

The real problem is a lot of OSs think DD is "a lot of Dems".

p.s. It's not a problem, it's just the usual generalization.

 

So you're just now concerned with government waste? what a partisan

 

eta: https://home.nps.gov/fost/blogs/weight-of-a-war-or-the-big-men-of-the-continental-army.htm

 

You have to admit an AI Trump-Bo would have been awesome to deliver his speech. He would never do it, but I wish he would let South Park do one of his speeches for him.

 

Controlling the border is a made up issue? And you wonder why the democrat party is in such disarray.

 

What? Did you mean to reply with this to a different post?

 

Tom Nichols said it best in his piece yesterday:

In the end, I suspect that Hegseth is trying to bolster his stature by flexing his bureaucratic muscles. He’s disrupting the work and daily life of hundreds of people to emphasize that he has the power to do so. Like Trump himself, Hegseth seems to feel the need to do things that others think are unwise as a way of demonstrating toughness and independence. Both men remind me of Miles, the creepy child in the Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw. When Miles misbehaves, his governess asks him why he would do such a thing. “Why, it was to show you I could!” he says. “And I can again.”​

BTW, The POTUS doesn't look well. Mumbling more than usual.

 

I am sure he will become more erratic as his term gets closer to ending. You just may get your wish

 

Flying people around for a pointless speech is a waste of government resources. That said, I have no idea what is going down. But apparently, it isn't a coup like several posters have alluded to. Nor do I concern myself with what Trump does. My life isn't that pointless and boring.

 

What could go wrong? A hire who is wholly unqualified is also reportedly having manic meltdowns.

 

But your life is pointless and boring enough to concern yourself with others talking about Trump?

 

This is something I see from private equity employees when they take over a new purchase. They aren't the MONEY (upper level PE), they are the underlings with less job security. They have something to prove to their PE bosses and the employees of the new businesses they've purchased, even though they aren't always experienced in the industry. I've seen it happen countless times and I've never seen it not work out poorly. Bad for business.

Think about it. You want "REAL MEN" in your org? Real men don't bendover in pee pee contests.

From what I saw - how to be a poor leader 101.