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Trump administration 2024-2028

Trump's movement is by no means a "political establishment" with decades of history and longevity. It didn't even know the ins and outs of power in Washington DC for its entire first term - a weakness undeniable because of the extent to which his opponents openly bragged about exploiting it.

Regardless, the middle of the US electorate that decides presidential elections is not the extremes. And to return to and re-emphasize the point, it and most of the region to its political "left" and "right" is not the "alien culture" in the US.
 
Navy_Pete said:
So just straight up overt prejudice then?
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Would it be?

Three of the officers removed by Mr. Hegseth from the promotion list are women and two are Black men. An additional four are white men.
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The article says women make up about 21 percent of the active-duty Navy. Does that mean 21% of admirals must be female? That seems the opposite of merit based.


Were the 4 white males removed just sacrificial fires to cover up Hegseth's prejudice?
 
Jarnhamar said:
Would it be?



The article says women make up about 21 percent of the active-duty Navy. Does that mean 21% of admirals must be female? That seems the opposite of merit based.


Were the 4 white males removed just sacrificial fires to cover up Hegseth's prejudice?
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Of course not. They were ALL removed as a result of Hegseth's prejudices.

It's the whole idea that Hegseth has any business overturning the results of military merit boards for reasons that, on their face, have nothing to do with extraordinary circumstances under which he may remove a name here or there from those board generated merit lists, without actually explaining what those extraordinary circumstances would be in the cases. Since, in previous administrations (all of them from either party) such removal was exceptionally rare, one can infer that there is something more sinister at play, namely Hegseth's prejudices and/or his lack of understanding of the working of government (and he is not the only one in this administration like that) where the professional public servants carry out the policies of the administration of that day regardless of their view of it, and therefore, it should not be held against them that they did so.

Otherwise, this is what happens:

 
Oldgateboatdriver said:
Of course not. They were ALL removed as a result of Hegseth's prejudices.

It's the whole idea that Hegseth has any business overturning the results of military merit boards...

Since, in previous administrations (all of them from either party) such removal was exceptionally rare...
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I can't speak to whether or not him removing people is within his authority of course. Regarding previous US administrations rarely removing people, is that because there was no grounds or because of politics?

People in DND/CAF apparently knew about retired CDS Vance's dalliances for quite a while. A poorly kept secret. Meanwhile he still made CDS. It's possible Hegseth is trying to prevent undesirable leaders from moving up.
 
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Jarnhamar said:
I can't speak to whether or not him removing people is within his authority of course. Regarding previous US administrations rarely removing people, is that because there was no grounds or because of politics?

People in DND/CAF apparently knew about retired CDS Vance's dalliances for quite a while. A poorly kept secret. Meanwhile he still made CDS. It's possible Hegseth is trying to prevent undesirable leaders from moving up.
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You cannot compare with Vance's situation. CDS or in the US the various Chief of Staffs are political appointments. This is a list for promotion from Captain/Colonel to Brigadier/Rear-Admiral (lower half). They are not political but merit based and the boards make the list purely on merit, with the Secretary of Defense only having the right to remove them from the list for specific listed reasons discovered after the fact. At least that is my understanding of the US system.
 
lenaitch said:
I suspect a lot of buyer's remorse has set in but there is a non-zero set of voters who have consumed the Kool-Aid.
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I suspect you may be right.

I read an an article published two days ago in Brookings that 62% of rank-and-file Republicans now identify as MAGA.

The article suggested that dominance has come at the cost of alienating a non-MAGA minority that increasingly thinks and votes like independents.
 
Colin Parkinson said:
And that is an understatement, one struggles to understand the thinking within the power centers of the Dem Party that allowed things to play out as they did. It's like a self-sabotaging to break the Dem party from within?
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Nope. Just the left-hand tail of their voter distribution wagging the dog. They're still doing it. The "covering letter" of the recently released "autopsy" and most of the resulting commentary are evidence. Parties in defeat almost always first go through a denial phase in which the problem is identified as "we didn't sell our message well enough" (or, less charitably, "the voters were too stupid to understand") rather than "our policies are not what most voters want"; that can last through a couple or three election cycles and it is still where Democrats are at. The left-most activist tranche of Democrats are in "not one step back" mode. They'll work to get rid of a moderate like Fetterman, and, as so far is seen, put up a candidate like Platner against a very moderate Republican (Collins) before compromising on where they want to take America.
 
U.S. looking at an off-market deal with OPEC to refill its SPR with Middle East oil. Its currently under 400MBBL and should be at 750-800MBBL

KSA kept its production artificially low in the past in agreement with the US, but it said it’s done doing that, and is increasing production. That comes at a time where the US sources of heavy sour oil to make diesel and kerosene have started to sell elsewhere (Canada and Mexico specifically) and with Venezuela production still nowhere near capacity, that leaves the Middle East to source the shortfall, at least in the short term to refill the SPR.

fortune.com

Why filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve could be the secret to Trump's Middle East success | Fortune

President Trump and OPEC both want increased oil production, but there could be a solution to their difference on opinion on prices.
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lenaitch said:
I don't know the pulse of the US population, but suspect the "ordinary American" wants neither society that the far left or the, currently empowered far right desires.

I have a hard time believing that your so-called "normies" are the Christian Nationalist, Trump-was-chosen-by God, party-like-it's 1776 racism, Orwell-is-a-guidebook crowd now in control.
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Does thinking the positions listed below are correct make me a Christian Nationalist? I haven't been to church in probably a decade. And religious behavior and beliefs hold no practical application in my families life.

Brad Sallows said:
immigration control, abatement of crime and disorder, a halt to the reach of adult-appropriate sexualization down into the primary school grades.
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Halifax Tar said:
Does thinking the positions listed below are correct make me a Christian Nationalist? I haven't been to church in probably a decade. And religious behavior and beliefs hold no practical application in my families life.
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Well, for my 2 cents some of those issues are pretty broad based.

Saying that the only immigration is to come from European countries and Australia/New Zealand might be considered on the far right side of things.

Whereas, I don’t necessarily have concerns with grade 7/8’s being taught sex education. Pushing it down to the grade 3/4 level I would have concerns with, depending on what is being discussed.
 
Czech_pivo said:
Well, for my 2 cents some of those issues are pretty broad based.

Saying that the only immigration is to come from European countries and Australia/New Zealand might be considered on the far right side of things.

Whereas, I don’t necessarily have concerns with grade 7/8’s being taught sex education. Pushing it down to the grade 3/4 level I would have concerns with, depending on what is being discussed.
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I learned sex ed in grade 3-4. That was back in... 1996?
 
Czech_pivo said:
I don’t necessarily have concerns with grade 7/8’s being taught sex education.
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Our gym coach taught us boys Mental Hygiene.

It covered all sorts of subjects designed to keep us on the straight and narrow.
 
Lumber said:
I learned sex ed in grade 3-4. That was back in... 1996?
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Really?
I guess I’m really old now. I’m pretty sure grade 8 was the first class in this and grade nine gym class started to open the door on it.
 
Czech_pivo said:
Saying that the only immigration is to come from European countries and Australia/New Zealand might be considered on the far right side of things.
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It might be, but that's not the debate in the US. The debate in the US is about stopping people from entering the country illegally and removing those who somehow do get in.
 
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