Trump's Second Term

I was thinking of something more cheerful, but ChatGPT decided to be sour grapes even though I used a euphemism and everything.

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88 days into his regime, the President is historically unpopular.

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Granted, it's a disaster that a third of Americans view him favourably, but I don't think any president has polled this terribly, ever, and that at least gives me some hope.


...the king isn't doing too well, either.

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Another one bites the dust

The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that Command Chief Master Sergeant Anthony Green has been relieved of his duties as the senior enlisted leader of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), following a decision by the organisation’s commander, Lieutenant General Mike Conley.
The dismissal, effective 14 April, was announced in a brief statement citing a “loss in confidence in his ability to fulfil his duties.”
 
Andy_Ross said:
Another one bites the dust

The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that Command Chief Master Sergeant Anthony Green has been relieved of his duties as the senior enlisted leader of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), following a decision by the organisation’s commander, Lieutenant General Mike Conley.
The dismissal, effective 14 April, was announced in a brief statement citing a “loss in confidence in his ability to fulfil his duties.”
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Context and explanation of significance needed.
 
They've fallen victim to one of the classic blunders, another of which is 'don't start a land war in Ukraine'. Like so many revolutionaries before them, they didn't realize you actually need professionals from the old regime to run things, you can't do it with zealotry and ideology alone. Then the purge happens and all of a sudden nothing works anymore, and you can't rehire the old people because they've moved on to new jobs, if they haven't left the country, been sent to concentration camps, or killed (I'm speaking in general terms here, of course).
 
Andy_Ross said:
Another one bites the dust

The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that Command Chief Master Sergeant Anthony Green has been relieved of his duties as the senior enlisted leader of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), following a decision by the organisation’s commander, Lieutenant General Mike Conley.
The dismissal, effective 14 April, was announced in a brief statement citing a “loss in confidence in his ability to fulfil his duties.”
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Norman Alexander said:
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I looked him up, expecting to see he was a DEI hire. He's not, as far as I can tell.
May or may not actually have anything to do with the Trump admin.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
They've fallen victim to one of the classic blunders, another of which is 'don't start a land war in Ukraine'. Like so many revolutionaries before them, they didn't realize you actually need professionals from the old regime to run things, you can't do it with zealotry and ideology alone. Then the purge happens and all of a sudden nothing works anymore, and you can't rehire the old people because they've moved on to new jobs, if they haven't left the country, been sent to concentration camps, or killed (I'm speaking in general terms here, of course).
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The myth of "unfiring" fired employees, as though they are still yours to command. Fired is fired. They're gone, not yours any more. There is no cooling-off period, no Ctrl-Z or anything where you can simply reverse their status.

And they will very likely be angry that you fired them. So they won't want to come back. If you want them back then you will need to entice them to rehire. Like pay them a lot more with better conditions. Which means your decision to save money cost you money. And they will be even more disgruntled anyway.

Smart move! :sneaky:
 
Safe-Keeper said:
They've fallen victim to one of the classic blunders, another of which is 'don't start a land war in Ukraine'. Like so many revolutionaries before them, they didn't realize you actually need professionals from the old regime to run things, you can't do it with zealotry and ideology alone. Then the purge happens and all of a sudden nothing works anymore, and you can't rehire the old people because they've moved on to new jobs, if they haven't left the country, been sent to concentration camps, or killed (I'm speaking in general terms here, of course).
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Like the purge that almost destroyed the Soviet Union.

en.wikipedia.org

1941 Red Army Purge - Wikipedia

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Between October 1940 and February 1942, in spite of the ongoing Axis attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Red Army, in particular the Soviet Air Force, as well as Soviet military-related industries were subjected to purges by Joseph Stalin.
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During the first months of the war, scores of commanders, most notably General Dmitry Pavlov, were made scapegoats for failures. Pavlov was arrested and executed after his forces were heavily defeated in the early days of the campaign. Only two of the accused were spared: People's Commissar of Armaments Boris Vannikov (released in July 1941) and Deputy People's Commissar of Defense General Kirill Meretskov (released in September 1941), although the latter had admitted guilt, under torture.

About three hundred commanders, including Lieutenant General Nikolay Klich, Lieutenant General Robert Klyavinsh, and Major General Sergey Chernykh, were executed on 16 October 1941, during the Battle of Moscow. Others were sent to Kuybyshev, provisional capital of the Soviet Union, on 17 October. On 28 October 1941, twenty individuals were summarily shot near Kuybyshev on Lavrentiy Beria's personal order, including Colonel Generals Alexander Loktionov and Grigory Shtern, Lieutenant Generals Fyodor Arzhenukhin, Ivan Proskurov, Yakov Smushkevich, and Pavel Rychagov with his wife, as well as several individuals who had been previously arrested during the immediate aftermath of the Great Purge in 1939, prior to the Red Army Purge of 1941, including politicians Filipp Goloshchyokin and Mikhail Kedrov.

In November 1941, Beria successfully lobbied Stalin to simplify the procedure for carrying out death sentences issued by local military courts so that they would no longer require approval of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court and Politburo, for the first time since the end of the Great Purge. The right to issue extrajudicial death sentences was granted to the Special Council of the NKVD.

On 29 January 1942, forty-six persons, including 17 generals, among them Lieutenant Generals Pyotr Pumpur, Pavel Alekseyev, Konstantin Gusev, Yevgeny Ptukhin, Nikolai Trubetskoy, Pyotr Klyonov, Ivan Selivanov, Major General Ernst Schacht, and People's Commissar of Ammunition Ivan Sergeyev, were sentenced to death by the Special Council. After the explicit approval of Stalin, they were executed on the Day of the Red Army, 23 February 1942.
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Donald says

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
"The World will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but rather by those who watch them without doing anything to stop them."
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Andy_Ross said:
Donald says
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
"The World will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but rather by those who watch them without doing anything to stop them."
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A sentiment written for him by one of his flunkies, that he very likely can't explain, and certainly doesn't realise applies to himself.
 
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