Wow, he actually looks like a robber baron.
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He looks like he exclusively does business deals in lounges while the other party picks up the bar tab
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.)
... 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.
The collapse of the US empire would be incredibly exciting if I did not live in it
This perfectly encapsulates my feelings.
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
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.
"businessman"
if you don't use the quotes it implies that he's actually a businessman.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
wonder how much this post cost.