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Actually Liz Cheney was ousted because her fixation on Trump was preventing Republicans from moving on and being constructive. The first attempt to oust her failed, this one succeeded because she proved incapable of moving forward. People don’t like that. It’s not usually helpful. Might be germane to this conversation since you don’t care about current leadership and started this discussion by looking back a year…. That simply isn’t the most important and relevant thing for most of us. I also note you chose not to comment on the massive group aligned to push lies in order to take political power away from Trump. Yes everything is hyper partisan nowadays, to attempt leadership analysis in a vacuum discounting those variables is to guarantee an incomplete and therefore inaccurate result. Red vs Blue isn’t the only lens I can see through, but your link was atrociously partisan followed by decrying partisanship so I’m guessing this is a troll.

Ok, I’m game to hear your “debrief of lack of effective leadership.” However for context I’d like to know three things up front: What US elected leader did demonstrate effective leadership during the outset of C19 pandemic, or did they all initially bow to recommendations of “experts” who we know in retrospect were completely wrong (no outside transmission yet they locked us up and closed beaches, no surface spread yet they had us Clorox wiping groceries like idiots, etc.)? I’m trying to separate your analysis of Trump’s leadership from the leadership & recommendations from Fauci, CDC, WHO, NIH, etc. Do you acknowledge the unprecedented alliance of democratic political operatives, major media sources, and insurgent insiders within the government who conspired together to promote lies, even at the expense of hurting Americans, in order to damage Trump politically while he was attempting to lead during the pandemic? And finally, are you happy with our current national leadership regarding COVID; all the clarity of thought and consistency of guidance emanating from our CDC and White House? providing your thoughts on the above questions will be helpful in filtering out genuine discussion from trolling.

Alive on life support = alive. There’s nothing in the definition that stipulates self sustaining respiration. “Personhood” whatever that means is not something I even understand, much less have an opinion on.

Why would you think I meant that? The answer is no, I do not believe that nor do I think my statement you quoted implies such. I won’t speculate on personhood, but if a human being medically dies when circulatory or brain function ceases, it’s logical to conclude they are alive when those functions begin. Which happens in the first few weeks inside the womb.

I don’t understand, did you initiate this discussion to blame Trump for something? The link you posted stretches imagination to blame the former POTUS. Here’s an article about C19 origins with some truly good analysis and information: https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038

A philosophically consistent mechanism for determining the beginning of human life might be using the opposite of the identified end of human life: 1. cessation of either circulatory & respiratory function OR 2. cessation of brain activity. A logical starting point would be assuming human life begins at the opposite of defined human death.

Exactly right.

Agreed. Which leaves only two possibilities: either Fauci/CDC are absurdly risk adverse (further casting doubt on their judgement) or they are not letting us see the real numbers (demonstrating themselves untrustworthy). There’s no good outcome for the “experts” here. I am curious if the same standard applied to C19 deaths is being applied to C19 adverse vaccine reactions. ETA: speaking of statistically insignificant numbers driving illogical policy changes... the drive against “assault weapons” is mathematically analogous.

Carlson on vaccine questions I understand Tucker Carlson is a commentator who thrives on controversy. I’m not linking this because of an affinity for him, but rather he’s the only one discussing a topic I can’t get a straight answer on: does the vaccine work? If so, why no alleviating restrictions for vaccinated? If not, why the massive guilt campaign to compel vaccination?

Agreed. Has anyone ever filled out a GO initiated survey that mattered? I spent an hour on the pilot retention survey years ago only to hear, 10 months later, AFPC had “lost” the survey results. None of these are worth the time.

All 3 were prosperous before and without politics. Is that true of our current class of career politicians? But I do agree with your last sentence.

Historical sidebar, but your 3 examples are totally wrong. Lincoln- soldier/lawyer. Jefferson- plantation owner/ lawyer. Reagan- actor. None of the examples you gave were career politicians; all had successful careers before and outside politics. As Reagan said “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”

What are destination jobs? I’m trying to get smart on all things airline. I’m currently ignorant.

Are old/obese white people or more or less vulnerable to C19 than young otherwise healthy people of color? I haven’t been following the science closely, appreciate any data you have. And since discrimination based on ethnicity is on the table now, what other areas of society is this practice acceptable?

What do you mean?

All of the leftist arguments for “common sense Gun control” are disproved by their selective enforcement of current laws. They love talking universal background checks, but can’t endorse legally pursuing a guy who committed a felony by lying on his background check.

I’m not implying anything, just seeking to understand your views. I note that instead of answering, you assumed an implication to my question and then called it wrong. Ok. Since your original argument was based on moral superiority (“Being vaccinated shows I give half a fuck about others”) I thought you’d have consistency of thought or application. I don’t require convincing on the efficacy of vaccines writ large, nor do I need a reminder that in the military I’m going to follow orders. I’m pro vaccine and have a three page shot record. I’m merely curious at all the (inconsistent) moral posturing and discouragement of convincing good-faith debate... all of which is antithetical to a healthy society. Maybe I’m having a hard time forgetting the “experts” were unanimous in concluding we needed a war in Iraq to stop their WMD program. Look man, I’m not trying to be a dick but one thing I’ve learned is that if an idea is good, it will withstand intellectual scrutiny. And that lesson has made me generally distrustful of people who want to skip all debate and go straight to execution.

To fully persuade me of your perspective, please share your opinion on abortion and euthanasia. Philosophical consistency is highly convincing.

That makes sense. However that’s in line with Tucker’s opinion (although his presentation was caustic). He criticized GOs by name who champion efforts to prioritize diversity at the expense of lethality. So I was confused why you were critical of Tucker while also agreeing with the meat of his point. It’s challenging to isolate ideas for discussion from the personalities & styles which present those ideas.

I’m confused by your post. Are you for or against the new policy of ignoring flying experience as a factor used in selecting USAF pilots?

Exactly right. If the vaccine works, let’s ease restrictions for those who have it. If it doesn’t work, why would we force it on anyone? people would trust the experts more if their guidance had any consistency or logic.

Dude I totally agree that less time out of the jet is good. No issues with the new policy allowing pregnant members to fly. My “splitting hairs” is just for accuracies sake.

Yes I am aware. Now that I’ve answered your question, kindly answer mine: Did I ask about training lines, or did I ask about combat lines? recommend you read the original question from arg, which specifies combat lines, then read the reply, which indicates pregnant women can fly those aforementioned combat lines. Hence my inquiry.

Are you saying women can deploy and fly combat missions while pregnant?

But 51% has. Interesting times ahead.