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Look, they made a paper about you guys! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250123 If you go far enough back in time you can even read the prequels: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678397/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5597904/#!po=1.08696 Or we can give mommy Facebook groups and 4chan all the credit and totally ignore the fact that authority figures have an impact on common opinions. That works too.

It’s not a good comparison to find another leader in the US that acted better - the actual comparison is whether another national figurehead or leader of another country was better at leading. That is the only valid comparison to the US president. And I challenge you to look at New Zealand or South Korea. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/16/new-zealand-coronavirus-success-446192 Youll find their population isn’t split down made up party lines, they listened to science, and they’re doing a lot better - not just by Covid numbers, but by perceived national unity. Also, I never implied that the current democratic leadership is good or better. I don’t even believe that. I sure as hell don’t think Cuomo or Newsom did a good job. What I do believe is that leadership over the last year from the United States, at a national level, was pathetic (similar to Brazil). But I guess everything now is polarized red vs blue and that’s the only lens most of you can see. This mentality is why Liz Cheney was just ousted.

Yeah absolutely I did. His leadership in the moment felt just as bad, in the past, as the quotes attributed to him read right now. And sure it might be an escape. How does origin change his ineptitude at uniting the American people in the case of conflict? This is about debriefing a lack of effective leadership.

I’ll give you that the truth may be somewhere in the middle, as there are gonna be biases either way (and both sources are biased). Only one of those sources had the quotes the American people were exposed to in their day-to-day.

https://doggett.house.gov/media-center/blog-posts/timeline-trump-s-coronavirus-responses Man it’s interesting to sit here at 1 G, 0 knots and debrief the ole Covid leadership response. It’s actually kind of funny, in a sad way.

Upheld in federal court numerous times. One example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story%3fid=95836

It’s actually relatively simple: do you believe the “free market” is fair? Or do you believe the “free market” has inefficiencies that unfairly benefit the wealthy? Those that think it’s “fair” will support a “fair” tax. Those that don’t will support a structured progressive taxation policy. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/04/partisans-are-divided-over-the-fairness-of-the-u-s-economy-and-why-people-are-rich-or-poor/%3famp=1 Spoilers, republicans are more likely to think it’s fair, and democrats are more likely to not. There’s not really a right answer here, it’s all based on feelings.

https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-suicide-prevention-coronavirus-pandemic-d8d9168403baa6660e5125c040b2ae81 Seems like a few people on this forum were proven wrong.

The 2 commandants in between, actually, although I’ve talked to them all. Agree with most everything else you said. The benefit of USAF TPS, in my opinion, over Epner, Navy, or the UK is that you will have a much higher chance of having peers or people you know that you can reach out to once you graduate. That has proved valuable to me when I’ve needed to contact someone at another CTF and, between the 72 people I met (junior/senior classes), I almost always had a name.

Agreed with everything Magellan said except for this part. If you check boxes you don’t actually want to go to, you might get sent to AFIT or the Navy when you don’t want to go there. I confirmed this with 2 commandants: they don’t take into account GRE scores or whether or not you volunteer overseas/navy/AFIT into whether you get in. They literally just do “accept/waitlist/deny” then determine who’s going to the nonstandard places after among the pool of folks that got in. And after being in the business, I would recommend not going to AFIT and going to USAF TPS in almost all cases. Only exception is going to France/UK if your spouse really wants to travel (with a hit in the quality of school) or going to the Navy if you fly helicopters.

Hah, literally the exact same thing right back atcha buddy.

You're probably right, but it's kinda crazy to think of the Army being the proud owners of the geopolitical situation we're currently in. 19 (or 30+, depending on how you count it) years later and we have made little to no progress in regional stabilization, all while costing us multiple trillions of dollars. I would be significantly more impressed with the CJCS is he could call a spade a spade and admit that we are assuredly in the region of diminishing returns. The Air Force and the Navy are maintaining relevance and securing funding currently by focusing messaging on the future fights and the need to meet that threat. Maybe the Army should do that.