Hell, the unlamented Martha McSally was the first woman pilot to fly combat missions (1995, Iraq, A-10s) and the first to command a combat squadron (354th Fighter Squadron). She also sued Donald Rumsfeld over being forced to wear an abbaya to placate the Saudis.
Then she decided the best way to further her political career was to attach herself to Trump’s teat, lost the 2020 special election to fill McCain’s seat to Mark Kelly and was never heard from again.
He’s said a lot of stupid shit. Some just because he’s ignorant and incurious, or he doesn’t care if it sounds like stupid shit. Or doesn’t care so stop asking me.
“You want me to go swimming?” - I cannot think of a circumstance where a President could have made a statement (or off-the-cup quip) llke that besides Reagan, if asked to join Gorbachev in a spa.
Goddammit, the nightmare I went to bed with in 2020 when he’d made his acceptance speech and FOX and the BBC were like, well, maybe - is happening.
Do these people all have such a hard-on for DEI hires because they themselves never qualified for anything?
Did anyone in Trumps circles actually do the work to be qualified for something?
(To be fair: I do not have any formal qualifications; I’m just good at my job )
I’m reasonably sure that’s a common reason, actually. If somebody wants to be sent to the head of the line just because they are a straight white male Christian, it strongly indicates they have no other qualifications.
There’s nobody to tell him anything. He doesn’t like that. Anyone who tries to say “Hey, Mr President… You probably shouldn’t be saying/doing that” is going to get described as ‘nasty’ in his very next tweet and find themselves surprised that their face is suddenly being eaten.
And when he–finally–demonstrates some awareness of the blowback for his inane utteerance, he’ll say, “People handle grief in different ways. I handled my grief over this with humor. I was joking.” Of course he won’t realize that’s no better than the inane comment in the first place.
If I were he, I would immediately contact the inspector general over this! Wait a minute.
As I’ve mentioned, everyone should spend a little time on the Breitbart comments section. It’s enlightening. Because this is exactly how they use “DEI Hire”
I’ll take your word for it, if you don’t mind. No way I’m giving them even one nanosecond of my time and certainly not going to grace them with a view.
If that were so, in any other executive organization anywhere in any field of work soneone doing that would mean he’d be dumped at once. But hey, what fun…
The V3 existed and was not a rocket but a giant gun designed to fire from France into the UK. It was destroyed by the RAF, 617 Squadron the “Dambusters”, before it could do anything.