I say give @cdrsalamander that fourth stripe and ship him off kicking and screaming to the White House.
He probably won’t take the position but we are past the point of asking for volunteers.
The last thing we need is more winners of partisan political popularity contests.
We need highly competent people who DO NOT want to step another foot in Washington because they 💯 know how futile any attempt to fix this mess is.
If @cdrsalamander can not be made to take the CAPT Obvious position then we should find people with 10+ year TRACK RECORDS of both rational thinking and accurate predictions over time.
Then we should call each canidate.
The person who says F NO the loudest gets the job
This is not a joke anymore.
Forget Captain America!
America needs a new super-hero: Captain Obvious
And yes @cdrsalamander you will be allowed to design your own uniform but, this is a serious position, brown shoes will be required.
P.S. this O6 position requires a Master Chief. Someone who can disarm any civil servant with accurate snark. Someone who gets ship done. Someone even more obvious than Sal.
Sorry Blake. I know that technically is a demotion but our nation needs help.
Note: Other staff positions are open. If you are interested in the position then get lost.
If you want nothing to do with this silly idea then reply to this thread with the words HELL NO, I WON’T GO and a black van with CAPT Oagents will arrive shortly to ‘interview’ you.
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A senior navy officer replied to my unofficial request that US Merchant Mariners working with the fleet receive a formal expression of appreciation from @SECNAV. He said "Ok, what do you want? Uniforms, medals, parades?" Here's my response: 🧵
I don’t want anything. ZERO.
YOU guys - US Navy Officers - are the ones who want ammo and fuel and Avgas delivered to YOU in contested waters. YOU are the ones who want us to sail on the rusting junk YOU don’t maintain properly. YOU are the ones who say our ships are not worth protecting.
It should be needless to say that, as a US Merchant Marine blue-water Captain I have serious reservations with this article on many levels. I can’t tweet about them all but here are specific counterpoints. 🧵
“In fact, the United States has steadfastly refused to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty” This is fully inaccurate. The United States is unique in that the US Senate ratifies treaties and the Senate is broken, especially when it comes to foreign affairs.
This however, is not a bug but a longstanding feature. As described in detail in Caro’s book Master Of The Senate, that body was built at its foundation to avoid entanglements in The Latest Thing.
Few understand the true meaning of the US Fed. Even those who have figured out the true nature of the Fed, people like GE Griffin, misunderstand why it was created as a bailout mechanism.
According to Griffin the Federal Reserve expands and contracts the money supply to create bubbles then makes them pop. But why? He contends that it’s to protect the wealthy. It does protect the intelligent wealth but it also wipes out many rich people too.
This article helps to explain why most 🇺🇸 industrial bases like oil refining, shipbuilding, and shipping have been eviscerated by globalist neoliberals like @tomfriedman while other 🇺🇸 industrial processes like domestic 🌾 production still flourish 🧵 americancompass.org/the-commons/sh…
“To begin with, if the lead nation casts off old industries, without developing newer, better-paying, more advanced industries, then it will simply be deindustrialized.” But who decides if an industry is “old”?
Shipbuilding we are told, is an “old” industry we are best rid of, while writing the software for video games is “new.” The option of modernizing a technologically-laggard industry like textiles to keep it in the lead country is never imagined. Is that because it’s “dirty”?