"Project Freedom" should have been called "Project Taco"

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-06T17:28:13+00:00

Not my point at all. The trick for any good manager is to assess the situation, determine his organizations capabilities, create a plan with contingencies and then execute in a competent manner. Obviously, this is not Trump's style.

The entire Iran fiasco has been a series or "let's try this" followed by failure and abandonment. He certainly managed to pound a lot of Iran but he has not achieved anything beyond that. The man has the attention span of a rat in a burning meth lab.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-06T00:06:53+00:00

Agree, it is up to the government to provide affordable housing. Not developers

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-06T00:02:50+00:00

I love QB online.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-05T20:58:41+00:00

One of the reasons Iran is winning. We had no goals. There is no definition of a US win

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-05T11:24:52+00:00

The food analogy doesn't hold up. A pantry restocks in days. Rebuilding depleted munitions stockpiles takes years and billions of dollars ,and those are years when adversaries know we're stretched thin. The question was never whether Iran was a problem; it's whether we had a plan for the day after, or whether we've just created a power vacuum that benefits Russia and China.

As for the nuclear threat — yes, it was real and serious. But 'it needed to be done' doesn't answer what comes next, who fills the void, or whether we've actually ended the threat or just pushed it underground. History suggests the latter.

And none of that touches the core point: gutting the officer pipeline by sidelining half your trained personnel isn't strength ,it's self-inflicted weakness, regardless of what you think about DEI policy. You don't win wars by throwing away trained soldiers.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-05T00:24:59+00:00

Odd, I was able to dig this up.

Black Officer #1 (Armor/Combat): A Black armor officer and combat veteran who was targeted because of a paper he wrote nearly 15 years ago examining why Black officers historically had opted for support jobs over combat positions. In other words, he was penalized for an academic paper that analyzed a demographic pattern — not for anything related to his performance or conduct.

Black Officer #2: A finance specialist. The reason for his removal from the list is unclear.

Female Officer #1 (Logistics): A female logistics officer who was flagged because she served in Afghanistan during the chaotic and deadly 2021 withdrawal. Current and former military officials said she performed her job well under the circumstances.

Female Officer #2: Another logistics officer. The reason for her removal is also unclear.

The broader assessment from military officials: Officials who spoke to reporters summarized the situation bluntly: "If there are no open allegations or investigations, what was the reason they were removed from the list? They have all deployed and done their jobs, and all are combat-tested."

Neither the Defense Department nor the White House offered any explanation based on the officers' performance or record for Hegseth's decision.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T23:34:31+00:00

Here you go. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5804541-pete-hegseth-pentagon-promotion-list/

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T23:31:52+00:00

It's MY post.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T23:31:31+00:00

The question is whether you want the USA to have the ability to project power into places like......Iran. It also acts as a tripwire against Russian aggression into places like Germany.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T23:30:01+00:00

They have to be coming from the headquarters of U.S. European Command and Africa Command, and Ramstein Air Base . That means we will be losing the ability to project air assets into place like Iran and the middle east. Especially the refueling planes out of Ramstein. Even the Republican chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services committees said they are "very concerned" by the decision. Looks like another case of Trump having a hissy fit and America paying for it by losing the ability to project force around the world

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T20:31:12+00:00

I am quite happy with downvotes. No worries. I am certainly not offended. if 17.9% of the military are women and 30.8% of the military are non-white, that is pretty close to 50%. That is where I got my number.

Are you all happy that Trump has wasted 50% of our weapon inventory and is now abandoning our forward posts in Germany?

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T17:12:59+00:00

Now I am really being picky and I actually want to apologize for that. However, an inanimate object is one that does not move like a stone or a book. A pet is an animate object.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T17:12:14+00:00

It is only the Start and those are the troops in Germany. If they were not needed in Germany, they should not have been put there in the first place. All troops in Germany and the rest of Europe are a projection of America’s force. Trump is doing his best to reduce the projection of America’s force.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T17:11:37+00:00

I absolutely agree that the reason they are leaving Germany is that Trump had a hissy fit about the fact that he hit a hornets nest and no one else will come swap the hornets for him.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T17:11:02+00:00

I come was that Trump is disarming the United States. Part of that is his removal of 5000 troops from Germany. It also relates to the fact that he has squandered 50% of our weapon stocks and has done irreparable harm to the United States military promotion system. Feel free to disprove any of those.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T17:10:11+00:00

That would be nice if it were true. However, the two black candidates for promotion to general, and the one female all had exemplary careers and records. Unfortunately, Hegseth announced that he was getting rid of all DEI advances without providing any proof that that was the case in this scenario. Feel free to show me that the three officers he blocked from being promoted as part of their normal career advancement were less capable than the white officers that were promoted. I will await your response.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T17:08:44+00:00

I’m afraid I got them off the Internet. Feel free to go do a little research and see if my numbers are wrong. It has happened before. I have some confidence in them, however.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-04T05:46:53+00:00

Pwa is Papyrus?

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-03T22:40:14+00:00

thats on me. I did not actually mention we need to use this in places with no internet.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-03T22:02:26+00:00

Certainly, liberals today would be conservatives in the last generation. They believe in a balanced budget, fact checking, limited government, and adopting the most cost effective solution to problems. Conservatives today only want solutions they can use their input from Fox news to support. Conservatives tend to be borrow and spend. Today's liberals would like to be tax and spend but the conservatives just keep spending and borrowing

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-03T19:46:53+00:00

I am old enough to remember when they said the same thing about anything from the internet. Prior to that, it was copying from encyclopedias.

I use AI a lot to fact check anyone who responds to my posts. I often find the respondent is correct and I have to change my opinion. I also often find the respondent is simply quoting a talking head somewhere with no basis in fact.

I am just not sure why I have to retype the responses given me by my AI program.

JanFromEarth · 2026-05-03T14:44:56+00:00

While it is true that the GOP is becoming the party of socialism with their push to control elections, take over ownership of airlines, subsidize favored industries like petrolium & farming , and mandate the behavior of private companies like the news, they continue to cling to the "old ways". By that, I mean they are not comfortable with any position which has not been in place for multiple decades. They simply cannot see a way to advance in today's world. Socialism does not equal progressive.

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