Biden Orders Trump Appointees Off Service Academy Boards

[Penn]

We are in a full blown cultural war, my question is who, or what organization, has the structure to create targeted goals that will alter society in the long term. i.e. masking children is not about health concerns as much as it is about conditioning those children to respond to authority in the future, as non-questioning compliant citizens.

[cbtengr]

To the victor go the spoils, I am surprised it took them this long. Trump would have been better served had he done a little more purging himself.

[Astronomy]

Wonder what kind of tax payer funded sinecure these positions come with?

If there's a salary involved, this is just a classic example of the Spoils System in action. Of course it's partisan. Predecessors (of the wrong party) get ousted because "my people" deserve that allocated paycheck...

Our government is run/staffed by petty bitches.

[bblhead672]

Originally Posted by cbtengr

Trump would have been better served had he done a little more purging himself.

Another failed Trump promise...

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Penn

We are in a full blown cultural war, my question is who, or what organization, has the structure to create targeted goals that will alter society in the long term. i.e. masking children is not about health concerns as much as it is about conditioning those children to respond to authority in the future, as non-questioning compliant citizens.

It also denies them the learning necessary from interpreting facial expressions. Even a beloved Husky tried to emulate a smile when she realized that we're the only ones that bare our teeth when we're happy.

Kids learn by looking at faces and interpreting those signals associated with events.
This mania over masking smaller & smaller kids just makes me want to throat punch someone.

[Golf1echo]

Biden orders?

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Penn

We are in a full blown cultural war, my question is who, or what organization, has the structure to create targeted goals that will alter society in the long term. i.e. masking children is not about health concerns as much as it is about conditioning those children to respond to authority in the future, as non-questioning compliant citizens.

My area is going through this particular kerfuffle right now, with far too many questioning regime dikta, including the quarantine regimen issued by the county PH office who, of course, are only deferring to "CDC guidance on the matter." The questions at the meeting (school is already underway) are far too logical for the comfort of some on school boards.

Primarily 2 different towns & school districts and, thus far, a couple of different approaches. It is getting pretty divisive in some quarters; which seems like a "plan coming together."

I'm reminded of some comments read in John Koehler's excellent work on the Stasi. About how later, when the files were revealed to shine light on who had been victimized, it also cast light on who their tormentor - or denouncer/snitch - had been. And, in many cases, this information had "destroyed family relationships."
Ponder that.

[EricV]

Ever see "The Death of Stalin"?? A great movie, BTW. There's a scene where Beria orders a round up and as his stooges start to go through the entrance to an apartment house, the first one says thanks to a kid for turning in his father.