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[E Shed]

Only the best people

Trump names Erika Kirk to key advisory board of US Air Force Academy

Widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk replaces husband on 16-member panel of military training facility

www.theguardian.com

 

[E Shed]

I like the way this guy writes. Credit at bottom as it’s copied from a facebook post.
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Cry me a ****ing River

The idea that Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk to anything connected to the United States military is not merely offensive, it is an insult to the intelligence of every moral, serious American who still believes that public service should require something more than grief merchandising and ideological cosplay. This is what the Trump era has reduced governance to: a grotesque pageant of loyalty tests, martyr myths, and partisan branding where competence is optional and proximity to the MAGA cult is the only credential that matters.
The Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors is supposed to oversee the education and moral development of future officers, men and women who will one day command lives, aircraft, and nuclear-capable machines. It is not supposed to be a consolation prize handed out to the widows of political provocateurs so the regime can continue manufacturing propaganda from tragedy.

Charlie Kirk was not a statesman. He was not a soldier. He was not a scholar of military ethics. He was a professional agitator who built a career turning American campuses into culture-war arenas while peddling a brand of Christian nationalist grievance politics that treats democracy like a speed bump on the road to authoritarian rule. His death was tragic, all violent deaths are, but tragedy does not magically transform a propagandist into a national hero. Yet the Trump myth-factory immediately went to work, canonizing him like a right-wing saint because mythmaking is the lifeblood of authoritarian movements.

And now the latest act of that spectacle arrives in the form of Erika Kirk’s appointment. She is not a defense expert. She has not commanded troops. She has not studied military strategy or institutional governance. Her primary qualification appears to be that she is the widow of a man Trump’s movement wants to immortalize. That is not leadership. That is political inheritance dressed up as patriotism. This is the governing philosophy of Trumpism in its purest form: turn martyrdom into branding, turn loyalty into qualification, and turn national institutions into stages for ideological theater. The same administration currently spending billions of dollars on a reckless war abroad now treats one of the nation’s most respected military academies like a reward program for political allies.

Imagine the message this sends to the cadets in Colorado Springs who are actually studying aeronautics, command structure, military law, and the ethics of war. They are told to devote their lives to discipline, sacrifice, and competence. Meanwhile the board tasked with overseeing their education is being stacked with partisan celebrities and political ornaments whose greatest achievement is flattering a narcissistic president. It is cosplay governance, a government run by people who love the costumes of power but none of its responsibilities. Under normal circumstances, appointments tied to the military carry the weight of experience and sobriety because lives depend on it. Under Trump, they carry the weight of loyalty and propaganda because ego depends on it. And that distinction is the difference between a functioning democracy and a hollowed-out personality cult.

So no, Erika Kirk’s appointment is not inspiring. It is not honorable. It is not patriotic. It is the latest example of Donald Trump treating the institutions of the United States, including the armed forces, like props in his traveling carnival of grievance, mythmaking, and political theater. And every serious American should be insulted by it.

—Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

 

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[rumply]

 

[Couch Coach]

 

[Aussie in exile]

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I think somebody watched resident evil last night.

Dumber than dumb confirming it yet again

 

[Aussie in exile]

What is an "uneducated persons" and why are we the problem?

I see this term throw around a lot here.

Can you detail why you think you are "educaated" and why other are not.

"educaated' is that a new spelling of the word?

 

[the_interloper]

Why is it ok to victim blame "uneducated people", when its quite clear that highly educated people are the problem?

What is your definition of an "educated" person, and why are they the problem?

 

[The Sultan]

Freedom is also false.

Imagine

becoming a refugee and forced to go to a country that bombed yours.

How free are you if

• You have lost everything, home, wealth, generational prized items
• your entire family or parts of your family were killed by said bombing
• you lost your job
• cant speak english
• rely on government handouts
• have no real friendship network

There is massive evidence refugees live in poverty in their new countries.

But they are free right?

if they're desperate for work, big corp will help them out if they'll forgo certain rights, and low pay.

 

[faible]

What is your definition of an "educated" person, and why are they the problem?

Uneducated is probably not quite the right term, it's uninformed.

You don't need to be educated to be informed, though it does tend to correlate. Same with critical thinking skills, you don't need to be educated to have them, but they do tend to correlate with education levels.

Uninformed and unengaged voters are a god-send for nationalist movements like MAGA. There's a reason they demonise education.

 

[Kirby]

Remember the good old days when MAGA were anti war, anti Russia and anti Pedo?

 

[TheSunGod]

 

[the_interloper]

Uneducated is probably not quite the right term, it's uninformed.

You don't need to be educated to be informed, though it does tend to correlate. Same with critical thinking skills, you don't need to be educated to have them, but they do tend to correlate with education levels.

Uninformed and unengaged voters are a god-send for nationalist movements like MAGA. There's a reason they demonise education.

I think that's an important distinction to make, I mean I have two degrees (ohlookatthebadarseoverhere.gif) but nothing to do with politics or history etc so I don't really know much about politics, as some may have noticed haha

 

[LuvtheKangas]

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Yeah, Bob would have been way too smart to be a MAGA supporter, for a start. He also would have despised the human scum that is Trump, rather than gullibly believing all his lies.

 

[Seeds]

I think that's an important distinction to make, I mean I have two degrees (ohlookatthebadarseoverhere.gif) but nothing to do with politics or history etc so I don't really know much about politics, as some may have noticed haha

Is it though? Informed and education is the same thing. Education doesnt have to be through official chanels. I can educate myself through reading books. Likewise educated in one thing doesnt mean you are educated in other things. Having a degree in engineering does not mean you are educated political history, economics and ethics. Which one should be if they are to claim being educated in politics.

 

[rumply]

I mean the GOP should still prevail, right?... but imagine the white house histrionics if the unthinkable happened



& they wonder why voters dont turn out -

Georgia's 14th district voters are potentially looking at:

1. The original special election (already done)
2. April 7 runoff (special election winner — short term fill)
3. May 19 primary (to pick each party's nominee for the full term)
4. Possibly a June 16 runoff (if no primary candidate hits the threshold)
5. November general election (for the full 2-year term)

 

[BFew]

No doubt someone(s) is insider trading whilst all this is going on.

 

[Satan]

Per the analysis by Open the Books, in September, the Pentagon spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $6.9 million on lobster tail, $15.1 million on ribeye steak, and $1 million on salmon. Dessert included 272 orders of doughnuts for $139,224 and ice cream machines for $124,000.
The fit defence forces

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4319081/unfit-undertrained-troops-no-longer-tolerated/

 

[the_interloper]

Is it though? Informed and education is the same thing. Education doesnt have to be through official chanels. I can educate myself through reading books. Likewise educated in one thing doesnt mean you are educated in other things. Having a degree in engineering does not mean you are educated political history, economics and ethics. Which one should be if they are to claim being educated in politics.

The bolded is basically my point I guess, agree with basically everything you've written here.

 

[Not Important]

so many of 'em are little more than trump facilitators.

 

[Not Important]

kelly, the sort of democrat who is in short supply.

 

[Not Important]

and facing the courts and being unemployable.

 

[Not Important]

gutlessness and or bc so many benefit from the corruption and disruption, perhaps. either way, it shows how vigilant we must be in protecting democracy.

 

[Not Important]

this is something i can't figure out either. sure, he's the least popular president, but the numbers who support him are still astounding.

Why Isn’t Trump (Even) Less Popular?

There are two reasons.

www.everythingishorrible.net

wake the f**k up people.

 

[Not Important]