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Timothy Brown retweeted
The Soviets believed all art is political, and produced seven decades of shitty art
“No threat we hide from”, he says as he shuts off comments.
With the Americans threats of annexing Canada 🇨🇦 and their politicians rhetoric about us. Let me say our troops might only be tens of thousand strong but come at us you will face millions strong vs your 1.3 million welfare army. You possess no weapon we fear no threat we hide from. Put up or shut up. @DeptofWar @USAmbCanada @AnitaAnandMP
Now that we know the criminal record of the Clancy holdout juror, when do we see the records of the remaining 11 jurors?
Or do they only do a deep dive on the jurors who don’t vote the way they want them to?
Timothy Brown retweeted
No, the United States became an economic superpower *in spite of* slavery, which, setting aside its moral monstrosity, in crude economic terms, was a huge misallocation and destruction of human capital to enrich slaveowners at the expense of massive deadweight loss in terms of overall economic growth.
So America didn’t become an economic power because of slavery?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Economic historians find slavery enriched owners but was not the main driver of US economic power. Cotton ~5% of GDP; North industrialized freely. Emancipation produced large gains (4-35% of GDP).
chicagobooth.edu/review/emancip…
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Timothy Brown retweeted
Imagine growing up in absolute dirt poverty in east Tennessee, daughter of a tobacco farmer, going to school wearing rags your mother stitched into a coat, and when you die the British royal family has its military band play your up-the-workers country-pop anthem in tribute.
Broadcasting in the dark—several weeks of “temporary” limited Twitter because of suspicious activity (instantly after hitting buttons too fast). No idea why, no idea for how long, no way to respond.
No quite kafkaesque, but there has to be a word for it.
Timothy Brown retweeted
It should be noted that Canada clutches its pearls, claiming the USA should send “support” to assist Canada is fighting wildfires instead of blaming them for mismanagement. However, reciprocity is a big problem.
Most of the firefighting takes place as an outcome of private-public contracts for costs. The Canadian government blocks U.S. companies from fighting fires in Canada because the Canadian government wants to only pay Canadian companies and workers. U.S. firefighting is not allowed to assist in Canada and get reimbursed.
Conversely, the Canadians quickly want to come to the U.S. to fight fires because the USA reimburses firefighting companies at a higher rate than Canada. The USA has no federal restrictions on Canadian firefighting assistance.
Canadian firefighting professionals would rather fight forest fires in the USA because they make more money. There is no incentive for U.S. firefighting professionals to volunteer their time and effort without getting reimbursed; which is the position of Canada.
In essence, come to Canada and fight our fires for free because we will only pay Canadians. However, also, let our Canadian firefighters come to the USA and make money. It is a very Canadian argument.
Canadian Prime Minister Blames U.S. Climate and Energy Policy for Canada Wildfires theconservativetreehouse.com…
Excellent explanation. Again, the rule is to wait a day before getting indignant over some news story.
So, here's the deal on GEN Donahue retiring- without all the handwringing.
Three and four star generals, across the Department of War (or Defense, if you insist) and the other uniformed services, all gain and hold that rank based not on a regular promotion, but rather based upon the billet within the department that they hold.
The jobs that call for a three star, or a four star, are essentially subcabinet positions, in that they require a nomination by the President, and confirmation by the Senate.
GEN Donahue was serving as the commander of US Army Europe-Africa, a four star billet. Prior to 2020, the command was split into US Army Europe (USAEUR), and for Africa, the Southern European Task Force, Africa. Both were three star billets.
After 2020, the two commands were merged, and made a four star command.
But this year, with the increased emphasis on the Pacific, the command has been transitioned to a three star command.
Now, GEN Donahue, by law, cannot continue to serve more than 90 days as a four star unless he is assigned to a four star billet. His choices are rather stark. If he is not reassigned to another four star billet, he can retire as a four star, with the retirement pay of a four star. Or, should he choose to serve longer than 90 days, outside of a billet requiring three or four stars, he would revert to Major General, with the corresponding decrease in pay.
It's entirely reasonable for a person in that situation to chose to retire at the higher pay grade.
This is not punitive. It's simply not being selected for another position. There were only 8 statutorily authorized Army four star billets and now that total will be 7.
Not every four star will be chosen to advance. This isn't the Trump administration firing a dedicated and decorated officer for not being Trumpy enough.
Trump selecting him for Chief of Staff of the Army (or Vice Chief) was far from a foregone conclusion. If you've got eight, or sixteen job applicants, and they're all qualified, and all capable of doing the job, sometimes, you, as President, have an obligation to choose those candidates that you feel will best fulfill your strategic objectives of the Army. That's the prerogative of the President. And, like it or not, there's no asterisk by Trump's name. He is the President of the United States.
Tweeting in the dark. Every country has its share of nationalist military historians that insist that “Country X was incompetent/thinks that hey are so much better than they are.” But how is it that the ones in Britain get publishing deals?
Juvenile.
Timothy Brown retweeted
On the one hand, Platner has truly terrible moral character; on the other hand, he also has zero political experience.
In further news, for the second time this year the American Kennel Club has organized a march against the New York Times over its recent Kristof piece.
I couldn’t find any recorded deaths or even armed robberies committed by a musket in the past 100 years.
Going full control freak over a non-existent harm is so typical of these pseudo intellectuals.
