ascii genitals posted:

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WASHINGTON — Numerous general officers who contributed to America’s slow-motion failure in Afghanistan would like you to take their advice on how to defeat the coronavirus pandemic, sources confirmed today.

“I think our advice is particularly timely for government officials. We know how to walk away from a disaster where people died with our reputations intact,” said retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who ended his career as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. “If you think you face a similar situation, I am actually a consultant now, and I can assist.”

McChrystal, who is most famous for his strategic insight that the United States should “muddle along” in Afghanistan, called the U.S. response to coronavirus “pathetic.” He has also argued that the country should employ counterinsurgency doctrine in order to defeat coronavirus, a doctrine best noted for its failure to defeat the Taliban.

Retired Adm. Bill McRaven, who like McChrystal commanded Joint Special Operations Command during America’s long and mostly unsuccessful counterterrorism campaign after 9/11, has different advice.

“The key thing is to make your bed every morning,” McRaven recently told government leaders at a $10,000-a-seat Zoom masterclass on leadership. “Just make your bed to flatten the curve.”

Former SEAL McRaven’s advice has had a major impact on governors around the country, who have been making their beds in records numbers. For his exceptional contributions, the University of Phoenix recently granted McRaven an honorary doctorate in epidemiology.

Other senior leaders have weighed in as well. In an op-ed for the Washington Post, former top commander in Vietnam Gen. William C. Westmoreland posthumously emphasized the importance of a metrics-based approach to such importance operations.

“You need to decide what is worth counting, count it, and make decisions to change that count,” Westmoreland wrote through a medium. “Maybe you count bodies, maybe you count infections. Whatever you count, if you don’t take a data-driven, scientific approach, you are doomed to failure.”

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://www.duffelblog.com/2020/05/generals-who-failed-to-defeat-taliban-explains-how-to-kill-a-virus/

facialimpediment posted:

OPEN THE GYMS BRAH, GONNA CRUSH COVID LIKE THIS SET

https://twitter.com/WFLA/status/1259867354206535681?s=19

Woofer posted:

Cant believe native Americans are being such babies about a virus that is killing a bunch of people.

Nuclear War posted:

LingcodKilla posted:

gently caress it got me until the making your bed comment.

Army Gen. Mark Milley posted:

“I think Marines should get haircuts, from a personal standpoint,” Milley told reporters. “As the son of a Navy corpsman who hit the beach at Iwo Jima with the 4th Marine Division, it took extraordinary discipline to conquer that island with 7,000 Marines killed in 19 and 20 days and put a flag on Suribachi. That Marine victory was the result of incredible discipline of America’s 911 force and the expeditionary force. It may seem superficial to some, but getting a haircut is part of that discipline.”

facialimpediment posted:

OPEN THE GYMS BRAH, GONNA CRUSH COVID LIKE THIS SET

https://twitter.com/WFLA/status/1259867354206535681?s=19

Madurai posted:

Business as usual, I guess: 5 people were injured during Texas shooting at a park with 600 people

Doc Hawkins posted:

people said it couldn't be done, but we finally have a quarantine mass shooting

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

Leonard likes this post!

Madurai posted:

Business as usual, I guess: 5 people were injured during Texas shooting at a park with 600 people

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Lol some fireworks went off and people with guns went all Frank Reynolds

Madurai posted:

Business as usual, I guess: 5 people were injured during Texas shooting at a park with 600 people

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"We've been stating that everyone would follow the rules that have been set out," Calzada said. "We've tried to work with everybody to not try to cite them or ticket them but ultimately people have a choice and that's just the choice they made tonight."

Doc Hawkins posted:

people said it couldn't be done, but we finally have a quarantine mass shooting

mlmp08 posted:

Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) Tweeted:
In case you were wondering how the reopening is going down south. https://t.co/xneL4Pelci https://twitter.com/JHWeissmann/status/1259903233994248193?s=20

A rip roaring economic return!

PeterCat posted:

Getting called a coward for staying inside. Again, having deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, I'm comfortably with the concept of limiting my movements to a very small area. It's maddening to me that the American people are melting down at the thought of having to make the slightest sacrifice to help the greater good.

maffew buildings posted:

Oh word? Wow pack it in we aren't patriots, guys. I'm sharing this because I've hit my top out on poo poo talking to vets because of being the "wrong type" and needed to vent.

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During the 2020 Democratic primary, Joe Biden had to answer for his repeated attempts to work with Republicans to try to cut Social Security benefits. Biden responded by pretendinghe never tried to cut the program, and by insisting he would try to expand it as president. This prompted some of his defenders to wonder why Social Security was even an issue, when presumably the Democratic Party and Donald Trump himself have publicly insisted they would never dream of trying to slash one of the most popular social programs in history.

Fast forward to the present and you will now understand why Social Security continues to be a huge point of contention: It’s because some powerful people in the Democratic Party still do dream of normalizing the idea of cutting Social Security, and those folks are now getting a boost from Donald Trump’s administration.

This sordid little cautionary tale started last week. As lawmakers such as Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey and Kamala Harris were unveiling a proposal to give workers a $2,000 stipend during the coronavirus crisis, University of Pennsylvania professor Natasha Sarin countered with a research paper pushing an alternate idea: “Allowing workers to tap their Social Security wealth to finance consumption today.”

Instead of giving workers money in the same way the government is giving corporations trillions of dollars, or instead of vastly expanding unemployment benefits, Sarin and her cohorts want Americans to “borrow against their retirement benefits,” effectively turning Social Security into a reverse mortgage. This, they argue, “may well be superior to alternatives already legislated because it delivers relief to households that need it most.”

Echoing Biden’s own anti-deficit rhetoric when he pushed Social Security cuts, the researchers conclude: “In exchange for relatively small cuts in scheduled benefits, the government can send sizable checks to most households in a fiscally neutral way.”

ascii genitals posted:

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

(editor's note: apparently "Tomi" is okay with caging sick people just like she's okay with caging asylum seekers and anyone darker than "solid white")

orange juche posted:

https://twitter.com/Havok73/status/1259951887547170816?s=20

This is an interesting take from the responses to that bookstore getting robbed.

"Well since they didn't call the cops and threaten retribution for the theft, they've opened themselves up to every criminal in the area who wants to crime because now they know they will suffer no repercussions"

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1259956132967301121

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1259957411277877250

Donnie couldn't figure out if he wanted to be racist or sexist, picked both, and left.

Defenestrategy posted:

These people have literally never had their poo poo robbed, guaranteed. I've had my car robbed twice, once while parked in my complex with stuff locked up inside(through the window) and once because I was an idiot kid and left my car unlocked in the highschool parking lot, both times the police where like "lol, we'll look for any camera footage, but chances are we aren't finding who did it"

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1259956132967301121

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1259957411277877250

Donnie couldn't figure out if he wanted to be racist or sexist, picked both, and left.