cdr.salamander has commented that his “Diversity Thursday” topic is his least favorite, but that every week a new diversity tumor presents itself. Something about how the sea is always trying to kill you, even when a human enemy or accident/incompetence isn’t involved, and that should focus your priorities. Well that isn’t the case for the Woke brigades.

I remember that post and commented on it.

West Point as well. Read this post from three years ago.

“I warned years ago that, as people are policy, that the USNA’s desire to compete on the US News and other college ranking self-licking ice cream cones, that they were going to hire people who are focused on the same things their colleague in civilian universities focus on and do … which may not fully align with what the US taxpayer thinks it has service academies for.

Sure enough, when you dig through the public and private exchanges on the topic, it becomes clear what is going on. You have a group of civilian professors who are pushing this issue along with a select group of Woke Youth Brigades to give them cover.

Professors using students as shield and sockpuppets is one of oldest radical tactical moves in the book. I won’t name them, because they are the scorpion to USNA’s frog; this is their nature. USNA invited them for the ride, they are only acting as to their nature. Heck, in one interview, one of the professors involved stated,

“My initial interests were centered solely on questions of race and identity formation. But I realized that I had an opportunity to tell an important story about maritime communities in the Caribbean often forgotten in histories of the plantation complex and postemancipation labor struggles.”

Of course, such a person would look for some way to manifest her interests in the bare and rocky soil of Annapolis. I don’t fault such a person. They are what they are.

What I find most interesting is the utter and complete terror uniformed senior leaders have when faced with such a challenge. These are people who have faced the dangers of combat and a career in the military … and yet when faced by the Woke Brigades, they turn in to things we used to tut-tut about when we read about them in communist countries. You can see them trying to find a compromise, but they simply do not understand their opponent. You cannot make them happy. They demand that you agree with 100% of their opinion – and that is just that, and opinion – but they will be content with your submission.”

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Thursday, October 08, 2020
Diversity Thursday

Gunnery Sgt. Daniel Daly is said to have yelled, “Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?” at the Battle of Belleau Wood (he had already won the Medal of Honor. Twice). I suspect the “apes” probably comes from Heinlein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Daly

huxley —

“Forever Young” sure has a different meaning in my fifties than when I was nineteen. Still love that song.

And it’s about time!!

Yes, FINALLY! Phew, what a relief….

(Did I say, “could be”?)

On the other hand, it could well be the start of an AVALANCHE, as Trump and Co. (Ratcliffe/Grenell, etc.) appear to be suiting up.

…since (as was hinted a bit earlier in the thread) Trump may well be “in the mood” to go full-mongoose.

(Or should that be “full honey-badger”.)

File under: BUT HE CAN’T DO THAT!!! HE’LL, HE’LL, HE’LL ENDANGER THE COUNTRY!!

President Trump took a similar action several months ago, with little effect—the various “resistant” organizations involved—CIA, DOJ, FBI, etc.–used various delaying pretexts to ensure that this declassification and release either never happened at all, or happened at a snail’s pace.

Sundance points out that the President did not “order” this comprehensive declassification and release, he merely “authorized” it, and that, says Sundance, makes a big difference, and apparently still gives these agencies room to put obstacles in the way of declassifying and releasing these documents.

For some reason President Trump does not want to make what he wants to happen an “Order,” perhaps so his opponents cannot characterize him as giving “orders” like a “dictator.”

Took bad it can’t be an “Order,” with the added proviso that any attempt to in any way delay complete compliance within, say, 72 hours of receiving this order—which should be hand delivered to each agency holding such documents, and signed for–will be judged to be deliberate “insubordination,” and grounds for immediate dismissal from the Federal service–this dismissal to encompass everyone in each agency, from the head all the way down to the lowest GS-1 employee.

There are no cartels not organized under the auspices of public agencies. Pools in restraint of trade are unstable and unsustainable in the commercial sectors to which you allude.

De gustibus? Guess so (but make sure yer trusty motion-sickness bag is ready and waiting…and within reach).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZkPTUL1NZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA–dj2-CY
https://pjmedia.com/election/tyler-o-neil/2020/10/06/tara-reade-biden-is-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-and-doesnt-deserve-the-presidency-n1009369
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/1991-biden-on-why-the-fbis-clarence-thomas-report-was-inconclusive/2018/09/26/08d58d84-c196-11e8-9451-e878f96be19b_video.html

File under: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6uEmtn56M0