LouderVol
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Death by slideshow.
The two active guys i know, said that since Obama they spend more time in the classroom learning about non mission critical crap than they do all other training combined. Was the same under Trump.
That would be interesting.Imagine how effective our military could be if we could just force the enemy to face PowerPoint briefings rather than guns and bombs. Wonder if anybody ever trended military suicides with the escalation of PowerPoint briefings and training.
And maskless no lessThat really says it all. Biden was all the dems had/have. Everybody else was too radical for anybody but hardcore dem left or not radical enough for the dem left. Joe had to be the answer because he'd been around and had a somewhat pleasing image (despite the gaffs) to independents; basically all he offered was a non threatening and reasonably presentable appearance to moderates and independents - form over function even though joe had obviously exceeded his expiration date. The moderates and independents apparently made up the 81M (allegedly anyway) who decided joe was less threatening than a guy with a more crude demeanor and mean tweets.
The weird thing - demeanor in the WH has to be "correct" and polished, but key appointees to other places in the administration can show up in drag despite years of defining what behavior is appropriate in the office - even in private business. Sure hope all those 81M realize when you buy a POS, it just sits there and stinks.
The man can’t walk off of a flat stage under his own power.
They knew what they were doing.
Interesting data presentation - claims to cover a year (best year in...) but uses entire term(s) of other POTI.
Assuming Biden survives 4 years we'll watch this graph come down
I've always wondered how presidents create jobs since they don't run companies or hire people. Few even really set the stage; past job growth that politicians claimed credit for has probably been more reflective of population growth which now appears to be stable or maybe even reversing. The numbers can go up credibly enough, but you have to manufacture percentage growth by manipulating who is looking for a job vs how many people aren't actually employed - government is good at statistical games. It's like thinking the stock markets reflect much except a huge influx of retirement money driving prices when competing places to park the money don't even provide an opportunity to keep up with inflation. Good numbers often don't reflect what presenters of "good news" claim. There's just no way in hell with all the industrial capacity that we had in the past (now residing in China) that employment numbers can be good qualitatively speaking.
Not sure we have ever had to differentiate being jobs created and people going back to work. They used to follow closely, but pandemics pretty much made the metric obsolete. When they run out of Daddy Sam dollars they have to go back to the positions that were open the whole time.