Their not sending there best
2mon 6d ago by piefed.social/u/BlatNews in politicalmemes@lemmy.ca from media.piefed.social
It's not a PhD but the Centcom commander "is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and earned a master’s degree in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University. He studied international relations at Harvard and Tufts Universities," so while I'm not a fan of him or anything, on paper at least he's not as totally unqualified as the the other three morons.
Look, nobody's perfect. I'm sure once Hegseth finds out he'll quickly rectify his mistake and kick him out in favor of a less qualified sycophant.
Well they need to take back his degree. He and his bosses royally fucked this.
IDK what they teach there but he sure made some ridiculous statements (like saying 2 us ships passed the Straights) showing he's as deluded as the rest of those losers.
I've heard PHDs bluet out insane shit. Education is not a guarantee of sanity or any sort of intelligence.
It is a sign that someone can commit to something and work hard for it.
I'd take that over whatever the hell people think qualifies Trump's son in law.
The two destroyers attempting mine sweeping operations transited the strait and returned.
And do you have proof or do you believe anything from the serial liars?
The Straight, they failed to open since february, where their ships got attacked if they only came near to it can now be crossed just like that? LOL
There are multiple sources reporting, and apparently the destroyers even turned on AIS and there are recordings of the destroyers being warned. I'm certain you can find other sources that are acceptable to you with a quick search.
Plus, they're destroyers. Transiting dangerous waters to escort other ships is one of their missions.
I tried to find evidence of this on marine traffic, but I wasn't able to find either the USS Michael Murphy or USS Frank F. Peterson in search. If the claim that they turned on their AIS is true, it should be possible to find them on marine traffic, could you see if you're able to find them?
What is the evidence indicating that this "unspecified US vessel" is one of the mentioned destroyers?
Click the link above, then click vessel characteristics. You'll see it's an arleigh burke destroyer, has the right number, and the right name.
You could also look up the MMSI yourself to see if they match.
Thanks! Good detective work :)
To be clear: I was being genuine when I asked about this. I tried searching marine traffic myself, and couldn't find the vessel. This wasn't some kind of "gotcha" attempt, I was genuinely interested in seeing convincing proof.
Multiple sources parroting the same CENTCOM clown.
I see no proof.
And so the they went through unchallenged, which they couldn't come close to doing, but still orange man is going to block the Straight for other ships if negotiations fail.
Why would that be necessary if they have these super duper ships that don't even get attacked?
I really can't believe anyone would fall for this BS, it's beyond laughable.
Did you even attempt to do some research before your assettions? There are multiple sources using open source information, quoting non-us military radio recordings, and quoting more than centcom.
It's not my job to spoon feed you. Do some research.
LOL
So you can't provide ANY proof of this idiotic claim, thanks.
The person you're replying to has posted a couple pretty convincing links further down, just FYI.
I guess you have nothing
no they haven't.
I see the same AIS location pic of when they supposedly put it on.
If you have a convincing link, then post it.
I'll give you another link, so all they have is 'trust me bro'.
Besides it makes zero sense, they failed completely and have been trying since february,
And for some reason now they could do it?
Then why the blockade if the braze heroes made it possible from now on?
It's clear they tried to sneak through, taking advantage of the talks and ceasefire.
The Iranians reported this attempt during the talks.
They filmed them trying and reality is they turned back.
But you can believe these clowns who rteported 'they have won' 'Iran is out of missiles' 'the straight is open' and a lot more laughable nonsense.
They didn’t?
LOL Do you want to buy a bridge?
Your spelling almost blew a vein in my forehead
Well played!
"You're spelling almost blue a vane in my fourhead"
FTFY
Touché
**th’air
*ii'hathtrha
If you don’t know the difference between their, there, and they’re, your dumb……😜
*ur*
we're
The only real "DEI" hire we should be worried about.
Maybe, just maybe, the US Administration shouldn't be discriminating in favour of the Empathy Impaired.
A long while ago, I was considering taking an MBA, until I talked to my friend's dad of Iranian ancestry.
I did not bring it up, in the middle of an unrelated conversation he just dropped that he was disappointed that his kid(bordering 40s) was not a PhD, and how MBAs are ruining the world.
Every single people of Persian ancestry I met in my life takes education very seriously, maybe not so much the younger ones as they only aim for a master's degree and hurt their parents feelings. :P
Business degree is worse than nothing imo. All the debt, all the indoctrination, very little exposure to anything potentially educational or enlightening. Come out of a program like that as a certified yes-man with bills to pay, the shame it brings to your family is just the tip of the iceberg
I took a few MBA graduate level courses because a job was paying for them. The professors really didn't like it when you trash the entire premise they are trying to teach.
Now the economics professor was fun. He had a better understanding of statistics and the inherent data integrity issues, biases, and heavy reliance on correlation that plagues the field.
MBA programs aren't about the classes or any kind of academic rigor. They're almost entirely networking plays: go get an MBA from a high ranking program, where you will drink with new friends you've made at different events, and then learn socially how to fit in with these MBA types, and then everyone gets their first post-MBA jobs at a big 3 consulting firm where they'll do a bunch of stuff with executives of Fortune 500 companies, get to know execs who will vouch for them when the next VP position opens up. Then, 20 years after getting their degree, they still have an address book and text message threads with a lot of people who just happen to be the who's who of senior management in different industries. All made possible by the MBA program, none of it coming from the coursework itself.
Knowing how to network and how to leverage a network are key skills to running any business.
Business degree is worse than nothing imo. All the debt, all the indoctrination, very little exposure to anything potentially educational or enlightening.
The indoctrination is the enlightenment. You're gaining the ability to recognize what your senior peers in business consider valuable and reflect those values back to them.
What do you think the PhD board is screening for in Iran? You are as much learning the cultural touchstones and taboos as the specifics of the field. Academic institutions all have their own orthodoxy, their own dogma, and their own heresy. Some of this is the product of accrued trial and error. Some of it is purely ideological - a matter of personal persuasion handed down from master to student, which must be adhered to if one wishes to be recognized as a full member of the institution.
Come out of a program like that as a certified yes-man with bills to pay
It isn't that simple. Yes-Manning works if you can find a billionaire (or an Ayatollah) with an ass that needs licking. But eventually people have to actually do shit.
What Trump's team has mastered is the art of the grift. They aren't merely yes-men, they're confidence men. They've all become exceedingly wealthy based off their ability to rook their peers.
What the Guardian Council of Iran's team has mastered is navigating the space between religious orthodoxy and practical politics as an upstart surrounded by wealthier rival states. They have been dancing through a mine-field for 47 years and now they can't dance any further.
So it is still very much an open question of who comes out ahead, even if the US has proven disastrously inept at getting the short-term high-profile domestic media wins that the current president demands.
thats asian upbringing to, they expect you to be MD/ Law which is a doctorate, or a scientist, or one that has a high income. any other jobs they will constantly compare and keep complaining every single time.
High level education is a form of social reproduction, the world over. We have moved away from strictly family-oriented hereditary management and adopted a broader ideological basis for transferring political authority and private ownership.
Case in point, Kushner, graduated with a JD/MBA dual degree program at the New York University School of Law and New York University Stern School of Business in 2007. He interned at Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau's office, and with the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He's a New York Business Deals Guy, which is why he ran in Trump's circle and ultimately married his daughter.
Similarly, Vance earned his JD from Yale in 2013, then spent his early career working for perennial Texas Senator John Cornyn and chief justice of the Eastern District of Kentucky circuit court system. To say he's uneducated would be absurd. He is in a direct pedigree with a long line of far-right apparatchiks.
All these Iranian diplomats went through a similar matriculation in their younger days. They've been promoted as much due to their loyalty to the project of Iranian independence as their raw educational background and attainment of certification.
What do people think someone with a PhD did to earn the degree? What do people think someone promoted to a C-level position at a major corporation or partnership at a ranking law firm did to earn the post? You might be surprised to discover the degree of overlap. Much of it boils down to standing up in front of a board of your professional peers and proving you're able to discourse with them at an equivalent level.
Grok write for me a big text that says I don't know what post secondary education is without saying I don't know what post secondary education is.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/provinces-cracking-down-on-private-institutions-1.7091194and? Do you think McGill and UofT are issuing fake PhD titles?
Did you even read the link you sent? It even explains every country countermeasure to avoid diploma mills.
Grok, please read this Wikipedia article for me, and reply very verbose because I don't believe in higher education.
Do you think McGill and UofT are issuing fake PhD titles?
Do you think George Bush Jr got passing grades at Yale?
It even explains every country countermeasure to avoid diploma mills.
Given that it's a pejorative? Hardly.
Grok, please read this Wikipedia article for me
This is the brainrot inflicted by AI.
Hahahaha, ok that was funny.
I lost when you said you don't read the article you sent because it is pejorative. Touché.
you don’t read the article you sent because it is pejorative
Brother, you should read the article.
same, because the potato is the power house of the cell.
The OP also included zero information on what these guys have their PhDs in. Iran is a theocracy, so at least some of them are likely to have doctorates in Islamic theology or Sharia law.
I don’t know about Iran, but India also loves academic titles. They are very easy to get and often just mean you have to pay for them. I have Indians with multiple masters degrees, that knew less than someone with a bachelors degree from a European university.
Not sure why you are replying me to complain of OP, but I will take the bait.
Many countries have diploma purchase(or diploma mill), when we are hiring we avoid those business. Or the employee do not last long. Back in the day, I had some masters that could not do a thing if the answer was not online. That said, I still prefer to hire someone with higher education that someone with none, too many kids that value "skills" with no understanding of basic concepts of the profession, things taught in the first years of a post secondary education.
I know that instance does not say much, but I am replying from Canada, the Iranian ancestry I talk about are people who got their PhD from McGill, UofT and others. I know we have private diploma mill problem in Canada, but I don't know anyone from those business.
Second, this is a meme comm, I don't think you will find any source from OPs. Very few posters, usually the good ones, put the source or a brief explanation on their memes.
Very reasonable answer.
On the way over, Vance compared this negotiation to the time he told Usha she was not allowed to go skydiving.
That did not give me confidence in the outcome.
Did Usha go skydiving?
No. JD Vance told her not to do it, so she didn't.
This is how negotiations are supposed to work.
No, that's how agreements work. Negotiations come before that.
Why use word when me have bigger stick?
I hope she is right now
Jared Kushner reminds me of a fencepost.
He's a thrift store mannequin, complete with a little bulge where his junk should be.
A fencepost is actually useful.
Jared Kushner would be useful enough as a fencepost you would just need a whole lot of them to make a fence obviously.
Just another swampbaby nepobaby:
Netanyahu has long been a friend of the Kushners, and particularly Jared’s dad, Charles Kushner, a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes. One time, Kantor reports – she doesn’t specify when – Jared gave up his bed and moved to the basement so Netanyahu could spend the night at their home in Livingston, New Jersey.
Lol unfortunately that is their best
Selected for loyalty, not for their performance.
He's not just a failed author, he's also a couch fucker extraordinare. Give the man some credit!
dolphin mating video gooner too
When the US sends its people, we’re not sending our best. We’re not sending you. We’re not sending you. We’re sending people that have lots of problems, and we’re bringing those problems with us. We’re bringing drugs. We’re bringing crime. We’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Original Trump quote:
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Seems fitting here
They're not sending their best.
Actually they are 😅
Trumps son in law getting work from him is outrageous. Utterly indefensible
Happy to see so many women in top positions.
sus
Why have competent people with independent thoughts in positions of power, if you can have loyal people who do what you tell them to?
No names?
If I were the Centcom Commander in this picture I would have done a retake.
He doesn't look nearly bloodthirsty or alcoholic enough to properly represent the US military.
I bet you those americans pose like it's nobody's business though. All the current us power folks seem to be in cosplay mode. Acting like what they see on TV, not acting like real people.
Parasites all of them, special the USA one.
How does one become a failed author? Is that even possible?
Right a book that no one reads?
That better be a purposefully ironic spelling mistake.
Lmao right?
Write.
Happy typo 😁
Don't get published.
Does Amazon publishing count?
You know it doesn't.
Probably took a private jets too
Does the current US administration have a 'best' to send? It really seems like we should be framing this as 'least worst' and even that phrasing confers too much positivity.
an author describing how he was "gay" but his grandma said dont say such things. JD owes his current existence by being plucked from obscurity by PETER THIEL, who has intention of using him to run for office.
Sadly I think this is their best.
Trump did say he likes his team to be made up of losers
the only person whom i know their name is the couch fucker. no clue who any of the others are.
Trump is a skidmark, but so is this comparison. Apples to oranges.
Doctoral candidates still have around 1% chance of success in my country. Academia is more often a way of expressing niche knowledge, and it represents a different can of worms. Things like grade inflation, ivy league nepotism aren't even addressing the problematic areas of higher education. But anyway, the areas of specialization are too narrow to be broadly celebrated as leadership qualities. Given the unreformed state of islam, It is more than likely that religious bodies in Iran selected their negotiation team for their work ethic, since most of their government officers are easily distributed along similar religious and political lines. The PhDs in Iran's team do not contribute to their own specialization because doctorate work requires ultimate devotion, unless they're willing to fail and join the 99% of candidates.
Gold buddy?
Typo - golf buddy
Hot daddy count: Iran 2 USA 0
JD Vance is a piece of shit and I'm sure his book(s) suck, but is it truly failure if Netflix buys a film based on your book?
Did Amazon make a documentary about Melania Trump because she was so fascinating and her life needed to be recorded?
Yes. Netflix isn't buying it because they believe it's good. It's always business and it's good business (at least it was) to be involved in maga money. Look at Melania movie. Doesn't make sense at all to exist.
I would define success other than financial but I'm not Netflix nor most people
Also Melania is a bad example. Seems like it flopped despite having every advantage
For a corporation there is literally no other definition of success unless it's financial. And if they are presented with a choice to make money or do the "right" thing they are legally obligated to choose money because share holder value takes priority
Where did you get the idea that I needed to be told that..? I literally said Netflix defined success as financial. Also I'm over the age of 10 so I kinda knew that decades ago.
Let me preface this with "Fuck the trump cabinet, they are both evil and unqualified".
But the thing I never understood is the need to have people with Degrees in leadership positions. A PHD doesn't exactly mean you are smart or a good leader, it just means you were privileged enough to study for 7+ years without starving. Especially since the degrees usually barely overlap with their respective areas.
The only thing it brings us is a bunch of rich privileged assholes in charge that all have never worked a job other than "business consultant" in their lives.
PhD programmes are almost always paid. You usually need a masters or at least a bachelors to get selected for one, but in civilised countries those are free / subsidised too.
But I agree that a doctoral degree shouldn't be a requirement to hold a leadership position. A leader can always ask advisors about things they themselves do not know about.