Another power-bloated American pipsqueak representatively acts out — "Moon-Butt" Modly's jerkitude

07 April 2020

Navy Secretary Modly's jerkitude characterizes the Trump Administration

First, the Navy falls on its brain-dead 4 star face — and then its civilian Secretary (Thomas Modly) goes to the USS Theodore Roosevelt:

calls its relieved-of-command skipper

"naive or too stupid"

— which kind'a makes one wonder how Brett Crozier got promoted to captain the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the first place —

and follows up by

swearing

and

criticizing

the very large ship's crew

for having respected Crozier.

Secretary Modly told the sailors:

So think about that when you cheer the man off the ship who exposed you to that. I understand you love the guy. It’s good you love him. But you are not required to love him.

Parading the inverse of good leadership

"We" treat a nobly minded, career-sacrificing Captain poorly.

And then "we" visit his former ship and irately chastise its multi-thousand-person crew for having valued his command?

Blazingly memorable stupidity like this . . .

. . . consistently characterizes the Trump Administration's outing of the United States' apparently true (and morally base) nature.

Secretary Modly must be Toddling Donny's secret twin

Both marketing themselves as childish dicks, constantly fingering their nukes.

Looking back

When I was younger, I remember the Navy being the one military service that (at least) pretended to value promoting commanders, who could (a) think independently and (b) who would talk back.

The idea was that independently minded leaders prevented the service from ossifying itself.

How that once admirable standard has fallen.

Hypothesis

I hypothesize, on the basis of History, that a military service comprised of Yes People is going to lose wars to competent adversaries.

In proof

Can you think of even a mildly significant conflict that the US has strategically won during the last 70 years?

This fact, alone, should indicate the deplorable quality of American leadership over these decades.

Modly and top Navy brass boldly represent this exceedingly low standard.

Ironic, that the apparently able and selflessly inclined Captain Crozier was instantly crushed, so as to preserve it.

The moral? — The best in our midst are consistently swept aside to benefit the worst

There is nothing so bureaucratically persistent — as the selfishly inclined, gross incompetence that is embedded at the tips of our military and political hierarchies.

What do you think this self-destructive cultural trait forecasts for our American future?

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Another power-bloated American pipsqueak representatively acts out — "Moon-Butt" Modly's jerkitude