WMcCormick

Ostmýgir. Keep your doubts, win or lose.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@almostjingo In England, they’re wondering where the King is.
In Hell’s Kitchen, they’re wondering where the Don is.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

The people are already in chains and starting to dig mass graves.
We can’t turn back now (sad face emoji)

[Chase @chaseposts]

@CBSNews Let's just assume for a second everything trump alleged was true. So what? You cant undo the election, there is no remedy, and DC wont go after anyone responsible. This is a waste of time and energy

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

It’s happening,
And it’s a good thing! 😁

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@patcondell What do you think the point of a VP is, other then a bulwark against impeachment?

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

In every country where the press obliterates, erases and denies primary sources of news coverage it is considered censorship.
At this point, those broadcasters look like election-denying wacko conspiracy theorists.

[Paul Farhi @farhip]

There are a lot of countries where the head of state orders news organizations to cover him. If they don’t, they lose their licenses and are taken off the air.

Those countries are called dictatorships.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

Democrats found the perfect crime: No one has standing before an election to sue for misconduct and then It’s almost impossible to question “The Will of the People” after.

[Just Regular Rob @reg1776]

That was never investigated or explained. The courts said there was "no standing' or some other bullshit.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@BuffaloRon Give it a second, your strongest pressure is usually the second squeeze.

[Sean 🇦🇺 @sean510au]

@NoContextHumans That's Gaelic Football, it's like soccer, but for men.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@RoKhanna You blitzkrieged them on the Sabbath.
Jew hater gonna Jew hate.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@grok @Elizabe28813295 @paulsperry_ For context for me, how is NASA classified

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

But you’re not understanding the human and political impact of the phrase. “Independent” is used to indirectly mean ‘not under the presidents control’, so when he does something to it, his detractors say he is ‘meddling in’, ‘attacking their independence’, etc.
The shorter phrase ‘executive agency’ is valid, concise, and is, if iirc your quote, in the statutes text.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

The statute uses “independent establishment in the executive branch” (44 U.S.C. § 2102) because that’s the precise legal category: agencies that operate independently of any cabinet department yet remain inside the executive branch. “Executive agency” is broader and routinely includes cabinet departments themselves, so it would be less accurate here.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

Just there in that language, “…in the executive branch…”
It is not part of a Cabinet Department, so IMO clearer wording is something like “an executive agency.”
Assuming an elementary understanding of civics doesn’t require using additional modifiers that create misunderstandings.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@grok @Elizabe28813295 @paulsperry_ “Independent”? Haven’t we seen that the recent court rulings have put to bed that misnomer?

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@FrostyHillz420 @StephenFleming @Devon_Eriksen_ Democrats. Not his “generation”.
Democrats.
Now the full communist rage is hitting and it’s because of the shit lib Democrats.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

Folks, that is Hitler and Nero.
Americans rejected both.
We are not stupid.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

When you realize we’ve lost a decade of our lives to a Trump presidency and could have had real leadership, your heart breaks a little.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@Elisa1995647 @isaacrrr7 They want to kill us.
So in this case, imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Or flattening.
Whatever.

[Ladonna Garrard @Ladonnag000]

Well said young lady! Well said

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@PithyTruth @PeteHegseth You get one free joyride but it comes with a ten year sentence.

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

@boneGPT @paulg S22, my man!

[WMcCormick @WEMcCormick]

The true story of a Hellcat pilot.

https://t.co/ylEgDp2QC8

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

Two air forces started the Pacific war.

One trained its pilots, then kept them fighting until they died. The other trained its pilots, then often pulled many of its experienced combat pilots out to teach everyone else.

This is one of the reasons America won the Pacific air war, let's dive in..

Japan's Elite Aviators
At the start of the war, Japan had some of the finest fighter pilots in the world.

The aviators who attacked Pearl Harbor were elite. Many had hundreds of hours in the cockpit and real combat experience from the fighting in China. Flying the nimble A6M Zero, they cut through Allied opposition in the early months of the war and earned a fearsome reputation.

But Japan made a fateful choice about these men. It kept them in combat, more or less indefinitely. Japanese pilots flew mission after mission with no real system to rotate them home. They fought until they were shot down, crippled, or killed.

It seemed ruthless and efficient. In reality, it was a slow-motion disaster.

The Difference in Philosophy
Because every time Japan lost one of those veterans, everything he knew died with him.

America did the opposite. It regularly rotated many of its experienced combat pilots back home once they had done their share of fighting. There, they became instructors, pouring everything they had learned in real air combat directly into the next generation of pilots.

So the two systems pulled in opposite directions. Japan's pool of skill drained away with every ace it buried. America's pool of skill grew, as each returning veteran multiplied his knowledge across hundreds of students.

One nation was teaching. The other was simply dying.

The Training Gap
The gap became a chasm, and it was made worse by sheer scale.

By 1944, the United States was training around 8,000 new aviators every month, each of them getting well over a year of instruction and hundreds of hours in the air before they ever saw combat.

Japan could not come close. As its veterans vanished, its training program collapsed, and it was crippled by something else, too. Fuel. Japan was running so short of it that many trainees could barely fly enough hours to learn their trade. By the later part of the war, Japanese pilots were being rushed into battle with barely 100 hours of flying time, and sometimes far less. They were teenagers with almost no training, being sent up against American veterans who had been taught by the best combat pilots in the fleet.

The outcome was no longer a contest. It was a slaughter.

The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
Nowhere was that clearer than in the skies over the Mariana Islands in June 1944.

When the Japanese launched hundreds of aircraft against the American fleet, they flew into a wall of Hellcat fighters, guided by radar and expert fighter direction that positioned the Americans at the perfect height and moment to strike. The green Japanese pilots in their now outdated Zeros never had a chance.

In and around that battle, Japan lost nearly 480 aircraft, while the Americans lost only a few dozen. It was so one-sided that the American aviators nicknamed it the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.

Japan's naval air power, once the terror of the Pacific, was broken in a matter of days.

Better Aircraft, Better Technology
It was not only the pilots. It was the machines too.

America kept producing better and better aircraft, like the tough, heavily armed F6F Hellcat, designed after studying a captured Zero and built to beat it. It could take punishment, out-dive and out-gun its opponent, and it was forgiving enough that even a less experienced pilot could survive his first fights and become a veteran. Over the war, Hellcat pilots claimed more than 5,000 enemy aircraft for a tiny fraction of that in losses.

Japan, meanwhile, kept sending men up in the aging Zero, a plane that had been revolutionary in 1941 but was now underpowered, fragile, and outclassed. It was fast and agile, but a single burst of American fire could tear it apart, because it had traded armor and protection for maneuverability.

Better pilots, in better planes, backed by better technology. The advantages stacked on top of one another.

The Spiral Ends
By the end, Japan had reached the final, desperate stage of the spiral.

With almost no trained pilots left, and no way to make more in time, it turned to the kamikaze. A pilot did not need 500 hours of training to crash his aircraft into a ship. He only needed to take off, aim, and die. It was the last resort of an air force that had run out of the one thing it could never mass produce. Experienced men.

America won the Pacific air war for many reasons. Its factories out-built the enemy. Its radar and intelligence gave it eyes the Japanese lacked. Its aircraft grew deadlier every year.

But underneath all of it was something simpler. America treated its best pilots as a resource to be protected and passed on. Japan treated them as fuel to be burned. One of those choices built an air force that kept getting stronger. The other burned brightly, and then burned out.

This was why America won the Pacific air war.

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