Is Trump a Captain Queeg?
I have loved the Caine Mutiny as a study in leadership, and I have come to the conclusion Trump will be ousted this year as President to be replaced by one more malleable by the politicians. But I see Trump as Captain Queeg, and the scene where Greenwald confronts Keefer is so applicable, if you place the lamestream media as keefer, and the rational part of the public as Greenwald. His description of how they railroaded Queeg seems so accurate as to what is going on, as the media is now proudly proclaiming anything Anti-Trump as "we are winning". I just hope someday someone sees that the media railroaded Trump just as Keefer railroaded Queeg, and led the rest of the officers to do so, and yet took no responsibility for his actions.
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I thought Trump was our LAST chance to at least slow down the relentless advance of socialist and the eventual conversion of the USA into another Venezuela. If Trump is tossed out, I am ready to disavow the USA.
Soros and Obama are gleefully supporting the destruction, hoping to gain control when things fall apart. However, history never seems to make things easy, and we may see an unexpected player step up to take the reins if Trump falls.
If Trump is perceived as having been forced from office on false pretenses, we could be facing the second Civil war. Many of his supporters, including those in the military and law enforcement would likely refuse to acknowledge a phony impeachment. Once that gets started, look for the Russians and Chinese to decide which contingent they support, eager to gain control over the richest nation on the planet.
One last thing about Trump. He will never be perfect. He will probably never be anything but what he is as of now. However, he doesn't need ANY of this. He must love this country very much to put up with the crap he has. If he stays and fights it out to the end and runs again, he SHOULD have the undying gratitude of every one of us who loves this country.
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I was stationed in Australia in the mid 70s, at a joint location with the RAAF. The Labor government had instituted single-payer medical care, and had badly underestimated the cost. The Australian constitution requires a balanced budget, so deficit spending is illegal. The Labor Premier and his Minister of Finance had slipped off to Switzerland to arrange under the table loans to cover the excess costs of single payer, but unfortunately one of their staff caught wind of what they were doing, and gave the GG a call. Even though the GG was a long time friend of the Premier, he did the right thing and called the Queen to inform her he was dissolving the Labor government and staging new elections. Because the Australian people were so appalled, the election resulted in a Liberal (which is really conservative) government being elected.
Too bad we don't have similar institution.
The G-G is legally constrained by rules among which is to get advice from the prime minister before acting.
This was not done. I understand G-G John Kerr did not inform the Queen who by reputation would not have sacked a
government. The G-G did that as there was an impasse, a vote approving supply (the key items of budget) was voted down.
It is interesting to compare this situation with what happens in the US.
When congress is deadlocked over a budget vote there is no appeal to authority, congress has to talk and argue until
some sort of deal emerges. A better arrangement?
In my view, in Australia etc, this is what would normally happen. The current monarchy is highly respected and does have reserve powers but the strength of the institution is that the reserve power is never or seldom used.
So, going by precedent, not being able to pay the public service, the police, or meet financial obligations does not call for dismissing an elected government. I suppose violent insurrection would trigger such dissolution. As I read it, in the US this option is not available to any individual, it is public opinion that must demand action.
We tend to wax a bit arrogant about how our legislative body, Congress, is superior to a parliamentary system, primarily because it is so stable. We can't get rid of the pack of fools even when most Americans don't trust them and want to clean the Augean stables of the House and Senate. We view the parliamentary systems, where a vote of no confidence can bring everything down and cause early elections, as less workable, but in my view, it means the offenses of each elected member are still fresh in the voters' minds. Our system gives the miscreants time to let the memories fade, and convince the public of how great they are well before the next election. Something to think about.
Under a gold standard, the government provides a mechanism for this necessary increase in the money supply: turning gold bullion into coins. Each gold coin minted increases the amount of money in circulation, even though the existing amount of gold in the country and the world remains the same. And the government can transform any amount of gold into coins and release them into circulation without creating an imbalance in its budget.
The exact opposite is true in a fiat money system. An increase in the money supply requires a budgetary deficit, since the amount of new money released to circulation equals the amount of government spending not covered by tax revenues.
For a balanced budget to work in practice, a gold standard must be reintroduced at the same time.
Why do you think this, and how do you suppose he will be replaced?
Hope he can hold up in defiance of all the craven cowardly backstabbing little weasels who promised to repeal Obamacare and now seeks to appease a media that reminds old dino of a horde of screaming chimpanzees, who toss their own feces as they excitedly jump up and down.
Who can hold up against all that unrelenting defamation that piles up as it goes on and on and on? Not many . . .
No, Trump will be there in the Imperial Mansion on Dec 31st.
May it withstand the onslaught of the Borg.
I hope.... you are wrong about Trumps tenure.
To the collectivist media the first thing that goes, in a communist take over is you. You are no longer "useful idiots" when the take over is final.
History shows the loudest mouths are the first shot.
To the media be careful what you wish for!
Although some have suggested Mr Trump will not serve his full four year term he is still unlikely to be impeached as both Houses of Congress, which have to vote to remove him, are controlled by Republicans.
The 25th Amendment was originally adopted in 1967 and establishes the procedure where by the Vice-President succeeds the President if he or she is incapacitated, dies in office or is impeached.
My advice is 'do not hold your breath on this snowflake fallacy' ;)
and found not guilty.
Will such a thing occur with Trump? I doubt
it. I don't think he is picky about non-essentials.
I do think he has a big mouth, into which he
often unnecessarily puts his foot.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: Well, well, well! The officers of the Caine in happy celebration!
Lt. Steve Maryk: What are you, Barney, kind of tight?
Lt. Barney Greenwald: Sure. I got a guilty conscience. I defended you, Steve, because I found the wrong man was on trial.
[pours himself a glass of wine]
Lt. Barney Greenwald: So, I torpedoed Queeg for you. I had to torpedo him. And I feel sick about it.
[drinks wine]
Lt. Steve Maryk: Okay, Barney, take it easy.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: You know something... When I was studying law, and Mr. Keefer here was writing his stories, and you, Willie, were tearing up the playing fields of dear old Princeton, who was standing guard over this fat, dumb, happy country of ours, eh? Not us. Oh, no, we knew you couldn't make any money in the service. So who did the dirty work for us? Queeg did! And a lot of other guys. Tough, sharp guys who didn't crack up like Queeg.
Ensign Willie Keith: But no matter what, Captain Queeg endangered the ship and the lives of the men.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: He didn't endanger anybody's life, you did, all of you! You're a fine bunch of officers.
Lt. JG H. Paynter Jr.: You said yourself he cracked.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: I'm glad you brought that up, Mr. Paynter, because that's a very pretty point. You know, I left out one detail in the court martial. It wouldn't have helped our case any.
[to Maryk]
Lt. Barney Greenwald: Tell me, Steve, after the Yellowstain business, Queeg came to you guys for help and you turned him down, didn't you?
Lt. Steve Maryk: [hesitant] Yes, we did.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: [to Paynter] You didn't approve of his conduct as an officer. He wasn't worthy of your loyalty. So you turned on him. You ragged him. You made up songs about him. If you'd given Queeg the loyalty he needed, do you suppose the whole issue would have come up in the typhoon?
[to Maryk]
Lt. Barney Greenwald: You're an honest man, Steve, I'm asking you. You think it would've been necessary for you to take over?
Lt. Steve Maryk: [hesitant] It probably wouldn't have been necessary.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: [muttering slightly] Yeah.
Ensign Willie Keith: If that's true, then we were guilty.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: Ah, you're learning, Willie! You're learning that you don't work with a captain because you like the way he parts his hair. You work with him because he's got the job or you're no good! Well, the case is over. You're all safe. It was like shooting fish in a barrel.
[long pause; strides toward Keefer]
Lt. Barney Greenwald: And now we come to the man who should've stood trial. The Caine's favorite author. The Shakespeare whose testimony nearly sunk us all. Tell 'em, Keefer!
Lieutenant Tom Keefer: [stiff and overcome with guilt] No, you go ahead. You're telling it better.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: You ought to read his testimony. He never even heard of Captain Queeg!
Lt. Steve Maryk: Let's forget it, Barney!
Lt. Barney Greenwald: Queeg was sick, he couldn't help himself. But you, you're real healthy. Only you didn't have one tenth the guts that he had.
Lieutenant Tom Keefer: Except I never fooled myself, Mr. Greenwald.
Lt. Barney Greenwald: I'm gonna drink a toast to you, Mr. Keefer.
[pours wine in a glass]
Lt. Barney Greenwald: From the beginning you hated the Navy. And then you thought up this whole idea. And you managed to keep your skirts nice, and starched, and clean, even in the court martial. Steve Maryk will always be remembered as a mutineer. But you, you'll publish your novel, you'll make a million bucks, you'll marry a big movie star, and for the rest of your life you'll live with your conscience, if you have any. Now here's to the real author of "The Caine Mutiny." Here's to you, Mr. Keefer.
[splashes wine in Keefer's face]
Lt. Barney Greenwald: If you wanna do anything about it, I'll be outside. I'm a lot drunker than you are, so it'll be a fair fight.
If they're going to railroad President Trump, though, I wish it were for his radical stances. I wish it were because he didn't submit a budget with INCREASED gov't spending. I wish it were because he DIDN'T chose an AG who supports the drug war. I wish it were because because he OPPOSED asset forfeiture and were FOR strict rule of law. How lame that it should be for APPEARING to defend racists and ACTING guilty when accused of wrongdoing! If I'm going to be persecuted, I'd rather it be for a real cause.