POTUS 45.59: It Was a Great Phone Call

[Kepler]

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IIRC, they lost a lot of their experienced pilots and had to go to new guys, right? Plus, losing more carriers as time went on gave them less to work with.

Yes, they lost everybody of value in the first half of the war. Meanwhile, the RAF was picking up great pilots from all the nations the Germans had occupied, so they only got stronger, and of course the US was perfecting industrialization of military labor and began churning out technically proficient pilots from farm boys in the span of about 7 months. We won the war with clipboards.

[Kepler]

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Thankfully Goering had the same military leadership skills as Sniffles.

I've read (no idea whether it's true) that there has been a reevaluation of Goering as a military strategist and he's now consider better than cromulent.

Goering's issue was in the political sphere where a lot of his activity was counter-productive for the greater German effort. IIRC it was Goering who used bureaucratic skullduggery to destroy the German hardwater program in order to divert the resources back to his projects. And of course Goering's hard core political attacks on Jews in science academia resulted in all of the following being lost from the German side to the Allied side:

Hans Bethe, Felix Bloch, Max Born, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Fritz Haber, Erwin Schrödinger.

As in, holy sh-t!

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Some comic relief

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I've read (no idea whether it's true) that there has been a reevaluation of Goering as a military strategist and he's now consider better than cromulent.

Goering's issue was in the political sphere where a lot of his activity was counter-productive for the greater German effort. IIRC it was Goering who used bureaucratic skullduggery to destroy the German hardwater program in order to divert the resources back to his projects. And of course Goering's hard core political attacks on Jews in science academia resulted in all of the following being lost from the German side to the Allied side:

Hans Bethe, Felix Bloch, Max Born, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Fritz Haber, Erwin Schrödinger.

As in, holy sh-t!

He told Hitler he could bring the British to the peace table through air power alone. And he might have been right except his plans were terrible. There was no strategy to his attacks on the island. They were scattered, had little practical effects and destroyed the morale of his pilots. If his attacks were concentrated with hundreds of bombers attacking a single city it could have been devastating. Instead some were sent to London, some to Liverpool, some to Birmingham etc. The smaller attacks were much less effective. One historian says when you look at the combined force thrown against England in the summer and fall of 1940 vs what the Luftwaffe accomplished it is one of the greatest military failures ever.

[dxmnkd316]

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I've read (no idea whether it's true) that there has been a reevaluation of Goering as a military strategist and he's now consider better than cromulent.

Goering's issue was in the political sphere where a lot of his activity was counter-productive for the greater German effort. IIRC it was Goering who used bureaucratic skullduggery to destroy the German hardwater program in order to divert the resources back to his projects. And of course Goering's hard core political attacks on Jews in science academia resulted in all of the following being lost from the German side to the Allied side:

Hans Bethe, Felix Bloch, Max Born, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Fritz Haber, Erwin Schrödinger.

As in, holy sh-t!

How many Solvay attendees were chased out of their country or even Europe between WWI and WWII?

[ticapnews]

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For a great look at WW2 week by week check out Time Ghost on YouTube. The host is Indy Neidell, who hosted The Great War week by week on that channel.

[Kepler]

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How many Solvay attendees were chased out of their country or even Europe between WWI and WWII?

Enough.

[dxmnkd316]

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It finally happened. He sh-t or p-ssed himself on tv.

Trump took one question from a reporter at the end of the NASA event and proceeded to rant about a variety of topics for more than 7 minutes without interruption. He then abruptly got up and left he room. pic.twitter.com/q1ZXhdbjEq

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 18, 2019

[French Rage]

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He told Hitler he could bring the British to the peace table through air power alone. And he might have been right except his plans were terrible. There was no strategy to his attacks on the island. They were scattered, had little practical effects and destroyed the morale of his pilots. If his attacks were concentrated with hundreds of bombers attacking a single city it could have been devastating. Instead some were sent to London, some to Liverpool, some to Birmingham etc. The smaller attacks were much less effective. One historian says when you look at the combined force thrown against England in the summer and fall of 1940 vs what the Luftwaffe accomplished it is one of the greatest military failures ever.

At first they did focus well on the industrial and military points, but over time got distracted to go for the big psychological targets. In the end that left the RAF with what they needed to hold out and bring the air war to Germany itself. Had the Germans stuck with their plan it very well could have worked, but as you point out they vastly misplaced their energy.

[French Rage]

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This may shock you, but the administration did no vetting whatsoever to determine if Doral can handle a G7 summit: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/stat...70760449863685

Of course, that only matters if you plan on paying the town for police and security.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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BREAKING: President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, asked the State Department and White House to grant a visa to the former Ukrainian prosecutor who Joe Biden wanted removed when he was vice president, a career diplomat reportedly told Congress this week during closed-door testimony.

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This may shock you, but the administration did no vetting whatsoever to determine if Doral can handle a G7 summit: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/stat...70760449863685

Of course, that only matters if you plan on paying the town for police and security.

It can handle a golf tournament. Close enough.

[ticapnews]

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Before the Sniffles rally in Dallas last night the arena piped in some music to pump up the crowd. Among the hits: YMCA by the Village People.

No, really.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Does anyone care?

JUST IN: Two officials with the Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged during a hearing this week that the agency knowingly stalled sending hurricane relief funding to Puerto Rico after missing a legally required deadline to do so after Hurricane Maria.

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Does anyone care?

JUST IN: Two officials with the Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged during a hearing this week that the agency knowingly stalled sending hurricane relief funding to Puerto Rico after missing a legally required deadline to do so after Hurricane Maria.

ButObamaGaveIran500GajillionDollarsAndWhoCaresAbou tBrownPeople, right?