What does a BIDEN Presidency look like?

[Grey Fox]

I wouldn't call us Latin American but I do use the expression "our Latin blood" to justify different Italian/Spanish influence behaviour.

[Josquius]

I have very little real world experience with Quebecois, who knows, maybe they're totally different, but I definitely feel a similarity between European French speakers and the Spanish and Italians.

Butt.....I've even heard Brazilians insist they're not Latin American so...ja.

Like so:

I remember being taught to do that in the last years of primary school then in the first years of senior school they tell you to stop it.

[The Larch]

Never in my whole life I've seen Quebec grouped in any way with other American countries. The three groupings I'm aware of are:

- Latin America: Spanish speaking countries + Brazil + former French colonies like Haiti. It includes some places that are not sovereign states, such as Puerto Rico or French Guiana, but I've never seen Quebec included on it.

Sometimes when it is used more in a geographic sense than cultural it might also include places like Belize or the Dutch Caribbean islands or all the Guianas.

- Hispanic America: Spanish speaking countries by themselves (including Puerto Rico).

- Ibero America: Spanish speaking countries (including Puerto Rico) + Brazil.

AFAIK this is the only group that has a specific international org associated with it, as there's an Ibero American summit of all these countries + Spain and Portugal that takes place every year or couple of years.

I definitely feel a similarity between European French speakers and the Spanish and Italians.

I shudder to think about your rationale.

[Sheilbh]

Never in my whole life I've seen Quebec grouped in any way with other American countries. The three groupings I'm aware of are:

- Latin America: Spanish speaking countries + Brazil + former French colonies like Haiti. It includes some places that are not sovereign states, such as Puerto Rico or French Guiana, but I've never seen Quebec included on it.

Sometimes when it is used more in a geographic sense than cultural it might also include places like Belize or the Dutch Caribbean islands or all the Guianas.

Yeah - I don't really think it's about the origin of language. If you say Latin America - people know what it means and it doesn't include Quebec. It can be a geographic expression but also something cultural - and I think Haiti's place is particularly interesting.

I'd include Puerto Rico for sure and probably Belize and the Guianas just because of their wider cultural context/links with the region.

[viper37]

I wonder how our Quebecois posters feel about that designation?

we are latins, or so some insists.  But latin-americans is a stretch, despite the geography.  We don't really have their cultural traits, we are much more influenced by mainstream american culture than anything from Mexico, the Carribeans or Spain&Portugal.

But I don't really care.

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

Does Kellyanne Conway have a military background?

[Syt]

Swan III - Revenge of the Ugly Duckling

[Valmy]

Forcing out? Isn't it normal to have a new administration make new appointments? Especially when we are talking about different parties.

[Tonitrus]

Does Kellyanne Conway have a military background?

To advocate for the devil...I don't think we should trap ourselves on the idea that an advisory board to a military service academy, in a country where civilian control of the military should be a very high ideal (and is codified in law, of course), that we should require a military background for such a role.

That said, a political hack is no better than a military hack.  From what I understand of these roles, they would best be filled by a mix of people with military, academic, and fiscal backgrounds.

[Syt]

Forcing out? Isn't it normal to have a new administration make new appointments? Especially when we are talking about different parties.

My sister posted a Daily Wire ( ) article:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-purges-trump-appointees-from-fixed-term-government-boards-in-unprecedented-departure-from-norms?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR0SrU66ss7jgcLZbmFYDRYBZOFRqL9S6_2VwhBuIN1t6WeWi8hjpxdjcfs

Biden Purges Trump Appointees From Education, Science Boards In 'Unprecedented' Departure From Norms

[Valmy]

Well how did Trump get all to appoint all those people to those boards? Did all of Obama's appointees just coincidentally decide to retire on their own during a four year span?

[Barrister]

If I recall correctly there was a USSC ruling within the last few years that said any appointment that said the President could only terminate "with cause" was unconstitutional, and converted those positions to be held at the pleasure of the President.  The court case wasn't commenced by the Trump DOJ but was argued by them in the Supreme Court, and Trump was liberal with firing people associated with the Obama administration (go figure).

So it might be unprecedented, but only because the law changed in the last few years.

[The Minsky Moment]

It is definitely not unprecedented

Weeks AFTER Trump lost the 2020 election, Trump purged the membership of the Defense Policy Board, including Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright; Adm. Gary Roughead, among other luminaries.  Hard to get more petty than that.

I can't speak to each individual case but what business does Kellyane Conway have being on a service academy board? Don't the service academies have honor codes?

[Valmy]

It is definitely not unprecedented

If what BB has posted is true then it isn't untrue that it is unprecedented. It is just told in such a way as to convey a lie...which is the best kind of truth.

Politics in the United States is full of those kind of lies while saying factual things.