Erik Prince

Court-martialed as a junior officer because he ran a couple of his ships ashore, but he was a decisive risk-taker.

Nimitz, I believe, was also court-martialed as a J.O.

for...

some risky decision.

We have a very risk intolerant culture in the military and we promote bureaucrats that don't make any decisions.

While at the same time,

The lack of accountability.

If you think about like 2017, 18, 19, there was three fatal collisions in the Pacific theater between the US Navy warship and a commercial vessel.

So you take a Burke class destroyer, which is what a billion dollars or more with all kinds of high dollar radars and all the rest.

Doing maybe 20 knots, commercial vessel doing 25 knots and they run into each other.

How is that possible?

That is the disgusting degradation of the basics of seamanship and accountability that the military has been allowed to devolve to instead of focusing on merit and lethality.

Or 20 years to get a license to do so.

The United States government used to be funded off tariffs alone.

It was not until the progressive era when they passed- So the early 1900s, right?

Yeah.

A bunch of- No kidding.

Yeah, that's true.

Used to be the sole income of the U.S.

government was tariffs, which gave a basic level of protection for domestic industries.