#american leadership

[intelligentchristianlady]

Timely Words from a Republican

“We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people—our strength—from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation…. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we're a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.” – Ronald Reagan, 1989

#immigration #renewal #enrichment #new arrivals #American leadership #American innovation #Ronald Reagan #we need immigrants

[cookinguptales]

I MEAN but wouldn't that be an incredible isekai series??

a modern princess whose job is basically just being a beautiful figurehead

grows bored with her vapid role in life and withdraws from society, riddled with ennui

only to fall into a fantasy realm where princesses have real political power

as well as important responsibilities that her subjects depend upon

and at first it's a comedy of errors as she realizes that none of her training prepared her for this

but then she grows as a person and applies herself to learning how to guide and guard this kingdom

and becomes the powerful and just princess she was always meant to be

...so I guess apparently my new favorite conspiracy theory is that kate's shoujo manga just underwent a MASSIVE genre switch.

#realistic royal meet-cutes are OUT fantasy realms in need of strong leadership are IN #I don't know what the hell is in WOW I've never played it I just made up a fantasy realm in my head #I'm an American so being anti-monarchist is in my blood #but along with the magic and mythical creatures part of the fantasy is that monarchies are cool here #so that's all right #kategate #kate middleton

[andrechapman]

André V. Chapman founded Unity Care Group, Inc. in 1993. The non-profit organization seeks to develop educational and social programs which enrich the lives of at-risk youth and those affected by the foster care system. Mr. Chapman authored, Roses in Concrete: Giving Foster Children the Future They Deserve, and he is an American Leadership Forum Fellow.

#André V. Chapman #founded Unity Care Group #develop educational and social programs #American Leadership #Giving Foster Children the Future They Deserve

[fyblackwomenart]

"Roxy" by Micell A. on INPRNT

#art #print #illustration #artist #micell a. #black #woman #feminine #beautiful #awesome #afro #powerful #positive #sunglasses #leader #activism #african-american #roxy #leadership #micell a #inprnt

[alwaysbewoke]

#malcolm x #afro american unity #black empowerment #african unity #african american #pan africanism #black pride #unity #africa strong #respect #civil rights #black history #malcolm x quotes #solidarity #empowerment #black leadership #racial justice #black unity #liberation #diaspora connection

[soldier-poet-king]

Ik the internet has collectively decided liking Hamilton is cringe bc ppl were writing real person fic, making founding father self inserts, and because anything that gets a big enough following must be mercilessly shunned after 6-12 months but like, I got surprise tickets to a matinee today as a bday gift and it really IS that good?

Like. I'm not USamerican. I'm not sitting here like "oh yes this is absolutely historically accurate and this is how everything went down and how these ppl were irl". Its a story. A historical adaptation. But it's a Damn Good Story. It's thematically compelling. It's emotionally resonant. It's about hunger and imagining death and ambition, about that desperation that drives you towards elusive satisfaction, about legacy and memory and the construction and telling of narratives, it's about UNEARNED GRACE and impossible forgiveness.

Like it really IS a good story, and as someone who only know these people as /characters/ and not historical figures, they're compelling characters? Their arcs are interesting? Hamilton and Burr as foils is so good? Washington as a model of leadership and of regret? Of legacy earned and unearned? ELIZA??MY EVERYTHING?? She's not a "main" character but the narrative hinges on her, when Hamilton is stripped bare of his ambition he thinks of her. She controls and saves the narrative, ultimately. It comes down to Eliza as the centre of it all, best of wives and best of women truly.

The music is a bop, the choreography fun, the set design simple but effective. Like? I get things that have a massive teen fandom can be annoying, and taking it as Historical Fact would be stupid. But as a story???? It really is that good?

Also we had an understudy as Hamilton and he was v young with such a soft higher voice and it REALLY worked esp in act 1 with the whole young scrappy hungry thing. He was also shorter than Eliza which imo. Perfect. Tiny man among a cast of largely very tall men and a few very tall women.

#who else is giving me martyrdom fantasies and ambitious unending hunger and legacy and history and narrative #And the UNEARNED GRACE OF IT ALL #forgiveness? can you imagine? #LIKE. IT REALLY GENUINELY IS GOOD. AND I ENJOY IT IMMENSELY #its a fuckin GOOD story #maybe i am just able to be like. completely separate from the historical aspects bc i am not american #like yeah the real goerge washington owned slaves. evil vile. #but hamilton Goerges is like. a character. they r not the same. he is a compelling portrait of leadership and regret. #one last time makes me cry. i wanna sit under my own vine and fig tree. like damn ok u got me #the hamilton burr foil is obvs contructed for thr show. but its GOOD its NARRATIVELY COMPELLING like. #anyway. i have been really uhhh ******** lately #but this was. this was good. #live theatre in general is just good for me. its just so expensive so i rarely go #but man. the arts. the arts. THIS is why we live and work

[simply-ivanka]

"A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable. It can never permit either the truthful recording of facts or the emotional sincerity that literary creation demands." -- George Orwell

#America #America with Biden as President #America with Obama as President #Democrat leadership #trump 2024 #trump #president trump #america first #americans first #donald trump #repost

[commonsensecommentary]

“Given how often our nation’s elites today use their power and influence to rob us of our freedom of speech and rights to self-determination—because we are apparently not to be trusted to govern ourselves without their malign interference—we cannot continue to allow our current crop of misguided and deeply un-American leaders to remain in control of our nation and its vital institutions.”

#leadership #extremism #government #democracy #save america #accountability #american history #censorship #culture #elites #morality #official lies #patriotism #political polarization #politics #protest #social welfare #voter anger

[prayerinmovement]

To Honor, Expansive.

To honor, expansively what was it like to walk into this space, John F Kennedy’s museum in Boston, MA? I didn’t realize i would be so moved…energetically – it was palpable – i was moved to tears as my mom and i walked thru the door – where were we this day, when this imperfect man who strove towards a perfect world was killed? Another life – last life, likely – where were we in the 60’s? Where…

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#American #American flag #Boston #Christ-centered leadership #honor #Jesus #jfk #president #trauma #USA #veteran

[todaysdocument]

"I want men to follow me because they want to; not because they have to," says Sergeant Major Edgar Huff, June 3, 1968. 

Huff was the first Black sergeant major in the U.S. Marine Corps. 

Record Group 127: Records of the U.S. Marine Corps

Series: Black and White Photographs of Marine Corps Activities in Vietnam

File Unit: Divider/Subject - 230 - Individuals and Groups - 1968 Local Savings Bonds campaign banner, absentee voting

Image description: Sergeant Major Huff is seated at a desk, wearing a dark (presumably green) uniform with the sleeves rolled up. He is holding a pair of dark-framed eyeglasses, and is not smiling. 

Transcription: 

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2 1/4 Negative

3M-2-0949-68

III MAF

Vietnam

3Jun68 Photog: SSgt Samson

LEADERSHIP BY EXAMPLE--Example, not fear, is the key to effective leadership believes Sergeant Major Edgar R. Huff, who has 26-years experience in leading men. "I want men to follow me because they want to; not because they have to," says Huff.

DEFENSE DEPT. PHOTO (MARINE CORPS)

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#archivesgov #June 3 #1968 #1960s #military #U.S. Marine Corps #marines #Vietnam #Vietnam War #leadership #Black history #African American history

[eretzyisrael]

by Jonathan S. Tobin

It is understandable that Jewish groups want to avoid confrontations with their opponents out of fear of potential violence and because they believe that their influence is best employed in the corridors of power. But by effectively abandoning the public square to antisemites, the Jewish community has not only encouraged those screaming for violence against Jews, especially Israelis but has also created a dynamic whereby it seems as if there is only one side to the argument about whether a war against a genocidal terrorist group is justified.

Equally important, the lack of public clamor on behalf of Israel and against the pro-Hamas ceasefire advocates has sent the message to the administration that there is only one side in the debate about the war that they should listen to or fear.

This was made abundantly clear early in the Democratic primaries when Biden showed that he was far more interested in appeasing pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn, Mich., than those who advocate for Israel. In the last two months, even after Biden secured the Democratic presidential nomination, he has continued to go out of his way to avoid antagonizing Israel-haters.

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Perhaps he’s right to believe that Jewish Democrats dislike former President Donald Trump too much to consider defecting from their party. Or that they are more concerned about abortion than about defending the Jewish state. But at a time when antisemitism—and the demonization of Israel and its supporters—is escalating, perhaps it’s time for even those who intend to vote for Biden to start showing up at his rallies and speak up about the administration’s abandoning Israel. Jewish Democrats need to say that they expect Biden to stand by Israel in its just war, not to threaten it.

If Biden was made to see, as he should, that there are more votes to be lost in the political center from Americans who back Israel and don’t believe the blood libels being thrown at it, then he might understand that there is a greater political price to be paid for kowtowing to antisemites than for keeping faith with the Jewish state.

Beyond that, Jewish groups around the nation also need to understand that their mission must also include efforts to reclaim the streets.

Teaneck shows the way

A great example of a community that understood what was at stake was on display this past week in Teaneck, N.J. A month ago, an Israel real estate fair at a synagogue in that New York suburb was threatened by an antisemitic mob, egged on by Internet lies about the event. But when another pro-Israel event at a synagogue—this time honoring ZAKA volunteers charged with the gruesome task of handling corpses from the Hamas pogroms—was similarly threatened, the Jews didn’t simply depend on law enforcement to protect them. Neither did they, as sometimes happens elsewhere, cancel the event due to justified fears of violence. Instead, they organized a counterprotest that outnumbered those who were bussed into that town to vent their hatred.

The effort reflected a consensus in that community that, in the words of a spokesman for the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County, “these attacks on our synagogues have to end. Full stop.”

This example needs to be emulated everywhere. Synagogues and other Jewish institutions have been targeted by vandals and antisemitic protests from those seeking to eradicate Israel “from the river to the sea,” falsely accusing Israel of “genocide” while ignoring or even denying Hamas crimes. Yet ever fearful of what a confrontation might lead to, Jewish groups don’t turn out to demonstrate that the streets don’t belong to the hatemongers and their allies. And that needs to change.

Beset by doubts about their place in a society that has embraced woke intersectional myths that marginalize Jews and browbeaten into thinking that the cause of Israel is too controversial to be compatible with a comfortable American life, too many leaders have gone silent at a moment of crisis when they need to speak up loudly that they will not be intimidated or taken for granted by politicians like Biden. They need to understand that even though support for Israel can seem a very lonely, unfashionable position, most Americans stand behind the Jewish state.

Jews need to stop cowering and start protesting. If they don’t, they’ll soon see that the antisemites will only grow bolder in their affronts to Jewish sensibilities—and political leaders will continue to believe that they need not fear losing their support.

#joe biden #jews #american jews #jewish leadership #hamas #gaza #take to the streets

[flareguncalamity]

Lt. Commander Killian: So what was your name again?

Nevularxi: I have not already told you. I’m afraid my name may not translate into your language.

Lt. Commander Killian: Oh yeah?

Nevularxi: I am named for a period of time on my home planet that surrounds the immediate aftermath of the second yearly equinox of our planet’s solar star. It’s the period following our fertile rainy season, and marked the beginning of the harvest in years of antiquity, as well as the coming of the colder, darker season which our species typically spends in isolation or hibernation. The period is considered to be a time of great liminality and spiritual importance in our ancient religions, although since the dawn of the modern technological age it has lost some of its transient meaning.

Lt. Commander Killian: …Okay, but i meant more like. how do I say your name.

Nevularxi: Oh, it’s nev-you-LARK-zee.

Lt. Commander Killian: Gotcha. by the way, your name in english is October.

#oc #humans are space orcs #these are original characters of mine btw #Killian Weir is a human scientist whose dad got them a high ranking official job through nepotism #and they’re very out of their depth since all of their credentials are academic and not in leadership #so they’re overqualified for the scientific and technological aspect of their job. and vastly under qualified for every other part of it #Nev is an alien who had to fight tooth and nail to claw her way up through the ranks. so she resents Killian a bit #but later in their story arc they fall in love and go against the hypercapitalist intergalactic regime together #so it’s ok #i don’t have a design for Nev quite yet #i know i want her to be blues and purples mostly #but i want there to be a little bit of a speculative biology aspect to her design #so i have to do some worldbuilding first before i settle on anything #i just know that i want her to be bipedal but with 4 arms #and i’m also imagining her with a bob haircut. whether it’s gonna be hair or feathers or something else remains to be seen #Killian is like. 6’3 ish red haired irish american. built like a jock sort of but unfortunately lacking the swag to be sexy #They’re a xenogeologist btw. <3 i love geology

[tmarshconnors]

“You can not be a party of women, when you can’t even tell us what a woman is.”

Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders is an American politician serving since 2023 as the 47th governor of Arkansas.

#Politics #Republican Party #White House #Press Secretary #Conservative #Trump Administration #Elections #Public Relations #Communication #Government #American Politics #Leadership #Media Relations #Political Commentary #Sarah Huckabee #Trump Era #Conservative Women #Political Communication #Policy #Political Figures #quoteoftheday #today on tumblr

[royboyfanpage]

There are very few characters who emphasise the inherent horror of teenage heroes like Grant. Created with powers he didn't ask for, powers he didn't really know how to control, and forced into superheroics because he didn't have any other choice.

And because of this expectation the world has of him, he can't really leave once he's there. He comes back, and he comes back again, and he ends up scarred for life, physically and emotionally.

Grant Emerson, you deserve the world, and you will always be famous.

#that was a literal child #also i could go into the symbolism of grant's scars occuring due to the poor leadership of a man who symbolises the American military #but i don't think I'm american enough for that #grant emerson #damage #not roy

[kemetic-dreams]

#kemetic dreams #us army #colin powell #leadership #army #african #african american

[pearlparty]

what would you ask the cast of MotA?

I have a connection (which shall remain unexplained) who will have an opportunity to attend a MotA early-screening/Q&A soon, and he has very few questions prepared (silly boys amiright?). And I told him he had to prep something just in case (mostly so I can live vicariously through him). Anyway it got me thinking and I wanna ask the other MotA enthusiasts on the interwebs. so, whatcha got?

(gonna tag a couple of off-the-top-of-my-head my fellow MotA enthusiasts to get a convo goin but pass this along fr: @precious-little-scoundrel, @girlnairb, @steph-speaks, @blurredcolour, @avonne-writes)

#I would ask them about their favorite theme in the series and which they thought was most important to convey #Like leadership principles / mental health/coping methods / brotherhood / general historical accuracy #I mean we all know historical accuracy isn’t too high on the list (lookin at Harry being a goober) #I also think it’d be hilarious to hear what the cast think about portraying (mostly) American history as non-Americans lol #Fr send your ideas here because I’ll pass them along to my contact #That feels like something a secret agent would say and that’s hilarious to me lol #masters of the air #callum turner #austin butler #mota #austin butler major gale buck cleven #gale cleven #john egan #bucky egan #mota spoilers #buck cleven #harry crosby #anthony boyle