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Lich98 which involved me making fun of his voice (sorry), shamelessly plugging my article, and generally complaining about the poor state of our government. Among these complaints was that the WHPR had not published anything in 19 days so when Pfeiffer posted this shortly after:
I'm dropping an article tomorrow, so watch for that around lunch time. - Pfeiffer
I naturally got a bit excited. Course he was late on his promise, although he did give people a heads up that work was getting in the way and he'd try ASAP, I still opened the WHPR with a bit of optimism. I hoped to see in the article an update of affairs, maybe a revolutionary government program to fight Poland or some simple words of encouragement. Maybe even he had taken my advise on ditching AGC and actually gone forward with it, but that was a bit too optimistic I suppose.
Instead what we got was a typical State Department article and how they are recruiting. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see that the State Department even exists (for the past 10 days in the DoS channel its been empty except me, Pfeiffer, and a bot) and ambassadorial recruitment certainly is important. However this is an announcement I would expect to come more in a peace time deal, or within a larger WHPR, not the bulk of the WHPR. This offers no indication that the country is moving forward or that we even have any hope against Poland. Quite frankly the post just felt like a forced article to fill space. On a different note though I'm both glad and... disturbed to see Tosh put into the SoS position. He certainly writes excellent articles, and is one of the few motivated individuals left in the USA under this administration, but as far as I know he has no state department experience. This worries me that the well of players Pfeiffer has to choose from is way to shallow if he is simply picking people based off of visibility to fill holes in his administration.
Honestly though I imagine Pfeiffer will handle all State relations and the SoS will simply be an ambassadorial babysitter. But that's just my two cents.
I'd like to see more updates, something solid, from the government. It's aggravating to see the Government reduced to essentially a cheer leader and a President. We need more coordination, more communication, more initiation, and more energy into this server.
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The new WHPR, while not some ground backing announcement, is a step in the right direction for activity. I applaud the initiative of these members of the cabinet.
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USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
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