Enola Gay

[Celsius]

Flagged for removal by Trump.

 

I swear to God, they are as dumb as lefties. There is no hope for USA. No wonder they are so scared of China, Russia and CANADA.

 

https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074

[Smokin Joe]

2 hours ago, Celsius said:

Flagged for removal by Trump.

 

I swear to God, they are as dumb as lefties. There is no hope for USA. No wonder they are so scared of China, Russia and CANADA.

 

https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074

 

These were not flagged for removal by Trump or Hegseth. They were flagged by some low level Pentagon flunky.

 

This might actually be a case of malicious compliance by some Pentagon staff that hate Trump, and DOGE, and the DEI purge. It probably won't happen now that it has been publicized.

[billd766]

This is part of the problem when you have people in charge that have no idea what they are doing or saying.

 

You cannot blame anybody in the military for simple following the orders from the people in charge, when the people in charge have no idea what they are doing or saying or even why they are doing or saying it.

 

The people you should blame are the people who ordered the clearance in the first place, and you don't have to look very far to know who they are.

[riclag]

Ap report! A story based on projections 

by none other than unofficial no-officials!

 

You had me fooled in thinking that

you weren't one of they/ them.

 

 

[candide]

3 hours ago, Celsius said:

Flagged for removal by Trump.

 

I swear to God, they are as dumb as lefties. There is no hope for USA. No wonder they are so scared of China, Russia and CANADA.

 

https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074

Come on! Enola Gay, that's suspiciously woke! 

[KhunLA]

AP ... 

[bamnutsak]

On 3/9/2025 at 12:18 PM, Smokin Joe said:

These were not flagged for removal by Trump or Hegseth. They were flagged by some low level Pentagon flunky.

 

 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given the military until Wednesday to remove content that highlights diversity efforts in its ranks following President Donald Trump’s executive order ending those programs across the federal government.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/war-heroes-gay-plane-images-flagged-removal-pentagons-dei-purge-rcna195344

[SpaceKadet]

Damn that Paul Tibbets for naming his B29 bomber after his mother!

[SpaceKadet]

The "Atomic Heroes"

[johng]

2 minutes ago, SpaceKadet said:

The "Atomic Heroes"

 

I wouldn't call them "heroes"  dropping a nuclear bomb on a civilian population X2 that was about to surrender anyway..yes it speeded up the "surrender" a bit

 

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250226_21/

[rattlesnake]

"We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms. In the rare cases that content is removed that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct components accordingly."

 

This means that they are not going to remove Enola Gay photos. But of course, we shouldn't rely on the dishonest and immature media (and their mouthpieces) to report that.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029

[SpaceKadet]

11 minutes ago, johng said:

 

I wouldn't call them "heroes"  dropping a nuclear bomb on a civilian population X2 that was about to surrender anyway..yes it speeded up the "surrender" a bit

 

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250226_21/

 

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

 

"...Scare quotes are a particular use of quotation marks. They are placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it is not used in the fashion that the writer would personally use it. In contrast to the nominal typographic purpose of quotation marks, the enclosed words are not necessarily quoted from another source..."

[riclag]

11 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

"We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms. In the rare cases that content is removed that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct components accordingly."

 

This means that they are not going to remove Enola Gay photos. But of course, we shouldn't rely on the dishonest and immature media (and their mouthpieces) to report that.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029

Thanks for exposing the AP’s unofficial , no official lack of transparency!

[zmisha]

It seems that the understanding has come that the approach "Russia has no nuclear weapons hee hee hahaha we can do everything!" could not be applied forever. After this, US behavior changed. Although for some reason many people associate these changes with the name of the president.

[Baht Simpson]

Should be Enola LGBTQ+ anyway.  🙂 

[pomchop]

shoot ready aim....

[Purdey]

That darned Gay plane was always mounting something.

[johng]

49 minutes ago, SpaceKadet said:

"...Scare quotes are a particular use of quotation marks

 

S(ssss)cary quotes and s(ssss)per creeps keep me running ...running scared 😋

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Monsters_(and_Super_Creeps)

[Hamus Yaigh]

On 3/9/2025 at 2:01 PM, KhunLA said:

AP ... 

Perhaps you'd prefer Fox News. https://www.livenowfox.com/news/pentagon-dei-image-removal

basically concurring what AP is saying:

Like the o/p says about being dumb and dumber, it's astonishing that the Pentagon's algorithm or reviewers failed to grasp the historical context and significance of the Enola Gay name, leading to its inclusion in the purge.

 

The situation does bear some resemblance to the classic dystopian novel "1984" by George Orwell. In the book, the totalitarian government exercises total control over information, history, and language, suppressing any narratives that contradict their ideology. 

 

[SpaceKadet]

4 minutes ago, johng said:

 

S(ssss)cary quotes and s(ssss)per creeps keep me running ...running scared 😋

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Monsters_(and_Super_Creeps)

Yes, I am a fan of David Bowie, but Scare Quotes is the official name of my usage of quotes. Get educated, it's in the IRONY section. Missed some primary school maybe?

[KhunLA]

Hmm ... didn't realized they moved it from Mud Island, Memphis TN.  Looked rather good there, as popped over to Mud Island a few times.  Great place for concerts also.

[NoDisplayName]

On 3/9/2025 at 9:48 AM, Celsius said:

Flagged for removal

 

Way to make a mountain out of a gerbil-hill.

 

"Flagged for removal" and "Deleted" not same-same.

 

In this newfangled world, they has this thing called computaters, and they can write programs what do automatic searches. 

 

Ya gets to add a bunch of search terms, and the computater will go through the entire daterbase lickey-split, and print off a list of all the items that matched the search terms.

 

These items are now considered "flagged for removal."  Not deleted yet, just marked for someone to check them.

 

Now some human bean will go lookie-lookie at each item to confirm whether each one should be deleted.

 

Enola Gay dropping nukular bombs incinerating 100,000 civilians - good.

Air defense operator with two mommies marching for sociable justice - bad.

 

 

[johng]

47 minutes ago, SpaceKadet said:

Missed some primary school maybe?

 

Probably,  don't remember ever hearing of "scary quotes" at school ever !

anyway I think I used them correctly even without

a PHD in "everything under the sun"

( or knowing what the hell they are/were)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare quotes

 

express especially skepticism or derision concerning the use of the enclosed word or phrase

 

It would seem you where using the quotes in the same manner 

IE:  they where not really heroes ?

 

[pomchop]

2 hours ago, SpaceKadet said:

Damn that Paul Tibbets for naming his B29 bomber after his mother!

I would be that DJT has no idea that there was a famous plane named enola gay much less what it's role in history was.  Let's see those college transcripts mr genius.....show the world what a great student you were...or were not.

[SpaceKadet]

11 minutes ago, johng said:

 

Probably,  don't remember ever hearing of "scary quotes" at school ever !

anyway I think I used them correctly even without

a PHD in "everything under the sun"

( or knowing what the hell they are/were)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare quotes

 

express especially skepticism or derision concerning the use of the enclosed word or phrase

 

It would seem you where using the quotes in the same manner 

IE:  they where not really heroes ?

 

 

Thanks for being neutral in your reply. I didn't really mean too be spiteful. It's just seems the current aura of the AN posts....

 

But IMO, they where both "heroes" and not. They did difficult mission without knowing what is was, and at the same time Enola Gay marks the start of the time in history when Homo Sapiens are able to to wipe themselves out, and "glass the planet" at the same time, to use the "Halo" wording. 

Whether the drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was needed, is debatable, but it did show what destruction mankind can inflict on itself.

 

And those two are nothing compared to the  Russian "Tsar Bomba", 100Mtons, dialed down to the 50Mtons for the test. 240PJ (peta jules) of energy, that was exploded over Kamchatka in 1961.

[SpaceKadet]

5 minutes ago, pomchop said:

I would be that DJT has no idea that there was a famous plane named enola gay much less what it's role in history was.  Let's see those college transcripts mr genius.....show the world what a great student you were...or were not.

Are you talking to me?