Best Point

This is the beautiful West Point Academy, situated along the Hudson River, near my hometown of Suffern, NY. It's about 27 miles away, or 1.57 seconds as the high caliber mortar flies.

For some ungodly reason, my father loved the place and often took us out on Sunday drive to see the campus. And gaze upon the majesty of the place. I say that with not a hint of cynicism or sarcasm. It's amazing.

However, given my father's "problems" with authority and his litigious run ins with the US Army, which landed him a year in the brig (true story), I always wondered about his fascination. And have come to realize that it stemmed from his admiration of certain qualities -- integrity, discipline and perseverance -- that made a very select few, West Point material.

Well, with time on my hand and a super speed internet connection at my disposal, I decided to delve further into the lore of West Point to seek out their definition of leadership. It should come as no surprise, that these right brain oriented soldiers had laid it all out, in bullet point fashion, so that even the laymen civilian like myself could understand.

 And there it is in a nutshell, the characteristics the brass at West Point believe produces Leadership, not just any leadership like running a shift at the local Jack in the Box or guiding a crew of fork lift drivers in a warehouse of wire cable spools and industrial motors, but real, world changing leadership. The kind demanded at the very highest levels of office.

Oh, you must have seen where this is going.

Let's see how our Leader, the leader of all leaders, stacks up against the West Point criteria.

1. "...the personal courage to to take appropriate action regardless of consequences." Just yesterday we found out, through the horse's mouth, that Precedent Shitgibbon bravely took office despite losing billions and billions of dollars. He's a giver. A give, give, give, giver.

2. "Humility that enables an individual to treat others with dignity and display selflessness." We saw that the other day at the now legendary presser, when he put that terrible reporter in his place for asking a nasty question. How dare he?

3. "acts with with proper decorum in all professional, social, and online environments." Next slide please.

4. "possesses the sense of duty". I think we can all agree Captain Ouchie Foot always puts America First. Hell, it's his campaign slogan. It's about us. And always about us. It's why he famously said, "the buck stops with everyone" and "I don't take responsibility at all."

5. Finally, a great leader must "establish a safe, positive command climate where everyone thrives while achieving results." This goes without saying, were it not for Grandpa Ramblemouth's quick action and stellar response to the coronavirus pandemic, there's a chance my garage would have never been cleaned out and reorganized to demanding cadet standards.

To wit these amazing results...

Thank you Dear Leader. We are so lucky to have you.