Cabinet And Relative Position
Thedillpickl
Hi kids!
Well it's almost time. Wanted to let you have a look at the old cabinet.
Har har har...
Also going to point out a few differences between me and the other guys.
KISS The Cabinet
No, I'm not getting kinky with the furniture. KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid. With Canada being wiped I figure trying to get unwiped should consume most of my time. When I contacted Utat about continuing as MoE he responded that RL is keeping him busy. Not wanting to screw up any of his plans we're just going to park education this month. If anyone wants to publish something for the new people, just run it by me first and we can make it an official publication. Now on with the show...
Prime Minister
Lansizzle
You may not know him, but trust me, none better. He knows what I'm thinking before I do.
Minister of Foreign Affairs
klop123
Again, none better. He knows shiz.
Minister of Defense
DMV3
Done a great job for Rylde in April, no doubt he'll be great workin' with LETO.
Minister of Moolah
Shaun Carter
Knows eRep financials, trust him like a brother. In charge of fund raising and dispensing money.
Prime Minister Lansizzle will speak/act for me when I'm not available. Klop will have the authority to negotiate with the final approval to be given by yours truly. He will do all the formal 'diplomatic' crap while I will be playing a round or two of golf with the PotUS. Dennis will be working with all the cabinet to develop strategy. He will also be in direct contact with LETO. Shaun is in charge of the money honey. I trust him implicitly. All fundraising and/or donations go to him to keep track of. He carries my purse.
Those not mentioned may wish to choose an 'official' title if they like but I would ask that they work with these four ministers to get stuff done. I will be releasing the full cabinet Deputies, Assistants & Advisers after the election. Unless assigned a task they will be available for whatever needs doing. Everyone on the cabinet is welcome to give me their input, in fact I desire it. Advisers don't have to do anything special but hang out.
Want to be part of the team? It's not too late, fill out this application form to apply for a job.
Comparing Apples To Kumquats
Here's a short rundown of where I differ from the competition.
DMV3
In the article Victory or Death? Dennis explains that we must spend money that we don't have because the last Congress decided to keep the gold surplus in the treasury. This was done with the full knowledge that there is no access to the treasury when wiped. He wants to sell war bonds to our allies with no way of guaranteeing repayment. He also advocates having a Congress outside game mechanics. This would supposedly give him the ability to pass special legislation to accomplish his goals. He also claims that only MDP opposes his idea and lumps everyone in the party together.
I find it dangerous to make broad sweeping decisions without a Congress to back me up. I would rather defer any 'unusual' design I had to be the will of the people. This is just too risky in my opinion. Dennis talks about the 500,000 cc needed for CO's and MPP's. He's said it's impossible to raise that much through donations. Then he talks about how he's already donated 200,000 cc for CO's. I know I've donated probably 200,000 directly to CP Rylde either for his "Top 100" & "Top 50" endeavors and simply a direct donation for MPP's and such when the subject of funding came up on the cabinet thread. I've also donated around 100,000 cc for RW's. Either by personally supporting them or paying others to do so. Also my MU has donated (they just don't know they did) quite a bit of Q7 for IRC and donations to MU's that are our friends such as MEK.
One final note, we cannot spend our way out of the wipe. Dennis talks about how he "knows" the US. Well, I am very familiar with their goings on too. They are doing the same thing I talk about above and they have a lot more people with deep pockets. We will win one of two ways. 1) We will annoy them long enough and they will get bored. 2) When LETO is able, our turn will come.
Kazuo Leblanc
In his letter to Bruce Lightninghands published in the article Decisive LETO Victory he proposes we surrender, assimilate into the US and do what is essentially a PTO giving us the "political ability to gum up the works".
I wish to be no party of a surrender without terms nor to a PTO.
CptKaydee
Here's his article People's Republic of Canada in which it is proposed that we AS to gain a colony elsewhere. He says it will be easy. In Bosnia "it has been very beneficial". When I was resident in Switzerland I saw how easy it was for Slovenia to RW Alberta which we were renting.
I just don't see this happening. However, if people actually want to do it I will poke the necessary button. Just don't look at me to pay for something this silly. I'll personally help fund RW's and MPP's but not an AS.
That's Enough
I find articles such as this, and the comments that follow, repetitive and tedious. Debate is fun when done properly but not with the same material day in and day out. I appreciate if you at least skimmed and got a rough idea of my thinking.
IBB has offered to do a debate to be released in an article by him. Look for it before you vote Monday. Please do take the time to consider everyone's position. In my opinion now is not the time to back down, now is the time to do serious FA and serious fighting. They go hand in hand with our complaint being herd in the US. Of course PLEASE VOTE!
Thank you for your kind attention,
dill
Comments
We need the USA to NE someone of substance. The USA growing balls is as likely as your girlfriend growing balls.
Yes, but they need to feel good about themselves. Bullies typically pick on smaller kids.
Debate occurring tomorrow, article will be worked on immediately after debate concludes and HOPEFULLY published before Election Day, and if not, very early ON Election Day!
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Also, Good Luck Pickl, The Pirate Party is behind you! o\
o7 Looking forward to the debate
o7 Your esteemed opponent could stand to learn a thing or two from you.
~hyuu~
"When I was resident in Switzerland I saw how easy it was for Slovenia to RW Alberta which we were renting."
Under this circumstance we only granted Switzerland 1 region. If a country loses that, they are done. You need 4+ regions for it to be worth it. When you lose a region, you can regain it by re-opening the war. Once a region is recaptured by our forces that resets the determination and gives us more time.
OK, so if we can keep wining the war there...
why can't we keep wining the war here?
Ooh, there's a tough one.
We can't win the war because we are outnumbered by a country who believe we are threat to their security because we are an ally of Serbia. A country that we AS shouldnt be a country that has 8k+ population but one that has a fraction of our population.
Yes but again what stops USA from contributing to RWing the region we gain with the AS. Even if there are 4 regions, they could easily RW those back for the original country. Just to wipe Canada. What dill was trying to point out with the question was, that USA can reach us through "start a resistance war" in whatever country in whatever region we go to.
Plus you cannot gain those regions back before USA wipes us out in the airstriked country unless we magically start becoming stronger than USA or buy damage (but we cannot do that, since we'll waste resources on the airstrikes) and we cannot be so sure of allies to back us up. It won't work.
and if we are so much stronger than USA and we're capable of beating them in battles than why not take our original regions back. Yes because we cannot keep them. But how can we then keep the AS-d regions?
Dill it's easy to criticize your opponents when you haven't put out anything of substance yourself. Your philosophy is we'll keep doing the same while our community dies. You have no domestic agenda or cabinet, to be honest we can't continue ignoring our domestic affairs.
lol
Seems this place is more active now than when we first showed up. I'm just telling people what will work in the long run. What exactly was your idea for domestic tranquility? Fake congress that actually votes on stuff and internship? Fake congress was soundly rejected last month when it was only perceived that they were going to assume any power (people didn't realize it was only for fun). Before you preach that MDP is against this meta congress remember that it was PP Welsh that proposed the pretend congress last month. D
FWIW, I'm not against interns. The just bloody well do something while they sit in my cabinet. I don't have time to babysit. That's the party presidents job.
This is why you shouldn't have DMV on your cabinet. All he does is bitch and moan. Frankly I could do without his bullshit. Reminds me of kimiyimi over in Switzerland.
Actually, Dennis is a good worker, a hard worker and I have little doubt that he will do what I ask of him. He has proven himself to be a loyal help in Rylde's cabinet or I would not have asked his help. He's just using that same determination in trying to win the election. Unfortunately I cannot pour myself into fighting as hard against him. My aim is to help Canada as best I know how. I will not 'create' things to get myself elected. I either rise to the top or fail on my own merits.
Dill, the fact is Rylde went afk and who stepped up and took the lead? It wasn't you. The fact is took over the war effort and actually tried to lead the country despite the fact no one had access to the buttons to do the job properly. As you have said you're just a worker, eCanada needs a leader. Your idea of leadership is to lead from behind. The fact is if you're elected CP and if you're successful in beating the eUS it will be because me and Klop do the heavy lifting for you. Why shouldn't eCanada jusy cut out the middleman and elect someone who steps up and leads when eCanada needs leadership? All you are offering is the same tired tune that will ensure eCanada whithers and dies of boredom.
LOL It's kind of funny how you started your campaign all being humble and not bragging and shit. I didn't like you much in the eUSA always thought you needed to step your ego down a notch. So when I saw you again in Canada, you seemed to kind of been changed and more down to earth. Boy was I wrong...you keep saying how you do not want to brag with what you've spent on the war and what you've done. But you keep bringing it up all the time randomly in conversations.
Honestly there wasn't much wrong with your ideas apart from with how you intend to legitimize the war bonds but otherwise it seems reasonable. But you really need to check the mirror dude, the more closer the election day the more chest thumping I see. As you say Canada needs a leader, so quit acting like an asshole and be one. As you see asshole is far from being the TOP dawg and leading people. Asshole is actually very much in the bottom.
I understand this is all politics and you need to ensure that you get more votes in the elections so you assassinate others (who vocally do not support you) and try to make yourself more glorious. But in all honesty you're coming off pretentious as hell. Hope you get yourself together. Honestly I think you might be a great guy, but that ego needs to get checked every once in a while.
Lol, MDP puppet accuses me of political assassination. That's rich.
LOL at calling me a puppet for MDP, been there for 1-2 weeks. Joined to maybe get a shot at the Congress, haven't been part of any party politics. I don't even know what the party thinks about it nor who's supporting who. Could care less tbh. All I want is fair play and good choices for Canada. That's why I've been criticising your meta-congress idea, as I think it's a crappy way to legitimize war bonds. And I do not like dirty politics, that's why I commented here. Otherwise I have no issues.
So far from a puppet, I practically don't even belong in the MDP.
no greater tip of the hat to your competition then having him in one of the most important positions in your cabinet
"One final note, we cannot spend our way out of the wipe"
Then why do you never waste an opportunity to let people know how much you have spent. War bonds are nothing new to eCanada, a CP making decisions without a congress is nothing new. And there is no better way to "We will annoy them long enough and they will get bored" then a well funded RW effort and your advocating of donations from an already exhausted population is short sited and just more of the same lethargic leadership that we have seen in Ryldes last few months whatever the reason
"He (DMV3) also advocates having a Congress outside game mechanics"
wasnt this idea birthed in the belly of a pickle run MDP that you defended
Because funds are needed to maintain the pressure. If we lay down and take it the US will never leave. Ask Mexico.
Let me ask what you'll do after the borrowed 500k is gone, borrow more? Where does it end?
And for what it's worth, Dennis started bragging about his 200k donated for co's well before I publicly said anything about my contribution. Also, if anyone doesn't have to give don't worry about it.
Dill it wasn't bragging, I was relating what it had cost to win over those three days. If I were going to brag I would bring up the 500k I spent while Canada was wiped by Spain to help my friends here despite being an eUS citizen. The fact is I have a long history of putting forward help to eCanada finacially, so to say I will squander the 500k in reserves is misleading at best and a downright lie at worst.
Then why call it bragging because I supported and paid for others to support RW's and help pay for MPP's and other misc expenses?
Also you never answered, when does it end?
Only 500k in war bonds will be issued, I have stated that more than once. As I have also stated before using all of that money might not be necessary in one month. A war fund gives us options to better deal with the enemy. The fact we're broke is the only reason the eUS is able to press our wipe.
Yes it will be necessary to spend the entire 500k (and then some) if you expect to hold a territory for a month. USA has way more financial resources and people than we do and if they want to keep us wiped, they have the ability to so because we lack the money and numbers to compete at their level. We need diplomacy if we expect to maintain a territory going forward. If that isn't possible then we better save up our money and let the resistance bonuses build up.
"no greater tip of the hat to your competition then having him in one of the most important positions in your cabinet" - Dill recognizes talent when he sees it, regardless of that person's party affiliation. McVicker does not.
"Then why do you never waste an opportunity to let people know how much you have spent. " - Ask your boy McVicker:
"If I were going to brag I would bring up the 500k I spent while Canada was wiped by Spain to help my friends here despite being an eUS citizen. The fact is I have a long history of putting forward help to eCanada finacially"
"your advocating of donations from an already exhausted population is short sited" - Because draining the treasury for an "all-in" push and leaving us without any sort of reserves in the unlikely event that it works is really thinking ahead.
"wasnt this idea birthed in the belly of a pickle run MDP that you defended" - Nope. It was birthed in the belly of a Jason Welsh-run MDP. And you shit on it then, too.
Keep saying stupid things, please.
Best of luck Mr. Pickl!
Voted, good luck o7
Voted! Best of luck Dill! If I can help from way over here in Serbia, let me know!!