Spyke
dhork
lemmy.world

More recently, Trump came under scrutiny when The Atlantic reported in 2020 that he had called those who died in war "suckers" and "losers." Trump has vehemently denied the reported remarks, which President Biden repeated on the campaign trail before he dropped out of the race. ABC News has not independently confirmed the story.

In other words, ABC News is super duper lazy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543

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tacosanonymousreply
lemm.ee

As someone who served, I know just how stupid service members can be. Most were single-issue voters and it was who would give them the bigger raise 99% of the time.

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tacosanonymousreply
lemm.ee

I was in a long time ago. I don’t think any of the enlisted people I knew (none above the age of 30) understood why we were even deployed. They are young, uninformed, and most likely brainwashed. They certainly didn’t respect any context or nuance that I tried to provide.

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stolyreply
lemmy.world

Two things:

  1. It turns out that unlike the police, soldiers in the US are not wanting to overthrow the government. They actually support the chain of command, etc.
  2. Soldiers was always a symbol. It's like being pro-life. In neither case do they actually care about the people involved. They just want to feel like they are being tough on something.
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eestileibreply
sh.itjust.works

Because like you said the military is ruby red.

People see the R, they pull the lever.

Literally nothing DJT does will cost him votes from people for whom being a Republican is an identity.

It's all about turning out people who prefer left policies but don't vote.

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snooggumsreply
midwest.social

They will speak against him, but odds are the number of votes for him will be comparable to his last two outings.

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eestileibreply
sh.itjust.works

Yeah people say "hold up", then a week later they're endorsing him again.

McCarthy, McConnell, Graham, Cruz, Vance, it goes on and on.

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Okokimupreply
lemmy.world

We should always draw a distinction between republican politicians and republican voters. The former are concerned only with their careers and are often not true believers in conservative rhetoric.

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GraniteM
lemmy.world

Me: Yeah, whatever he said it's probably not good.

"But I really, I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom," he said. "That's the highest award you can get as a civilian. It's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version, it's actually much better, because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers. They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead. She gets it and she's healthy, beautiful woman."

Me: OH, FUCK!

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Naja Kaouthiareply
lemmy.world

Bone Spurs McShart can only buy one of those medals like his buddies the Adelsons did so of course he thinks it’s better.

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backpacknreply
lemmy.ml

Always michael scotting his way through a fragment of a thought

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Flying_Hellfishreply
lemmy.world

Sometimes I’ll start a sentence, and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

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ceenote
lemmy.world

The context for this comment is that he was recognizing a zionist billionaire donor that he gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom to. When he moved the embassy to Jerusalem and recognized it as Israel's capital, it was explicitly at her request. He said the Presidential Medal of Freedom was better than a Medal of Honor, because people who get the Medal of Honor are often injured or dead.

More evidence that self-sacrifice just does not make sense to him, a borderline psychopathic narcissist.

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macniel
feddit.org

Does he have a deathwish? You don't fuck with served soldiers who even got a medal of honor. They know how to NOT MISS.

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Encephalotrocityreply
biglemmowski.win

'Sgt. Hugenutz singlehandedly defended his wounded platoon from an ambush, periodically picking up captured weapons and fighting hand to hand when ammo ran out, for 2 days straight before recovery teams arrived to withdraw. Suffered and survived 3 severe wounds he is credited with saving the lives of 10 men and costing the enemy over 500 casualties.'

"What a loser". - Some guy about to get his shit pushed in.

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lemmylommyreply
lemmy.world

No, but he has an insatiable craving for attention and saying outrageous things makes the media deliver him that.

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