Military Disservice
I confess that I have never served in the military. Vietnam was the war of my youth and I was against that immoral and illegal war. But in the end, the draft lottery kept me out of it.
Captain Bonespurs had his own way to avoid fighting in that war because the draft lottery wasn’t invented yet. But I don’t know if TFG was opposed to that particular war (like me), war in general, or his fighting in any war.
I suspect the latter because of things we now know about him since he couldn’t stop mentioning how American soldiers buried in a World War 1 battlefield cemetery were chumps and losers.
That explains a lot.
It explains why stolen valor is such a touchstone in this year’s presidential campaign. Belittling Governor Walz’s 24 tears of service in the National Guard has become a something of a contest among MAGA Republicans these days.
But it’s OK. Captain Von Schitzenpantz has given stealing Walz’s valor his seal of approval.
So it should not be any surprise that the man was moved to denigrate the Medal of Honor by claiming that the civilian Medal of Freedom was a superior award because a recipient didn’t have to get shot at or killed in order to earn it: Mrs. Adelson only had to donate many millions of dollars to MAGA causes to get her medal.
Lesson: If you give TFG your money, you’re a hero. If you die for your country, you’re some dumb schmuck.
ANY vet that votes for Blivet needs to have their head examined.
1USAF 1969-73.
I’m sure that other recipients of the medal of freedom were expected to do something special for der leader, TFFG, besides mrs Adelson- like devin nunes, jim Jordan and rush limbaugh. Wonder if ms adelson will now renew her love and money for him, and attend his hate rallies.
If you have the time and inclination to read the ProPublica article that just came out on armed militias, I am attaching a link. While rogue armed militias have been around for years, they have become more of a threat and are closely far right politics. This upcoming in 80 days could be another flash point as the 3 percenters are threatening democracy specifically if trumpf loses.
2The reason I bring this up is the fact that the militias are full of military and active police in many states.
https://link.propublica.org/click/36438192.14434/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucHJvcHVibGljYS5vcmcvYXJ0aWNsZS9pbnNpZGUtc2VjcmV0LWFwMy1taWxpdGlhLWFtZXJpY2FuLXBhdHJpb3RzLXRocmVlLXBlcmNlbnQ_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1zYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1tYWpvcmludmVzdGlnYXRpb25zJnV0bV9jb250ZW50PWZlYXR1cmU/5f0c8a9a9f2de35c3e5b4d73C1e8dd3ed
Bonespurs has no shame, no honor, allowing attacks on a man who served in the military 24 years, while he (Trump) battled VD with his choice of sexual liaisons, describing it as his Vietnam.
Maybe Trump should get a medal, or better yet metal, some mercury pills to treat syphilis.
3I have to say that I am enjoying immensely the utter outrage by vets of all kinds towards the Orange Felon’s remarks about the MOH. I’m just wondering how many more groups he will alienate in the next 80 days. Did anybody else see the pictures of the more than half-empty arena OF spoke at in PA today? He also thought he was in North Carolina. In the meantime, Tim Walz spoke at a jam-packed arena in Omaha. The place was rockin’.
On that note, Frank Luntz recently went on TV to say that he was unable to find a single undecided female under the age of 27 for a focus group he was trying to organize. Not one. They are all voting for Kamala.
4BarbinDC, I read that same comment by Frank Luntz. Warms your heart, doesn’t it?
5I haven’t noticed that much outrage. Vance, for example, seems unruffled.
6Harry, I don’t think that JD Vance has brains enough to be ruffled. Unlike Trump, he doesn’t get exercised about crowd sizes, so he just sails along, screw-ups and all. Between the two of them, they are uniquely unfit for the roles of president and vice president. We’ve been through a Trump presidency once. We don’t need to do it again.
7I think the GOP is officially now the BOP- bonkers old party. I used think this guy (alex jones- remember him?) was the craziest Trumpf supporter but the “truth social” posts by trumpf this weekend are as crazy as this guy.
8https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-melt-down-dems-put-us-in-camps/
They are all really off their rockers with the start of the Dem National Convention. Do you think the NYT and other media will try to stir up a bunch of controversy to get their cash registers ringing? Of course they will.
I can’t help but think Vance isn’t showing outrage because he’s testing the waters/biding his time. Doing just enough to keep the maga base appeased, while trying not to not alienate too many of the folks who’ll vote Republican later if trump flames out.
9This guy could really be the logical successor to the Weaselheaded fucknugget in the minds of enough people to pick up the torch of facsim if he can take advantage of the groundwork laid without having to own all the extremism.
Is that capable of that?
Hellifiknow.
But I’m not discounting the possibility that the decision to put him on the ticket was made by somebody not orange.
Is HE capable of that
10With so much of daily life now dependant on this kinda communication, fat thumbs is liable to kill me.
@PP #9: my understanding is that Vance is the Rs’ VP because of the rich of Silicon Valley…namely Pete Thiel. I doubt the orange one protested that much or at all because he definitely was going to pick a white male for VP. Old orangy was never going to let the VP spot go to a female of any color nor any black or Latino or any other minority.
How this for a conspiracy theory: the shooter that tried to shoot old orangy was hired to remove orangy so Vance could move into the top spot. Just a random thought.
11P.P- I’m with ya on that. Even when I proof read I miss something that I can’t blame my thumb on.
12Oh, P.P, I agree with you about Vance. He says stuff that is weird but to the magats that love him, it’s just more bloody red meat. He’s measured in his comments to appeal to them and no one else.
13FYI, when my thumb was saying bloody red meat, spell check was saying “read” meat. I usually don’t catch that stuff.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/feud-john-kelly-rejects-donald-trump-medal-honor-election-2024-rcna167321
14He denigrated POWs, slandered a Gold Star family (the Khans), said of a soldier killed in Niger “He knew what he signed up for,” refused to visit a World War I cemetery in France because it was raining, and proposed replacing generals and admirals with football coaches and NASCAR drivers. Why is anyone surprised when he takes a dump on the Medal of Honor?
15The worry for me is not that Trump will win, but that the cheating may surpass all levels heretofore known in the political universe. And that the final results will end up decided by the
16complicit SCOTUS.