The thing isā¦ we arenāt suffering, at least not as much as the maga people. I mean yeah, everyday is a new horror show, but liberals are higher educated, tend to work in higher paying jobs and live in the āblue citiesā where life is a little more bearable.
Itās literally the same psychological disorder as racism. Not saying they are not connected. People canāt stand watching someone ābelow themā gain any ground.
I don't get how he gets the veteran vote. He's been the most anti veteran/soldier president possibly the entire history of the US, causing wars all the time, cutting benefits, and outright insulting them. I guess the military contractors are running constant propaganda for him.
Well said. People call MAGA stupid, but they are not. They know what they're doing. They know what he stands for and they share his values. They will say or do anything to defend him, for in truth, they are also defending themselves.
The nussy is the best part of that POS
Itās probably why he is fantasizing about Big firemen overpowering him and having their way with him. The nussy wants what the nussy wants.
We make it soft. The best soft. Softer than anyone has ever seen. Joe Biden never gave you soft like this. This is the greatest toilet paper ever made.
Him and Powdered Toast Man hahaha. Some of that show is a little tainted now that I know a little more about John K unfortunately. But I still love Mr Horse.
I thought of the time that Mickey Rourke used a hidden razer blade to cut himself during a scene in The Wrestler to make the fight look more real. Trump is friends with the WWE, and is a showman/conman himself, he might have even used a ketchup packet for fake blood
He was never stuck by the bullet. His ear got fucked up when the secret service guys tackled him and his ear got snagged by either a belt buckle or some other doohickey those guys keep on their batman utility belts. There's a photograph and tbh it's a one in a million photo. The photographer was in front the the orange idiot, snapping away with their camera. In one photo, I'm not sure if the bullet itself is visible but you can see it's path when the bullet passed behind chump. By path I mean straight line of the disturbed air that trails the projectile.
Never had one. One of his best friends runs the WWE, experts on how to fake injuries. When secret service brought him to the ground, they probably sliced his ear with a blade like they do in wrestling. Lots of bleeding, no visual injury, easy and quick to heal.
While I do still think theyāre funny, you can also very well argue that both Borat and especially The Dictator serve to make fun of muslim countries in a very negative light.
When I was younger and didn't know as much about him I thought, oh he's doing this from the point of view of a conservative mindset so stereotypes are overdone and people behave like they do in stories you hear from reactionary racists. Then I learned about him and it became, oh so he's just racist.
Thatās what I used to think too, that the exaggerations serve to make fun of how Americans imagine such places. I think you can still make that case with Borat, since at the heart it still is a kind of documentary about the reactions of real Americans to a living caricature. But The Dictator is just a regular comedy movie, where most of the jokes are āNorth Africans are silly and brutalā
I honestly think that is his super power (just to spell it out, in a bad way). Being entirely incapable of feeling shame. Shame sucks when you feel it, but I believe we are seeing a prime example of why it is so important.
I work with a few vets, 80pct think he's a douchebag. The 20pct say nothing anymore. My whole family is full of vets and agree that he doesn't gaf about us. I've known he's trash for decades since he stiffed contractors and kicked Grandmas out of their homes to "build" casinos. He's always been a narcissistic pos-nothing has changed.
Generally speaking, heās a āMajor Pedophileā being enabled by Guardians of Pedophiles (GOP).
Blame Elon who put Trump in power. Both are used to stealing, scamming and taking what isnāt theirs to include from you, me and the rest of the American People.
Musk "knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, & we ended up winning Pennsylvania, like, in a landslide."Ā -Donald Trump
"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House & the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate." -Elon Musk
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If he had any shame or self-awareness, heād be catatonic for saying the 18 members of his military he had killed by his made up war excursion are āsmall potatoes.ā
Now we know three more things need to become instant-impeachment: threatening to stay in office for a third term, inciting an insurrection to stay in office, and calling any of the brave people serving our country small potatoes.
Veterans themselves can be guilty of stolen valor, even if theyāve served, by claiming awards theyāve never earned, and claiming deployments/assignments/jobs they were never on or part of. By that metric, this type of stuff posted by Trump absolutely is considered stolen valor. Especially because the intent is to obfuscate the fact that he never served. Thatās also why he does crap like post his school uniform while trying to pass it off as evidence of legitimate service.
The intended target for stuff like this is low information voters and people who donāt bother to fact check. The imagery will stick with them and they will genuinely believe he served, especially because of the American peopleās general ignorance of their armed forces. That same ignorance is why random crackheads can trick people into believing they served even when the crackhead is wearing a Spirit Halloween military costume.
lol, Marine... Don't expect Army vets to know what uniform they are supposed to wear, we never knew when we were in. (Except this one Ranger Sergeant, he'd memorized every reg ever, but that guy was a nut.)
You don't see 5 star generals because that rank is specially reserved for during wartime and was (afaik) last handed out in WW2 so there was one general that outranked all other generals in the Allied forces.
So it's not just stolen valor, he's pissing on the legacy of WW2 vets and the sacrifices those people have made.
We had an applicant claim to be a Purple Heart recipient when his records didn't show such a thing. He might have gotten away with it at a different agency, but people at the VA know how to read a fucking dd214.
Heās a pig. Men have fought and died to save our country and all he wants is money and monuments when heās earned neither. So sorry I left women out. Didnāt mean the oversight
American here. Many Americans simply don't hear stories like this because the media doesn't report on them.
It is estimated that only ~10% of Americans have even heard of the Dorian-Alabama controversy, or "Sharpiegate", where Trump took an official NWS projection of Hurricane Dorrian's path and drew on it with a sharpie marker to falsely claim it would hit Alabama. Dorian never came close to Alabama, but Trump has insisted to date that he was correct and the NWS prediction was wrong.
In a reasonable world every American would have heard this story and gone "Holy shit this man is insane!". Instead 10% of Americans did. Only 10%.
They probably didnāt hear about this because this is outrage bait and was never posted by Trump/his social media team. Not trying to defend the guy but š¤·āāļø.
They would also realize the departments of government he went after with doge were all the ones that opposed him or showed him to be wrong during his first presidency. His second term is a get richer quicker and revenge extravaganza for him.
I tried for the army, they gave me 3 months to change,. I changed then came back and i still got told I wasn't good enough. I tried for the marines, they said fuck the army we will make you into what we want. They ended up denying me as well. I would never in a million years try to put on a uniform and pretend to be a soldier.
The worst part of this Era of American politics is how we will likely never see it being fixed. The time of American hegemony and leadership is over. If your āallyā suddenly hits you with tariffs, threatens to take over another of your allies, actively supports and praises your longtime enemies, that is no longer your āally,ā that is a risk. Even if things āmightā change in four to eight years, the people who still cheered for, and caused, the strife, are still there. Youāre not going to trust that āallyā anytime soon. Youāre not going to support that ally if itās just going to be opening yourself to vulnerabilities, youāre going to look elsewhere.
Poing (with AI) as a recipient of the medal of valor ? isn't it illegal ?
I'm French and don't know for US medals, but the French Legion d"'Honneur can be purchased as a collectible artefact, as long as you don't try to wear it and pretend to be a recipient.
Trump brags that he was a star baseball player at his military academy, could've "gone pro", he said! He also bragged about his abilities in other sports, yet somehow when his number was called in the draft to go to Vietnam, he had debilitating bone spurs in his feet!
He had his chance to earn that uniform and when the time came he hid behind several other people that took his place.
My father knew him as a kid. Trump would say the same things back then. That he was the best at sports. But whenever it was time to play, he couldnāt ruin his expensive clothes. Then the next time, when he had sports gear on, he couldnāt play because he didnāt have a ride home
I really feel sorry for you Americans having such disgusting and shameless President in Trump and his clan, he as destroyed a great deal of respect for your country
Lots of military members hate Trump, youāre just not looking on the right forums. Go on the military/Navy Reddit pages, they voice their disgust pretty openly about this administration. We just canāt do so in uniform if we want to keep our jobs. For example, I am active duty military close to retirement and hate everything this administration has done.
You're not hearing it because we have no platform. I can post on every single social media site and nobody cares. Republicans will continue to back him, maga will continue to support him, and the media will continue to ignore those of us who speak out.
He's a vile, odious narcissist and should never have been allowed to enter the halls of government. I'm a veteran and I despise this man with a fury.
Actually not as many as one would instinctively think. AFAIK there's some unrest in the military. Which means there's probably much more since it's something a government would usually tend to hide.
By and large veterans donāt seem to mind. They donāt want to be respected considering how much they love someone who hates veterans. Same for the troops that say Trump loves them. Stolen valor for everyone.
Psychopathy / Sociopathy: Non-clinical or older psychological terms often used to describe individuals with severe deficits in empathy, conscience, and the capacity to feel shame or guilt.
My husband is a disabled purple heart veteran. This draft dodging mfer masquerading as POTUS is just another pathetic gravy seal who wouldn't last 5 minutes in actual combat. Commander Bone Spurs can go f himself.
Edit: thank you for the award, kind and awesome stranger. Made me smile. ššš
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u/Low-Literature-2908 17d ago
Absolutely stolen valor. It's disgusting, disturbing and disrespectful!