spaghettiwesternTrump Told General Milley to Banish Wounded Military Veteran From Events: ‘No One Wants to See That’
ForestOrcaYa know, it's funny, I suspect the wounded vets would love to look at themselves in the mirror and see that they in fact hadn't been wounded. But for them it's just not that easy.
Should we just rename this community “mediaite?”
queermunist she/herAnd they’re going to vote for him.
YoBuckStopsHereTrump doesn’t have much support from military members, but I’ve seen far too many of my fellow veterans supporting TFG and it needs to stop.
TFG?
That Fucking Guy.
Wodgecould be “The Fat Gimp” as well.
Trump’s Fudge-filled Gut?
pomodoro_longbreakGot a problem with fat gimps?
Only gimps that like taking peoples rights away. Standard gimps are ok in my book, no kink-shaming from me, apart from foot fetishists, weird.
Obligatory “kink-shaming is my kink”
As a person also wondering about that acronym, thank you for your service. 🫡
Originally it was “the former guy,” which is what Biden said when he didn’t want to use Trump’s name.
The former guy
The fat guy
And call it patriotism 🤣
Military support for him really waned over his first term. Previous year the general consensus was enlisted were ruby red voters while officers/lifers leaned blue. In '20 that nearly flipped with enlisted becoming a toss up leaning red and officers/lifers breaking hard blue.
ChrisLichtFascism has such weird body issues.
Next Trump admin, look for Liver King stuffed into a Navy crackerjack suit.
Fascism has such weird body issues.
Always has. The Nazis’ first mass-murder victims were children with disabilities.
The most incredible thing to me is when they paint him as some kind of strong man, when he’s probably literally shit his pants if he had to pick up some furniture. I’m not going to go on some tirade of dunking on orange man, just look at the guy. He’s not healthy, let alone strong. He looks like a package of gummy bears that accidentally get left in the car in July.
To be frank, that’s really all Trump has is veneer. Projecting the strong man energy while also having riding around in a golf cart be his most vigorous form of exercise and wearing shitty suit cuts that can’t hide his obesity; the spray tan and comb over to project the idea that he’s young and outdoorsy, while he’s whiter than calling the police and almost 80 years old; acting like he can relate to the common man when the dude eats KFC with a fork and knife on his private jet. Even the charity work the Trump organization has been involved in was little more than a flat out scam. If Trump was a fruit, he’d be all rind.
An upvote was insufficient. This is world class ranting.
I hope you don’t mind me using the “if Trump is a fruit, he’d be all rind” bit
World class rant
Go right ahead!
So much for the “ParTY of patRIOTS”
Fuck off for your service.
You know, as a non-combat veteran I would laugh my ass off if someone said this to me.
Would you describe your service in the military as sweeping sand in a sandstorm? Mopping up the floor in a hurricane?
Just curious.
As in I served in a non-combat role state side.
Technical job, as far from the front line as is possible. In fact, the US wasn’t officially even at war, I was in between the first and second gulf war.
They just prefer the veterans who didn’t get injured.
If Trump suffers a stroke and ends up in a wheelchair and/or partially paralyzed himself, I think this comment gives everyone permission to feel happy about that.
I would give him a small bell he can tap on to communicate. And talk to him in Spanish all the time.
Rosie O’Donnell walking away from an explosion only to turn her head and reveal that one half of her face is missing…
I get happy every time that chucklefuck is in public and clearly distressed.
May he never know a second of peace.
It would probably be the stroke suffering Trump.
MegaUltraChicken“Ugh, why’d I have to clot inside this moron?” -Stroke, probably
It won’t even be a real stroke, just his first well formed thought will be enough to cause an aneurism.
The best stroke, a tremendous stroke!!
samus12345This comment all the comments in general he’s ever made.
I’ve moved on to DnD style ethics, if something bad happens to someone whos evil aligned, that action is a good action. The old ethics were written for the powerful in an attempt to justify their power and demonize any challenges to it.
Fuck yeah. I mean, just look at Always Sunny. QED.
Uh hello this is the based department, we’re calling about the job opportunity. Unfortunately, you’re overqualified.
I have to give him credit for being right. Broken clock and all. Obviously no one wants to see wounded vets. Personally I’d rather they just not be in positions to get wounded or at the very least they have proper access to medical care post injury.
Medical care should be top priority. If we fought wars with flower petals and cotton candy, then we wouldn’t need to worry about it. But war is ugly, and these are the repercussions. People should see the hard truths so that we can make better choices on how to provide for the wounded, and the possibilities when committing to that line of work.
Trump was out of line with his remarks, and clearly has no appreciation for those who serve. He wants to be able to live in his fantasy land without seeing the consequences of his actions and what being the leader of a country entails. Shame on him. If he doesn’t think wounded veterans are suitable to be seen, then he isn’t suited to be Commander in Chief.
You buried a good point (about reducing harm from war) in a wrapper of shit (about thinking trump’s comments were at all appropriate).
I, and many Americans are happy to “see” wounded vets. They’re people, just with injuries, they aren’t a spectacle. That said, it is important to recognize the physical toll of our political choices, so people like aliva should not be tucked away.
Your main point of “maybe people shouldn’t be injured in war to begin with” makes sense, but you’re being downvoted probably because that is not what Trump meant and therefore he isn’t “right.”
Except me, I downvoted you because I think it’s funny how indignant you got about “ignorant twats” when it was fairly obvious why people were downvoting you.
because that is not what Trump meant and therefore he isn’t “right.”
… and the clock isn’t “right”. It just happens to display the correct time for a brief moment.
proleLol at pretending that you actually think Trump was making a statement about war, and that “we need fewer wounded vets,” and not, “get this disgusting person away from me and out of my line of vision.”
Quite the attempt there.
You read that wrong. Try again.
EdibleFriendYou’re being downvoted because you’re ignoring the current issue in the world right now. Right now this is a post where he said we need to hide the disabled veterans so nobody can see them. You said he’s right about that and went on about how we need to just make war go away.
War is not going away right this second. So write this second you’re only real point is that yes we must hide the veterans. We can work towards making more go away in the future but that’s going to be centuries. If we even survive that long.
That’s not what that says. He didn’t day we need to hide the injured veterans. He said “No one wants to see that”. It’s understood he meant hide them from sight. Hence the broken clock reference. I was saying the statement is correct, that nobody wants to see injured veterans. I then add that the primary way to accomplish that would be to reduce the number of injured vets. The second goal would be to ensure good healthcare if they become injured despite the primary goal.
You’re looking at it through a lense of compassion. Go back and read what Trump said again. Do you really think he’s doing the same?
Did you even read the edit? I was being sarcastic about him being “right”. A broke clock is still right twice a day…
If Milley did it right, he would have put the wounded front and centre after a remark like that. Just shove it in his face.
The public wasn’t allowed to know because the Hatch Act prevents public disclosures like that from federal government employees.
You misread his/her comment. They were saying to park wounded soldiers at every presser, not to comment in violation of the Hatch Act.
Milley had chosen a severely wounded Army captain, Luis Avila, to sing “God Bless America.” Avila, who had completed five combat tours, had lost a leg in an IED attack in Afghanistan, and had suffered two heart attacks, two strokes, and brain damage as a result of his injuries. To Milley, and to four-star generals across the Army, Avila and his wife, Claudia, represented the heroism, sacrifice, and dignity of wounded soldiers.
It had rained that day, and the ground was soft; at one point Avila’s wheelchair threatened to topple over. Milley’s wife, Hollyanne, ran to help Avila, as did Vice President Mike Pence. After Avila’s performance, Trump walked over to congratulate him, but then said to Milley, within earshot of several witnesses, “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.” Never let Avila appear in public again, Trump told Milley. (Recently, Milley invited Avila to sing at his retirement ceremony.)
GuildoHe’s right, that’s why they’re mostly showing strong manly soldiers and not veterans on the streets. People would be against war, if they saw all consequences.
Not surprised
It wasn’t even a decade ago when the Republican party was all about the wounded vets and veterans in general. They were THE American heroes and were honored extensively. They used them to speak about how the libs didn’t give a damn about our soldiers and all that crap.
Then Trump came in with his “I like soldiers who don’t get hurt or captured” bullshit and all the POW/MIA flags disappeared and got replaced with the Gadsen flag and the Iron Cross.
Then Trump came in with his “I like soldiers who don’t get hurt or captured” bullshit and all the POW/MIA flags disappeared and got replaced with the Gadsen flag and the Iron Cross.