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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 2, 2025 at 11:35 pm
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(May 2, 2025 at 5:49 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: And, in other news, Trump is talking about changing Veterans Day to Victory Day. Another example of how little he thinks of actual veterans.
That's exactly how I took it. He values "victory" more than valor.
I'm sure you agree with me when I write that all of us played a part in, if not being valorous, making that valor possible. My dumb ass was in the rear with the gear where it belonged, but I supported well over a thousand combat sorties at the risk of my own life even though I've never seen combat. No doubt you've done the same.
He's a coward who wouldn't make a pimple on your ass.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 2, 2025 at 11:38 pm
(May 2, 2025 at 7:05 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: And - another one bites the dust..
Marjorie Taylor Greene turns on Trump administration
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/...85d0&ei=10
Let the stupid eat themselves. Nothing she says has any merit, but if they're gnawing each other, good.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 2, 2025 at 11:56 pm
(May 2, 2025 at 11:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (May 2, 2025 at 5:49 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: And, in other news, Trump is talking about changing Veterans Day to Victory Day. Another example of how little he thinks of actual veterans.
That's exactly how I took it. He values "victory" more than valor.
I'm sure you agree with me when I write that all of us played a part in, if not being valorous, making that valor possible. My dumb ass was in the rear with the gear where it belonged, but I supported well over a thousand combat sorties at the risk of my own life even though I've never seen combat. No doubt you've done the same.
He's a coward who wouldn't make a pimple on your ass.
I was also behind the lines in communications. First time I encountered a computer was in AIT. Of course, it only did one thing and that was talk to like computers, but we were set for combat situations...we weren't to fight but to keep people informed...long before you could loop in the wrong people in group chats.
While the Veterans/victory thing chaps my ass, the idea of spending millions for troops and choppers for someone who deserves a bounce house and a nap, at best, rankles my nerves.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 3, 2025 at 1:09 am
(May 2, 2025 at 11:56 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: While the Veterans/victory thing chaps my ass, the idea of spending millions for troops and choppers for someone who deserves a bounce house and a nap, at best, rankles my nerves.
Yeah, rankles. Here's hoping for a serious lapse in security.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 3, 2025 at 1:27 am
(May 2, 2025 at 11:56 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (May 2, 2025 at 11:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That's exactly how I took it. He values "victory" more than valor.
I'm sure you agree with me when I write that all of us played a part in, if not being valorous, making that valor possible. My dumb ass was in the rear with the gear where it belonged, but I supported well over a thousand combat sorties at the risk of my own life even though I've never seen combat. No doubt you've done the same.
He's a coward who wouldn't make a pimple on your ass.
I was also behind the lines in communications. First time I encountered a computer was in AIT. Of course, it only did one thing and that was talk to like computers, but we were set for combat situations...we weren't to fight but to keep people informed...long before you could loop in the wrong people in group chats.
While the Veterans/victory thing chaps my ass, the idea of spending millions for troops and choppers for someone who deserves a bounce house and a nap, at best, rankles my nerves.
Same same. I did nothing noneworthy, I fixed things that make enemy tanks go boom.
These sorts of parades strike me as self-aggrandizing performance politics. They have no place in free societies.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 3, 2025 at 1:31 am
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President bone spurs wants a parade. That, children, is how you say "stolen valor".
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 3, 2025 at 8:01 am
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And that’s why the US will never be taken seriously from now on for generations.
Quote:Trump posts AI picture of himself dressed as pope
Not content with being the leader of the free world, Donald Trump has again suggested that he would also like to be the next pope.
On Friday evening, the US president published a spoof AI-generated photograph of himself dressed in papal regalia on his Truth Social platform.
It comes days ahead of the conclave, where cardinals at the Vatican will elect the successor of Pope Francis, who died on April 21.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...ocial-usa/
And it's not just Trump, but the Official White House account also reposted it.
![[Image: Prop.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/k4t99vSm/Prop.jpg)
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 3, 2025 at 8:09 am
(May 3, 2025 at 8:01 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: And that’s why the US will never be taken seriously from now on for generations.
Quote:Trump posts AI picture of himself dressed as pope
Not content with being the leader of the free world, Donald Trump has again suggested that he would also like to be the next pope.
On Friday evening, the US president published a spoof AI-generated photograph of himself dressed in papal regalia on his Truth Social platform.
It comes days ahead of the conclave, where cardinals at the Vatican will elect the successor of Pope Francis, who died on April 21.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...ocial-usa/
And it's not just Trump, but the Official White House account also reposted it.
I certainly can see him as a head of corrupt, mafia like organization taking advantage of millions credulity.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 3, 2025 at 8:52 am
(May 3, 2025 at 8:09 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: (May 3, 2025 at 8:01 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: And that’s why the US will never be taken seriously from now on for generations.
And it's not just Trump, but the Official White House account also reposted it.
I certainly can see him as a head of corrupt, mafia like organization taking advantage of millions credulity.
I thought he already was!
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
May 3, 2025 at 9:01 am
(May 3, 2025 at 8:52 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: (May 3, 2025 at 8:09 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: I certainly can see him as a head of corrupt, mafia like organization taking advantage of millions credulity.
I thought he already was!
I've meant the other one.
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