The Absurd GOP

[Thumpalumpacus]

An award ceremony for “Saving Private Ryan” star Tom Hanks has been canceled by the West Point Association of Graduates, an alumni association for the the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., according to The Washington Post.

The Post reported Saturday that the award ceremony was canceled by the West Point Association of Graduates because the association wants the school to pay more attention to getting future officers ready for war.

In a faculty email, retired Army Col. Mark Bieger, who serves as president and CEO of the West Point Association of Graduates, let others know about the choice to cancel the ceremony, according to the Post, which said it obtained the email.

Hanks would have been awarded the Sylvanus Thayer Award, according to the Post.

On the West Point Association of Graduates website, the association states the award goes “to an outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify personal devotion to the ideals expressed in the West Point motto, ‘Duty, Honor, Country.’”

It is not clear whether Hanks, who has starred in several movies honoring U.S. veterans of foreign wars and was instrumental in getting the World War II memorial built on the National Mall, will still get the award.

Hanks has a history of criticizing President Trump, saying in June 2024 that Trump securing a second White House term could indicate that the U.S.’s “journey to a more perfect union has missteps in it.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch...cancelled/

Apparently it's only "cancel culture" if some right-wing bigot gets cancelled.

[Angrboda]

[AFTT47]

A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland

“What is an American?” This was the question Schmitt posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington. His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. It is fundamentally, he told an assembled crowd, a white homeland.

This is incredibly fucked up and a scary indicator of how far we have fallen. Just 10 years ago this would have been political suicide. Now, it's perfectly acceptable to those on the right.

Gotta love the hypocrisy too. I wonder what Americans in WWII would have thought of his German ancestry.

[Ivan Denisovich]

This is incredibly fucked up and a scary indicator of how far we have fallen. Just 10 years ago this would have been political suicide. Now, it's perfectly acceptable to those on the right.

Gotta love the hypocrisy too. I wonder what Americans in WWII would have thought of his German ancestry.

Part of the problem might be that it was always perfectly acceptable but unsaid. It's not like right wing and racism are eternal enemies.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland

This is incredibly fucked up and a scary indicator of how far we have fallen. Just 10 years ago this would have been political suicide. Now, it's perfectly acceptable to those on the right.

Gotta love the hypocrisy too. I wonder what Americans in WWII would have thought of his German ancestry.

There was a time in early US history when German immigrants were considered non-white.

Boru

[Mister Agenda]

I'm suddenly curious about Megan Kelly's mortgage status.

[Angrboda]

A private dinner attended by dozens of administration officials and close advisers to President Donald Trump was temporarily marred by a dramatic clash between two of Trump’s top economic officials, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at one point threatening to punch top housing finance official Bill Pulte “in the fucking face.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...p-00549956

[Ravenshire]

A private dinner attended by dozens of administration officials and close advisers to President Donald Trump was temporarily marred by a dramatic clash between two of Trump’s top economic officials, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at one point threatening to punch top housing finance official Bill Pulte “in the fucking face.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...p-00549956

It seems the school bullies are running out of 98-pound weaklings to pick on.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

A private dinner attended by dozens of administration officials and close advisers to President Donald Trump was temporarily marred by a dramatic clash between two of Trump’s top economic officials, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at one point threatening to punch top housing finance official Bill Pulte “in the fucking face.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...p-00549956

It's still funny when they eat their own.

Boru

[Angrboda]