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[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 95 points 3 months ago

So he's saying that people who get hit by bullets are losers? Noted.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Don't make the mistake of applying logic where there is none.

To conservatism, logic might as well be a quantum superposition based entirely upon the contents on your feefees, at any given planck time.

[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Content of my covfefes, surely? 😄

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I mean technically speaking

[-] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago

It absolutely amazes me that people give him a free pass for this shit. Same with his remarks at Belleau Wood.

“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago

felon weirdo grifter trump only wants to “give out medals” as a form of quid pro quo.

Cant grift off the dead

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

If it staves off any Horst Wessel-izations, I'm not gonna complain about that mindset.

[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago

For the life of me I will never understand how he continues to shit all over veterans and so many of them continue to be the orange man’s cuck.

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

He could say, on fox "news" and outright say he'll eliminate the VA and all veteran benefits entirely because "if you get injured it's your own damn fault for being a terrible soldier"...and they'd still simp for their orange turd

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago

The fact that so many veterans will still vote for that orange sack of shit, thinking that he supports them, is astounding. Trump has made it clear multiple times that he loathes veterans. Not even just a lack of support or empty gestures, he actually hates them, he actually thinks veterans are morons, losers, and suckers.

And for those who vote for him, I leave any inferences up to the reader.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

I saw a Veteran with a Trump sticker on his Truck so I called him a Loser and Sucker and he Kissed my Feet!

[-] aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

You should have that printed on a tshirt in as many irritating typefaces as possible.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago

seems like hatred of gays/women/mexicans/etc. will make people vote for someone who actively shits on them and the institution they died for at every opportunity

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

the institution they died for

Hmm, usually dead people don’t vote.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

yep. and when dead people vote, it's a pretty safe bet it was a R vote

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

“That’s so not weird thing to say” - MAGAPublicans

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Being Donald Trump is so awesome, though. If you say something bone-headed like this, no matter how it it is recorded, all you have to do is say "I never said that!" and poof .... it never happened! Cool, huh?

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Way to alienate your target audience, Donnie.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

That's the most amazing thing.

After the 2016 election there was a panel discussion; all the creators of the top political TV shows were invited. West Wing, House of Cards, Veep, Scandal, and others. Every creator said the same thing. If they'd had a character say that they "liked soldiers who didn't get captured" the netowrks and advertisers would have demanded that character be despised by all Americans.

I've seen houses with the black POW/MIA flag and a Trump poster, because they can live in two realities at once.

[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

There's a house in my neighborhood flying both of those flags and the Confederate flag. It's mind boggling.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ask them. Which of the two/three flags do they actually support? Because the guy behind that flag says the other flag is for "losers and suckers".

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

Do you think if he got elected, due to being shot, he would give himself a Purple Heart? Or maybe a Medal of Honor?

I have no doubt he could with a straight face argue that running for Commander in Chief is essentially being in the military.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago
[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

Firstly, lol. Of course to everything in that article. Can't believe I didn't already just assume that was true.

Second, I meant awarded one. That reads like the guy just symbolically gave the medal to Trump, but Trump isn't entitled to wear it. Anyone could have a replica Purple Heart, but without the citation it's just a gauche keepsake. It would be illegal for him to wear it—not that that would stop him or result in anyone telling him not to.

But it doesn't matter. Just idle speculation about exactly how big an asshole he is. Always shockingly so, but just not always in the ways I might predict.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, have criticized the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for his military record and have sought to make reverence for military service an issue in the election. Vance, who is also a veteran, has criticized Walz for opting to retire after more than 20 years in the National Guard but before his unit was set to be deployed to Iraq. Walz has defended his military service.

Well they pooched it up at the end there, but it's interesting that NBC even attempted to contextualize it in the larger sense of their attacks on Walz. That's unusually bold of them, I began to wonder if they thought theywere smelling blood. Until they tried neutering/both-sidesing it with "Walz has defended his military service[, though]".

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