Acting Navy Sec. Apologizes For Bashing Ex-Captain, Still Swipes At Him For Writing Memo | Talking Points Memo

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly apologized on Monday night after he attacked now-former Navy Captain Brett Crozier and called him “naive and stupid” for writing a memo to Navy leadership detailing concerns about protecting his crew on the USS Theodore Roosevelt from COVID-19.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1302079

Looks like Modly was either “too naive or too stupid” to realize that his comments would get out to the public.

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Dickhead.

I know who should’ve been fired and it wasn’t Crozier… :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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Typical Trumpster!

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This is just another Repuke nonapology apology. One thing Trump has done is give all the ultra assholes freedom to spew and reveal what they are to the world. I can only hope that the consequences of their actions will follow them the rest of their lives.

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Fuck you, you steaming pile of shit!

Oh, my bad. So very sorry to have :neutral_face: blurted that out after flying 6000 miles to address you all. I never intended to curse at the sniveling jerkwad of a coward.

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When an apology comes through as an ‘I’m sorry, but’, it’s a non-apology.

Go back to your dreams of grandeur because, as far as the military is concerned, you’re a goner.

ETA: Crozier has the virus, so Modly can feel doubly good about kicking a good man when the good man is down. A-hole.

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Chickenhawks should never try to play Admiral when a real commander has already shown what it means to be brave and responsible to his troops.

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He got caught out betraying the well-being of patriotic Americans to curry favor with Trump and to save his own skin. I can understand why he would react with displaced rage but, honestly, who does he think he’s fooling?

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In any other Presidency this twit would have been fired in a flash
Trump likes and supports this kind of behavior
It’s what he does every day at his press conferences

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In any other Presidency, this guy would’ve remained behind a corporate desk and never seen the light of day in public service.

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He used language he thought would please his patron with no thought about how those crude words would land on the ears of those crew members who liked their captain.

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And while all this happy horse shit is flying around, what is the health status of the USS TR? It seems likely the Captain’s request to sequester COVID 19 positive crew members was not taken seriously by the naïve stupid acting jack Navy Secretary.

Answer: Just what would be expected.

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Everyone?

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Modly is a spineless coward and incompetent. He is destroying the navy.

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He’s also just jealous of Trumps hair.

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here’ the tweet it links to

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I keep on thinking of ‘Eraserhead’. Can’t imagine why-

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You beat me do it. I was about to say there was an audition call for a remake of Eraserhead!.
:smile:

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Modly is naive and stupid if he believes his words won’t haunt him to his grave.

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