“It is a virtual certainty that you will fight and die on a battlefield for America at some point in your life because the occupant wants to be a War President in order to guarantee reelection."
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“O Lord, bless this thy Hand Grenade that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."
And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu… “
The Pythons have a quote for just about anything.
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The old standby stratergy.
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Question from the back:
“What happens if we get a good pasting?”
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Yes, my two nephews are officers, one in the Army and the other in the Navy. The one in the army is counting the days until his time is out. My father and uncle served in WW2, only my father made it. I personally enlisted in the navy when I dropped out of college, but was discharged just before basic training for a physical problem.
The fact that people that I like are doing it doesn’t make it any less criminal.
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It’s the Karl Rove strategery as whispered into dubya’s shell-like ear.
@ralph_vonholst
“You get a medal, kid, pinned to your inform by Cadet Bonespurs.”
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“Pence did not serve in the military” is obvious because he says this “It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life,” Pence said. “You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen." with apparent glee.
BTW, Is there some deeper meaning to this: "Some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere.”?
No normal person thinks like this. You tell military people that you hope that they will never see combat but, if called, you know that they will serve with honor. What Pence said was positively ghoulish.
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It occurs to me that Pence hasn’t thought this through. In order to fight multiple wars on multiple fronts he’ll need a whole lot more cannon fodder than a volunteer military can provide. And we’ll get no assistance from our allies as they have been, or are in the process of being, alienated. Such an ambitious program of institutionalized mass slaughter will almost certainly require conscription. This could prove to be very unpopular.
What frightens me more is the possibility of nuclear blackmail. Trump understands blackmail and I don’t for a second doubt he would use our nuclear arsenal to threaten uncooperative nations, allies or otherwise. He’s quite mad.
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O Lord, thou are’t so very big; gosh, we’re really impressed down here.
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Cool
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132413516063870977
Low IQ Joe Bidan. The irony, it burns.
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It’ll be like something out of the 1964 Fonda film, Fail Safe
The President struggles to find a resolution that will stop the Soviet Union from counter-attacking; if he fails, a nuclear holocaust will be unavoidable. He offers to sacrifice an American target to appease the Soviets and he orders an American bomber towards New York City. The President’s advisers in the Pentagon discover that in doing so, the President is sacrificing the First Lady, who is visiting New York City.
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Somebody get him to a golf course STAT
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It is not. Wars in which Americans are involved have become such one sided affairs that no one in the military should be worried to much about combat. It’s more likely that servicemen die because of accidents that it is because of enemy gunfire. And as for civilians casualties, that is something that happens to other people, that is why Americans love war so much, it’s other people that do the dying and suffer the dismembering.
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I had the same question. I’m a military brat, been at graduation at Annapolis at least 4 times. Was at several of my father’s changes of command, I’ve never seen a hand motion like that, ever.
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“Some of you will join the fight against radical Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of you will join the fight on the Korean Peninsula and in the Indo-Pacific, where North Korea continues to threaten the peace, and an increasingly militarized China challenges our presence in the region. Some of you will join the fight in Europe, where an aggressive Russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force. And some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere.”
“And, G-d willing,” he continued, “ALL of you will join in the glorious battle against Gog and Magog, when the Whore Of Babylon – the Great Mother of Prostitutes and Abominations – will ride on her Scarlet Beast, drunk on the blood of saints and martyrs, before the Angel of Death leads the Horde of Freaky Locusts to the Dragon with seven heads and 10 horns, and our Trumpsiah enters the Holy Launch Codes, to bring the mighty Lake of Fire down upon the whole of the Earth, as the land quakes, the sun blackens, and the sky splits!”
Secret Service aides later removed several gallons of fleckspittle and offered Pence a change of pants.
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How many of the graduates will look back on the ceremony–and the speech–as an inspiring occasion?
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Swampboy Jared
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Pence never served a day in his life.
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Is it me, or are they all really standing at attention?
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