NO! As the Commander-in-Chief, YOU have the full authority, Donnie. If you had told the generals to stop, they would have stopped. Your lack of curiosity about what was going on, coupled with your staggering incompetence, lead to this disaster, and is so very, very, sad.
The responsibility is yours.
MAGA my ass.
@georgehāāOne of the most disgusting and callous moments I have ever seen in Congress.ā
True dat. But they are just getting warmed up.
Thereās the 99% of me that totally and rationally processes who this person is and what it means, but thereās still the 1% that channels Charlie Brown on the pitcherās mound:
āI canāt stand it! I just canāt stand it!ā
Van Jones. VAN JONES, just said Trump became President at this moment. Jones saw something very different than I did. I saw Trump exploiting the woman who he helped make a widow for his own purposes. Did i miss something?
As the Orange Horror said about McCain, I donāt like soldiers who get caught. What about soldiers who get killed? This mission was an attempt to outshine Obamaās capture of Osama bin Laden. It was rushed, enormously stupid and he couldnāt even be bothered to spend time with āhis generalsā in going over the wisdom of pursuing the raid at that time. Couldnāt be bothered to go to the situation room and monitor the mission. He needlessly put personnel in extreme danger and achieved nothing of value from the mission. This effort, in front of Congress and gallery spectators to make the whole damn thing look heroic was disgusting in the extreme. I feel sorry for the bereaved wife but wonder why she would want to be part of this dog and pony show. The glorification of the military by the right wing is truly disturbing and we are obviously going to see that ramped up to the extreme in this administration by a man who avoided military service with the flimsiest of excuses. Honor, morality, etc. is being flushed down the drain by this mountebank.
I want to know who pushed after it was already botched ā
Iām just bitter tonight. Feeling raw. To say that SEAL knows anything denies reality and to me itās trump stealing that familyās feelings for his own ego and it pisses me off. Maybe the father of the SEAL shouldāve met DT face to face so he could personally ream him a new one. Iāve been angry all day since i heard trump tried to pass off responsibility for that raid in Yemen when he had the power to order them to stand down. Trump tried to blame āthe generalsā, Obama, anyone but himself and that really got me hot under the collar.
The boos and hissing tonight during the speech was anemic to me.
I donāt think you missed a thing. I think Van Jones is off his rocker if he thinks what Trump said was Presidential. That entire ovation line is just fucking bizarre and devoid of real emotion imo. Its shows his downright callousness. Like the dead give a shit about breaking an applause recordā¦I donāt get it. I donāt see how thatās particularly comforting to the manās widow either. Iām sure she feels supported by the applause in the chamber, but to say its record-breakingā¦thatās just a weird comment.
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by a man who avoided military service with the flimsiest of excuses.
[/quote]Hey, convenient, transient, disappearing bone spurs - the most awful, painful of all. Not there before the chance of military service, never there after. Show some respect for the (temporarily, but not really) disabled.
Same
Bone spurs are no jokeā¦ if you actually have them
Exactly - with āifā being the operative word.
I have several at 6th and 7th cervical vertebrae along with some nerve compressionā¦
They havenāt seemed to have caused any problems since then ā¦have they ā
This seems very ill-advised after the father of William Owens told Trump not to hide behind his sonās death and called for an investigation into it. I can just imagine the fevered exchanges between Trump and Bannon over this one: āThe dad is against us but I think weāve got the widow!ā
So basically Trump is proposing to unite the country by playing grieving family members against one another. Klassy as always.
Well, with the Orange Horror every damn thing has to be the best, the biggest, the highest, etc. if he is anywhere involved. You can bet he was sucking up all that applause as being, in some sick way, for him and his glorifying a disastrous, failed mission. Only 5 weeks in to his corrupt administration. Iām wondering how I will get through another week of it much less several years (gods forbid!!). Iām sure he has soaked up enough ego-swelling applause tonight to keep him going a few days without another injection of crowd adoration. Probably back to Mar-al-Lago this weekend for another campaign fundraiser or something to boost his overblown ego.
Gotta steal that
The Republicanās jumped up and down to applaud so much they looked like a fucking Jack-In-The-Box. Iām sure heāll be saying it was the most standing ovations ever,
The most appropriate would be for his limo to blow a head gasket on the way to Andrews AFB. Or for Marine One to lose a rotor blade.
Expect Trump to install a proper clap-o-meter for next yearās State of the Union address. All the best game shows have them after all!