Towards the end of the members’ questions, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) asked Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman how he could assure his father that he’d be “fine” after delivering testimony damaging to the President.
Well done, Lt Col., let’s hope our elected officials are deserving of your faith in our system of government.
Thank you for your service, honor, and sense of duty to your country, Lt. Colonel Vindman.
Your Commander-in-Tweet could learn a helluva lot from you.
Could he be president instead? He is more of a Natural Born American than our current occupant. But please captain bone spurs keep attacking a man who out classes you by margins that are impossible to express.
" Laura Ingraham said that Vindman’s routine communication with Ukrainians brought his loyalty into question. "
OK, Ingraham - now explain to me your president’s routine communications with Putin and how they bring his loyalty into question.
Interesting how the shitbag party, who has used “I was just joking” as an excuse for a good 40 years is now trying to use obvious jokes for persecution/prosecution.
All of this is going on because of the shameless criminal in the WH. All of this putting long time, honest govt. employees through the wringer in public so the Rethugs can try to discredit them in whatever way they can. All of this to make it seem Biden, ambassadors and military career people are the problem, not the criminal in the WH. All of this just astounds me, the money, resources, people’s lives put in danger to protect the biggest criminal nutcase that’s ever lived in the WH.
Laura Ingraham used to date Dinesh D’Souza. That tells you everything you need to know about her…
Anyone seen Trump lately?
This morning both CNN and MSNBC he hasn’t been seen in public since his unexpected trip to Walter Reed on Sunday.
Maybe someone should look in the Rubber Room, sometimes called the Nixon Freakout Room. He may be in there bouncing off the walls.
Ah - it appears he had a press skirmish today in fact. How did he look? Liver failure? Bags under the eyes? Hair piece askew?
It also tells you everything you need to know about Dinesh D’Souza.
Remember when Republicans would have stood and cheered a member of the military in the uniform of our country saying this exact thing?
Those were the days, huh?
More like him, please.
I’m extremely fortunate. I grew up poor, was homeless for a time in my late teens and slept under an overpass for a month. In my 6th decade now I’ve been able to work my way up to owning several successful companies and now work as an executive in a construction firm.
I work remotely from my own office so
I can listen when things like this happen and I’m working (still an average of 60 hrs a week) but this took me by surprise.
As he went on to repeat what he wrote to his father I realized it was hitting me when suddenly I was balling like a baby…
THIS! This is what we risk losing! The idea that there really IS something bigger than we are, that even if it is getting harder and harder to rise, one still CAN!
I was helped (to stay out of jail) when I was very young by someone that didn’t have any reason to, other than kindness. It was one very pivotal moment where my life could go skidding away perhaps never to fully recover. He wasn’t the only one that ever helped me, either.
Initially I was proud, and a Republican. I BUILT THIS I would say. Then I was laid low again, and again a stranger helped. This time I had the presence of mind to ask why, why did you go though such trouble and yes, expense to help? The answer helped make me a Democrat and Progressive.
‘I help because someone once helped me, and it saved me. When I asked how I could repay them, they told me to help someone else if I ever could, to pay it forward’ was what they told me. I made my mind up right there and then to be that person, to pay it forward.
With no formal education it was sheer force of will and long hard hours of work, but I’ve been able to do that now for several years. As I sat here listening to this immigrant patriot, standing strong in the midst of the maelstrom, I realized that was why I was balling. There WAS someone that thought this way, that honor MATTERS! I’d been getting so hopeless that America just wasn’t up to the challenge anymore.
I hope the republican base still has the capacity for shame, because they need to be ashamed…