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A REPUBLICAN strategist calling him out, love it! haha
Yavin4
(35,455 posts)Your brand of corrupted Republican politics created Trump in the first place. You knew that Republican policies benefitted a few, so you had to court favor with the low lives that now support Trump.
You created this monster, Dr. Frankenstein.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)And his comments are usually spot on.
He seems to have seen the light and walked to the good side.
Funtatlaguy
(10,899 posts)Yes, the never Trump Repubs will go back to their conservative corners once he leaves office.
But, for now, they are useful allies.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)OnDoutside
(19,988 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)the media seems to love having pro and anti Trump Republicans duking it out on the air, so Never Trumpers are often the ones we see the most on TV. So, we need every anti-Trump voice we can get
llmart
(15,572 posts)Over the years, I couldn't stand David Brooks but he has had a real transformation and talked about it in an Oprah podcast. I was blown away. I'm willing to give him a second chance too. He may always call himself a conservative, but I have no problem with that. He has been brutal in his analyses of Trump.
calimary
(81,612 posts)Theyre with our side regarding trump, NOW.
NOW theyre with us. Because donald has stunk up the room so badly that they had to step away, formally and publicly.
But I sure wouldnt take that (or them) to the proverbial bank. Only time will tell if they really mean it, if they really have renounced this VERY bad political positioning and comfort-the-already-comfortable mindset theyve espoused for most of their lives.
Well have to see if theyve REALLY faced up to and accepted how wrong theyve been all along, about their cold-hearted money-grubbing ideology of pure craven short-sighted selfishness, or if all that disgrace just disappears when trump finally does.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Now that' he's an anti-Trumper, I'm amazed by how often I agree with him.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Stuart G
(38,458 posts)Needs to be shown all over..
Farmer-Rick
(10,244 posts)Grins
(7,274 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,899 posts)A limp dick means cant get an erection.
A weak dick means cant get a good urine stream.
Both are related to old age and often prostate problems.
So glad to help.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's almost like something from The Onion. Can you imagine anyone else in the world doing something so childish and small-minded? He is such a repugnant excuse of a human being.
MadLinguist
(793 posts)the military service people and their families. Another day, another institution shat upon.
But he can cross off military vote block in 2020.
Satisfy your shit-bird vanity today, sperlunka your re-election campaign tomorrow.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,089 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,746 posts)Not.
Rene
(1,183 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)A toilet? A poisonous snake? What your breath smells like after throwing up? NOTHING?
Christ, even Rick Santorum has something named after him.
Poiuyt
(18,135 posts)calimary
(81,612 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)So, in the future, a "Trump scheme" could be shorthand for selling out your country to the Russians so you can defeat an infinitely more qualified opponent and become President, despite being the most thoroughly underqualified candidate for any responsible position whatever, and just generally a totally worthless dickhead to boot.
Kid Berwyn
(15,101 posts)calimary
(81,612 posts)That was a President with class.
Kid Berwyn
(15,101 posts)You probably know the story. Still, I am surprised to learn how few people raised in Reagan, Bushes, etc. know that Lt. John F. Kennedy was commander of PT-109 in World War 2. While on patrol on a moonless night, the boat was rammed and cut in two by a Japanese destroyer. Two men below decks died. JFK helped gather up the survivors in the dark and did some remarkable things to keep them alive and get them rescued.
Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, USN
Department of the Navy
EXCERPT...
PT 109 commanded by Kennedy with executive officer, Ensign Leonard Jay Thom, and ten enlisted men was one of the fifteen boats sent out on patrol on the night of 1-2 August 1943 to intercept Japanese warships in the straits. A friend of Kennedy, Ensign George H. R. Ross, whose ship was damaged, joined Kennedy's crew that night. The PT boat was creeping along to keep the wake and noise to a minimum in order to avoid detection. Around 0200 with Kennedy at the helm, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri traveling at 40 knots cut PT 109 in two in ten seconds. Although the Japanese destroyer had not realized that their ship had struck an enemy vessel, the damage to PT 109 was severe. At the impact, Kennedy was thrown into the cockpit where he landed on his bad back. As Amagiri steamed away, its wake doused the flames on the floating section of PT 109 to which five Americans clung: Kennedy, Thom, and three enlisted men, S1/c Raymond Albert, RM2/c John E. Maguire and QM3/c Edman Edgar Mauer. Kennedy yelled out for others in the water and heard the replies of Ross and five members of the crew, two of which were injured. GM3/c Charles A. Harris had a hurt leg and MoMM1/c Patrick Henry McMahon, the engineer was badly burned. Kennedy swam to these men as Ross and Thom helped the others, MoMM2/c William Johnston, TM2/c Ray L. Starkey, and MoMM1/c Gerald E. Zinser to the remnant of PT 109. Although they were only one hundred yards from the floating piece, in the dark it took Kennedy three hours to tow McMahon and help Harris back to the PT hulk. Unfortunately, TM2/c Andrew Jackson Kirksey and MoMM2/c Harold W. Marney were killed in the collision with Amagiri.
Because the remnant was listing badly and starting to swamp, Kennedy decided to swim for a small island barely visible (actually three miles) to the southeast. Five hours later, all eleven survivors had made it to the island after having spent a total of fifteen hours in the water. Kennedy had given McMahon a life-jacket and had towed him all three miles with the strap of the device in his teeth. After finding no food or water on the island, Kennedy concluded that he should swim the route the PT boats took through Ferguson Passage in hopes of sighting another ship. After Kennedy had no luck, Ross also made an attempt, but saw no one and returned to the island. Ross and Kennedy had spotted another slightly larger island with coconuts to eat and all the men swam there with Kennedy again towing McMahon. Now at their fourth day, Kennedy and Ross made it to Nauru Island and found several natives. Kennedy cut a message on a coconut that read "11 alive native knows posit & reef Nauru Island Kennedy." He purportedly handed the coconut to one of the natives and said, "Rendova, Rendova!," indicating that the coconut should be taken to the PT base on Rendova.
Kennedy and Ross again attempted to look for boats that night with no luck. The next morning the natives returned with food and supplies, as well as a letter from the coastwatcher commander of the New Zealand camp, Lieutenant Arthur Reginald Evans. The message indicated that the natives should return with the American commander, and Kennedy complied immediately. He was greeted warmly and then taken to meet PT 157 which returned to the island and finally rescued the survivors on 8 August.
Kennedy was later awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroics in the rescue of the crew of PT 109, as well as the Purple Heart Medal for injuries sustained in the accident on the night of 1 August 1943. An official account of the entire incident was written by intelligence officers in August 1943 and subsequently declassified in 1959. As President, Kennedy met once again with his rescuers and was toasted by members of the Japanese destroyer crew.
CONTINUED...
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/biographies-list/bios-k/kennedy-john-f.html
To demonstrate the important alliance between Japan and the US, JFK invited the survivors from the IJN Amagiri to his inaugural. Sorry so long winded, President Kennedy was profound:
"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." -- President John F. Kennedy
yonder
(9,687 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)As a retired sailor, I can tell you that we had/have NOTHING BUT respect for our POWs.
trump's punk-ass would never have endured what John McCain did in the Hanoi Hilton. He would have sung like a canary and endangered every other sailor and the entire NAVY to save his candy ass.
FUCK HIM.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)True Blue American
(17,998 posts)How red faced Trump was today? As the pressure grows he seems to be imploding.
llmart
(15,572 posts)KPN
(15,683 posts)his first Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis, would have carried out this petty immature order. The a****** now has loyalists who respond as if he is a medieval King.
We are so fucked up as a nation.