it was always disingenuous claptrap but as someone who came of age in the Bush era it’s still genuinely stunning to see Rs go from wrapping themselves in The Troops to “vets are all lazy bums who don’t deserve jobs”
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Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
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https://www.poetry.com/poem/33632/tommy
Everything I just said is a fact. Let that sink in.
Expect the removal of all mentions of a person's Veteran's status to be removed from profiles in short order.
& service members will say NO to his BS “wars”
Prob. Though is privatization of soldiers
Kids, elderly and veterans.
They’ve gone yolo in all 3, just rubbing their faces in shit, and they still get the votes from them (not kids, obvs)
That turn is stunning.
Youngs just don’t understand this.
A lot of the vets I know take their oath of service *very* seriously. Especially that "all enemies, both foreign and domestic" bit
Literally poking a sleeping bear while screaming "let them eat cake" at it. Fucking morons
I think they're gonna learn the hard way why authoritarian regimes disarm the public as a first step
They knew Ruzzia was the enemy then. Now, they're all wearing red hats.
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
That being said, any narrative claiming Dems don't or didn't care about veterans has always been Republican smoke.
SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP
to every veteran out there.
Oh....and I noticed that she did NOT thank those veterans for their service.
Ungrateful??????
"Veterans" are individuals, on their own, with needs and expensive bills to pay. Takes much more than stickers and virtue to support them.
Previously they never cared about them.
Do these people even hear the words coming out of their mouths?
This is like the Twilight Zone.
Troops on the ground in Iraq had to share body armor FFS
prior to him doing it.
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kneeling, normally associated with prayer, repentance, begging forgiveness, showing humility, receiving an honor, and proposing marriage.
I am stunned at what has happened to the GOP on Russia and veterans
This and Eddie Gallagher.
I'm not kidding, I've been in meetings with wealthy people who are outright resentful that they aren't getting the slice of the pie they deserve.
Perhaps we should review what the definition of fascism is, hmmm?
Yeah, that's the most essential fact about GOP politics for the last 30 years. Nothing they've said publically since the Gingrich/Fox News revolution has been a principle they really care about.
Regean had terrible politics, but TBF he said things he believed
Just "may not" deserve the jobs they had. They will absolutely still make a case for being with "the Troops" but absolutely want the Boogeyman out there for why they really fired someone.
That having been said I'm slightly encouraged that I'm not seeing that happen. Hope I'm not just missing it.
“Lazy people express themselves by tearing down others.”