A Couple of Republican Qunts embarrass themselves at the SOTU as conservatives continue to piss on Veterans

Two Qunts and One Cool Cat 

Of all the despicable actions by Republicans, and the list is expansive and all-encompassing, the most shocking and shameless is the the ease Republicans cloak themselves in the mantle of Veterans sacrifices.

Major Traitor Greene and Lauren 'Dick Flasher' Boebert are vile trolls.  And both decided to scream and heckle at President Biden during the State of the Union (SOTU) last night.  As I pointed out in my return to blogging back about the 13 last servicemembers to die in Afghanistan; Republicans only care about Veterans, the fallen, and active duty service members whom they can shamelessly use to advance the rightwing agenda of hatred, intolerance and the oppression of the working class.  Republicans don't give a shit about about the military.

The Qunt outburst is unsurprising but long before Greene and Boebert slithered into Congress the GOP had taken to misappropriation of Veterans Sacrifice and assumed they are the Party of Veterans when they are not.  

12 years ago at the ridiculous CPAC 2010 I wrote up a short description of every Republican chickenhawk who spoke.

Going back further Post World War 2, the most famous Republicans Ronnie Raygun and John Wayne both became hyper-jingoistic "patriots" because both eschewed military service during the war.

William F. Buckley Jr. claimed for years to have been a front line Infantry solider fighting the Nazis, but as Gore Vidal correctly pointed out in 1968 the truth was Buckley was a crypto-nazi who exaggerated his wartime service.

Even Mitt Romney, whom reporters have warmed to again as a wonderful strong daddy Republican figure,  led pro-Vietnam war protests while he himself had no intention of serving.  Although Romney did manage to get to France instead of French-Indochina in the late 1960's.

Republicans have cloaked themselves in the bravery of others for so long, they feel no shame in pretending they get to speak for Veterans and that Veterans are ipso facto automatically conservatives.  They don't.  More Veterans and Active Duty voted for Joe Biden than Traitor Trump. 

What is also disappointing but not unexpected are those Republicans who did serve, aid and abet the chickenhawks, and allow them to sully Veterans who have different political views than right-wingers.  Conservatives don't "Support the Troops" unless those Troops can be used to advance whatever the conservative political position is that day.

Back in 2005, when the Bush DoD was lying about his death, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity refused to believe Pat Tillman, who rightwingers had elevated the living legend status, supported John Kerry, liked Noam Chomsky, and was against the Iraq War, "I don't believe it" and "I don't believe it either" the two warmongers told each other from the safety of the Faux News Studio.

That same Ann Coulter stated Pennsylvania Congressman Jack Murtha was the "reason fragging was invented".  In 2005, Republican Mean Jean Schmidt decided to insult Murtha on the floor of the House, by saying "cowards cut and run and Marines never do".  Btw, the reason Coulter and Schmidt were attacking Murtha for his call to withdraw troops from Iraq, a position these days Republicans claim Trump smartly made.

Trump is a whole hefty bag of chickenshit false bravado himself.  The litany of his faux bravery, unearned swagger, and juvenile concepts of patriotism would fill another whole post.  So, I'll just point out at CPAC 2022 Trump intimated he'd be braver than Volodymr Zelenskyy if he had too.  The man who hid in the White House basement. 

Republicans got very comfortable claiming the mantles of Patriotism and the Flag and Support our Troops while doing none of it.  So Greene and Boebert will pay no price for their actions because conservatives piss on Veterans.

Eta:

I nearly forgot... last August, conservatives spread a despicable lie that no one from the Biden White House was present when the plane carrying back the 13 last servicemembers arrived at Dover AFB.  This monstrous rightwing lie gathered steam in the early hours of Twitter and numerous rightwingers began embellishing the lie with fictitious images, fake White House daily schedules, and eyewitness verifications.  Even after the propaganda campaign failed conservatives paid no price and simply moved on to their next fabricated smear job.