Showing posts with label disrespect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disrespect. Show all posts

Sunday, August 18, 2024

J.D. Vance (who did not serve during War) joins ugly weird Trump is pissing on Veterans and insulting Medal of Honor recipients

Did you happen to see...
the most better-looking "person"...
in the world?
(Extra points for the dried spittle on his chin)

"But I say that I am much better looking. I'm a better-looking person than Kamala.  They said, 'No, her biggest advantage is that she's a beautiful woman.' I'm going, huh? I never thought of that. I'm better looking than she is."

Has the Corporate Media decided to move on from Donald Trump incredibly insulting comments on Medal of Honor recipients?  Probably... after all that's just Donald being Donald.  And look what weird wacky thing our Dear Donald said today!  He also said he's going to drive down prices!  How?  Who knows!!!  But, let's get together to nitpick every policy idea Harris has proposed, after all we in the Corporate Media have got to get busy knocking down Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign momentum to give our Dear Donald a chance in November!!!

Just Dishonorable Vance was asked about the Trump crapping on MoH recipients because those suckers and losers are in pretty bad shape and all shot up or dead and played the same old Republican trick of 'I did't hear what he said' before moving on to stating emphatically Veterans are "very, very much behind Donald Trump".

Let's pause right here.  I've been out of the Corps for 20 years, having done 5 years active duty including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.  But, even when I was in it was no longer Ronnie Raygun's military,  and the kids in the military now, are by far more progressive than my generation who saw the end of DADT.  And in 2020, Veterans and active duty service members voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump.  President Biden pointed this out in the first debate but, remember Trump said No Way!

Understand conservatives have been living in their epistemological bubble, listening to and regurgitating the same rightwing propaganda for so long, they can no longer accept reality;

"I did find it odd that, throughout the day/night, I saw a few dozen military ballots be counted," a certified poll watcher said in his statement dated November 4. "Although I cannot provide specific numbers or names, I can estimate that at least 80% of the military ballots I saw were straight ticket Democrat or simply had Joe Biden's name filled in on them.  I had always been told that military personnel tended to be more conservative, so this stuck out to me as the day went on," he added.

This was part of the "evidence" Republicans continue to cite to this very fucking day of the election being stolen from Donald Trump, i.e. people they don't know voted against Traitor Trump but, how can this be since everyone they know voted for him??? They found that "odd", Checkmate, Joe Biden!

Also let's be a bit pedantic for a moment.  Rightwingers on Twitter (X) adopted the Republican Switfboat attack on Vice President Tim Walz because of a video saying he carried weapons of war,  Just Dishonorable Vance slandered Walz by demanding to know wha War he carried them in?  So... let's go down one of two paths;  

  1. J.D. Vance did not serve during a "WAR", because no American has since 1945.  The last declared War was World War 2.  Operation Iraqi Freedom was not a War, it was an authorized use of military force.  Congress and President's do this for the last 80 years because it allows them to side-step so many pesky laws and political hurdles, as well as UN sanctions.
  2. Iraq, Afghanistan, and all the smaller military actions (MOOTW) fall under the umbrella of the Global War on Terror.  This can be traced to the George W. Bush ignoring the August 6th 2001 memo warning of Bin Laden's plan to attack the United States which resulted in the attacks on the NYC Twin Towers, Pentagon, and the field in Pennsylvania from the Heroes of Flight 93 can be calculated to fall under the timeframe of the most recent National Defense Service Medal, which was put into effect from 09/11/01 to 12/31/22, having just been closed.  So by that metric, Walz did in fact, serve during a time of War.

Trump's unbelievably insulting disrespect prompted the VFW (a far-right reactionary organization) to admonish him,

These asinine comments not only diminish the significance of our nation’s highest award for valor, but also crassly characterizes the sacrifices of those who have risked their lives above and beyond the call of duty.

When a candidate to serve as our military’s commander-in-chief so brazenly dismisses the valor and reverence symbolized by the Medal of Honor and those who have earned it, I must question whether they would discharge their responsibilities to our men and women in uniform with the seriousness and discernment necessary for such a powerful position. It is even more disappointing when these comments come from a man who already served in this noble office and should frankly already know better.

Not cool weird but gross creepy stalker weird

Will pissing on Medal of Honor recipients be the final straw for Traitor Trump?  Have you noticed the Total Silence from Republicans?  I won't even play the game of imagine Barack Obama or Bill Clinton had made such a statement during a re-election campaign.  Everyone knows if a Democratic candidate made such a statement they'd have to step down.  The sheer amount of fury would dwarf the summer sun's rays.  And like the "57-States" joke it would be something the Right and Media would never forget and constantly reference.  Yet, the Corporate Media is simply ready to move along.

It's far past time to ask the Journalists of the Mainstream Media why they will not point out Donald Trump is a weird raving lunatic?  Whatever the cause, be it mere sundowning due to age or a brain infested with spirochetes;  Trump is a disrespectful cad, a criminal, a racist, a rapist, a lying conman, inventing wholly false stories, broadcasting conspiracy theories, threatening violence, in a state of total mental collapse, and wholly unfit for the Office of Presidency.  Will the Corporate Media call on Old Ugly Weird Traitor Trump and Just Dishonorable Vance to stand down?

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Palins' Papal Pronouncements, David Barton's insanity defense and right-wing religious persecution

Palin declared she's worried Pope Francis sounded kind of liberal, "[H]e's had some statements that to me sounded kind of liberal, has taken me aback, has kind of surprised me."

Of course, she's taken aback. Palin is a Real American and all real americans know that liberal is a dirty word. Why doesn't Il Papa know this?

Sarah Palin is not a Catholic. Yet, as with every issue, the only thing that is important is that the Right-Wing gets to excrete their ignorant bigotry.

No matter the issue, no matter the person, no matter their office, their achievements or accomplishments, if someone doesn't conform to right-wing orthodoxy then they are too be shunned and destroyed.

The Right incorporates a culture of absolute disrespect towards those who stray from their toxic mix of power apologia, pettiness, bigotry and oppression.

It doesn't matter if it's Pope Francis, Pat Tillman, a Postal Employee or President Obama, right-wingers are feces flinging fact-free fanatics, who only show respect for an individual if they espouse the proper right-wing rhetoric.
“I think this administration has a very narrow view of the First Amendment, that first freedom, the freedom of religion,” Family Research Council Tony Perkins explained. “I think they see religious freedom as fine with it as long as it’s in the four walls of a church. But if it comes into workplace, the marketplace, if it comes into the public square, it’s not welcome.”
This is exactly correct. Your weird beliefs are not welcome in the public square or the workplace, Mr. Perkins. You want to praise jesus? You want to adhere to the christian faith? Fine. But, you don't get to enforce your religious precepts onto others.

But, we've seen over and over and over again, that Religious Zealots don't want Freedom of Religion they want the Freedom to impose their religion on everyone else.
"I’m proud we are standing up for religious freedom in our state," Texas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Perry said. "Freedom of religion doesn’t mean freedom from religion."
Part of the fight over coverage in the ACA is the fight of fanatics to force their beliefs on other people.
A business owner may be a Christian Scientist who doesn't believe in blood transfusions or antibiotics, but because the ACA provides coverage for those treatments the business owner doesn't get to veto coverage for his employee.
And if you think I'm creating an unfair strawman argument, religious wacko David Barton, truly believes that Veterans suffering from PTSD shouldn't get any medical or psychiatric treatment.
David Barton knows that if the returning Veteran truly believed in christ, he wouldn't have any problems. From Rawstory:
In a Veteran’s Day appearance on Believer’s Voice of Victory, televangelist Kenneth Copeland told "historian" David Barton that Numbers 32 said that soldiers “shall return and be guiltless before the Lord” and that meant that they wouldn’t have PTSD. 
"You don’t take drugs to get rid of it, it doesn’t take psychology; that promise right there will get rid of it,” he said, pointing at the Bible. 
"What we’re talking about, getting rid of the PTSD, guys who have been through battle, they need to understand that soldier’s promise, you come back guiltless before God and the nation," Barton agreed. 
"You’re on an elevated platform up here, you’re a hero, you’re put in the faith hall of fame if you take this [Bible],” he added. "We used to in the pulpit understand the difference between a just war and an unjust war. And there’s a biblical difference, and when you do it God’s way, not only are you guiltless for having done that, you’re esteemed.”
For a long, long time the Right has had total dominion over religious voters. But, as the Holy Spirit moves through Pope Francis expect an upswing of catholic bashing routinely witnessed in American history. As Right-Wingers continue to lash out at those who don't conform to the conservative values of bigotry, oppression, hatred and subjugation.