Stealing My Valor - the incredible pettiness and shamelessness of Trump's Core Supporters

Clown to the Left of Me

My home is bracketed by two rich recently retired old white men and their dutiful wives.  Now, everyone on my block knows I'm a Police Officer without me telling them.  So, it came as a massive surprise to them when in 2016, I didn't support the racist rapist senile criminal traitor for the White House.

So, when I got my VoteVets for Harris/Walz sign for my front yard, they each responded with a Trump/Vance sign!  And since then every week they've added a new Trump sign and now each has 5 signs in his yard including the pictured Law Enforcement and Veterans for Trump signs.

Now, here's the thing neither of these two are law enforcement and neither are Veterans.  Yet they have no compunction in placing those signs in their yards.  I really want to troll them and get a Blacks for Trump sign and put it up next to theirs...  but, it's quite possible they might add that one themselves.

Joker to the Right

Of all the most pathetic displays of servile obsequiousness by Trump supporters, the flood of signage and flags festooning their mansions and massive $100K coal-rolling trucks has to be most pathetic. 

Remember, Trump's MAGA core strongest component are the well-to-do American Boyars.  These types comprised the core Jan6th supporters, like these two rich sons of the Northbrook based Kulas Maids, wearing their most chic Burberry attire to the riot. 

Veterans, of course, recognize Trump for what he is and voted against him in 2020.  Of course, Trump lies constantly and claims Veterans and active-duty Service Members support him.  Traitor Trump is a boorish asshole who's never cared about anyone other than himself and views every interaction in terms of how he can get the "best deal" for himself by whatever means it's been no surprise to see Trump repeatedly shit and spit on Veterans, their families, and military service members.  Trump also routinely exploits peoples' grief and trauma, as seen in his despicable desecration of Arlington National Cemetery and the rampant lies and falsehoods he's sowing around FEMA and the Hurricane relief. 

Now, Cops are a different matter entirely.  I'm probably one of the furthest left Officers I've ever encountered in almost 20 years and I've encountered some outright fascist wannabes.  And of course there's segment of "Law Enforcement" who yearn to be unleashed in the same way MAGA fantasizes about getting Trump in the White House so they can visit all manners of evils on the people.

And that's the entire key to Trump's charisma and his cult;  Trump says all manner of evil lies as a way to give his most hateful the permission structure they are going to need to do the evil things they want to do.

But, one of the reasons I don't believe there will be any large scale uprising; despite the dreams of paid Putin operative Tim Poole, is what would these two old turds would be willing to do?  Certainly, in this age of rightwing stochastic terrorism you can never guess when one registered Republican will conduct a terrorist attack on America but, battalion-sized or higher concentrations of conservative traitors?  Led by that coward Josh Hawley in Missouri?  Or Tom Cotton?  Or even Mike Flynn at his traitorous compound in Sarasota, Florida?  I'm doubtful.

Tom Filipkowski points out what a sham all these 'This or That Group for Trump' stunts are:

Stolen Valor and abusive insulting despicable behavior by draft dodger Donald Trump and his criminal cronies at Arlington National Cemetery

"We have the real generals. Not the Fake Woke generals who did so poorly in Afghanistan." - reprehensible Traitor Trump (August 21, 2024) continues to wantonly insult and disrespect Veterans and service members.

New reporting from NPR shows how vile and abhorrent Trump's cronies acted during Traitor Trump use the bodies and courage and valor of other's to help his treasonous campaign.

Two members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery where the former president participated in a wreath laying ceremony, NPR has learned.

“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign," according to the statement. "Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants."

Trump's weird and despicable bigoted spokesman Steven Cheung claimed the Arlington National Cemetery employee was suffering a mental health episode in order to defame him.

Trump and his dishonorable criminal staff used Arlington National Cemetery as their own personal campaign prop.  Trump has shown nothing but blatant disrespect and contempt for America's military members he repeatedly shits on Veterans, Medal of Honor recipients, and those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and his followers don't fucking care.  It's utterly abhorrent and absolutely disqualifying.

What an irredeemable piece of shit ugly weirdo Trump and everyone who has attached themselves to his ass are...  As Trump and his campaign continue to insult Veterans and the Military will anyone tell that ugly weirdo Traitor to his face that he is a liar and a monumental disrespectful pile of crap?  Any chance?

Shades of I will make it legal!

They won't, of course.  Instead the Corporate Media will dutifully record and broadcast all the lies Trump spews and ignore the insults.  Oh and the Corporate Media will studiously ignore Trump openly declaring he is going to personally repeal the 1st Amendment,

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Trump claims we will restore world peace and it will be peace through strength. What does that fucking mean? Who knows? Who cares! Woo-hoo Dear Leader Trump is a Strongman!!!

I don't know if the Press is shell-shocked by decades of Trump's brazen and easily disproven lies or if they admire him and are willing accomplices.  Whatever, the case, the Corporate Media will never hold him to account and will never admit they failed the American People in their one job of being the Fourth Estate telling Truth to Power. Instead they will continue to treat Trump as a legitimate candidate for President and not the lying anti-Democratic traitor, thieving felon, and wannabe autocrat. 

Trump watched Braveheart (1995) recently and thinks he's King 

Don't act like this is Trump alone claiming Harris is weak, that's what the whole rightwing attack Kamala Harris eats Doritos! Or when puerile asshole Jesse Watters said ho-ho-ho the Generals are going to have their way with President Kamala Harris har-har.    

The entire Republican Party is scum. 

Soon-to-be President Kamala Harris not only has to deal with the problems facing 21st century United States she has to reckon with the Cult of Trump which is hell-bent upon overthrowing the Nation and establishing a White Supremacist Fascist Fundamentalist Regime founded on non-stop lying and barely constrained threats of widespread Domestic Terrorism.

And he still keeps repeating his completely made-up "Almost went down in a Helicopter with Willie Brown" story, which is just a thinly veiled way for him to make crude juvenile sex jokes like Jesse Watters is doing.  Of course, when the Press stupidly ask him for evidence for his bullshit claim, instead of calling him despicable liar, ugly weird Trump responds in a petulant whiny voice, 'Oh you wanna see the evidence? Oh you wanna see the evidence?'

Trump, has for the most part escaped justice for his innumerable High Crimes and Misdemeanors, but he believes the only way to be sure is that he ensconces himself into the White House issues blanket pardons and rules up to the moment of his death.

Look MAGA doesn't give a fuck about any of this. There is literally (not figuratively literally but literally literally) nothing Trump can say or do which will lose him a single supporter. These are people we must resoundingly defeat in the 2024 Election. But, understand Republicans in Federal Office, at State Level, and at Faux News and other rightwing propagandist outlets will be working ceaselessly to steal the election, delay the results, undermine the Harris Presidency because Republicans know 2024 might be their last solid chance to achieve their dream of destroying the United States, enslaving women, murdering blacks and rounding up and liquidating millions of migrants and American citizens.

Stolen Valor at Arlington National Cemetery as Donald Trump and J. D. Vance use dead Marines as a Photo Op and campaign promo

Stealing Valor is a prime feature of Traitor Trump and Just Dishonorable Vance despicable campaign as they engaged in the classic Republican move of using  dead service members as a campaign photo op to help their flailing and failing campaign.  Just despicable and shameless.  This is 100% Stolen Valor.  This is using the courage or others to advance the political fortunes of vile traitors and cowards.  This is disgusting and reprehensible behavior.  This is Republican politics.

Samuel Johnson famous quote needs to be updated to more accurately reflect Republican beliefs; Faux patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Fortunately, the military services and Veterans are, like the American electorate, far more progressive than they were 20 or 40 years ago.

I am incensed at Traitor Trump, a man who violated his Oath of Office, who literally argued in court he, "did not take an oath 'to support the Constitution of the United States.' and is not an 'Officer of United States'.  That this treasonous filth who did not end the war in Afghanistan but, instead released the Taliban to retake the country and dropped the difficult part of extracting Us from Afghanistan after 20 years to his successor and then has the fucking gall and temerity to criticize his betters is just par for the course for ugly weirdo Trump.

Just Dishonorable Vance has hitched his political future to the worst people in the country he's fully disavowed his Marine Corps boot camp training. Of course, you know Vance didn't serve in Afghanistan so I don't know where he gets the fucking chutzpah to have an opinion since he didn't have the courage to serve there.

But, we don't live in era where such despicable photo ops are treated as the shameless and unacceptable.  We live in an Era when Republicans use other people and are on the cusp of destroying the United States of America.

This grotesque display is Republican "Patriotism"

Who in the FUCK does a photo op grinning with a teeny tiny thumbs up over the grave?

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are going to win the Presidential Election in a Landslide, while Traitor Trump, Creepy Stalker Vance and weirdo Republicans implode in a stark raving mad racist fury

"I know Governor Walz is on the phone, and we spoke, and I fully agree with the way he handled it the last couple of days.  He's an excellent guy. You've got a big National Guard out there that's ready to come in and fight like hell. I tell you, the best — what they did in Minneapolis was incredible. They went in and dominated, and it happened immediately."

That's your next President and Vice President

Is that Arch-Communist Joe Biden praising Governor Tim Walz for the handling of the George Floyd Protests in 2020?  Nope, it's then President Trump just exuberantly lauding Tim Walz, and declaring he was "very happy" Walz handling of the situation.  DonOld Trump effusively praising Tim Walz for his handling of the George Floyd protests just underscores jello-brained and jello-spined Trump doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, can't remember what he's said, and is willing to say anything in order to gain a short term advantage immediately, if not sooner.

But, while this completely obliterates the lies Republicans are now telling (it is a rightwing fact that Minneapolis and St. Paul were totally burned to the ground) just listen to the sentiments of Trump and Walz in this call; Trump speaks of dominating while Tim Walz speaks of his communities healing.  It’s because Trump believes and yearns for Authoritarianism and Tim Walz believes in America.

When you boil this race down to it's pure core it's this: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz believe in America and Traitor Trump and Couch Fucker Vance want to impose a Fascist Totalitarian State onto the majority of the America people.

But, besides 'the Minnesota is a smoking ruin' agitprop campaign from Republicans, Stalker Vance has sunk to the lowest of slanders against Vice President Walz by claiming he engaged in Stolen Valor, while Vance's spokespeople are claiming Kamala Harris must have stunk up Air Force 2 because she's black.

“Make sure AF2 is deep cleaned because Lord only knows what @KamalaHarris and her team have done on there,” Cheung wrote on X. “The smell alone on that plane must be crazy.”

As always there is no pushback against Vance’s despicable smear on Tim Walz military service from the Republicans because as I’ve said for years Republicans only support Veterans who help advance their vile agenda, for J.D. that’s fucking couches and inspecting little girls private parts, not providing them school lunches.  And as for ha ha ha black stink, Racist attack on soon-to-be President Harris that's de rigueur for all Republicans.

And Faux News comedian Greg Gutfeld (who didn't serve in the US Military, didn't join after 9/11, and only contribution to Dick Cheney Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was to insult and mock the Canadian Military in 2009 after they lost several service members in Afghanistan in action) went so far as to call Governor Tim Walz a "a coward".

Ha... ha... ha...   

Trump & Vance swirling the bowl

What a joke, Greg...  But, the bigger joke is the Trump Vance campaign.  King of the Weirdos Trump's spell over many Americans is about to be broken because this two-time loser, multiple count felon, court adjudicated rapist is about to get blown away (metaphorically speaking, of course).  The energy swirling around President Harris and VP Walz is pushing this into modern blowout territory.  Imagine the panic surrounding Trump as his grotesque family of criminal buffoons tries to calm his senile rage.  And the grifting yes men, try to show him poll numbers which don't show Harris passing him and pulling away in all demographics.  46% of white voters for Harris/Walz?  That's a number not seen since Ronnie Raygun convinced white men that racism and sexism was the heart and soul of the Republican Party.

No, I'm not expressing overconfidence.  Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are going to win this by over 10 Million Votes, while Trump and Vance are two turds swirling the bowl and if it wasn't for the Slave Owners Electoral College, Billionaire Plutocrats hoping to get Trump into office to destroy all regulations and taxes, and the Fash Curious Corporate Media, this would be an historic blowout.

Republicans are liars, weirdos, and criminals

These next 3 months are going to be some of the ugliest in modern memory, Republican politicians and commentators are furious, fucking furious, and I expect the treasonous GOP House members to try and steal the election by denying the results, while State Officials decline to certify Kamala Harris overwhelming victory, while all Republicans hope the Supreme Sinister Six declare the election null and void and declare by Imperial Fiat Trump/Vance are the winners even though those two are the Biggest Losers in America.

So, do whatever you can to overcome the Republican plans to steal this election because Trump and Vance are going to lose it.

Republicans hate America 4: Tommy Tuberville Stolen Valor

Tommy Tuberville, a Senator from Alabama, is holding up hundreds of military promotions in order to ensure those military members who hold the wrong political views are kept from command of the military, until such time as Traitor Trump can regain office and fill those vacancies with the Proper Fascist Americans.

One of the spots Tuberville attempted to obstruct is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr was nominated for the position as the outgoing Chief of the Air Force.  It should be noted General Brown was confirmed in 2020 by a Senate vote of 98-0 for Chief of the Air Force.  But, for some reason, Coach PotatoTown decided he didn't like General Brown and he voted against him for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Why might you ask? Well, as Tuberville said, “I heard some things that he talked about, about race and things that he wanted to mix into the military.  Don't give me this stuff about equal opportunity.”

Can't have RACE MIXING in the military.  Can't have EQUAL OPPORTUNITY in the military.

Tuberville has repeatedly defended his actions by stating, "There is no one more military than me."

Stolen Valor is a fraught term.  However, like everything in America once conservatives got their hands on it they turned it into an Unconstitutional Weapon to Bash the Left.  Fortunately, the now defunct Supreme Court ruled that the original W(orst POTUS Ever) Stolen Valor Law of 2005 was a clear and direct violation of Free Speech and struck it down.  The current 2013 version requires the person to obtain tangible benefit or money in order to constitute an offense.

But, the political aspect remained as Rightwingers are utterly convinced the Military is overwhelmingly Republican.  So, for instance every rightwing internet detective declared Hillary Clinton's friend and retired Navy Chief Petty Officer Oscar Flores, who marched in a Memorial Day Parade in 2016 alongside HRC, was an obvious fraud.  On-line posers declared Stolen Valor because of his "faddish sunglasses" and cocked cover and of course, that he was alongside HRC and former President Bill Clinton.

You see, rightwingers live inside a bubble of their own farts and psychosis.  You can see this play out nowadays when every conservatives declares every mass shooting to be a False Flag and every rightwing domestic terrorist to be a FED.  For instance Elon Musk trying to destroy the life of an innocent 22 year old Ben Brody this summer, as Musk repeatedly pushed the false accusation of Brody being an undercover FED implanted in a rightwing Neo-Nazi organization.  Musk is currently being sued by Brody for his defamation. 

Conservatives mental peccadillos cause them to be unable to come to grips with the fact that they are the bad guys.  Republicans are naught but criminals, traitors, and bigots and as such they hate the current United States and have nothing to offer the American people.  But, in their own minds Conservatives are the Patriots.

Besides Tommy Potatotown proclamation, "no one is more military than me", he has also felt the need to lie about his father's completely honorable service during World War II, lying about his father commanding a tank in the streets of Paris, winning 5 Bronze Stars, landing on D-Day, and so forth.  This is another plank in the boardwalk of deplorable shamelessness which encompasses Tuberville's Senate career and entire despicable life.  But, conservatives don't give a shit.  And Republicans don't give a shit either.  Republicans simply get to proclaim themselves Patriots or Freedom Fighters when in fact they are criminals and traitors.  Every... last... one...

Reagan Salutes America

Republicans conferred upon themselves the Mantle of Most Military, in the wake of the Vietnam War, and  Ronnie Raygun The Lying WWII King of Stolen Valor, did everything he could to further that false crown.  Especially Ronnie's invention of the Presidential Salute which was a way for him to continue his fantasy cosplay as a Tough GI Joe taking it to the Nazis and liberating Concentration Camps.  It also served as a tremendous propaganda tool for the Republicans.

We see this all the time especially in the last election when Republicans running for office would be afforded the soft cover of being allowed to claim to be that which they were not.  Corporate Media rarely if ever accurately reports Republicans actions and instead allows them to say obviously untrue things like they are "more military".

For instance, in 2022 Republican Tina Forte ran against AOC and touted herself as the Pro-Law Enforcement candidate (this was time when Republicans and Corporate Media conspired together to label the Democrats the Defund the Police Party).  Forte best known for her heavy Bronx accent, unhinged YouTube videos, steroid physique and her veal carpaccio chest is also the head of a gun running and heroin smuggling cartel and that besides her attending the Jan6th Insurrection both, her son and husband have been arrested by the FBI.  Yet, she was allowed to tout herself as the Pro-Police, Tough on Crime candidate.

Or, when a Republican candidate for Mayor of Derby, Connecticut Gino DiGiovanni who this year was arrested for invading the Capitol building on Jan6th, with copious amounts of video footage gets to rewrite his own histroy.  Despite the evidence or perhaps because of it, DiGiovanni and his attorney Martin Minnella proclaim, DiGiovanni needs his stockpile of guns, and he's "just a man expressing his views.  He's not a criminal.  He's a patriot." 

Or when Republican J.R. Majewski ran for Congress in Ohio by vividly touting his combat experience, including being among the first Americans on the ground in Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11 and declaring any questions about the veracity of his Stolen Valor where lies "placed by the liberal media and my opponent..." As "all of my deployments are listed as classified."

So, when Tommy PotatoTown clunkily declares, "There is no one more military than me" he is simply espousing received Republican wisdom and expecting (not without reason) the Corporate Media will dutifully act as stenographers and report Senator Tommy Tubberville: No One! More Military!

Torture Loving, chubby chickenhawk, soft handed elitist Marc A. Thiessen continues to be a rightwing liar and morally reprehensible person

My gut reaction on reading Marc Thiessen’s new book, Courting Disaster, was: “Why is a speechwriter who’s never served in the military or intelligence community acting as an expert on interrogation and national security?”[I]f you’re not an expert on a subject, shouldn’t you interview experts before expressing an opinion?   

From a 2010 Slate article.  It's quaint to look back upon those times, when people believed rightwingers claims to patriotism and didn't understand the Republican Party is a fully-fascist organization hell bent on destroying the United States and creating a Rightwing Authoritarian Dictatorship.  

Like shit on the bottom of your shoe, rightwing shits never really go away. W(orst POTUS Ever) speechwriter Marc A. Thiessen continues in his role as lying propagandist in the Washington Post Opinion page (Twice weekly!). This week Torture Lover Thiessen wrote a piece proclaiming the Biden Student Loan Forgiveness plan is Stolen Valor.   It should be noted that like most of the Bush War Room, Thiessen is a doughy chickenhawk coward who never served a fucking day in Uniform, let alone in a hostile environment. 

But, imagine that?  A rightwing elitist who never served, never had a real job, never done a day's worth of real work, who's lived on government largesse his entire cushy life, bashing working class Americans for receiving a modest stipend and using "The Troops" to do so.

Thiessen was on par with John Yoo in approving waterboarding and various other forms of torture and much like Sean Hannity, Thiessen agreed to be waterboarded to show how easy it was but, then backed out.  As a couch-borne commando, Thiessen infested multiple media outlets, selling war propaganda and lies to the American public during the Bush Phony War on Terror era.  

After serving as a propaganda mouthpiece for War Crimes, Thiessen moved to the eternally lucrative rightwing grift circle of media appearances, book tours, College speeches, and opinion piece writing.  And the Corporate Media dutifully aided him in the conservative agenda.  The Corporate Media exists to disseminate rightwing propaganda in a semi-sanitized, palatable form for normie America to consume. Even if a specific argument doesn't gain traction, the repetition of lies, conservative bullshit, and light fascism has the desired effect of lodging in the brains of its' readers, where years later a hazy recollection will churn the lies back to the surface.

Like all rightwing American Roman Catholics Marc Thiessen is pro-torture, pro-murder, in favor of reducing women to second class status, against vaccine mandates, and against charity for the poor and downtrodden.  So against everything the Catholic Church was ostensibly founded to mitigate and alleviate.

Thiessen is a shameless liar, a coward, a terrorist, a scumbag. But, far from excising him from the body politic these are positive values conservatives want in their thinkers and leaders and has lead to a 20 year career for a doughy loser who delights in the thought of torturing people and watching Americans suffer.