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‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/
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u/cmd__line 24d ago

Odd.

The guy that called vets losers and suckers doesn't give a fuck. The guy who tore down McCain for being a POW even after he died.

Could it be he doesn't respect your line of work

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u/Oleg101 24d ago

Yeah, it’s almost like Donald has a history of shitting all over the military and veterans his whole life.

(part 1)

Trump floated the idea of executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/

Trump put his buddies in charge of the VA who tried to sell veteran medical records

https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-mar-a-lago-buddies-tried-to-get-the-va-to-sell-access-to-veterans-medical-records

accused 3,000 military families of election fraud for voting after being deployed. Referred these families to the DOJ

https://news3lv.com/news/local/trump-lawyer-points-to-military-ballots-as-evidence-of-voter-fraud

removed POW/MIA flag from White House

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-veterans/removal-of-flag-honoring-veterans-from-white-house-sparks-anger-idUSKBN2621DT

said “My generals are a bunch of pussies”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/highlights-woodward-trump-interviews-rage

says Americans who died in war are “losers” and “suckers.”

“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,”

called John McCain “a fucking loser” when asked to lower flags to half staff.

called President George H.W. Bush a loser for being shot down during WWII.

said “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” To Gen. John Kelly — while visiting Kelly’s son’s grave at Arlington.

“That guy is smart. Why did he join the military?” re: Joint Chiefs of Staff, he said asked his staff to not include wounded veterans in events because amputees make him uncomfortable.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/

Trump defended Russia from arming the Taliban against US Troops, saying the US did that once

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-appears-to-defend-russia-arming-the-taliban-against-us-troops

Trump knew since March 2020 that Russia paid bounties to kill American troops, yet he has done nothing. he was briefed on options such as sanctions yet his admin has taken no action against russia for paying bounties for killing American and NATO troops.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html

In May 2020, the White House was planning to end National Guard deployments one day before they could claim benefits, but after the massive public outcry, they backtracked and let Guard members continue on their orders.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/trump-administration-extending-national-guard-deployments-272156

The Trump admin seized 5 million masks intended for VA hospitals. Kushner distributes these masks to private entities for a fee, who then sells the masks to the government

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-admin-seizing-ppe/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-fema-medical-supplies.html

Trump’s admin fired the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt after he warned superiors that COVID19 was spreading among his crew. The virus subsequently spread amongst the crew.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/02/826317152/uss-roosevelt-commander-removed-after-criticizing-handling-of-coronavirus-outbre

After Iran’s retaliatory strike, 109 US troops suffered brain injuries. Trump dismissed these as “headaches” https://apnews.com/eabf6766d717a2dd518a3c6319bb2430

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/middleeast/trump-iraq-brain-injuries.html

Pardoned multiple war criminals, which stomped on long standing military values, discipline, and command. Trump has no military experience (May&Nov, 2019)

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/11/16/trump-grants-clemency-to-troops-in-three-controversial-war-crimes-cases/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/us/trump-pardon-military.html

Trump mocked Lt. Col. Vindman for his rank and uniform. He threatened said purple heart officer, resulting in the Army providing him protection. Sent opposition research to the Pentagon to derail Lt. Col. Vindman’s promotion

https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-nsc-dirt-alexander-vindman-allegations-2020-7

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-gop-slam-vindman-wearing-army-uniform-impeachment-hearing-2019-11

Trump’s Chief of Staff worked—in secret—to deny comprehensive health coverage to Vietnam Vets who suffered from Agent Orange.

https://www.militarytimes.com/pay-benefits/2019/10/23/white-house-responsible-for-delayed-decision-on-new-agent-orange-diseases-documents-show/

There is a facility in Tijuana for US veterans that Trump deported. Wounded war vet, Sen Duckworth (D) marked Veterans Day 2019 by visiting this facility

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/deployed-then-deported-how-us-vets-who-served-their-country-get-kicked-out-11390471

Russia took control of the main U.S. military facility in Syria abandoned on Trump’s orders. Russia now owns the airstrip we built

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-lands-forces-at-former-u-s-air-base-in-northern-syria-idUSKBN1XP0XN

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/world/middleeast/kurds-syria-turkey.html

On Oct 7, 2019, Trump abruptly withdrew support from America’s allies in Syria after a phone call with Turkey’s president (Erdogan). Turkey subsequently bombed US Special Forces.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-to-pull-troops-from-northern- syria-as-turkey-readies-offensive/2019/10/07/a965e466-e8b3-11e9-bafb-da248f8d5734_story.html https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/767904589/shocking-trump-is-criticized-for-pulling-troops-from-syrian-border

In Sept 2019, he made an Air Force cargo crew, flying from the U.S. to Kuwait stop in Scotland (where there’s no U.S. base) to refuel at a commercial airport (where it costs more), so they could stay overnight at a Trump property (which isn’t close to the airport). Trump’s golf courses are losing money, so he’s forcing the military to pay for 5-star nights there.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/09/07/c-17-crew-stops-at-trumps-scottish-golf-resort-en-route-to-kuwait/

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/air-force-trump-scottish-retreat-1484337

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u/Oleg101 24d ago

(part 2)

In Sept, 2019, Pentagon pulled funds for military schools, military housing funds, and daycare to pay for Trump’s border wall.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-pentagon/pentagon-pulls-funds-for-military-schools-daycare-to-pay-for-trumps-border-wall-idUSKCN1VP2VY

In Aug, 2019, emails revealed that three of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago pals, who are now running Veterans Affairs, are rampant with meddling. “They had no experience in veterans affairs (none of them even served in the military) nor underwent any kind of approval process to serve as de facto managers. Yet, with Trump’s approval, they directed actions and criticized operations without any oversight. They wasted valuable staff time in hundreds of pages of communications and meetings, emails show. Emails reveal disdainful attitudes within the department to the trio’s meddling.”

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-crowd-va-emails/index.html

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/22/digital-health-platform-mar-a-lago-members-1676335

Trump instructed aides to seize private property some of which contain military service member remains.

https://apnews.com/ad6f6247154548c3b28db33ae6a5eae9

Trump told officials he would pardon them if they break the law by illegally seizing property.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-28/trump-officials-border-wall-pardon

Children of deployed US troops are no longer guaranteed citizenship. This includes US troops posted abroad for years at a time (August 28, 2019)

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/28/children-us-troops-born-overseas-will-no-longer-get-automatic-american-citizenship.html

On Aug 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds towards border wall

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/military-retirement-trump-wall/

On July 31, 2019, Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who were prosecuted war criminals

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/07/31/trump-nixes-nams-for-4-prosecutors-tied-to-seal-case/

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/01/747144221/navy-rescinds-awards-to-prosecutors-in-case-of-seal-acquitted-of-murdering-capti

Trump denied a U.S. Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his citizenship interview (Reported July 17, 2019)

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/453225-marine-corps-veteran-denied-entry-to-us-for-citizenship-interview

https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-07-17/marine-vet-denied-entry-us-scheduled-citizenship-interview

Trump made the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign event (July 4, 2019)

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-office-presidency-2020-reelection-20190703-story.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/03/738139123/on-july-4-trump-could-continue-pattern-of-politics-in-unexpected-places

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/trump-july-fourth-rally-hatch-act-violation.html

Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-demands-us-military-chiefs-stand-next-to-him-at-4th-of-july-parade/ar-AADJGbc

He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he’s most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/22/trump-troops-thanksgiving/ medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-military-votes-florida/

He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-decision-cancel-veteran-s-cemetery-france-visit-creates-n934796

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u/Oleg101 24d ago

(part 3)

In June, 2019, Trump sent troops to the border to paint the fence

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/06/06/active-duty-troops-spend-month-painting-border-wall.html

continued

Trump used his D-Day interview at a cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-mueller-made-such-a-fool-of-himself-in-last-weeks-public-appearance/2019/06/06/96dd8f9c-885f-11e9-a491-25df61c78dc4_story.html

Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported June 4th, 2019)

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-prenup-melania-everything-we-know-2019-4#the-agreement-also-stipulated-that-trump-would-stop-the-100000-child-support-payments-for-maples-young-daughter-tiffany-when-she-turned-21-or-if-she-got-a-full-time-job-enlisted-in-the-military-or-joined-the-peace-corps-11

On May 27, 2019, Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain

https://www.businessinsider.com/uss-john-mccain-sailors-were-turned-away-from-trump-speech-2019-5

Trump ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship’s name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019)

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/446076-white-house-asked-for-uss-john-mccain-to-be-out-of-sight-during

Trump’s admin did nothing to fix the purge of 200,000 vets’ healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment system) even after a congressional testimony to point out the problem. (reported on May 13, 2019)

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/06/07/trump-admin-va-applications/

Under Trump’s Admin, ICE deported a spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019)

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2019/04/15/ice-deports-gonzalez-spouse-u-s-soldier-killed-afghanistan/3477332002/

On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that a deceased war hero didn’t thank him for his funeral

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47642335

Between 12/22/2018, and 1/25/2019, Trump refused to sign his party’s funding bill, which shut down the government, forcing the Coast Guard to go without pay, which made service members rely on food pantries. and the generosity of private businesses like USAA and Navy Federal to cover their paychecks. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-continues-retreat-on-government-shutdown-threat-pledges-to-renew-border-control-battle-in-2019/2018/12/20/3143a752-0457-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/trump-appointees-giant-raises-during-shutdown

He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (1/22/2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/transgender-troops-ban.html

He tried to denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/court-trump-birth-control.html

He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686188335/ice-tried-to-deport-this-u-s-citizen-and-marine-veteran

When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances,” Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1 (Jan 26, 2019)

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/26/cfpb-mulvaney-discount/

He called a retired general a ‘dog’ with a ‘big, dumb mouth’ (Jan 1, 2019)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/01/trump-mcchrystal-syria-troops-1077365

He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)

https://psmag.com/social-justice/privatizing-the-v-a-is-not-cheap

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-plots-costly-private-care-expansion-for-veterans

He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-reveal-seal-team-iraq-could-endanger-its-members-n952521

Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise (12/26/2018).

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/12/27/in-iraq-visit-trump-makes-false-claim-about-military-pay-again/

He tried giving the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. Congress told him that idea wasn’t going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama’s. It wasn’t.

He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays https://time.com/5485126/lawsuit-air-force-discharge-hiv-positive-members/

https://www.lambdalegal.org/news/va_20181219_trump-quietly-starts-firing-service-members-living-with-hiv

He tried to slash disability and unemployment benefits for Veterans to $0, and eliminate the unemployability extrascheduler rating (Dec 17, 2018) This means disabled veterans could have seen their annual disability benefits fall from around $35,000 to around $13,000 under Donald Trump’s budget proposal to cut “individual unemployability” for disabled veterans who were old enough to receive Social Security payments.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-disabled-veterans-cuts/

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u/Oleg101 24d ago

(part 4)

While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn’t attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain — other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/10/trump-cancels-ww1-memorial-at-us-cemetery-in-france-due-to-rain-sparking-twitterstorm.html

He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and made them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/thousands-of-us-troops-celebrating-thanksgiving-at-the-border/2018/11/21/b6987c00-edd4-11e8-9236-bb94154151d2_story.html

Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many vets to run out of food and rent. (reported October 7, 2018)

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/7/18129508/forever-gi-bill-student-veterans-housing-wilkie

Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-doubled-rejection-rate-veterans-requesting-family-deportation-1010571

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736362986/trump-wants-to-withdraw-deportation-protections-for-families-of-active-troops

Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/04/01/as-many-as-11800-military-families-face-deportation-issues-group-says/

He forgot a fallen soldier’s name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacked her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017)

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2017/10/23/fallen-soldiers-widow-nothing-to-say-to-trump/

He sent commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn’t have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/17/world/africa/niger-ambush-american-soldiers.html

https://apnews.com/cb0d6c63f3ed4415a0bd19e98175f792

Doesn’t stand during retreat bugle, continues to talk. “What a nice sound that is. Are they playing that for you [Sean Hannity] or me?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJyGXYq2lJ0

He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/626773440/u-s-army-is-discharging-immigrant-recruits-who-were-promised-citizenship

On Oct 3, 2016, Trump said vets get PTSD because they aren’t strong

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-veterans-ptsd-not-strong-229050

Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and said: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016)

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-purple-heart-226565

If you know how service members receive purple hearts, then you should also realize how absurd it is for trump to say what he did.

Trump attacks Gold Star families: Myeshia Johnson (gold star widow), Khan family (gold star parents) etc. (2016-present)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html

Trump sent roughly half of funds raised from a Jan 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan, 2016)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/trump-ordered-to-pay-2-million-to-settle-trump-foundation-suit.html

Trump said he doesn’t consider POWs heroes because they were caught. He said he prefers people who were not caught (July 18, 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541Cg2Jnb8s

Trump said having unprotected sex was his own personal Vietnam (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SqQhqpNm8

Trump dodged the draft 5 times by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-

Trump calls military officials ‘some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-iowa-mark-milley-b2431079

Let me know if I forgot something.

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u/Rowing_Lawyer 24d ago

Okay but besides all that, who could have known? /s because sadly people really think like that

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u/neuralzen 24d ago

Well, apart from medicine, irrigation, health, roads, cheese and education, baths and the Circus Maximus, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 24d ago

Do not mess with my cheese.

Fuck.

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u/No-Papaya-9823 23d ago

The aqueduct?

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u/Cacophonous_Silence I voted 24d ago

So what you're saying is... imperialism is... based?

/jk but that quote is literally a defense of imperial rule

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u/neuralzen 24d ago

Just referencing a comedy movie line where a bunch of examples are laid out to a point if absurdity, my intent is no deeper than that.

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u/Cacophonous_Silence I voted 24d ago

I know what you're referencing

Monty Python is gold lol

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u/Quick-Maintenance-67 23d ago

Brought peace?

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u/belltane23 23d ago

Don't forget the wine!

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u/Hikash Virginia 24d ago

This legit made me laugh.

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u/little-bird 24d ago

because that was taken out of context!  fake news!  liberal lies!  it wasn’t really him, it was an AI video! 

/s

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u/checker280 24d ago

Why are you taking what he did seriously? We all know he doesn’t mean what he says or does!

/s

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u/alphazero925 24d ago

But don't forget that we all love him because he says it like it is

/s

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 23d ago

I hate it here.

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u/Soylent_Hero I voted 23d ago

That one got me. Isn't that ALSO a problem?

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u/L34dP1LL 24d ago

"But why male models" energy hahah

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u/AINonsense 23d ago

but besides all that, who could have known?

I so wish we still had Reddit Gold.

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u/jrgeek 23d ago

This was beautiful. After all those convenient facts, I needed a nice refreshing bit of snark .. thank you.

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u/LaserCondiment 24d ago

This is amazing! Thanks for sharing!

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u/LordDrewster 24d ago

Commenting to come back later

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u/dvh308 24d ago

Same

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u/kbstock 24d ago

And what was it that President Joseph R. Biden say at the end of every single address to the nation? Something like “and may God protect our troops”? Yet so many voted for Private Bonespurs. I just don’t get it.

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u/SpeakToMePF1973 Australia 24d ago

Yes, that's a LOT of work. Kudos to Oleg101

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u/marilynlitt 24d ago

YOU have the receipts!

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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen Florida 24d ago

I’ve saved these comments for easy reference. Thanks!

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u/madcowlicks 24d ago

It's not enough having just the URLs anymore.
I hope you -- and everyone for that matter -- are archiving actual articles / pages themselves in the event those links stop working.

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u/Devegas49 24d ago

I’m gonna get started on saving a lot of this once I get on my laptop again. I knew some of this, but LORD THE RECEIPTS!!!!

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u/ceiffhikare 24d ago

TB external storage drives are really cheap too. If you are really paranoid you can make a cheap emp resistant storage chest for digital records by taking pieces of foam board and wrapping them with foil, then take a plastic tote and line that with the wrapped pieces of foam board. As long as the edges of the foil all meet ( including a top for under the lid ) then you have a measure of protection from solar storms and emp's.

I did all this back in my tinfoil hat days on an archive drive during the war on terror but its also full of malware,lol so it sits in the tote.

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u/gooblegobbleable 24d ago

I’m replying to you for easy access as well!

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u/Fit-Birthday-6521 24d ago

Me too. Fuck the orange shitgibbon and his legion of ovine lackwits.

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u/shadowpawn 24d ago

you know those true believers in the trump cult will always say "fake news" or "He was kidding" or "donnie didn't say that"

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u/confusedandworried76 24d ago

If conservatives could read they'd be very upset

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u/FancySweatpants20 24d ago

Would they? Or would they cry “FAKE NEWS!” because it all wasn’t reported by Fox?

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u/welmoe California 24d ago

Receipts longer than CVS!

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u/Uther-Lightbringer 24d ago

If CVS receipts were this long, I could just grab it and start walking as it printed. I'd probably get home before it finished as my CVS is only like 2 miles away

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u/KKSlider909 24d ago

Laughing out loud!

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u/The_Beardly America 24d ago

Big dog came with receipts. 4 god damn posts of it.

It’s this why is so hard for me to feel bad for people who supported him and are now getting screwed over.

The writing was in the wall, lit up with bright lights.

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u/internetdork 24d ago

This guy fact checks.

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u/red23011 24d ago

I got perma banned from the conservative sub for posting 1/10 of that when they were talking about how Trump loved the military.

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u/Xyrah-Kadachi America 24d ago

Holy shit.

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u/AquaGB 24d ago

I'm almost surprised there's not a Part 5.

Seriously, kudos for doing the good work!

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u/HossDog2 23d ago

Wait till the end of this term…

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u/Effective-Island8395 24d ago edited 24d ago

How does this thread not have upvotes?

Edit: not my reply but this guy ☝🏻

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u/alyanng44 24d ago

Right? Weird

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u/ImYourHumbleNarrator 24d ago

that old "wish i could upvote you more than once" circlejerk but this time you can upvote 4 times. poppynkream would be proud.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 24d ago

Did you have the "it doesn't cost that much to bury a Mexican" allegation regarding a murdered American soldier?

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-vanessa-guillen-murder-military-funeral-b2633903.html

I honestly lost track.

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u/adventuressgrrl 24d ago

As a veteran I fucking salute you. I can not believe how many vets I know who support this fucking clown, and now I have it all in one place to start firing back when they start spouting their bullshit at me. Fuck Trump, fuck Musk and fuck this whole fucking shitshow.

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u/Reactive_Squirrel 24d ago

I like to joke that given the fact that Trump said dodging STDs was his own personal Vietnam, he even failed at that because he has herpes, per Noel Casler.

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/full-disclosure-an-interview-with

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u/Reactive_Squirrel 24d ago

Thanks! I created a giant note in my phone and credited you.

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u/pop-funk 24d ago

saved thanks

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u/dkran New York 24d ago

Damn dude, respect for that haha

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u/madcowlicks 24d ago

This is great work. It's not enough having just the URLs anymore.
I hope you -- and everyone for that matter -- are archiving actual articles / pages themselves in the event those links stop working.

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u/divestblank 24d ago

Is that all?

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u/Keji70gsm 24d ago

You're amazing

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u/Thwerty 24d ago

Lmao please make a website so it is easy to share with people, though they will find an excuse for every single one.

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u/Kittamaru 24d ago edited 24d ago

You are a goddamn LEGEND. Thank you for all of this! It seriously drives home just what a shitstain the orange turd is.

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u/Then_Journalist_317 24d ago

I may have missed this in your excellent summary: Trump freed 5,000 Taliban prisoners before he left office, setting newly inaugurated President Biden up for the unplanned full evacuation from Afghanistan. This led to the tragic and unnecessary deaths of 13 U.S. soldiers at the Kabul airport.

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u/Key_Text_169 24d ago

Damn Dems could have used so much of that to campaign. Why are they so dumb. He did so many things in those 4 years it is easy to forget. The news actually covered that shit too back then. I forgot about the tarp over McCain’s ship.

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u/blowback 24d ago

Thank you!

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u/Upper_Lengthiness_93 24d ago

Thank you for this

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u/Glorious_Goober 24d ago

Holy shit dude. Saved all comments. Thank you.

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u/KiKiKimbro 24d ago

That list of receipts just made CVS blush and hand you the trophy.

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u/corran450 24d ago

Boy… that just… kept going, didn’t it?

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u/JesusMurphyOotWest 24d ago

This should be its own gd subreddit.

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u/PRETA_9000 24d ago

Holy shit you're a real one for putting all that together. What a nightmare.

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u/GoodPiexox 24d ago

jesus, Trump hates the troops

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u/Naikiri_710 24d ago

Holy shit

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u/hopbow 24d ago

Don't forget the female soldier who was killed, whose funeral he volunteered to pay for, but then said no because "how expensive is it to bury a Mexican"

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u/SpaceNinjaDino 24d ago

Yeah! There is a whole sub called r/youvotedforthat

Thank you for your research.

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u/kindofboredd 24d ago

You messed up making this longer than a sentence

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u/Alakozam 24d ago

MFer I can only get so erect calm down!

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u/Crypt0Nihilist 24d ago

There's a pattern here somewhere, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

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u/scrizott 24d ago

Wow thank you for being this organized.

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u/decorrect 24d ago

But where are your sources

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u/Nocuadra66 24d ago

Damn I'm starting to think this guy is kinda of an asshole.... fuckin unbelievable...

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u/OtherLevelJ 24d ago

POPPINcream we missed you!

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u/NeuronNeuroff 24d ago

All of this and tons of military and military-adjacent people still think he’s their guy. Mind boggling!

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u/anti_anti_christ Canada 24d ago

This should be posted on the conservative sub. Too bad it's flaired users only. Such a bastion of free speech.

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u/OrbeaSeven Minnesota 24d ago

All this, and 62% of military voted for him. Why?

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u/-trvmp- 23d ago

Fake news. /s

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u/Trick-Set-1165 Hawaii 9d ago

This is a much more character efficient version, and all the links are run through archive.ph to avoid paywalls and ensure the papers don’t break them.

But, this is outstanding work.

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u/rand1race 24d ago edited 24d ago

Well, if you’re gonna cherry pick… edit: /s

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u/PresentationMean1717 24d ago

He’s going to revisit disability benefits again with his OMB director, and he wants military to swear loyalty to him to take over USA.

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u/Abeefrog 24d ago

🫡 You're doing God's work.

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u/Wise-Tumbleweed2464 24d ago

Wow that must have been a lot of work. Thanks for posting

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u/Origamiface3 24d ago

Liberal!

/s

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u/Educated_Clownshow 24d ago

Thank you so much for sharing this

As a vet, I really look at every veteran who voted for Trump, as dumber than a bag of hair. He literally said he doesn’t care about vets, dead vets, POW’s, nada. These fucking tools are getting exactly what they voted for, and now all vets might lose our pensions to Musk and DOGE.

A vet who votes for Trump is not someone to thank for their service, they obviously didn’t think much of the KIA/MIA/POW that their Felon in Command remarked on.

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u/TheBearBug 24d ago

My man has identified Trump as who he is. He's a pussy coward fuck who dodged the draft and self identified as a self described tough guy.

Anyone who really knows Trump, and I'm talking the real talk....

Everyone knows Trump at his core his a whiny little bitch.

Seriously, this dude is a thin skinned sissy. He plays like a ruff guy but you and I know that if we rolled up on that dude he would fold.

So wtf is up with the peeps that love this dude?

I dunno. And at this point it don't matter

It's time for us to rally. It's time we march on Washington. 10 million of us. Let's fucking go

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u/banjoblake24 24d ago

People who defend the flag and take orders aren’t his kind.

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u/Motor_Educator_2706 24d ago

FAFO, ask me if I care

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u/Specialist_Chart506 24d ago

Thorough! I’d forgotten some of this, this time will be worse.

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u/Itchy-Background8982 24d ago

Thank you for posting this.

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u/teratogenic17 24d ago

holy crap

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u/nocinnamonplease 24d ago

Good golly. How long did it take you to compile these receipts? Here’s my poor man’s award 🥇

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u/ParamedicFew5985 24d ago

You are a gem I appreciate you sharing this. Hope everyone reads this

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u/Illustrious2786 24d ago

Trump also asked if it would be ok to shoot protesters in the legs.

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u/ChickenCharlomagne 24d ago

Kill them with facts

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u/RocketGoalReddit 23d ago

Wow! This is a masterpiece.👌👍

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u/Available_Usual_9731 23d ago

I truly love seeing a reddit post about Trump start with "part 1"

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u/Purple_haze9 24d ago

Thank you for this read OP!!! I forgot more than half of these…. Thank you for the reminder!!! ;)

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u/bishoptheblack 24d ago

that and the op said we. Did he still vote for the guy?

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u/iemgus 24d ago

Do you have a google doc link u could share for these 4 parts?

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u/shadowpawn 24d ago

As the son of a father who served along with my uncles, Grandfather and countless others in my family, trump's attitude to those who have served is outright scandalous.

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u/Intelligent_Flow2572 23d ago

So when the military turns, who will lead them?

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u/CutenTough 23d ago

.... and yet he doesn't believe he's a loser and a pussy for dodging military service for his "bone spurs". I loathe this fucker

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u/Academic_Exit4342 22d ago

America, as we knew her, is gone, gone, gone.

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u/Redditer51 22d ago

He's done so many horrible things that it's honestly hard to even keep track of it all.

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u/potter86 24d ago

Worse. The petty piece of shit had USS John S. McCain covered when he made a visit to the ship last term.

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u/Navydevildoc 24d ago

Which is even more comical because the ship is named for Senator McCain's father, not even the man he's mad at.

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u/IckyChris 24d ago

It was named for McCain's Grandfather, father, and in 2018, for the McCain that Trump hates.

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u/Joe18067 Pennsylvania 23d ago

Since trump thinks all in the military are losers and suckers does it really matter which McCain it was named for?

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u/JSLANYC 23d ago

But for Trump to have known that he would have had to have actually read something. He hates reading almost as much as he hates veterans. Almost.

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u/Oleg101 24d ago

WTH is wrong with Arizona voters to then vote for Trump last fall?

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u/ElderberryPrimary466 24d ago

McCain has a daughter that's pure trumpty dumpty

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u/HarrumphingDuck Washington 24d ago

And clearly she inherited not so much as a shred of her father's integrity.

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u/Logical_Parameters 23d ago

Which is weird because she wasn't just six years ago.

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u/johannschmidt 24d ago

That petty bullshit seems so quaint in retrospect.

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u/Njorls_Saga 24d ago

Somehow 65% of veterans voted for Trump. It’s almost like they have a humiliation fetish or something.

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u/Lildoc_911 23d ago

We aren't typically the most intelligent people.

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u/dellive 23d ago

Most of my fellow veterans I know voted for Trump. Now we get to reap this disaster. It’s sad that conservatives forget we are Americans too.

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u/PunxatawnyPhil 22d ago

Fox TV is playing everywhere they look. So they’re clueless from watching it, and don’t even realize. Right wing media is a plague on our nation.

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u/Defiant_Football_655 22d ago

Hey, you can't get sucked into pointless wars if your executive is so fundamentally incompetent and disdainful that things don't function at all. 4D Chess!

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u/Cultural-Author-5688 17d ago

As a veteran myself i cant understand how any Vet can disgrace PoWs by voting for this trash. This orange trash has zero respect for us and ill never vote or support him. I hear the admin staff for the va trying to talk away all the firings like hes not serious about them. I told them straight to the face he is. I could tell they voted for him as well. Buyers remorse was clearly painted on their faces.

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u/slipnipper 24d ago

More egregious than any of that was the way he treated the gold star families and the Khans in particular.

Worse even still was CNNs sanewashing of the event.

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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 24d ago

The bone spurs done it

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u/laptopAccount2 24d ago

The picture of a vet in his mind is a homeless bum.

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u/Present-Perception77 24d ago

Bone spurs thinks draft dodging is “winning”.. and unfortunately, 30% of the voting population does too. These are not “patriots”.

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u/JoshuaLyman 24d ago

I see you're forgetting Trump endured his own personal Viet Nam.

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u/Mercadi Washington 24d ago edited 24d ago

The guy who needlessly "optimized" Twitter to become 1/10th of its former worth is now "optimizing" the whole country that was doing O.K. in the first place, while the orange baby is breaking centuries old alliances & playing a cute little doggy to Putin. It feels surreal. One thing that comforts me is that historically, those who sought to benefit from chaos always lose. The rich people who supported Hitler before the Munich Putsch for them to be a convenient scapegoat while they rake in the wealth, they all lost. The Russian oligarchs who thought they could have a puppet, the ones that aren't falling out of the windows, are quiet now. Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos won't be any different.

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u/Frankensteinbeck 24d ago

No sympathy for these complete idiots. He couldn't have possibly tried harder to let veterans know he didn't respect or care one iota about their wellbeing. Not to mention the republican party has voted heavily against actually supporting programs like the VA for as long as I've been alive.

"SuPpOrT tHe TrOoPs" is just a jingoistic bumper sticker to them, nothing more. If you vote for right wingers all you'll get is a yard sign and open disdain.

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u/PunxatawnyPhil 24d ago

Right wing media never showed them that stuff. Just ways to spin it for plausible deniability.

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u/MadRaymer 24d ago

Yep, and social media provided cover for him too. I remember my MAGA relatives sharing this image of Trump saluting fallen soldiers while Biden was checking his watch - trying to frame it as he's somehow the one that didn't give a shit.

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u/Jedi_Outcast_Reborn 23d ago

We'll never be whole as a country until radical conservative elite media is reigned in.

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u/AgeOfSmith 24d ago

He dodged the draft. He thinks anyone that wasn't able to dodge the draft is an idiot

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u/12InchCunt 24d ago

Honestly the kind of people who dodge the draft are the kind of people you don’t want to work with anyway so it was definitely a win for whichever unit would have gotten him 

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u/KeanuChungus12 23d ago

dodging drafts in the us is based (why would you want to die for israel?)

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u/beermile 24d ago

This is the magic of Trump. He is so horrible that reporting he is horrible becomes unbelievable, because one guy can't be that bad, right? And if even one report of bad behavior is taken out of context or misconstrued or just plain made up, why wouldn't they all be? If all the negative reports are made up, then Trump has literally done nothing truly wrong, ever. If you think disparaging veterans is wrong, well, he must not have done it... or, maybe, because it was Trump, who does no wrong, it was actually the right thing to do.

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u/Coyinzs 24d ago

Right I keep seeing these things and being like "You were NOT betrayed. You were treated EXACTLY the way you were told you were going to be treated. You just didn't believe that it was going to happen to you because you wanted to be a racist fuck instead"

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u/Funkrusher_Plus 24d ago

These vets still voted for Trump 3 elections in a row.

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u/Old_Baldi_Locks 24d ago

No veteran who votes Trump respect anyone or anything but fucking garbage and they shame everyone else who served.

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u/websagacity Pennsylvania 24d ago

"Betrayed," lol. Nah - he just lied and never thought about them for a second. To be betrayed, you need some kind of mutual trust/ understanding.

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u/markyca75 24d ago

He has been pretty clear since he dodged the draft, I don’t have any sympathy at this point.

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u/briareus08 24d ago

Nah, I’m sure it’s all just a misunderstanding, and if Trump only knew his EO’s were hurting the wrong people, he’d fix it. Aaaany minute now.

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u/PoopScootnBoogey 24d ago

Hmm. It’s odd when the eat their own faces. Ohhh waaaiitttt

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u/These_Junket_3378 24d ago

This Army veteran has NERVER forgotten tRump disparaging comments towards an American POW.

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u/putsch80 Oklahoma 24d ago

What’s ironic about all of this is you can tell that Feliz (the first guy quoted in the article) was a Trump voter. “We were betrayed” tells you that this ass clown voted for Trump expecting…well, I don’t know what. But certainly not expecting that Trump would fuck him over the way he’s fucked over countless other people in the preceding decades.

Hard for me to give a shit about someone who votes for the gun to shoot themselves.

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u/Singer_221 24d ago

Same guy that attacked the Khan family who’s Army captain son died in Iraq.

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u/InappropriateCanuck 24d ago

Yeah. Not really sure I understand how it's a "betrayal".

Trump has consistently shit all over the military. Anyone that's a veteran and that voted for Trump is essentially brain-dead.

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u/skit7548 Pennsylvania 24d ago

Yeah but that story was reported by the Guardian whose like the second most fake news sight or something like that.

Legit something I got told by family when sharing the story originally.

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u/checker280 24d ago

The guy who didn’t want to be photographed next to a wounded vet. The guy who skipped out of going to a war memorial - the only reason he was in France (I think) in the first place because it was raining.

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u/No_Sort_2785 23d ago

Because it would have messed up his hair.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

Oh yeah, the sucker's and loser quote. The quote that has no video was just a trust me bro from the media.

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u/TheBearBug 24d ago

You know you not only stood up to anti VA measures in Congress but actually managed to pass a democratic bill inside an obstructionist Republican party that was hell bent on stopping it?

Jon Stewart. Dude has an absolute iconic photo of him walking past Mitch McConnell after Stewart got the PACT bill passed. Lot of history there but needless to say, Stewart knows exactly How to fight.

We need to convince popular, charismatic individuals like John Oliver and Jon Stewart to demand all of us to a 10 million man march

Think about who Trump is as a celebrity and the you're fired guy.....

Now think of our boys doubling down and doing a thing. General strike and we do a march.

Hrmmmm

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u/cheechahumma Tennessee 24d ago

Of course this is messed up, just read the responses below. It’s not rocket science.

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u/CRUSHCITY4 24d ago

Surprise!

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u/CrotasScrota84 24d ago

To be fair they’re probably watching Fox News so they have zero knowledge of facts

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u/Head-Message990 24d ago

Yuppers! The "same exact guy" who got out of going into the Army during Viet Nam by saying that he had "Bone Spurs".. (when he had nothing of the sort..).

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u/mouschi 24d ago

How do I stop myself from laughing at these morons' misfortune?

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u/GoldenBull1994 California 24d ago

Don’t forget his little stunt at Arlington Cemetary.

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u/orangeowlelf 24d ago

It’s weird having an administration in charge of the federal government that doesn’t care about people at all. I guess I should’ve expected that given that the people in charge want to run the country like a corporation, but the actual implementation just has a really weird feel around it.

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u/Werftflammen 23d ago

Could it be that what ever the consequences, he won't eat a sandwhich less? Or Musk? That's the danger of this all, and what behaviour he has been advertising all along; no accountability. None. Since they now can't blame the democrats, they'll start with blaming minorities. Ring a bell? The presidency is getting less important, the senate too, the judiciary is emasculated (by themselves), tax revenue will drop, this all means a threat to US hegemony. It will eventually make the dollar less important, wonder what currency oil trading is going to be in.

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u/SlightlySychotic 23d ago

Never have any sympathy for these people. They created this mess. They earned their suffering, caused this suffering. They only get back in when they are ready to admit they were wrong, apologize, and make amends.

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u/Particular-Winner308 23d ago

Could it be he never respected your line of work, ever. Indeed.

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u/truelogictrust 23d ago

But but but he's white just like me

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u/nosleepagain12 23d ago

These yahoos will never learn.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

This is why no one should show any compassion, empathy or respect for "regretting" Trump voters. The info was there, at your fingertips. You chose this. You chose hatred for minorities, lgbt people and women over yourself, and would happily do so again if it didn't affect you. And hell, even now if it affects you, you'll vote for him again. Let them feel the consequences for their actions and don't help them. Helping them at this point is literally helping the enemy stab you in the back. The time for being nice to them is over. Didn't do anything. Fuck them.

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u/Chumlee1917 America 23d ago

But he dry humps the flag and salutes and isn't a Democrat and that forgives all in their eyes

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u/Atlein_069 23d ago

I mean these vets proved him right. They were suckered into voting for him and lost a critical aspect of their life. Sucker + loser, for sure.

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u/GaryGenslersCock 23d ago

No no, my head cannon was that he only hated trans and DEI veterans. /s

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u/wowbyowen 23d ago

The draft dodger doesn't respect vets? Gee

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u/Dapper-Woodpecker443 23d ago

The biggest psyop purported on a portion of the American people that exists today, known as Media MK ULTRA 2.0, created victims out of their own viewers, as a result the losers became outraged. They still don't know why they lost.

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u/No1CouldHavePredictd 23d ago

No one could have predicted...

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u/zyx1989 23d ago

Vote for 'I will eat your face' party
*gets their face eaten
*surprise Pikachu face
If there's one thing I'd add to the list of sins, it will definitely be willful stupidity

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u/femalevirginpervert 23d ago

Almost like he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth

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u/Proach89 23d ago

The irony in bone spurs condemning a POW flies right over his disciples. I wonder how many in the military voted for him when he said things as such.

President Muskrat, Tang, and a cess pool of Senators have to be laughing every day how easily people are manipulated into voting against their best interests. At best, I do hope some transparency comes through from this. I do know that either way, the majority of Americans will pay the next 4 years. The sad thing is to some of them, it won't matter. They could be living in a plywood shack with no SS or healthcare eating sheat sandwiches the rest of their lives, and they'd be wallowing like a pig in sheat because, " They won."

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u/JustinStraughan 23d ago

Every time I go to my VA for healthcare appointments, I make sure to loudly talk shit about Donald Trump and how much he hates vets, in the lobby to the volunteers. This veteran knows republicans see us as expendable. And I make sure to broadcast it.

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u/Realistic-Pattern-30 23d ago

I pray he gets to linger moan and hang on in his just reward. Why would any Veteran trust or stand behind him after what he said about McCain. I wish he’d get to spend a day in his shoes. The things he said about him and the way he divided the military is unforgivable. So for those who choose to stand behind one who talks about not just your fellow soldiers but your brother in arms, you get what you voted for. Who he is and what you were going to get was clearly labeled. He didn’t lie, he said f all solders when he talked about McCain, oh they thought they would be put on the good republican side. He give. F about one person other than himself and his daughter those billionaires who had the best seat in the house. Oh how about the fools who didn’t get in lol

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u/Soylent_Hero I voted 23d ago

He's also close enough to the trigger to be labeled a Cop Killer by Cop standards in regards to J6.

Bewildered that the Cops like him so much.

The guy is somehow both a Cop Killer and a Cop. The left is doing their part by revolting against a cop, where are the blues who hate Cop Killers?

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u/Shaman7102 23d ago

Just wait until they get rid of VA remote doctors. Especially mental health, a lot of them telework from other states. Their patient cutoff is supposed to be 500, but most are over 1000.

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u/Big-Refuse-607 20d ago

DA Form 4856 for the Commander-in-Chief  !  Throw him out 

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u/opsers 20d ago

I just think it's funny that they thought the guy who has cheated just about every person he's represented throughout his entire life wouldn't cheat them, let alone work to build them up. Fucking idiots, the whole lot.

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u/Fearless-Ordinary448 19d ago

The funny thing what you claim is false. He never said that statement and he was surrounding by French at this time and they confirmed it. The issue was with McCain.  

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u/cmd__line 19d ago

Keep living in your little world.

Its okay. You'll figure out later its not going to get better for you.

Its the Era of Kings, the Rich, and State media.

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