The Arlington employee did not press charges because she feared reprisals from Trump and his Flying Monkeys. Trump and his campaign having already employed terrorist tactics against her, her demurral makes sense. But the rest of us cannot let a terrorist state recapture power.
While perusing the Internet (and yes, I confess The Twit), I found this interview with a guy who wrote a whole book on Section 60 and it's pretty interesting. Note I did not post the Twitter link.
I hope this story has more legs than a centipede, that ghoulish photo alone would sink any normal candidate, maybe it’s finally too much for some of Felonious D’s cult.
I wrote a lot of non-comments on this story based on this video of a Vote Vets panel on the cemetery thing. Here is the actual link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYD42BXbjFg
I knew it would piss me off but I watched that Tik-Tok video and YES, IT DID. After getting all kinds of shit for the Section 60 still photos he had the NERVE to post VIDEO from that section.
does anyone remember after a racist motivated mass murder at a Walmart in Texas Trump visited with some of the survivors and among them was the family of a infant who survived the massacre physically unscathed but whose parents were killed trying to protect him, and there was a picture of Trump with the survivors/family of the deceased giving a thumbs up sign? I mean if the family wanted Trump to be there and pose with him -which they seemed to -than I truly honestly hope his visit gave them what they wanted. I have nothing against them wanting to take a picture with him. But Trump posing with a thumbs up with a baby who is now and forever will be an orphan before he's old enough to even say mama or daddy is so fucking obscene. But that's who he is: he is deeply unserious, malevolent, and obscene.
YES, I remember that. It was one of the first things I thought of when this happened although I couldn't remember if he did the thumbs up and I wasn't going to go looking for it. But now people are posting it on the internet and YES, the thumbs up is there. As is a bandage on the baby's finger, from an injury he sustained during the shooting. DAMN.
His absurd and often sinister thumbs up at the most inappropriate times are a window into his empty soul. He is utterly disconnected from humanity and reality. He gave a thumbs up at Arlington while trespassing on a fallen soldier’s grave. He gives thumbs ups after natural disasters and hands out paper towels. His “win” in 2016 was proof that we are living in a tragic comedy. The fact that he could be within shouting distance of Harris after his disastrous term, coup attempt, felony convictions and sexual assault verdicts is a condemnation of American democracy and society. We should be doing so much better.
Very solemn occasions are rarely accompanied by shit-eating grins and thumbs-up signs in my world; maybe the mysterious photographer missed the dancing part of the ceremony.
Trump is the worst of America, distilled, cooked into a pudding. and wrapped in a thin layer of weirdly shaded discount skin cells. So he appeals to all the worst.
"Trump’s team served up a combo platter of disrespect at Arlington National Cemetery this week by a) doing prohibited — and actually illegal! — political activities; b) allegedly PUSHING A CEMETERY EMPLOYEE WHO WAS TRYING TO PREVENT THEIR DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR; and c) literally calling the woman in question crazy"
None of this is unexpected. The Fulvous Flatulence is the guiding star for the RINOs and he has shown his true colors more than my stomach can bear.
* Illegal activities? Pish posh; anything he chooses to do is totally divorced from legalities of any sort. Laws were created for the weak while an alpha male like the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus just does whatever he thinks is necessary for them to achieve his goals (note that this applies only to men, women are weak vessels that let their emotions control them and need a firm guiding hand from their man);
* Pushing? Small ball. The Mango Malignancy has given his followers carte blanche to be as violent to their perceived enemies as they want;
* Calling the woman crazy? To a MAGAdroid anyone who just doesn't get it is wack. The woman in question must be mentally slow, otherwise she would have realized the importance of video and stills to educate non-believers to the realities presented by the MAGA oberster Fuhrer and his needs in order to Make America Gros... Great Again.
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"JD Vance tried to defend what they were doing — telling Kamala Harris, in the process, to “go to, go to HELL!”"
The Hillbilly was just doing what was expected from the New GOP's ankle biting attack lapdog. What candidate for VPOTUS *doesn't* back and support illegal or extralegal efforts being made by the person at the top of the ticket? Vance was being a good "Number Two" (both literally and connotatively) riding in to assist his wannabe boss.
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"after denying that they were using this fucking solemn occasion to make badly edited propaganda for their hellscape vision of America, they used this fucking solemn occasion to fucking make badly edited propaganda for their hellscape vision of America"
Come on now, why would anybody think that someone from the Goldenrod Grotesqueness' circle would tell the truth... or even half-truths. Everyone in close association with the Sandstone Snowflake are reverse Pinnocchios; their noses grow whenever they tell the truth. It was a given from the get-go that the entire event would be used as propaganda by the Cadmium Orange Cancer to show his love of our men and women in uniform. (G-dess protect them should he be returned as Commander in Chief [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers].)
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"Participants in the August 26th ceremony and the subsequent Section 60 visit were made aware of federal laws, Army regulations and DoD policies"
Again; laws, rules and regulations are for the weak and not a strong, virile, specimen of American manhood like the Dull Orange Dullard.
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"an award-winning film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a sentient angry wreath"
With an award winning soundtrack done as a collaboration between Kid Rock and Ted Nugent -- which means that you know in advance that it is going to suck... bigly.
A week where we learned that not all U.S Marines understand the meaning of Honor.
The Arlington employee did not press charges because she feared reprisals from Trump and his Flying Monkeys. Trump and his campaign having already employed terrorist tactics against her, her demurral makes sense. But the rest of us cannot let a terrorist state recapture power.
While perusing the Internet (and yes, I confess The Twit), I found this interview with a guy who wrote a whole book on Section 60 and it's pretty interesting. Note I did not post the Twitter link.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141021-arlington-national-cemetery-iraq-afghanistan-war-ngbooktalk
I hope this story has more legs than a centipede, that ghoulish photo alone would sink any normal candidate, maybe it’s finally too much for some of Felonious D’s cult.
I wrote a lot of non-comments on this story based on this video of a Vote Vets panel on the cemetery thing. Here is the actual link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYD42BXbjFg
I knew it would piss me off but I watched that Tik-Tok video and YES, IT DID. After getting all kinds of shit for the Section 60 still photos he had the NERVE to post VIDEO from that section.
I didn't watch the video but I read some of the comments and KILL ME NOW.
"the employee subsequently decided not to press charges"
Dammit.
She would have been targeted. Probably the only way to stay safe (see Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss)
This is how fascism works: end the rule of law in favor of terrorism.
This sucks so bad.
The whole scenario was grubby.
this man has no.single.redeeming.trait.
He is the embodiment of each of the seven deadly sins and exactly none of the Boy Scouts virtues.
does anyone remember after a racist motivated mass murder at a Walmart in Texas Trump visited with some of the survivors and among them was the family of a infant who survived the massacre physically unscathed but whose parents were killed trying to protect him, and there was a picture of Trump with the survivors/family of the deceased giving a thumbs up sign? I mean if the family wanted Trump to be there and pose with him -which they seemed to -than I truly honestly hope his visit gave them what they wanted. I have nothing against them wanting to take a picture with him. But Trump posing with a thumbs up with a baby who is now and forever will be an orphan before he's old enough to even say mama or daddy is so fucking obscene. But that's who he is: he is deeply unserious, malevolent, and obscene.
https://i0.wp.com/elpasomatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Anchondo-Trump-e1603340226471.jpg?w=800&ssl=1
YES, I remember that. It was one of the first things I thought of when this happened although I couldn't remember if he did the thumbs up and I wasn't going to go looking for it. But now people are posting it on the internet and YES, the thumbs up is there. As is a bandage on the baby's finger, from an injury he sustained during the shooting. DAMN.
His absurd and often sinister thumbs up at the most inappropriate times are a window into his empty soul. He is utterly disconnected from humanity and reality. He gave a thumbs up at Arlington while trespassing on a fallen soldier’s grave. He gives thumbs ups after natural disasters and hands out paper towels. His “win” in 2016 was proof that we are living in a tragic comedy. The fact that he could be within shouting distance of Harris after his disastrous term, coup attempt, felony convictions and sexual assault verdicts is a condemnation of American democracy and society. We should be doing so much better.
Very solemn occasions are rarely accompanied by shit-eating grins and thumbs-up signs in my world; maybe the mysterious photographer missed the dancing part of the ceremony.
Ta, Sara. VOTE!!
HOW IS THIS ELECTION EVEN CLOSE?
I know, I know.
Trump is the worst of America, distilled, cooked into a pudding. and wrapped in a thin layer of weirdly shaded discount skin cells. So he appeals to all the worst.
So, like a haggis only gross?
And some nasty aspic.
The weird thing is I know quite a few people who aren't frothing haters that really, really think TFG has to be better than any Dem.
They must have brain worms from gas station sushi.
I would like to nominate Randy Rainbow's entire ouevre for the score to "Team of Douchebags."
This is a disturbing story, but I have to commend dear Sara for characterizing is so effectively and vividly.
She sure did, hard agree.
"Trump’s team served up a combo platter of disrespect at Arlington National Cemetery this week by a) doing prohibited — and actually illegal! — political activities; b) allegedly PUSHING A CEMETERY EMPLOYEE WHO WAS TRYING TO PREVENT THEIR DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR; and c) literally calling the woman in question crazy"
None of this is unexpected. The Fulvous Flatulence is the guiding star for the RINOs and he has shown his true colors more than my stomach can bear.
* Illegal activities? Pish posh; anything he chooses to do is totally divorced from legalities of any sort. Laws were created for the weak while an alpha male like the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus just does whatever he thinks is necessary for them to achieve his goals (note that this applies only to men, women are weak vessels that let their emotions control them and need a firm guiding hand from their man);
* Pushing? Small ball. The Mango Malignancy has given his followers carte blanche to be as violent to their perceived enemies as they want;
* Calling the woman crazy? To a MAGAdroid anyone who just doesn't get it is wack. The woman in question must be mentally slow, otherwise she would have realized the importance of video and stills to educate non-believers to the realities presented by the MAGA oberster Fuhrer and his needs in order to Make America Gros... Great Again.
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"JD Vance tried to defend what they were doing — telling Kamala Harris, in the process, to “go to, go to HELL!”"
The Hillbilly was just doing what was expected from the New GOP's ankle biting attack lapdog. What candidate for VPOTUS *doesn't* back and support illegal or extralegal efforts being made by the person at the top of the ticket? Vance was being a good "Number Two" (both literally and connotatively) riding in to assist his wannabe boss.
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"after denying that they were using this fucking solemn occasion to make badly edited propaganda for their hellscape vision of America, they used this fucking solemn occasion to fucking make badly edited propaganda for their hellscape vision of America"
Come on now, why would anybody think that someone from the Goldenrod Grotesqueness' circle would tell the truth... or even half-truths. Everyone in close association with the Sandstone Snowflake are reverse Pinnocchios; their noses grow whenever they tell the truth. It was a given from the get-go that the entire event would be used as propaganda by the Cadmium Orange Cancer to show his love of our men and women in uniform. (G-dess protect them should he be returned as Commander in Chief [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers].)
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"Participants in the August 26th ceremony and the subsequent Section 60 visit were made aware of federal laws, Army regulations and DoD policies"
Again; laws, rules and regulations are for the weak and not a strong, virile, specimen of American manhood like the Dull Orange Dullard.
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"an award-winning film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a sentient angry wreath"
With an award winning soundtrack done as a collaboration between Kid Rock and Ted Nugent -- which means that you know in advance that it is going to suck... bigly.
fnord
"Mango Malignancy" (10 upvotes!).