Donald Trump called men and women who served their country and were maimed or died, "suckers and losers."
There is a sickness in the very soul of this country when a pathological liar, serial adulterer cheat, and convicted felon is supported and adored by so many Americans.
Shaw sure picks her cherries to suit her purpose
ReplyDeleteEvery day, Trump, the convicted felon and rapist, shoots his pornographic mouth off and reveals himself to be a neo-fascist thug. No American running for the presidency has ever continuously attacked honorable American generals and the military like Trump has, while praising Hitler's genocidal generals like Trump has.
DeleteTrump is your choice, and the stench of him will always be with you, "Anonymous."
The sickness, both emotional and mental that tRump, the real human degenerate , has infected the country with has metastasized in the MAGAts of America AND it will be the end of democracy and the greatest country the world has ever know IF the real degenerate is reelected.
ReplyDeleteHow any reasonably well balanced compassionate American can even consider voting for Trump is a total mystery after all we've heard and seen since 2015 when his malignant narcissism began to turn the soul of this nation into a cesspool of human ignorance and delusion.
Shaw, the stench of tRump will hang over America for a generation if not more.
ReplyDeleteHey Anonymous
ReplyDeleteFor by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned - Matthew 12:37
We are getting down to it now. The name calling and accusations will get fierce from now until election day.
ReplyDeleteShaw,
ReplyDeleteHmm. Maybe we have new term for Trump and his fascists.
"The Trump Stench" is a the greatest domestic threat to our republic since the "Slaver Stench" of the Confederacy.
Gee, a guy that Trump fired is now badmouthing him. Surprise, surprise...
ReplyDeleteGeneral Kelly served this country with honor, and he lost a son in service to America.
DeleteI would believe the honorable General Kelly before I’d believe the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, documented liar, and the guy who called our military men and women who were maimed and who died for their county
“suckers and losers.”
No one will ever attach the adjectives, “honorable and decent” to the name “ Trump.” He’s an immoral miscreant and coward. And, a wannabe fascist who wishes for generals like Hitler’s generals!
In any other time in our country’s history, a cretin like Trump would have had his miserable arse kicked to the gutter where he belongs instead of being considered for the highest office in the land.
Because of his supporters, we may very well be slow-walking into a fascistic future.
No, Kelly is a military and USIC "institutionalist". He's 100% bought into the globalist agenda of world domination and corporate control. His biggest lament was when he was forced to abandon the Dept. of Homeland Security and bring discipline to the White House as Trump's Chief of Staff. if anyone was an "authoritarian", it was Kelly. To praise Hitler would be sacrilege to a US military institutionalist, hence the nature of the accusation.
DeleteDeep State uber alles.
Trump's fascism WILL be the deep sate Uber alles if he's reelected. But you know that jc and are likely looking forward to it.
DeleteNo. Your problem, it seems, is that you refuse to see what’s in front of your nose. You resort to impugning an honorable man, which fits perfectly with your paranoid personality, because everyone is suspected of being Deep State or globalist or institutionalist.
DeleteAnd if we do Shaw I'll be among the first to join the armed resistance... I'm now exceptionally glad I've stayed at the gym into my seventies and kept my body physically fit. It may come in handy in ways I NEVER imagined!
ReplyDeleteI hope our country won’t need us to do that, but I am willing to do the same. And I’m not as fit as you are.
DeleteTrump: The Orange Garbage Can Facist.
ReplyDelete-FH seems to identify with Trump being a Hitler fan. Imagine that. A neo-Nazi Jew. Not the first and not the last, sadly.
ReplyDeleteFJ claims on his site he is military. Odd he would run it into the ground?
ReplyDeleteWhy wouldn't I? 10 years in the USNR ('75-'85) Some of my classmates became admirals in the USN. I learned the main lesson of military leadership in 1979 through an extra-judicial punishment, on the day they threw the Academy Regs Book out. And no, it was Kings Point, not Annapolis. Ask US Merchant Mariners how respectful they are of the military. Ask my Academy profs who got sunk on the Murmansk run in WWII, and how they were treated in return. We were the "expendables".
DeleteThere are two types of military officers in the MASH tv series; as represented by the "Hawkeye Pierce" temporary duty drafted non-institutionalist type, and the regular army institutionalist type. Within the institutionalist type are the competent Col. Potter type and the incompetent Frank Burns type. Kelly is of the Frank Burns variety. He's a "fundamentalist" careerist USMC officer who consistently seeks rank and promotion. Trump demoted him.
DeleteGeneral Kelly served his country with honor, and Gen. Kelly’s son gave our country his “last full measure of devotion.”
DeleteNo member of Trump’s family ever served in the military, foreign or domestic. Trump made fun of John McCain being captured and tortured, he called men & women who served & who were wounded or died, “ losers& suckers,” and denigrated a gold star family.
You come here and try to defend an absolute monster of a human being, but we are having none of it. We know where your loyalty lies, and it is NOT with honorable men and women, but with a criminal, liar, cheat, and fraud.
-FJ meets all the requirements to be Trump's Chief of Staff.
DeleteThe fact that US would drop into fascism under peace and prosperity is only made possible by the russian propaganda machine first convincing the electorate of "collapsing economy",, "collapsing dollar", "sky rocketing crime".
ReplyDeleteNone of which are true. It's alternate reality.
And here we go again. Trump's thugs are attacking election workers.
ReplyDelete"Man In MAGA Hat Arrested For Allegedly Punching Election Worker"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maga-hat-punch-elderly-election-worker-police_n_671c131be4b00589e7dd14df
A man wearing a pro-Trump hat repeatedly punched an elderly election worker in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday evening, according to police, after the worker told him he wasn’t allowed to wear his hat inside a polling place.
The man, Jesse Lutzenberger, was booked on suspicion of injury to an elderly person, a third-degree felony. County records for Lutzenberger indicate he’s 63, and his victim is 69, according to the Bexar County sheriff.
Draft dodger Trump? That’s really funny. Or is it? Coming from Shaw, Who knows?
ReplyDeleteBut Tell me Shaw WHAT LEFTIST OR WHAT NON REPUBLICAN HAS SERVED THIS COUNTY SINCE JOHN KENNEDY ID VENTURE TO SAY NONE!
What you completely miss, Anon, is not the fact that other presidents didn’t serve, it’s the fact the Trump is the ONLY POTUS who trashes the men and women who serve and have served, were maimed, and who died, and called them “sucker & losers.”
DeleteThat’s what that miserable excuse for a human being, Trump, did, and what no other ex-POTUS has ever done.
Like most Trump cultists, you have difficulty in seeing Trump for the liar, cheat, and fraud that he is.
Anonymous certainly doesn’t know recent history as both President Johnson and Carter served in the military. (Possumlady on my tiny phone.)
DeleteMAGA: Negative alternative reality on steriods. Hyped up on aggression and ignorance. The Trump calling card.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet he is tied with giggles despite her having millions from billionaires and the coverup from the MSM. Doesn't it make you wonder if she was the best choice after biden was kicked to the curb. Maybe she shouldn't have admitted the last 4 years have been miserable for the middle class and then says she wouldn't change a thing. Should have stayed on the basement couch and not done any interviews. She has been good at never answering a question and laughing her way through an interview.
ReplyDeleteThat should give you pause to think you live in a country with people who admire a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist over a prosecuted with no criminal record. Your fellow Americans who support Trump are either out of there minds or admire lawlessness and criminality.
DeleteNo Ms. Shaw we live in a country with an election so close because trump has his supporters but the biggest question why is this horrible person tied with harris. Could it be no one knows what she stands for because she never answers a question and has a very liberal past.
ReplyDeleteI still think trump will lose not because people vote for her but because people will vote against trump.
Don’t use the collective “no one knows what she stands for,” just because YOU failed to read her position papers and listen to what she says, or, more likely, because you are so poisoned against her that no matter how often she tells you her policies, you willfully will not hear. If you & others don’t know what she stands for, it is YOUR problem, not hers. She’s been talking about her positions since she became the candidate.
DeleteI happen to like her liberal past as do millions and millions of other Americans. She has earned the support of thousands of life-long normal Republicans. Explain their ability to understand what she stands for, and you cannot!
For me Chris Christe is spot on.
DeleteA) Those who blindly support Trump will not change their minds under any pressure or othering.
B) Those who support VP Harris will not change their minds under any pressure or othering.
C) The independents, having a OPEN mind is the challenge for VP Harris.
See MUST convince them by specifically telling them clearly, so they have a felt sense that what she says is really her core beliefs so they can believe what she says she can deliver she will actually deliver. As well as how she will unite America. President Biden failed on his promise to do so.
I fully and completely support Harris, not from political loyalty as I used to be republican. But rather because she IS the only rational choice because she is more right on every issue than her opponent.
And THAT is what she MUST convince the undecided folks is true.
I agree with Skud. More people are disgusted by Trump than admire him.
DeletePlain and simple.
-FJ laments, We were the "expendables".
ReplyDeleteI happen to have a Merchant Marine seaman's card, but never would include myself among those who sacrificed all.
I suppose if you ardently support a criminal who vainly and inappropriately accepted a Purple Heart from a duped veteran, you'd want to see him as a hero.
The kicker is this is is THEIR "stolen valor" they project unto Tim Walz.
For me, it's quite simple. Kelly and his family have served and sacrificed for the United States. Trump repeatedly avoided service, as have his progeny. There has been a stream of repudiation of Trump by the distinguished current and former top level military officers who attempted to serve the United States in Trump's regime. Every one of them left, not because of their failure to perform service, but their lack of obeisance.
ReplyDeleteI hope fair-minded Americans understand this as you do. Thank you for your comment.
DeleteSo to make an informed decision about what she stands for is to not listen to her non answers but to read her views put out by her PR staff. I know you despise trump and would vote kamala regardless of what she was but you don't have to make irrational statements to justify your views. Of course democrats are very comfortable with voting for something without knowing what is it, ask nancy.
ReplyDeleteI listen to what she says! She doesn’t talk about imprisoning my fellow Americans because they don’t support her.
Delete“While almost half the country sees former President Donald Trump as a fascist, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll published Friday, some who believe that say they'll still vote for him.
Among registered voters who regard Trump as a fascist, 8% support him regardless, the poll found.”
This should sicken all real democracy- loving Americans. The fact that so many so willingly will accept fascism shows America already has her foot in the door of Fascism.
Skud is in denial.
“Plenty of presidents have been called dictators by their political opponents, but none until now has been publicly accused of being a “fascist” by his own handpicked advisers.”
DeleteSkud failed to read about this, that’s why he doesn’t believe that Trump is a fascist.
“When former President Donald J. Trump’s longest serving chief of staff said the other day that his old boss “falls into the general definition of fascist,” Mr. Trump let loose with the insults, assailing his onetime right hand as a “total degenerate,” a “LOWLIFE” and a “bad General.”
DeleteWhat Mr. Trump did not do, at least at first, was actually deny that he was or aspired to be a fascist.
Any other politician might consider that a damning denunciation worth rebutting. Only when asked days later did he directly dismiss the idea. But in the nine years that he has been running for or serving as president, Mr. Trump has regularly evoked the language, history and motifs of fascism without hesitation or evident concern about how it would make him look.”
“Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump and his allies have lambasted universities as “woke” indoctrination mills that radicalize youths against America and rip off students with inflated tuition.
DeleteTrump has said that, if elected, he will “reclaim” universities from the “Marxist maniacs and lunatics” who currently control them. His running mate, JD Vance, who once exhorted supporters to “attack the universities,” has praised the authoritarian leader of Hungary for seizing control of that country’s institutions of higher education.
Such remarks could be dismissed as Trumpian bombast. But a Globe review of a year’s worth of campaign videos, policy statements, and recent remarks by top Republicans suggests something else: that behind his incendiary words lies a set of specific policies that a second Trump administration could pursue to exert wide-ranging influence over American universities.”
@jaf... Spot on. It is impossible (for me anyway) to get my head around why EVERYONE hasn't arrived at your conclusion. We can only hope the current polls are not accurately reflecting the race. Because if they are correct odds are we have a president tRump AGAIN.
ReplyDeleteTrump is out of office, but the fascist efforts to "purify" academia are ongoing.
ReplyDeleteThis is the cancel culture they project.
A recent example is Heritage Foundation thought police intimidated the US Naval Academy into canceling a lecture by historian and fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/column/project-2025-naval-academy-ruth-ben-ghiat-heritage-foundation-UQM4A4CHTRH3FGHRO464YY7TJA/
10/22/2024
"If Trump wins, the right-wing thought police will come for the Naval Academy"
You could hear the spittle fly as the Heritage Foundation shouted out its latest intellectual assault on the Naval Academy.
All over Ruth Ben-Ghiat and a lecture the midshipmen likely will never hear.
She’s a New York University historian with a book on what happens to the military when authoritarians take power. She shows up as a commentator on MSNBC, connecting former President Donald Trump to some of the dictators she’s studied.
The academy’s history department invited her to speak about her work at the annual Bancroft Memorial Lecture. Then she was disinvited. Her politics were the problem, not her lecture.
As controversies go, it was easy to miss this one. It all took place within the conservative media ecosystem. But it could foreshadow what might happen to the U.S. service academies if Trump is elected next month.
Deep within Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s 925-page roadmap for the next Republican president, its authors say they want the service academies scrubbed of anything and anyone deemed insufficiently pure of thought — exactly what they did to Ben-Ghiat.
“Audit the course offerings at military academies to remove Marxist indoctrination,” they wrote in the section on the U.S. military, “eliminate tenure for academic professionals, and apply the same rules to instructors that are applied to other DOD contracting personnel.”
That’s a threat: Teach what we want or there’s no place for you at Annapolis, the Military Academy at West Point and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The plan calls for moving the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine, along with their academies, back under the Department of Defense and within the sights of the conservative thought police.
“The lecture had nothing to do with contemporary America and I was not going to mention Mr. Trump at all in this strictly nonpartisan event at an institution, the U.S. Naval Academy, which I greatly admire,” Ben-Ghiat wrote in an email.
“I will be speaking about what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule, touching on Fascist Italy, Pinochet’s Chile and the Russian military during the war on Ukraine,” she wrote.
...“Families whose sons and daughters are attending this august military institution should be outraged by the academy’s partisan indoctrination of future officers of the U.S. Navy,” Heritage Foundation mouthpieces Hans von Spakovsky and Cully Stimson wrote.
Ms. Shaw, I realize the hate against trump brought on by his speech and actions. A bigger part is the lies told about him like the one above "If Trump wins, the right-wing thought police will come for the Naval Academy". That is a bunch of crap.
ReplyDeleteNo matter who wins nothing will change except for those who are totally delusional. If you believe trump will jail his opponents or that harris will make billionaires pay their fair share then you suffer from a delusional disorder.
You said you listen to what she says which I find astonishing because most people including reporters have no clue what she says, ask Anderson Cooper.
No matter who wins they will be the president for four years and I will support the office. The good thing is we don't have to hear how gabby died or apologizing for something that took place even before biden was born, which was a long time ago.
America is under assault by right wing fascist Trump and his right wing fascist Goon Squad Heritage Foundation. As well as the gullible and ignorant who without studying or even slightly educating themselves simply bow and accept the fascist bullshit from fascist Trump and the now fascist republican party.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight America if Trump wins.
It isn't just service academies. Here in Idaho, the Ed secretary has signed up for Prager University classes for middle and upper HS students. The coursework is reminiscent of the Hitler Youth propaganda classes. Now why
ReplyDeletewould utra right groups hate experts of fascism- huh?
Look at how Skud follows the authoritarian radical Right.
ReplyDeleteHe's blaming the very people Trump HATEFULLY lied about, as the "enemy within".
But it's NEVER Trump's fault to Skud, is it? Trump is the blameless "victim" to him.
Then he dismisses the headline, "If Trump wins, the right-wing thought police will come for the Naval Academy", as a "bunch of crap".
All he's doing is showing HIS head is full of crap. Obviously he DIDN'T READ the text. It was a clear example of fascist cancel culture to silence a historian they HATE because she plainly sees Trump as a fascist.
She was NOT their to discuss Trump or the election. The neo-Nazis wanted to silence her for her political position.
Typical of all authoritarian personalities, Skud is filled with certainty, but totally incurious when it comes to information he REFUSES to accept.
This is why he blames us instead of Trump for the hate. It makes him FEEL he's better than us. No thinking or conscience required.
Could it be that nearly 1/2 of Americans have been fascist for some years, just waiting for a rampaging unhinged narcissist disciple of authoritarianism to surface to lead them?
ReplyDeleteBecause it sure as hell looks like they got their wish in 2015 if they were as Trump descended the elevator on that fateful first day of his life long plan. "To become a dictator on DAY ONE." Trump's very words.
Ignorance is certainly alive in great numbers in America today. And it is bright red.
Bring back the University Western Civ Core Curriculum! :)
ReplyDeleteA good start might be Durant's 'Story of Civilization' All nine volumes.
ReplyDeleteTry his "Story of Philosophy" too! That's what hooked me!
DeleteOr, having been heavily inundated and indoctrinated with the Western History perspective so that we were conditioned to western views would it not make sense to look to the east and really learn the full truth about human history from ALL perspectives and views? The history of ancient civilizations and their deeper wisdom only serves to expand understanding and awareness.
ReplyDeleteYa gotta start somewhere, Les. and right now we start no where... for the '68 chants were always, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has GOT to GO"... and not, "Teach us MORE Civ classes!".
DeleteThere's always nihilism for those who just don't or can't grasp or understand the essence, nature, and unconfined capacity of mind. It's not a short or truncated amount of time for most to get there. And far more don't than do. Particularly in the west and especially in the USA.
ReplyDelete-Is FJ's white identity threatened by an old anti-war chant?
ReplyDeleteWestern Civ was drafting and sending those kids to die in Vietnam.
My Vietnam War veteran brother looks at what Trump and the Right have done to our country and wonders why he VOLUNTEERED to go over there.
When a red hat thanks him for his service and asks if he supports Trump, they get quick lesson on the privileged arrogance and cowardice of their hero.
Amazing conversation. Learned a lot, thank you for your information, and perspective.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of perspective, the point was not that Civics and study of civilization needed to end. Instead I submit that the chant was a protest over the constant teaching of one and only one point of view, specifically White heterosexual males, usually Christian, ok, always Christian, and always with an eye to rationalizing Manifest Destiny.
I see what I see and know what I know only because as a young one I read all the journals, all the books written about the time and by those who lived it. I watched the plays, listened to the poetry, read the treaties (of which the USA is in serious arrears in making good), and soaked in the art in all its medias. While gaining an appreciation of cultures not my own I learned the hard way that a majority of schools as currently organized are nothing but ego factories; i.e. your project will succeed if you play to the professor's ego and pet prejudices'. How is that learning about the world around me except to say that all humans in positions of power will, at some point, abuse their privilege? And worse, that I should accept it as "The Way Things Are" and just step aside? No more, not my doing, the kids Have Ideas, good ones. I'm looking forward to living in what they create.
It's been said here but I'm reading it all over the interwebz that the policies coming out of the Harris/Walz camp are 'incomprehensible'. Based on the number of well established Economists (their numbers and theories align) who back their policies. The first presidential candidate who has experience in all three branches of the US Government with plans approved by the same folks who gave advice on our current economy (envy of the world, read Germany/VW is closing plants, sending thousands out of work #sorry/notsorry #fascismdoesnotequaleconomicsuccessforall) isn't "qualified"????????????
One cannot understand what they can't understand. I struggled for months over Algebra, the concepts eluded me until they didn't. It was an Eureka moment where all the maths lined up in beautiful geometric patterns, lit up like it was the holidays. If I have any power in the here/now it would be to bestow an Eureka moment for all who need it, for the good of all and may it harm none. With understanding We The People will survive this challenge. How do I know? Because We are US, bastard children of reprobates and proud of it.
Much of the US population, perhaps alot of the planet, have simply stopped being seekers. They've accepted the religious and or societal/cultural conditioning and indoctrination they were exposed to, reified it into their personal/tribe belief system and now, seeing their ego supported reality shifting before their very eyes are now very fearful because they see their long held illusions being shattered by a rapidly changing cultural landscape. It simply petrified their weak hearts and minds.
ReplyDeleteLes,
DeleteNuclear war, belligerent dictators, and climate catastrophe are three of the greatest man-made threats to the survival of the human species.
The other major poison pill for our self-extinction is religion.
While Hinduism destabilizes only India, the Abrahamic religions pose the serious global threat. After 1,400 years their followers are still at each other's throats with their damn endless wars.
As long as these factors are with us, humanity is hard-wired for its own demise.
Hinduism's greatest weakness was it's caste system with its resultant inequities. British colonialim brought India even greater problems. Greed, exploitation, ect. Similar to the exploitation brought to America by British colonialist ignorance. Including slavery.
ReplyDeleteBudhism, another product of India's spiritual enlightenment, is a remarkably ethical way to live life and access greater equanimity, happiness, and well being. Its psychology and philosophy of life i find far superior to others and could, if accepted and practiced solve the problems created by the greed and exploitation of Western Colonial powers that still exist today.
Hinduism is not really India's destabilizing force as it is not India's governmental system today, democracy is.
It is as you noted Dave, the Abrahamic religions, colonialism, and the exploitation of indigenous peoples across the globe, all the result of ignorance and greed, that continues to plague the world today.
There simply are, too many gods, to much ignorance, and too much greed in the world Dave. The only way to save oneself in this distracted, confused, and deluded environment is to look deep within, find your own ground of being, and live a compassionate, caring, and non judgmental life.
Actual reality is NOT what the societally conditioned, indoctrinated, confused, and deluded mind thinks it is. Dismantling the global egotistical world view is the only real chance at a better existence and world.
One thing is for sure, the path to ruin is to continue doing the same negative things over and over again while expecting different results. And conservatism especially follows that path.
Les, I don’t know a lot about Buddhism, but am fascinated by what you’ve written. How does Buddhism treat females? I could not follow any philosophy/religion that does not treat females as equal beings with men. Does Buddhism relegate females to a second class status as the Abrahamic religions do?
DeleteBudhism, like other spiritual practices has had it's problems with integrating women as fully equal. For example, Buddhist nuns had more precepts than monks. And there have been incidents of sexual improprieties within Buddhism. Although to my knowledge it has not been as deep or widespread as in the RCC.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the NDF is headed up by two female lamas w/Harvard Divinity School PHD's in Buddhist studies. The NDF as you may know, started in Boston. It now owns 0ver 150 acres in Springfield NH where it holds its retreats and other activities. It is through the NDF that I study and learn Buddhist practices.
Western Buddhism from my experience treat women as fully equal and while viewing life as sacred leaves the decision as to their own bodies up to them. As well as accepting, without judgment, a person's sexual preference..
There is likely no spiritual path that is perfect. But in my seeking I've found Buddhism the only path thus far that fully resonates with me.
Buddhism, particularly Tibetan Buddhism, is very pro science, especially the study of consciousness and the mind.
If your curiosity takes you further i would recommend checking out Natural Dharma Fellowship. Buddhism is a living spiritual tradition that recognizes and accepts the continual changing environment as well as the impermanence of everything.
In Buddhism personal experiential knowledge is considered very important.
Thanks for answering so quickly. Years ago I faithfully listened to Alan Watts' lectures on NPR, even taping them so I could re-listen to them. I found him and those talks very informative.
DeleteI think Buddhism appeals to me because it does not include worship of an incorporeal entity.
I've been in a relationship for almost 7 years with a man who studied Buddhism and spoke to me about NDF. He was raised Methodist in England, I was raised Roman Catholic in Boston. Both of us are non-theists, but enjoy listening to Buddhist teachings.
I see it as a path to understanding oneself and one's sufferings, desires, and fears.
It's better to come to an understanding of that, even late in life, than never at all.
Indeed it is better late than never Shaw.
ReplyDeleteYou seeing it as a path to understanding oneself, and ones sufferings, desires, and fears are indeed a big part of Buddhism. As well as understanding the interconnectedness that permeates our existance and the unity that is possible when the ego fixation dies.