The Atlantic article is one giant, unyielding, unrelenting avalanche of shit. Trump is inhuman.

[Miles Archer]

I don't know why the article hit me the way that it did. None of it was "unexpected." But to see it in print, I walked away asking how the hell any active Military member or Veteran could vote for this walking, talking piece of excrement.

Context, for those who have no idea of what I'm talking about: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Rachel Maddow is on with it right now.

[underpants]

2. Yeah it's fairly short but POW POW pow 💥

This has been backed up by another reporter. Rachel is on it now.

[onecaliberal]

3. This is wow... what a rotten hideous lack of humanity.

[jrthin]

4. I am watching Rachel cover this story.

His is beyond pond scum.

[yellowdogintexas]

32. I shall be listening to Rachel's podcast shortly n/t

[Farmgirl1961]

5. I wonder how Faux snooze is going to spin this ...

[tman]

6. "fake news"

[Arazi]

9. "Anonymous sources are lying" is the spin atm

[paleotn]

45. And my response to that spin is....

You rubes don't trust a well known, well respected member of the national media, yet you believe that QAnon horse shit.

[Grokenstein]

48. "Well, duh---we WANT to believe THAT horseshit!"

"I mean, we don't believe it ourselves, but we want everyone else to buy it!"

[mwooldri]

24. By not covering it? NT

[durablend]

30. "The LEFT is LOSING and is DESPERATE"

[unitedwethrive]

7. I can't imagine how vets and military members are feeling right now.

I hope they know how much they are respected and revered by non-trump Americans.

[Zoonart]

10. I said this in a previous thread, but

This Vanity Fair article should be tacked to the door of every VFW in this country.
On edit...The Atlantic not VF.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. The Atlantic, but close enough.

[Zoonart]

13. Oh sorry. I will correct.

I am absolutely blind with rage right now. Thanks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. It's beyond infuriating, isn't it?

I haven't been able to pick my jaw up off the ground since I read it.

[Zoonart]

15. How does he survive this...really?

I just can't.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. His supine GOP enablers probably won't say a word.

[Zoonart]

17. Mind blowing.

The entire GOP is down with this. They must be burned to the ground. Absolutely obliterated.

[Generic Brad]

29. Apparently they feel the same way

They roll over and support everything else. Not one of them will criticize or condemn him over this. They deserve extinction level voting results over this.

[ooky]

18. Lie about it. And not a single Republican piece of shit will say anything. nt

[yellowdogintexas]

33. Jack HOlmes and Charlie Pierce are going to run with this one, you

can bet on that #Esquire

[crickets]

31. Vietnam is trending on Twitter right now.

Vietnam veterans, along with their family and friends, are furious. WWII/Korea families are also speaking up.

https://twitter.com/search?q=Vietnam&src=trend_click&vertical=trends

Post after post, with photos. It is not going over well with veterans.

[JI7]

44. This is nothing new though . It's just more examples. But look at how he treated McCain and the Khan

family.

[bluestarone]

8. I say this should be FIRST QUESTION in

FIRST DEBATE!!

[GeorgeGist]

11. He's malignant AF ...

he might as well be satan.

[oswaldactedalone]

19. Yes

Pretty sure he’s actually the antichrist.

[dalton99a]

20. Kick

[yellowdogintexas]

35. I was already PO'd when he wouldn't go out in the rain to show respect for

these fallen soldiers.

That person would not know respect if it walked up and snatched that ferret off his head

This just makes it worse

[smirkymonkey]

53. As a sister of a brave veteran, his words make me absolutely sick.

How any member of the military could support him after this is just beyond me. Especialy coming from a massive coward and draft-dodger such as Trump. I cannot even express the depth of my hatred for this man.

[gopiscrap]

21. as the child of a veteran who gave his life during the

Vietnam War, I find this so very offensive and also sad. I grieve for those families and children who lost their spouses, siblings, parents and children to war

[doc03]

22. The three sources better come forward or it won't hurt him, anonymous sources will do nothing nt

[dhill926]

28. Yup...

[CanonRay]

39. Yup, the Freepers are already crying fake news

[paleotn]

47. Even if they did, the nuts would still cry fake news.

They'd swear up and down it was a pack of lies. They really are that far gone. Unredeemable. To be honest, I don't know what the hell we're going to do with them even after Biden wins. Mass deprogramming? I don't know? It's like a damn, Jim Jones cult.

[BigmanPigman]

23. I am shocked...

shocked that everyone is acting shocked over the same thing we have known for 4 years as least. He has told us over and over and over how he feels about the military so why is everyone in disbelief? Did they not believe him the first thousand times he said the same thing? Did they think he "would change"? My dog knew he felt this way so why is anyone "shocked" or in "disbelief"?

[coti]

34. I think it's the direct insults toward and disparaging of not just vets, but those who laid down

their lives for this country. There remains broad reverence across the US for those who have fully sacrificed themselves for us. To see someone treat that which is so solemn with such contempt is, even today, quite shocking.

[BigmanPigman]

37. No one should be shocked by anything he says or does at this point.

He is beyond inhuman. He is a "thing" at best. Actually, he is what I scrape off of the bottom of my shoes. Seeing "IT" as anything except that is giving him too much credit. He isn't a piece of shit, he is a big pile of it.

And I am being extremely kind and generous too.

[RockRaven]

25. Nothing, and I mean nothing, of what Trump is quoted as saying is a surprise.

It is one hundred percent consistent with everything that was publicly known about Trump before the election.

[Ilsa]

26. I'm tempted to have this issue delivered to some trumpers.

Not that it would change their vote, but knowing that they would struggle with the cognitive dissonance on just this one aspect of who he is at his core would make mailing the magazine worth it.

[George II]

27. Active OR retired or discharged. I was in the Navy - I never would have voted for him anyway but....

....if I was considering it I sure as shit wouldn't now.

[Grammy23]

36. There is video tape of him before he was elected disrespecting John McCain.

It was horrifying then and SHOULD have disqualified him on the spot for the role of Commander in Chief. And yet his supporters overlooked this blatant disrespect for a wounded and captured military hero. I dare them to overlook this latest insult to all of the military both retired and currently serving. If they do and make excuses for him or deny it, they will deserve everything they get from this monster. The rest of us don’t deserve another four years of his sh*t.

[JimGinPA]

38. Just About Every Family I Know Have Had "Suckers" & "Losers" In Them

They're not going to like hearing that.

[Gothmog]

40. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[orangecrush]

41. Kick

[ancianita]

42. Trump's been on camera tonight saying the whole thing is lies, and that he doesn't read

the Atlantic.

He could've just stopped at "I don't read."

[NoRoadUntravelled]

43. This is good news. Maybe more members of the military will start to see him for what he is

and cast their ballot for Joe Biden.

[tanyev]

46. Remember how rude he was to a military widow?

MIAMI — The pregnant widow of a fallen U.S. soldier on Monday contradicted President Donald Trump’s account of his phone call about her husband’s death and said what he told her “made me cry even worse.”

Myeshia Johnson told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview that Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson was practically a member of their family and was among a group of people listening to Trump’s call on a speaker phone as they drove to receive Sgt. La David Johnson’s body.

“The president said that he knew what he signed up for but it hurts anyway,” Johnson said. “And it made me cry because I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said it. He couldn’t remember my husband’s name. The only way he could remember my husband’s name was he told me he had my husband’s report in front of him and that’s when he actually said La David.”

Trump tweeted that Wilson “fabricated” his statement and the fight escalated through the week. Trump in other tweets called her “wacky” and accused her of “SECRETLY” listening to the phone call.

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

[crickets]

49. A Canadian vet is ticked off enough to speak up.

Link to tweet

S. Lamatina
@shawnylamatina Replying to @LionHunterMusic
and @madrid_mike
I’m a Canadian third gen Vet. Grandpa fought across http://N.Africa, Sicily&Italy and into Europe. Dad flew fighters & trained Americans for Vietnam. I was reserve x7 yrs. Remind me how any Drumpf has served? Crickets. Loser. #TrumpHatesVeterans

The anger is international.

[Linda Ed]

50. Why Would any Veteran

WHY would any veteran, military personnel or military family member ever vote for Trump? He is anti-military and anti-American, and he doesn't care if military personnel are killed.

[Withywindle]

51. That statement about not wanting to look at amputee vets in the parade

Absolute sociopathy and incredible cruelty to disabled people of all kinds.


I'm really looking forward to Sen. Duckworth's response to that.

[GopherGal]

55. The purpose wouldn't be for you to look at, Cadet Bonespurs.

The purpose would be for us to honor their bravery and sacrifice.

All the more evidence that he wants his proposed big military parade to be a tribute to himself.

[jeffreyi]

52. Disgusting.

My family is full of vets...ww2. My mom's first husband, a West Point grad, was captured in the Philippines in 1942. He survived the Bataan death march and hideous prison camp conditions, and died on the Oryku Maru "hell ship", December 1944. My stepdad flew transport airships over the Himalayas. My mom was a captain in the Women's Army Corps. Her sister, my aunt, was a WASP pilot. My dad and uncle were military doctors in Europe. All of them were brave, decent people, and good citizens. Trump isn't worth the sweat off their backsides. In fact I can't even think of language that's derogatory enough.

[Boomerproud]

54. A huge salute to your family. Incredible sacrifice.

[DSandra]

56. This is what Right Wing thinking leads to...

“I’ve got mine”, “I really don’t care, do you?”, “integrity is for paupers”, “Anyone who dies in battle is a loser.”

There should be a war against these people in our society, they are destroying so many lives here and abroad.