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BREAKING: Trump "Losers" story confirmed by...FOX (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2020 OP
This will be fun to watch Gothmog Sep 2020 #1
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 Mme. Defarge Sep 2020 #4
I'll bring the knitting needles, Mme. Defarge. Zoonart Sep 2020 #8
You bring the knitting needles and I will bring... Politicalgolfer Sep 2020 #34
Take out the blade. That way it will hurt more. n/t sarge43 Sep 2020 #36
"Hello, I see the problem" FailureToCommunicate Sep 2020 #54
Nahhh! Keep the blade in. Make is really dull so that it takes several passes to get the job done. Blue_true Sep 2020 #58
In medieval bdamomma Sep 2020 #74
Why would they put people's heads... SergeStorms Sep 2020 #82
very funny bdamomma Sep 2020 #84
Haha moose65 Sep 2020 #50
Pass the butter Hekate Sep 2020 #17
Yes, all those motorbike riding Vietnam Vets that swear by that pig are now Blue_true Sep 2020 #56
Bikers Aerator Sep 2020 #69
That's Afternoon Fox. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2020 #2
Yep. Watch Sean Insannity furiously denounce these "liberal lies and shameless propaganda"... regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #15
"hook, line, and sucker" Beartracks Sep 2020 #81
The 6 at 5 is one of their worst afternoon shows- Juan Williams is on with 5 other idiots... MerryBlooms Sep 2020 #27
I have to admit i watch that show. Solomon Sep 2020 #48
Half the time, Juan looks like a deer caught in headlights... Can't believe what he's hearing. MerryBlooms Sep 2020 #49
that's why fox is no rw radio and are overrated as the problem - here's limbaugh this morning certainot Sep 2020 #60
Oh boy, Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #3
Hand Job Hannity will attack and cover up for Donnie tonight. Thomas Hurt Sep 2020 #5
Topic for the night will be "The Vietnam War really was stupid and Liberals mr_lebowski Sep 2020 #16
hannity has made his living repeating limbaugh but shithead started the morning in complete denial certainot Sep 2020 #71
Ruh roh EarlG Sep 2020 #6
FAKE NEWS! Stallion Sep 2020 #7
So that's why there's pig shit on the roof of my car. ResistantAmerican17 Sep 2020 #9
Snort... Politicalgolfer Sep 2020 #35
It's good to laugh even in the midst of this horror.. ResistantAmerican17 Sep 2020 #70
DUzy! JudyM Sep 2020 #45
Good one! keithbvadu2 Sep 2020 #55
Can't wait to see what it's going to tweet about this! smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #10
Lucky for him, Vietnam era vets aren't his demo ok_cpu Sep 2020 #11
My Father and Stepfather are both Vietnam vets superpatriotman Sep 2020 #18
you really have bdamomma Sep 2020 #75
Here's Griffin's Twitter thread: Chichiri Sep 2020 #12
Well, hard to argue the first part... regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #13
I actually read a pretty credible article, I think in GQ, explaining that W was CIA at the time (nt) mr_lebowski Sep 2020 #31
Actual combat vets usually don't have much good to say about war Klaralven Sep 2020 #46
Fortunate Son - CCR keithbvadu2 Sep 2020 #59
People join for lots of reasons. Eyeball_Kid Sep 2020 #66
Just went on Fux News website (can't bear to turn on the tv channel) FM123 Sep 2020 #14
And funny, there was NO PRESS BRIEFING ACTUALLY SCHEDULED FOR TODAY...... a kennedy Sep 2020 #19
Exactly! FM123 Sep 2020 #20
And his inauguration crowd was the largest ever, period... Wounded Bear Sep 2020 #52
Just laughable the Secret Service telling him NO were're not driving you ten miles or so.... Bengus81 Sep 2020 #44
Here is the thread app, to open & read the whole thread of tweets irisblue Sep 2020 #21
What was that thing he was going to swear on? Blue Owl Sep 2020 #22
He will be swearing on a gold toilet seat denem Sep 2020 #25
I believe that would be an "anything, anyone". Because "bible" doesn't roll of his forked tongue. flibbitygiblets Sep 2020 #32
He was going to swear on a bible that some money-grubbing evangelical "minister" gives him. Blue_true Sep 2020 #61
TRUMP HATES OUR MILITARY trueblue2007 Sep 2020 #23
Never Had An Iota Of Doubt colsohlibgal Sep 2020 #24
If Trump has lost Fox, he's lost the election. nt procon Sep 2020 #26
So that's four sources Qutzupalotl Sep 2020 #28
Spoken like a true 60's leftie!!! NT anamnua Sep 2020 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author anamnua Sep 2020 #76
Trump: Anyone who doesn't get out of serving in the military is stupid. Anyone who isn't Doodley Sep 2020 #30
Get ready for the tweet denouncing Fox and promoting OAN. Marie Marie Sep 2020 #33
Sounds like they've been sitting on this story for a long time bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #37
In the past, the argument has been: Grokenstein Sep 2020 #38
Well, it was indeed "a stupid war," but putting down those who fought in it is the height of Nitram Sep 2020 #39
Dump is taking a pounding in the suburban areas. roamer65 Sep 2020 #40
And this will be the tipping for for some of these un-Americans? REALLY? ffr Sep 2020 #41
I dont think even that will do it Squidly Sep 2020 #78
How will MAGA justify it? budkin Sep 2020 #42
They will call it "fake news" and talk about anonymous sources. nt Blue_true Sep 2020 #63
They just put fingers in ears and say Codeine Sep 2020 #65
Fox's commentators are now calling the network's own reporting a "hoax" steve2470 Sep 2020 #43
Greg Gutfeld connecticut yankee Sep 2020 #57
Well, Trump continues to alienate whole segments of the population! PatrickforO Sep 2020 #47
Millions went to war because they were DRAFTED dalton99a Sep 2020 #51
Young men from poor families like my Marine brother could not get deferments Blue_true Sep 2020 #67
Seeing everything as it reflects on him... SleeplessinSoCal Sep 2020 #53
Et tu, Brute? orangecrush Sep 2020 #62
I don't have to enlist.- My daddy had imaginary bone spurs and they're hereditary. keithbvadu2 Sep 2020 #64
Thankfully he didn't salute a Marine while holding a coffee. Dagstead Bumwood Sep 2020 #68
ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING!!!!!!! CRK7376 Sep 2020 #72
Bone spurs bdamomma Sep 2020 #73
Let's be fair. anamnua Sep 2020 #77
Even Cheney was confirmed to only think these thoughts in his head RANDYWILDMAN Sep 2020 #79
I hope this kills any chance Trump had to grab another term Martin Eden Sep 2020 #80
Kick ck4829 Sep 2020 #83

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
56. Yes, all those motorbike riding Vietnam Vets that swear by that pig are now
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:08 PM
Sep 2020

confirmed double-suckers (once in Trump’s eyes for going to fight and second because they allowed Trump to use them).

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,155 posts)
2. That's Afternoon Fox.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:09 PM
Sep 2020

Afternoon Fox is the where they place the slightly more realistic based people who sometimes show a grip on reality. Of course it's in the middle of the afternoon, so barely anyone watches.

Compare this to Morning Fox and Evening Fox, both of whom will be angrily insisting that this was nothing but a Deep State conspiracy against Trump.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
15. Yep. Watch Sean Insannity furiously denounce these "liberal lies and shameless propaganda"...
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:26 PM
Sep 2020

...and avoiding the fact that his own network confirmed them.

And, of course, the many-times-larger group that watches his show will swallow it hook, line, and sucker...I mean sinker.

MerryBlooms

(11,759 posts)
27. The 6 at 5 is one of their worst afternoon shows- Juan Williams is on with 5 other idiots...
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:40 PM
Sep 2020

If you haven't seen that crapfest, you have to watch once, just to get some laughs. It's so ridiculously out there... The only sponsors seem to be, Buy Gold and the My Pillow Guy.

Solomon

(12,310 posts)
48. I have to admit i watch that show.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:37 PM
Sep 2020

Only because i love watching Juan Williams send his racist co-workers up the wall by stating facts. Lol

When he talks they never let him finish. They start howling and screeching like Banshees. Four against one.

Juan is like the tackling dummy. He's there to give em somebody to beat up on.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
60. that's why fox is no rw radio and are overrated as the problem - here's limbaugh this morning
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:26 PM
Sep 2020

setting up all the other blowhards later in the day and if fox did that he may be losing his influence. may have something to do with the lung cancer and having to take weeks off for treatment. thots and prayers, right?

starts the verbal diahrea/ballet, paraphrasing:

trump’s yesterday rally was the most fantastic he’s ever seen, not to say his precious weren’t great, and it must be because their internal polls were so great, and he never said those things and the proof that it was another dem hit job is that there was an ad about it on msnbc already this morning so they must have had it ready proving the coordination with release of another hit job, and it was probably all to distract from the pelosi story, which was starting to get legs! and the loser story could not be true because otherwise it would already have leaked and sarah sanders says it wasn’t true — and anyway trump is totally anti-needless war, while he’s built defense up like never before — every allegation against trump has been a lie from the leftist socialist marxist deep state democrats, and they’re trying to distract from a great economic numbers, pelosi, biden’s age and mental problems …. and so on


so 20 mil hear that and the millions of frightened uncertainty avoiding sex on the wrong brain teabag dittoheads hear all this mush and limbaugh will end it with a comforting conclusion oozing with certitude — the democrats are lying.

this is the standard technique when something goes bad and the smorgasbord of excuses will be there for the rest of the day’s blowhards to pick through and regurgitate to awaiting twits — and if they waver there will be dittoheads to call in and correct them

they had a prerecorded hannity radio show maybe because hannity had no clue what to do and what he was going to say was getting undercut by their own channel

and no kidding, really, no kidding, one of the rw station’s ads right after that is about some in-office treatment to get the plaque out of you penile tissues — guaranteed to improve your erection! …..i haven’t called but here’s the number — 720 552 8181
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
16. Topic for the night will be "The Vietnam War really was stupid and Liberals
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:27 PM
Sep 2020

have always said it was! These elitist liberals ran to Mexico and Canada, at least Trump had a legit medical reason" etc etc ...

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
71. hannity has made his living repeating limbaugh but shithead started the morning in complete denial
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 07:29 PM
Sep 2020

calling it another deep state dem hoax. then hannity used a prerecorded show so he may have to bring some well-consulted 'nuance' after his network confirmed the story. hannity does not think on the fly

ok_cpu

(2,046 posts)
11. Lucky for him, Vietnam era vets aren't his demo
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:21 PM
Sep 2020

Wait, I'm getting a message from my producer in my ear.

Turns out they are.

superpatriotman

(6,247 posts)
18. My Father and Stepfather are both Vietnam vets
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:28 PM
Sep 2020

and are both trump supporters.

I won’t call either of them until after the election because it’s a hopeless cause

Chichiri

(4,667 posts)
12. Here's Griffin's Twitter thread:
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:21 PM
Sep 2020

Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
·
13m
Regarding McCain, "The President just hated John McCain. He always asked, 'Why do you see him as a hero?" Two sources confirmed the President did not want flags lowered but others in the White House ordered them at half mast. There was a stand off and then the President relented.
Show this thread
Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
·
13m
Regarding Trump's July 4th military parade, during a planning session at the White House after seeing the Bastille Day parade in 2017, the President said regarding the inclusion of "wounded guys" "that's not a good look" "Americans don't like that," source confirms.
Show this thread
Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
·
13m
Two former sr Trump admin officials confirm .@JeffreyGoldberg
reporting that President Trump disparaged veterans and did not want to drive to honor American war dead at Aisne-Marne Cemetery outside Paris.
Show this thread
Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
·
13m
Replying to
@JenGriffinFNC
President Trump's staff explained he could cancel (his visit to the cemetery), but he was warned, 'They (the press) are going to kill you for this'." The President was mad as a hornet when they did.
Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
·
13m
When asked IF the President could have driven to the Aisne-Marne Cemetery, this former official said confidently:
"The President drives a lot. The other world leaders drove to the cemeteries. He just didn't want to go."

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
13. Well, hard to argue the first part...
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:23 PM
Sep 2020

...it was a stupid war. As to the "suckers" part, how many rich people did we see get their kids out of it (remember National Air Guardsman George W. Bush)? It's all of a piece with Leona Helmsley's comment that "only the little people pay taxes."

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
31. I actually read a pretty credible article, I think in GQ, explaining that W was CIA at the time (nt)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:43 PM
Sep 2020
 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
46. Actual combat vets usually don't have much good to say about war
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:36 PM
Sep 2020

The ones who got shot at and wounded, shot and killed the enemy, and saw their friends die or be maimed.

The gung ho vets tend to be those who served in peacetime or who were stationed far from personal danger.

Looking forward to hearing from my grand nephew who just got back from Afghanistan. But I think his experience was basically like serving a prison sentence -- confined to base for a year doing guard duty.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,430 posts)
66. People join for lots of reasons.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:42 PM
Sep 2020

That’s the voluntary part. After that, you are part of the chain of command. You don’t get to choose your battles. You already swore an oath to defend the Constitution. Your chain of command tells you how you are going to do it.

FM123

(10,053 posts)
14. Just went on Fux News website (can't bear to turn on the tv channel)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:24 PM
Sep 2020

The comments posted after their article that "trumpy never said such things" are interesting.....


This completely tracks with his previous comments and his entire personality.

Trump says he couldn't get to the cemetery in France because of bad weather. Yet, Merkel, Trudeau, and Macron all managed to get there. That's what leaders do.

Exactly. Trump was concerned more about his "hair" getting wet than paying respects to fallen American Heroes. It was funny, and a sign of US Military disdain for Trump when they placed a fan at the West Point podium blowing his comb over up and over his bald spot. Which might explain why he was so nervous he couldn't even raise a glass of water to his mouth, or walk down some steps.

They should just use the usual excuse, and say that he was obviously joking....

Kayleigh McEnany taking no questions today at the White House press briefing pretty much confirms this is as true.

Heck, the military might remove him well before he refuses to leave at this point. LOL


*while there are still trumpy lovin diehards there, kind of surprised to see the negative comments. I love it!

a kennedy

(29,618 posts)
19. And funny, there was NO PRESS BRIEFING ACTUALLY SCHEDULED FOR TODAY......
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:31 PM
Sep 2020

She just came out, and said it was all false, blah, blah, blah, turned and walked away. She took no questions, and came out by herself, wasn’t surrounded by anyone.

Bengus81

(6,928 posts)
44. Just laughable the Secret Service telling him NO were're not driving you ten miles or so....
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:30 PM
Sep 2020

Fuck...then tell that Fat POS NO when he lands in Florida and he wants to go to Mar-a-logo and see what happens to them.

irisblue

(32,932 posts)
21. Here is the thread app, to open & read the whole thread of tweets
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:35 PM
Sep 2020

Touch the white part of the box at the bottom it should open so you can read all the tweets she posted.


flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
32. I believe that would be an "anything, anyone". Because "bible" doesn't roll of his forked tongue.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:45 PM
Sep 2020

Now does it?

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
61. He was going to swear on a bible that some money-grubbing evangelical "minister" gives him.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:31 PM
Sep 2020

He had better be careful and don’t let the retaining pin on that bible loosen and all the Bon-Bons drop out.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
24. Never Had An Iota Of Doubt
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:38 PM
Sep 2020

He is of course a serial liar on top of everything else. Just a thoroughly despicable person....and he will still have tens of millions voting for that. It is like a cancer eating away our Nation.

Assuming Joe wins it will still be awhile bringing a fair percentage of Trump lovers back to reality...hopefully while Trump is in Prison where he has belonged for some time.

Qutzupalotl

(14,289 posts)
28. So that's four sources
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:40 PM
Sep 2020

(counting The Atlantic) — confirmed by AP, WaPo, and now Fox.

He did it. All of it. Let him squirm.

Response to anamnua (Reply #29)

Doodley

(9,048 posts)
30. Trump: Anyone who doesn't get out of serving in the military is stupid. Anyone who isn't
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:42 PM
Sep 2020

smart enough to avoid paying taxes is stupid. Anyone who thinks I am serving their best interests is stupid.

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)
33. Get ready for the tweet denouncing Fox and promoting OAN.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 04:45 PM
Sep 2020

OAN kisses his ass royally and never lets him down.

bucolic_frolic

(43,064 posts)
37. Sounds like they've been sitting on this story for a long time
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:05 PM
Sep 2020

drip, drip all the way to election day to take down Trump

i'm thinking there will be others

Grokenstein

(5,721 posts)
38. In the past, the argument has been:
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:06 PM
Sep 2020

"Both sides had draft dodgers, but while liberals vociferously oppose war as anything but a last resort---something that could've gotten you killed back in the days of the Vietnam 'police action'---conservative chickenhawks root for it as long as someone else is taking the risk."

Today, the argument is different: Generalissimo Corpulente was afraid to fight (or just terrified of the prospect of Boot Camp) AND is openly contemptuous of those who serve in the military. There's a reason he smirks the way he does when he performs that grotesque pantomime with the American flag; he's laughing at the assholes who buy into his performance AND the non-assholes who find it offensive.

He. Hates. Everyone.

Nitram

(22,768 posts)
39. Well, it was indeed "a stupid war," but putting down those who fought in it is the height of
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:13 PM
Sep 2020

stupidity.

roamer65

(36,744 posts)
40. Dump is taking a pounding in the suburban areas.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:16 PM
Sep 2020

That is where we are going to win this election.

The Trumpist party after November 3rd is going to be a flying monkey RW rural party.

ffr

(22,665 posts)
41. And this will be the tipping for for some of these un-Americans? REALLY?
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:17 PM
Sep 2020

Does he need to piss on a gravestone while spitting on it too for rePuticans to come around?

FFS, we've been screaming this since 2016. And only now when it's confirmed 6 ways to Sunday are some beginning to grasp that DJT doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself.

Squidly

(783 posts)
78. I dont think even that will do it
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:46 PM
Sep 2020

Maybe tearing down Lady Liberty and replacing her with a gold statue of Ivanka....no wait...that probably wont do it either...

Replacing the stars in the flag with TRUMP? Naaaaa...They would probably love that...

I'm really not sure WHAT he could do to make them wake up

PatrickforO

(14,561 posts)
47. Well, Trump continues to alienate whole segments of the population!
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:36 PM
Sep 2020

On Fox, no less.

Yeah, he's really gonna have those Vietnam vets eating out of his little hand, isn't he?

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
67. Young men from poor families like my Marine brother could not get deferments
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:44 PM
Sep 2020

or go off to Canada. He got drafted and did four combat tours as part of a forward gunnery crew. The Agent Orange that he and his mates often got sprayed with because of their job eventually cost him is life, as a still young man. Donald Trump is garbage.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,088 posts)
53. Seeing everything as it reflects on him...
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:00 PM
Sep 2020

This was a boomerang insult. He thought he was soooo smart for claiming bone spurs. And that logic says everyone else was a sucker.

keithbvadu2

(36,678 posts)
64. I don't have to enlist.- My daddy had imaginary bone spurs and they're hereditary.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:38 PM
Sep 2020

I don't have to enlist.- My daddy had imaginary bone spurs and they're hereditary.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214022618


?ref_src=

Dagstead Bumwood

(3,599 posts)
68. Thankfully he didn't salute a Marine while holding a coffee.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:59 PM
Sep 2020

That's grounds for for a screaming, hair-on-fire impeachment, if memory swerve.

CRK7376

(2,198 posts)
72. ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING!!!!!!!
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 07:50 PM
Sep 2020

The spewing coming from the Orange Coward set me off last night and the rage burned through me all day. This Coward calls the sacrifices my family, my friends, my fellow Brothers/Sisters in Arms and the men I lost in combat were not losers or COWARDS!

None of the following men in my family were Cowards or Losers, all but the last two were draftees that served with Honor. My brother and I were 1st generation All Volunteer Army guys....
My Grandfather, 1st Lieutenant, Infantry, World War I, France
My Father in Law 1st Lieutenant, Army Air Corps, B17 Navigator, ETO
My father's Uncle was a Ranger, landed on Omaha Beach, DDay
My Father, Sergeant, Infantry, Korean Conflict
My little brother, Captain, Armor, Germany mid1980s
Me I enlisted out of high school, 1977, Sergeant, Military Intelligence, Commissioned in 1983, Infantry, Military Intelligence,
Special Operations, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Afghanistan. Retired from Active Duty after 38 years of service as a Colonel.

Trump you a miserable COWARD.

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,664 posts)
79. Even Cheney was confirmed to only think these thoughts in his head
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:49 PM
Sep 2020

Trump is so dumb he just gives voice to them and could care less until called on it.

I think he really does have dementia but it's no excuse.

Martin Eden

(12,847 posts)
80. I hope this kills any chance Trump had to grab another term
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 07:35 AM
Sep 2020

A president who calls our citizens in uniform who served and sacrificed SUCKERS needs to be run out of office on a rail.

Donald Trump is the most loathsome creature ever to cast a dark shadow on our government.

But to be perfectly honest ...
I believe Vietnam WAS a stupid war, immoral and unjust. If I was born a few years earlier I would have been eligible for the draft and would have moved to Canada if necessary.

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