The Rude Pundit: What Sgt. La David Johnson Didn't Sign Up For

[babylonsister]

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10/18/2017
What Sgt. La David Johnson Didn't Sign Up For


It's practically a saying from the old country: If you elect a raging sociopath with a dead soul, don't be surprised when he acts like a raging sociopath with a dead soul.

So, frankly, what would have been shocking is if President Donald Trump had expressed remorse, sorrow, and sympathy to the widow of Sgt. La David T. Johnson, killed on a mission in Niger along with three of his fellow soldiers. Did anyone think that he wouldn't screw it up?

Of course, every time you think that Trump has cleared some incompetence bar, he sets it lower and still manages to flatten his gelatinous body to squeeze under it.

Talking to Myeshia Johnson while she was in a car with Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson on her way to the airport to greet the casket holding her husband and the father of her two children and one on the way, Trump referred to Sgt. Johnson only as "your guy." This is according to Wilson and Johnson's mother, who heard the call on speakerphone. And Trump's words of comfort were "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway."

The first part of that sentence has gotten the most attention, but, really, the second part is just as callous and malignantly narcissistic. "I guess it hurts anyway" makes it seem like Trump thought the death shouldn't have hurt as badly because Johnson had joined the military. Even more, it's that he doesn't comprehend what the pain of loss is like because it's not about him.

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So when Trump told Myeshia Johnson that her husband "knew what he signed up for," well, that's bullshit. What he signed up for didn't involve the nation not putting out the resources needed to make any medical attention quickly available. What he signed up for didn't involve being left to rot for a couple of days because of inadequate ability to search for his corpse.

What he didn't sign up for was that his family would be treated like their grief should be muted because his Commander-in-Chief cannot handle human feelings and doesn't understand that his incompetence contributed to their pain.

[TomSlick]

1. Yes, service members know what they're signing up for.

I am retired Army. I know what folks like me signed up for.

We know that we signed up to defend a country at the peril of our lives. We know the country will put bumper stickers on their cars saying: "Support our Troop" while supporting misguided military adventurism. We know that politicians see us as expendable servants.

What we did not sign up for was to have the President - the Commander-in-Chief - treat our widow with callous disrespect on her way to meet a government issue casket.

[iluvtennis]

5. Well said. This USAF vet agrees with you.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. I know you are.........

the "Rude Pundit" - but truly, you cannot come close to being able to respond to what Donald J. Trump deserves to hear regarding just this particular action of "leadership."

I do not think that there is any living, conscious, emotional, sensitive, patriotic human being that could come close to explaining how FUCKED UP Donald J. Trump truly is.

GOD help us all........................

[ChubbyStar]

3. AMEN!

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

"What he didn't sign up for was that his family would be treated like their grief should be muted because his Commander-in-Chief cannot handle human feelings and doesn't understand that his incompetence contributed to their pain."

I just want to scream. I still can't believe how heartless he was to this family. I hate him with a passion.

[Srkdqltr]

6. Seems to me

That he could have someone on his staff write something for him to say. Something all purpose for times like this.

[spanone]

7. K&R...