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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 11:54 AM Feb 2017

VoteVets calls out President Trump by name in new ad: "You want to be a legitimate president?. . .

Source: Salon


VoteVets calls out President Trump by name in new ad: “You want to be a legitimate president? Then act like one”

The ad blasted Trump for his actions on immigration and health care

MATTHEW ROZSA


VoteVets.org, a group that focuses on “matters including, but not limited to, foreign policy, energy security, veterans’ unemployment, and opening military service to life-long Americans born to undocumented immigrants, as well as continued investment in care for veterans,” released an ad on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday that calls out President Donald Trump by name.

The 30-second spot shows a veteran lifting weights while the camera slowly pans back to reveal that he only has one leg. After denouncing Trump’s positions on repealing the Affordable Care Act, which could hurt veterans, as well as his ban on Muslim immigration, the ad closes by calling out Trump on one of his biggest fears.

“You want to be a legitimate president, sir?” the narrator challenges. “Then act like one.”

The concerns about repealing the Affordable Care Act include that it will toss veterans who aren’t eligible for medical care under the Department of Veterans Affairs off of any form of health insurance. Similarly, because the ACA required insurance companies to include mental health coverage in all of their plans, repealing the ACA risks making it so that veterans with mental health issues (a common problem within that community) won’t be able to receive the assistance they need.





Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/02/06/votevets-calls-out-president-trump-by-name-you-want-to-be-a-legitimate-president-then-act-like-one/
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VoteVets calls out President Trump by name in new ad: "You want to be a legitimate president?. . . (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
Fantastic! Equinox Moon Feb 2017 #1
I saw that ad. Good for them. riversedge Feb 2017 #2
Trump is acting like a spoiled brat, not presidential at all. Initech Feb 2017 #3
I want him to stay on Twitter. He is digging the hole deeper with each tweet!!!nt logosoco Feb 2017 #25
Excellent. n/t They_Live Feb 2017 #4
fake news 'breaking headlines' generated a fake president. Sunlei Feb 2017 #5
TELL IT, VETS!! Hot damn! eom Leghorn21 Feb 2017 #6
Whoa Bayard Feb 2017 #7
an aquaintance of mine voted trump..... samnsara Feb 2017 #8
Welcome to DU, samnsara! calimary Feb 2017 #10
Great post. notdarkyet Feb 2017 #16
Consider starting a thread with this post! nt raccoon Feb 2017 #23
See... it's stuff like that that probably most if us has never heard about... Stellar Feb 2017 #12
Maybe because we don't watch Fox News. I don't anyway. notdarkyet Feb 2017 #17
I heard Hillary eats kittens for breakfast IronLionZion Feb 2017 #19
Excellent ad PatSeg Feb 2017 #9
That's what I'm talking about! Stellar Feb 2017 #11
YES! handmade34 Feb 2017 #13
EXCELLENT heaven05 Feb 2017 #14
The Jury is Still Out on Trump's Legitimacy dlk Feb 2017 #15
We want to see the birth certificate! notdarkyet Feb 2017 #18
Agreed Sherman A1 Feb 2017 #24
Impossible! Cha Feb 2017 #20
Greatness! JudyM Feb 2017 #21
I can't imagine how any member of the armed forces Mr.Bill Feb 2017 #22
re: mental health issue, R's keep saying they want more GUN freedumb wordpix Feb 2017 #26

Initech

(100,068 posts)
3. Trump is acting like a spoiled brat, not presidential at all.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 12:23 PM
Feb 2017

He needs to have Twitter and Fox News taken away from him.

samnsara

(17,622 posts)
8. an aquaintance of mine voted trump.....
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 12:52 PM
Feb 2017

.....because she didn't like the way 'Hillary treated vets'....wonder what she's thinking now?

calimary

(81,239 posts)
10. Welcome to DU, samnsara!
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 01:24 PM
Feb 2017

Indeed. And what exactly is it that Hillary did to the veterans? Does your friend even know?

I'm finding that - when you try to pin these folks down ("Could you tell me - just what IS it, exactly, that she did that you don't like? You're gonna have to help me out here...&quot they can't.

WHICH TELLS YOU: THEY don't even know. They've just heard the smack talk and the accusations (all of which turn out to be false) and the lies (all of which can be proven as such) and the distortions (all of which can be proven as such) and the empty claims (all of which can be proven as such), but they don't bother tuning in or reading sources that DO prove these things as such.

If all they watch is Pox Noise, and all they pay attention to are people like Alex Jones and rush limbaugh and that-guy-whose-name-rhymes-with-Vanity, OF COURSE they're not going to know, or get, the truth. They get the sloganeering and the fast talking and the Gish Galloping of the Jodyanne Jerk-Me-Offs and see His Lordship's deceptive and outright mendacious tweets, and that's enough. Which means they're automatically ill-equipped to defend their "Lord and Master" in whom they've placed all their trust. Because, remember, he assured them that HE ALONE can fix it.

Besides, these folks are simplistic thinkers. They don't do nuance. They don't understand complexity. They want it all black-or-white rather than having to take into account all the 150-million shades of gray. Simple. All nice 'n' dumbed down. Especially if they've been educated at places like Liberty "University" and Regent "University" and other "Christian" institutions, or poorly-funded public schools where supports and programs and whole departments have been eliminated, or charter "schools" where the funding and CONservative sources of funding ALSO determine what's taught.

No wonder they all love - and totally get - his tweets. That's about as deep as their mentality is, anymore. Independent thinking isn't even in their "wheelhouse" (that fad framing word that started getting a lot of use not long ago). 140 characters and that's all you need, folks. No need for even a footnote.

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
12. See... it's stuff like that that probably most if us has never heard about...
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 01:48 PM
Feb 2017

That makes me wonder, where is this stuff coming from? And, btw... welcome to DU.

IronLionZion

(45,438 posts)
19. I heard Hillary eats kittens for breakfast
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 03:55 PM
Feb 2017

and puppies for lunch

It's really disturbing the nonsense that people believe and how much they demonize her.

I stopped dating a woman this summer because of her relentless animosity towards Hillary based on her supposed abusive treatment of her workers at the State dept. plus her emails and Benghazi. It was nutty but she admit that Trump is worse.

dlk

(11,563 posts)
15. The Jury is Still Out on Trump's Legitimacy
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 02:43 PM
Feb 2017

We need to remember that until the investigation into Russian hacking of the election is completed and the details released to the public, and until Trump releases his tax returns, and puts his business interests into an actual blind trust, he is not a legitimate president. He should not get a pass for any reason.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
26. re: mental health issue, R's keep saying they want more GUN freedumb
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 11:05 AM
Feb 2017

and mental health is the real issue. Then R's take away the ACA and mental health treatment with it. Get these fricking idiot billionaires OUT

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