So they're going to QUARANTINE those poor cadets for two weeks before his speech?

[nolabear]

This is crazy. It’s bull goose looney. It’s strawberry ice cream little metal balls nuts. It should be stopped!

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[Journeyman]

1. I wonder if they'll have to be isolated for two weeks afterwards, as well . . .

before they're deemed fit for duty assignment.

[2naSalit]

16. Most likely. ...nt

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I just cannot imagine

My college is on a total shutdown, almost no one is even allowed on campus, just looked it up yesterday. And I have two cousins who were graduates of West Point. They are not Trump supporters.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Officers on the whole tend not to be as rabidly republican as the rank and file.

My brother is an Air Force Acadamy Graduate and over the years has become much less conservative. He can't stand Trump. He's not exactly liberal, but he knows what is going on and doesn't like it one bit. He just retired from the AF as a Colonel and his views are much different now then they were when his entered the Academy.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. I have a cousin who I used to be pretty close to who's a West Point graduate, career Army

Though he's both young and old enough not to have been called for active duty. His Dad, also career Army, served in Vietnam, I'm related on his mother's side. And we have had political discussions, he liked to say he was "middle of the road," LOL. But he married a girl who is pretty liberal, so there's that, and he actually got me in touch with his late father-in-law, he knew I'd like him. This guy was incorrigible, liked to send scathing/yet humorous letters to people like John Ashcroft! So my "middle-of-the-road" cousin didn't stand a chance...

[Recursion]

3. These poor bastards are already having their careers derailed

Everybody's first posting is screwed up and nobody can transfer stations as it is. Now add this? What an absolute fiasco.

[BadgerMom]

4. Selfish, selfish s.o.b.

[ALBliberal]

5. He better hope that not even one cadet

Falls ill.
This is his feeble useless way to attempt to upstage Cuomo imo. For one day he will steal the news cycle. Pitiful.

[Silver Gaia]

6. I agree. This needs to be stopped.

This is something a fricking dictator does, not the President of the United States. This stinks to high heaven!

[progree]

7. Some of this shit would make even Caligula blush. n/t

[JI7]

8. he is going to turn it into a rally

[crickets]

20. Nailed it! trump's been wanting a rally, and by gum he's going to get one...

even if it kills somebody.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. As a cadet/pre-officer, is it an ORDER that you must return to campus

to expose yourself to a virus that may kill you?

[Squinch]

13. In that culture it doesn't need to be an order.

[TomSlick]

29. Yes.

Service academy cadets/midshipmen are subject to the UCMJ.

[progree]

10. The Army Times says

https://www.armytimes.com/news/coronavirus/2020/04/24/west-point-plans-to-mass-test-and-soft-quarantine-cadets-coming-back-to-graduate/

West Point plans to mass test and soft quarantine cadets coming back to graduate, 4/25/20

Cadets will return to campus in small, staggered groups. They’ll be paced in hard structures in the summer training area and wait there for tests results to come back, which should be the same day the swab is taken.

“If they come back clean, they’ll come on campus to their dorm room, and we’re calling it a soft quarantine,” said West Point spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt.

“They won’t be moving in big groups and having formations,” he added, saying that it’s still yet to be determined what that soft quarantine will entail because of constant updates to Center for Disease Control and Army guidance.

... The New York Times reported Friday that the president’s announcement at a news conference that he was still attending the graduation caught West Point officials off-guard, though the Times noted that planning had already been underway even if it had not been announced. Cadets have also always known that returning to West Point would have to happen in some manner, said Ophardt.

“They were always told along the way that they’d have to come back, get their stuff, commission and go off to training," Ophardt added. "So they always knew they were coming back.”

The Naval Academy will have a digital graduation ... are the new ensigns all going back to Annapolis to "get their stuff"?

[nolabear]

14. So they're calling it a "soft quarantine" but don't know what that means?

That’s so military, and yet not. Give it a name before you do it that’ll make it sound better. But this isn’t an “exercise.” It’s just plain bs. They can get their stuff without gathering for a rally.

[dickthegrouch]

23. As long as a "digital graduation " comprises

The middle digits pointed in trump’s direction, sounds good to me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. It's worse. Cadets forced to TRAVEL back for mass assemblage and cross-infection. His ego

Watch, (no don't watch but read), his speech will include a few lofty quotes for Fox to repeat and a bunch of campaign rally slogans tinged with xenophobia for RW bloggers to repeat.

[LiberalLoner]

17. So they will be using Camp Buckner as the quarantine area

That makes sense.

[MrsMatt]

18. What about the support staff?

The cafeteria and janitorial staff? Will they get tested too, and have to quarantine?

[nolabear]

19. Perfect question.

[crickets]

21. +1

[Gothmog]

22. Everyone is leery about bringing 1,000 cadets into the New York metropolitan area for a ceremony,

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[LiberalLoner]

27. West Point is actually a fair drive from NYC.

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Like 57 or 58 miles, with a lot of empty land in between.

[NightWatcher]

24. That's some North Korean Dear Leader shit

[lame54]

25. The goal is to make them so stir crazy that...

Even going out to a Trump speech sounds good

[tblue37]

26. The most self-absorbed & selfish man in the world. nt

[MFGsunny]

28. The opening words to be sung for MF45 should be Carly Simon's.

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain,
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you?
Don't you?

[Gothmog]

30. Sen. Tammy Duckworth- trump has no shame

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