From Captain C.B. Sully Sullenberger...

[babylonsister]

Captain C.B. Sully Sullenberger/FB


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I am a veteran. I volunteered for military service during wartime. So did my father. His generation saved the world from fascism.

In our travels, my wife Lorrie and I have always made it a point to visit military bases, hospitals and cemeteries, to meet and honor those who serve and have served our nation.

I have long known that serving a cause greater than oneself is the highest calling, whether in the military or in civilian life. And I have always tried to be a voice of reason and to speak in a measured way.

But this situation calls for a much more direct approach. It is time to call out egregious behavior for what it is.
For the first time in American history, a president has repeatedly shown utter and vulgar contempt and disrespect for those who have served and died serving our country.

While I am not surprised, I am disgusted by the current occupant of the Oval Office. He has repeatedly and consistently shown himself to be completely unfit for and to have no respect for the office he holds.
He took an oath of office that is similar to the one that each person takes who enters the U.S. Military. But he has completely failed to uphold his oath.

Now we know why. He has admitted that he cannot comprehend the concept of service above self.
He cannot understand selflessness because he is selfish. He cannot conceive of courage because he is a coward. He cannot feel duty because he is disloyal.

We owe it not only to those who have served and sacrificed for our nation, but to ourselves and to succeeding generations to vote him out.

[uponit7771]

1. Yeah, Putin's Whore is gonna have a bad weekend ... Yeah

[niyad]

2. Thank you, Capt. Sullenberger.

[MFGsunny]

43. This! a 1,000 times this. n/t

[regnaD kciN]

3. So, Sully admits his father was Antifa...?

I am a veteran. I volunteered for military service during wartime. So did my father. His generation saved the world from fascism.

What else would you expect from such an anti-American family?

[WA-03 Democrat]

4. He's a hero

Thank you for posting this. It’s a great statement.

Let’s not let their sacrifices be squandered.

60 days, do one extra thing everyday for the love of our home and our collective future.

Get out the Vote!

Joe and Kamala will beat Trump like a drum!

Sending what I can to the Act Blue Senate fund!

[sheshe2]

5. Well shit!

He cannot understand selflessness because he is selfish. He cannot conceive of courage because he is a coward. He cannot feel duty because he is disloyal.

Sully? You nailed him.

Thank you Captain.

[Turbineguy]

6. According to trump

Everybody who fought on the U.S. side was on the wrong side.

[calimary]

22. Well, why wouldn't he think that? He's playing for Russia.

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[tandem5]

7. It angers me that this is what causes outrage -- That this could be a tipping point...

Not child separations or 200K dead by way of willful neglect. Every. Fucking. Day. This monster says something horrible like this: "I like people who weren't captured," "grab them by the pussy," "shit hole countries," "very fine people on both sides," Mexicans are "rapists." Or how about when he bragged about having the tallest building after the World Trade Center collapsed? If words are all it takes he should have been gone from our public view with the Central Park Five episode or Birther-ism.

[RVN VET71]

14. I understand from where you are coming, but

this disdain and contempt for the military affects every family in the country, either directly or through extended family or friends. The people who laughed at the pussy grabbing reference -- "haha, just boys talking' in the locker room" -- the racists who were fine with Trump's characterizations of Mexicans as rapists and drug dealers, with African nations as "shithole countries -- the people who thought his lies were just a cute character trait (not flaw!) -- all of them know someone who served, or know someone who knows someone who served, someone's father or cousin or grandfather or granddaughter.

So, yeah, this is the tipping point because it is, finally, one that will absolutely piss off the vast majority of people whose brains are sufficiently clear enough to trust the report and the supporting sources that are surfacing in its wake. As for the rest, the drooling cultists, fuck them, one and all. Trump's loathing of the military and his disparagement of those who were maimed in combat, who died in combat may, finally, be the thing that helps unite us as a nation again.

[GoneOffShore]

32. You got that right. Possibly not the final straw, but it's causing the whole thing to teeter & fall

[RVN VET71]

36. I saw an interesting comment somewhere about this

Trump has claimed that he has his military to protect him -- and the thought of Trump bunkered down in the WH after Biden's victory ,while a divided military saw numbers of troops and tanks and choppers lined up to defend him, sent chills down my spine. But how many active duty military are willing to soil their souls defending a POS who has declared them all to be "suckers" and "loser"?

If Caesar's troops heard, after the Rubicon crossing, heard that he thought they were all losers and suckers, the Senate would not have been needed to finish him off because he would never even have reached Rome.

[GoneOffShore]

39. Exactly - I was a CO during the Vietnam era. I protested the war. I didn't protest vets.

[RVN VET71]

48. Exactly.

I went to 'Nam -- my handle kinda gives it away -- much like Oliver Stone did: to find out if the war was really as wrong as my friends felt it was. As it turned out, they were right: the war was insane, bad, murderous, and hopeless. The Generals in charge were giving the public a song and dance, the politicians kept on talking about lights at the end of the tunnel. All I knew was that the Vietnamese, the farmers and the Saigon shop keepers, even the bar girls, were having their lives ruined by the awful destruction America was generating.

Unlike Stone, I wasn't infantry. But I saw enough ugliness and insanity to give me nightmares and to honor forever the guys whose luck or choice led them into the midst of the fighting. I cried when I saw Stone's "Platoon." It hit home and hard.

I knew Trump had no deep respect for the soldiers doing the often dirty and always dangerous work of fighting. But I had not realized just how soulless and callous and cold this Orange creature was until the Atlantic article and subsequent corroborations. His utter lack of a human soul and any trace compassion is not just disgusting, it's actually frightening. We are a nation led by a psychopath.

[LisaM]

40. It bugs me that this is a tipping point, too.

Not the name calling, the inciting language, the bullying, the illegal detentions.

Any port in a storm, I guess, but still.

[lame54]

8. Wow

[Johnny2X2X]

9. Wow!

I thought Sully was being mentioned by Dim Don for head of the FAA?

This is great to see and will have an effect.

[yellowdogintexas]

45. However, President Biden might invite him to the Cabinet

or FAA in some fashion....

[bdamomma]

10. ............

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Where's this from?

I don’t see it on his Facebook page.

[wishstar]

12. Front page on his Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/sully/posts/

[Johnny2X2X]

13. Thanks.

I just shared it on my FB page.

[babylonsister]

26. Thanks! nt

[spanone]

15. Thank You Captain Sullenberger

[BadgerMom]

16. K & R

[oasis]

17. Trump is Toast!.......final answer.

[lpbk2713]

18. The polar opposite of Trump

Trump is such a miserable loser.

[Cha]

19. Really.. how full of Shite do you have to be to Blatantly Disrespect the US

Military? trump is such a Fake but he can't fake that. TG for his Big Bloated Uncontrollable ASSMOUTH.

But this situation calls for a much more direct approach. It is time to call out egregious behavior for what it is.
For the first time in American history, a president has repeatedly shown utter and vulgar contempt and disrespect for those who have served and died serving our country.

Mahalo, Sully!

[crickets]

20. Thank you, Captain Sullenberger!

We owe it not only to those who have served and sacrificed for our nation, but to ourselves and to succeeding generations to vote him out.

YES!

[Lock him up.]

21. "disloyal"

Out Tuesday. Wonder if quotes of the a$$ clown disparaging the military in there:



Will be looking for them (if any)!

RICO the MASSIVELY-DEADLY tRump MOB'S GANGSTER REGIME
OVER 185,000 CONFIRMED AND ONGOING INNOCENT VICTIMS KILLED FOR POLITICAL GAIN

[BootinUp]

23. Sully is trying to land this sucker.

[hibbing]

24. Strong n/t

[ailsagirl]

25. Beautiful, Captain Sullenberger

[llashram]

27. I don' have use for the overused word...hero

so I rarely use it..this gentleman is a hero of mine. Totally selfless. Last out of the sinking plane and made a complete walkthrough after all passengers were out. Think tump would have done that? That selfish bastard would have been first out screaming get him to the shore and forget everyone else.

[NBachers]

28. Thanks for putting this up- I posted it on my Facebook page for the few trump loyalists who chime in

Here's my lead-in - I also cited New York, since the mere mention of New York makes them all purple with rage. Maybe there's some way I can factor Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into it so I can leverage the blood pressure spikes:

Have a problem with this? Take it up with Sully.

Sully Sullenberger- Hero Air Force fighter pilot and airline captain who landed a disabled Airbus A320 in New York's Hudson River and saved all 155 people aboard calls out Donald Trump as "completely unfit for and to have no respect for the office he holds."

Here's his complete burn statement, with the link:…

[Susan Calvin]

29. Seems to me it used to be

That you couldn't even get elected to public office unless you are veteran. Even if you scale it back to a member of your family was a veteran, Trump fails. There's a Heinlein book that proposes you must have served to be able to vote. That's looking better and better to me.

[jmowreader]

30. The book was Starship Troopers

[Susan Calvin]

42. Yes, I know.

A lot of people read into it things that are not there. I don't mean you, just an observation that always pops into my head.

[COL Mustard]

31. Thank You, Sully

LTC, AUS (Ret)

[smirkymonkey]

33. K&R

[ronatchig]

34. You had me at vulgar ,Cap.

It is the exact word to describe the orange turd. The rest was wonderful icing on the cake.

[malaise]

35. Sully is my idea of a decent human being

Rec

[honest.abe]

37. This needs to be made into a campaign ad... if the good Captain would allow it.

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[yellowdogintexas]

44. Lincoln Project in 3.. 2...1... nt

[orangecrush]

38. Words fail me

But not Sully.

[NNadir]

41. From the mouth of a real hero, one whose heroism involved competence.

He is obviously from a different world than Trump.

[Dukkha]

46. Triggered Twitler will respond...

"I like people who don't crash planes. loser. FAKE NEWS! No one can fly better than me!"

[Beartracks]

47. NOW we know why?

Maybe it's finally dawning on a lot of new people, but I recall thinking Trump was uncomprehending of the concept of service above self way back in 2016.

Welcome to the dawn of understanding, America!

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