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634-5789

(4,705 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 05:42 AM Oct 2025

OVERHEARD....

OVERHEARD: 2 vets I know, both in their 60-70's...talking about the meeting with Piss drunk Pete and 'MuriKKKa's pedophile with the Generals. One said that it was a glorious rousing of the military, the other countered him it was a drunk and a draft dodger, when the first one, obviously a MAGAt, said, that he understood why trump didn't serve.

'We have to keep out future presidents safe from combat."

Read it again, that was on Saturday and I'm still mulling it over...

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johnnyfins

(3,990 posts)
1. Typical self-reinforcing MAGAT logic.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:07 AM
Oct 2025

Im amazed they can even get dressed in the morning at this point.

no_hypocrisy

(55,379 posts)
2. Circular "Logic".
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 07:10 AM
Oct 2025

Don't remember "let's protect future Presidents" argument for Shrub, Clinton, and Obama.

Baitball Blogger

(52,719 posts)
4. This was the excuse that the entitled class
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 07:43 AM
Oct 2025

Believed back then. They felt they were above serving in the military and their skills were better suited for leadership positions elsewhere. Frankly, I thought that thinking was put to rest. But now I see that Trump is the culmination of all the bad ideas and twisted logic that I thought we had outgrown.

sop

(19,307 posts)
5. But Trump did serve...he claimed navigating the dating scene in New York was "his own personal Vietnam."
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 07:54 AM
Oct 2025

The possibiliy of contracting a sexually transmitted disease was so life threatening, Trump said dating was "like being in Vietnam." He described the effort to avoid venereal disease as his "personal Vietnam," adding "I feel like a great and very brave soldier." Trump is a decorated veteran in the Clap Wars.

lastlib

(28,609 posts)
6. That right there is "big brain thinkin'".......
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 07:57 AM
Oct 2025

Why didn't JFK or Daddy bush or Harry Truman think of that??

KS Toronado

(23,867 posts)
8. I can hear it now at the recruiting offices
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:34 AM
Oct 2025

"I'm a future President so no combat roles for me."

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