Miscellaneous political stuff - Part 21

Vance gets the big BOOooooo from the IAFF, firefighters..

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Now we know who pushed for the Arlington event. Who pressed the DOD and Army to allow it. I suggest you click on the

www.rawstory.com/johnson-trump-arlington/
And read ALL the info that was given to TFG and his staff.

(Speaker)Johnson pulled strings to get Trump into Arlington — and now the scandal is spreading
David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
August 29, 2024 11:52AM ET

The Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, reportedly pulled strings to get Donald Trump into Arlington National Cemetery, amid what has become a scandal and a crisis for the ex-president's campaign to re-take the White House and once again become Commander in Chief. Despite federal law that prohibits using the hallowed resting place of 400,000 of the nation's service members for political purposes, on Monday the Trump campaign photographed, filmed, and released video across multiple social media platforms showing the one-term president and convicted felon awaiting sentencing participating in a wreath laying ceremony followed by him standing in a sacred section where photography is highly-regulated, and standing by several headstones, grinning, in his famous "thumbs up" pose, which was widely condemned.

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The U.S. Dept. of the Army oversees and maintains Arlington National Cemetery. According to a Washington Post report Wednesday evening, "Pentagon officials were deeply concerned about the former president turning the visit into a campaign stop, but they also didn’t want to block him from coming, according to Defense Department officials and internal messages reviewed by The Washington Post."
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The Daily Caller reports Monday's event "would have not happened without Speaker Johnson,” according to an unnamed source.

"Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had to intervene to get former President Donald Trump into Arlington National Cemetery for the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal with Gold Star families, a family told the Daily Caller," according to the right-wing website.

www.rawstory.com/johnson-trump-arlington/

Between yesterday and today I have learned why Section 60 is a more sensitive area within ANC. It holds the remains of the most recent members of our Armed Forces, from Iraq and Afghanistan. The majority are young women and young men who in general have most of their families still living. Their children, brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents, which is not the case with older sections in the Cemetery. Their grief is more recent and raw and Arlington National Cemetery attempts to protect them all. About 3000 memorial/events are held at ANC and there has never been a disruption of any sort

Someone just posted on a local FB group that TFG just announced that the government will pay for or he will mandate that insurance covers all costs associated with IVF treatments. It’s tens of thousands per cycle. No way. While I am sympathetic and would love to see costs reduced I don’t think anyone else should have to cover that. I know people that have gone through it and we were one last cycle away before going that route ourselves. Of course I don’t think this would actually happen he is just trying to buy votes. He will say anything at this point as he has to win or go to jail. This will go the same way as his lowered prescription drugs, infrastructure, Mexico paying for the wall and bringing back manufacturing. I just feel bad for those that get their hopes up. This is such an emotional issue. It often takes many cycles and is so heartbreaking so often.

I ventured onto X for the first time in months today and the level of disinformation on there is truly terrifying.
I'm on a prepping group here in the UK and it's started to get bogged down with completely unsubstantiated nonsense. The lack of employment of critical thinking skills is really depressing. I've learnt you can't use facts to try to educate, because so many now would rather believe wild theories than look at actual facts, which they automatically see as 'fake'.

Where will it all end?

TFG is now blaming Biden and get this, the Gold Star families may have done it..

HE knows nothing, the rules, who posted the pictures etc..


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Donald Trump, in an apparent effort to distance himself and his campaign from his Arlington National Cemetery scandal, is throwing blame at Gold Star families and the Biden. administration.

Continuing to try to distance himself, Trump claimed, "I don't know what the rules and regulations are. I don't know who did it," he added, referring to posting videos, including one published to Trump's own TikTok account.

"It could have been them. It could have been the [Gold Star] parents. It could have been somebody," Trump said.

When told it was his campaign's Tiktok that posted the video, Trump replied, "I really don't know anything about it. All I do is I stood there and I said, 'if you'd like to have a picture, we can have a picture.'"

But then Trump flipped, declaring the Biden administration was to blame for his campaign's photo-op fiasco.

"This was a setup by the people in the administration that, 'Oh, Trump is coming to Arlington, and that looks so bad for us."

www.rawstory.com/this-was-a-setup-trump-blames-arlington-scandal-on-biden-administration/

And the TFG personal attacks on the Sec of the Army!!


As Donald Trump’s Arlington National Cemetery scandal grows deeper and deeper, his campaign co-manager and senior advisor, Chris LaCivita, is lashing out at the Secretary of the Army, Christine Wormuth, after the Dept. of the Army issued a “rare” yet “stark rebuke,” as CNN reported, of the campaign’s efforts to politicize the cemetery where 400,000 service members, many of whom gave their lives for their country, are buried.

Secretary Wormuth is the first woman to become Secretary of the Army. The Trump campaign and Donald Trump himself have been attacking women recently. The cemetery official who filed a report allegedly stating they had been verbally and physically accosted is a woman. Trump himself made a sexual and sexist attack on Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic political opponent, just this morning. The Guardian described it as a “lewd” and “crudely misogynistic comment,” originally posted by another Truth Social user. On Wednesday, WIRED published a story titled, “The Trump Campaign’s Rhetoric About Women Sounds a Lot Like Andrew Tate’s.”
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On Thursday, he responded to the Army’s rebuke by reposting that video and writing: “Reposting this hoping to trigger the hacks at @secarmy,” referring to the Secretary of the Army. He could have tagged the U.S. Army’s account, @usarmy, but instead LaCivita targeted Secretary Wormuth’s official government account.

Critics blasted LaCivita and the Trump campaign.

www.rawstory.com/trump-arlington-army/

I agree he is worse in many ways. TFG is seriously having mental issues and decline. There is no excuse for Vance. I think he is smarter than TFG even if he is disgusting. He will also say and do whatever he thinks will help him win. Yes I know most politicians do but I think they take it to a whole other level with their known lies.

There's a saying: You can't convince people with facts that what they learned without them is wrong.

Ignorance of rules & regs isn't a defense when common decency would have told you it's wrong. Look how desperate he is to avoid taking responsibility--so infantile!

So if the best way to deal with stressful situations is to "laugh at ourselves", why is he posting videos of other people and not himself?  I'm sure there would be lots of people glad to laugh at HIM slipping on a banana peel, struggling with a door in the wind, doing something dumb...

Wow. Just wow! Some of the comments are comedic gold though. 🤣

They believe him because they are just as bright as he is!!

We just saw a Trump ad on TV. In Texas. I can't recall seeing a presidential campaign ad on TV since we moved here in 1997.

Apparently somebody thinks the state is enough in play that they're willing to spend their dwindling campaign funds here ...

Florida conservatives are fed up with some of TFG's stunts.... He says passing recreational marijuana would be good...


Debbie Mathews, a Florida conservative, said in response to Trump, "Here we go again."

"Trump doesn’t understand a Florida Amendment," she said Saturday. "Study shows crime goes up when marijuana is legal. Can his advisors prep him better, please? Vote NO on 3."
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"Trump is talking about Amendment 3 to make conservatives start talking about why we obviously oppose this stupidity and he hopes we just forget about the Amendment 4 problem," she said. When someone suggested Trump may have been paid to endorse the cannabis amendment, (Jenna) Ellis said, "Definitely could be that too."
(David Biddle, chair of the Gilchrist GOP in the state, said on Saturday.)

x.com/davidebiddle/status/1829896079132815593

www.rawstory.com/conservatives-rebel-against-trump-cannabis-florida/