Many of you have already seen this. Still, I am moved to share thus widely since the source is neither a liberal AND spent considerable time in Trump’s inner circle.
Below is a recent quote on Donald Trump by John Kelly, retired Marine Corps General who served as Trump’s longest serving WH Chief of Staff (2017-19).
“What can I add that has not already been said. A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family (lost a child in war)- for all Gold Star families- on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.”
“A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on working men and women. A person that has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and in war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions and the rule of law.”
“There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”
Nothing is more discouraging to me than the fact that so many Americans still follow thus utterly damaged man with cult like adoration. For many years I pondered the question of how the German people could support Hitler. That is no longer a mystery.
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3 responses to “Nails It”
Many of us wait for, actively search for an alternate. A truth-dodging, doddering crook is not an alternative. There is no alternative in an entrenched body politic that manufactures and markets hate with a straight face and feigned innocence. Neither is there an alternative in a party completely out of touch with all but the monied elite’s desires. THAT is what is so sad about present American politics – that there are no alternatives to the mindless corrupt, uncaring monsters offered-up by either political party. Until ALL, Libbies, Connies, and Indies, stop defending, apologizing for, justifying the creme de la slime and insist on accountability and transparency, NOTHING will change.
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Wow! You are deeper into despair than I. I still can see gradations of incompetence and exploitation. But the real culprits are not the politicians themselves (and there are some good ones). It is with the people who elect utter excrement to public office.
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Eh, not really. Disgusted and disappointed that my fellow, um, eh, humanoids are so *&^*(&^*&9 stupid. But there remains so much joy in putting my feet on the floor in the morning and striking-out to see who I can *(&^-off and *&(^T*(&-up.
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