“All gave some.
Some gave all.
One had bone spurs…”

This, increasingly, seems to be how our military feels about their cowardly Commander-in-Chief. He wants a military parade. He pretends to honor soldiers but privately calls them ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ He had a chance for military glory. Instead, he got a letter that said he had “temporary bone spurs.” That was AFTER four college deferments.

47’s daddy was landlord to a podiatrist, Larry Braunstein, who, according to his family, wrote the bone spur “diagnosis” as a “favor.” The scheme involved a second podiatrist, Manny Weinstein, who also leased space from Fred Trump. Meanwhile, 47 competed in sports in the school he was hiding in. He says he was “the best,” but when does he ever say anything else? From MY point of view, the only thing he’s ever been “the best” at is evading responsibility.

I think somewhere in the dimmest recesses of is puny little mind, he KNOWS he doesn’t measure up to the soldiers who answered their country’s call. Because he’s such a shallow person, he seems to actually resent the military. He couldn’t stand John McCain, for example. He said McCain was NOT a war hero because he got shot down. Captain McCain vs Cadet Bone Spurs.

McCain DID get shot down, too. He was taken to an infamous POW camp called the Hanoi Hilton. It turns out, though, McCain was well connected back in the states and, as a result, was offered the opportunity to skip all that POW ugliness and just come back to the US. He said, “No.” He stayed with his comrades. That segment of his life cost him the use of an arm for the rest of his life. I didn’t agree with his politics, but McCain was a proud and brave man – a war hero, the likes of which Donny couldn’t even conceive. (Can you imagine 47 making a selfless decision about, well, anything, really?)

So Donny didn’t think much of McCain and McCain didn’t think much of Donny, either. The difference was, McCain had the credibility of action Donny could never gain. During an interview, McCain said, “One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”

So military members have a fun little put-down of the orange man. “One had bone spurs.” As always with 47, words are just words and Lord knows he talks. But his actions give him away, and, in action, he ran and hid…

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The military isn’t alone. Wall street has taken to referring to 47 as ‘Taco.’ That’s an acronym. It stands for ‘Trump Always Chickens Out.’ The reference is to 47’s oh-so-stupid tariffs that do so much damage each time they’re announced. Then revoked. Trump has turned the United States into a laughing stock, an ongoing joke.

It’s rather heartening to see that the joke is on him. Taco Trump. Cadet Bone Spurs. People whose respect he craves are, instead, showing him the respect he deserves…

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“Trump is not corrupt because he commits HIS crimes in plain sight.” REALLY?!? That’s the line from the GOP in defense of their corrupt idol. This guy is grifting and grafting on a daily basis. I presume he’s trying to hide some of it but there’s just mountains of it he’s doing right out in the open, with no concern for what people might think.

This is the direct result of the Robert’s Kangaroo Court saying the POTUS has near-perfect immunity, coupled with a corrupt Congress who still could, but will not take action to stop him. Instead, they offer up defenses like that. It’s not corruption because it’s in plain sight.

The only reason MAGA hasn’t turned on him, yet, is because MAGA media is still misinforming them and they still believe it. But it’s GOT to be getting harder and harder to defend him and his actions. It’s GOT to be getting harder for MAGA to convince themselves that Donny has anything in mind other than taking everything he can from them and stuffing it into his own pockets.

I’ll tell you this: the fact that he commits crime in plain sight doesn’t make them any less criminal. I see it. You see it. Sooner or later, MAGA is bound to see it…

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Musk takes away your FEMA money. It’s too expensive.
Musk takes away your NOAA money. It’s too expensive.
Musk takes your education money. FAR too expensive.
MAGA Mike will take your health care, and, likely, Social Security, too. Too expensive.
But Musk accepts your taxpayer money at an amazing rate – billions of dollars. His rockets keep blowing up or tumbling into the ocean (and, sometimes, populated land!)

There are millions of people in this country who couldn’t be where they are without government assistance – something of an indictment of Capitalism, if you ask me. Government money intended to help the needy is being canceled as too expensive while government money given to make rich people richer just keeps flowing. Welcome to the Upside Down…

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Defenders of Israel went into this whole thing with the moral high ground. Hamas HAD attacked Israel. I can’t say it was “unprovoked,” but it was certainly not smart. When Israel “responded” to that attack, much of the world understood. 1,200 people had to be avenged.

Slowly, at first, then faster, Israel has surrendered the moral high ground. Okay, 1,200 for 1,200, sure. But then, Israel didn’t stop. 120,000 for 1,200? Is that where we’re going? Anybody paying attention has seen Israel tell refugees to go to such and such a location for “safety,” only to have Israel bomb and attack that exact spot.

I think that when Hamas launched rockets into civilian areas of Israel, they committed a war crime. But Israel has been committing war crimes ever since. I think it’s time for the world to intervene. Enough is enough – and Israel has inflicted MORE than enough…