Category: Military

Trump At CPAC: I Asked Staff About Giving Myself The Congressional Medal Of Honor, I Was So Brave [Video]

Trump At CPAC: I Asked Staff About Giving Myself The Congressional Medal Of Honor, I Was So Brave [Video]

That this complete buffoon is even considered for the office of president is such a shitshow it blows my mind.   That he is the leader of a cult following that seems as clownish and backward as he is.   I watched Jimmy Kimmel the other day, even posted it, where they asked trump republicans something they claimed that Joe Biden said.  The people being asked the question then went on rants about how that showed Biden clearly unfit for office and so on.   When told it was really tRump that said it those same people complete changed their view finding somehow to praise tRump for it.  It was great if they thought tRump said it, great stuff, but if Biden said it they wanted him put in a home.   It shows they are a cult, and it also shows their ability to think and reason.   Hugs.  Scottie

February 24, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

 

“I sat with the pilots. the best-looking human beings I’ve ever seen. Not my thing. but they are handsome. Central casting. Better looking than Tom Cruise and taller.

“I see my staff and I said, ‘Let me ask you a question. Is the president of the United States allowed to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor because I did a very brave thing?’

“I was so brave. Am I allowed to do it? And they said, ‘Sir, it would not be a good thing to do.’ Now here’s the problem with that story. The fake news media will lead tomorrow, ‘Donald Trump wanted to give himself the congressional.’” – Hair Furor, today at CPAC.

Wikipedia: The Medal of Honor is the United States Armed Forces’ highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. The medal is normally awarded by the President of the United States (the commander in chief of the armed forces) and is presented “in the name of the United States Congress.”

 

Elagabalus16 hours ago

Has there ever been a human being with a more advanced case of narcissistic personality disorder than Donald Trump? I don’t think so.

TK-Fla  Elagabalus15 hours ago

The insanity and narcissism is beyond belief!! WTF is he talking about?? Bravery in what way?? He is completely off the rails with everything. I want to spit on anyone who says they still support this guy. Or slap them into reality.

royinhell 16 hours ago

20 years ago, any one of those statements would have immediately made him a laughingstock and his political career would have been finished.
I miss those days.

TK-Fla  royinhell15 hours ago

And it should be the same today except for his incredibly stupid cult following. They are as crazy as he is.

GrandmascienCe  royinhell14 hours ago

There are many, many things he’s said and done that should’ve made him a laughingstock a loooooonnnnngggggg time ago.

ASFT16 hours ago

“Is the president of the United States allowed to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor because I did a very brave thing?’”

How ANY veteran or active duty service member supports this fucking shitbag, I’ll never know. He’s never faced death and terror in battle, he’s never shit in the woods or slept in the dirt. He’s never been away from family and friends for months on end (unless he wanted to be). He has ZERO understanding of service or sacrifice or honor or commitment.

I’m spittin’ mad about this one.

Todd20036  ASFT15 hours ago

Remember, he gave Rush Limbaugh the presidential medal of freedom. Solely for sucking up

ASFT  Todd2003615 hours ago

And that was just a short time after Obama awarded it to John Lewis. Compare and contrast…and then weep for our nation.

Charlie  ASFT15 hours ago

And let’s not forget that he dodged the draft, I think, 3 times due to ‘bone spurs’ in his foot during the Vietnam War. Sgt Bone Spurs deserves NOTHING from this country, PERIOD!

Todd20036  Charlie15 hours ago

And later could not remember which foot it was

Stuart 16 hours ago

One of the most irritating things Trump says is, “never before in the history of our country…” blah blah blah. As if Trump has a clear grasp of what happened last week, let alone the 250-year history of our country.

distributorcap  Stuart15 hours ago

He only speaks in superlatives. Every single thing he says is the best or worst. Most or least. Always or never.

Another sign of malignant narcissism.

SFBruce  distributorcap6 hours ago

Exactly. And Trump himself is responsible for all the best things that ever happened, and Biden, the Democrats and RINOs are responsible for all the worst.

 

Texas governor building 2,300-bed military base at seized border park

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-gov-abbott-announces-military-base-border-eagle/story?id=107377646

 

The move may deepen the tension between the state and federal governments.

ByQuinn Owen and Armando Garcia
February 20, 2024, 5:46 PM
 
There is a video at the link above.
 

Texas is building a new military base for National Guard members deployed to the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas — where state and federal authorities have been in a tense conflict over dealing with immigration — Gov. Greg Abbott said.

At a news conference on Friday, Abbott announced the construction of what he said would a new “base camp” that could house up to 2,300 soldiers.

“As opposed to being scattered around many different places across this region, they will be operating out of one place. It will amass a large army in a very strategic area. It will increase the speed and flexibility of the Texas National Guard to be able to respond to crossings,” Abbott said.

Officials expect that by mid-April they’ll have a 300-bed capacity and will add another 300 each month until completion, Texas Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer, Abbott’s top military adviser, said at the Friday press conference. The camp will include several features like large dining halls, individual rooms for soldiers and medical care facilities.

The move may also deepen the tension between the state and federal governments as Abbott continues to implement his own strategies to deter migrants from crossing in between ports of entry at the southern border.

PHOTO: Members of Texas National Guard sit inside the fence at Shelby Park on February 3, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Members of Texas National Guard sit inside the fence at Shelby Park on February 3, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images
 

Against the city’s wishes, Texas seized full control of a Shelby Park on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande in January, enclosing a 2.5-mile area with barriers and concertina wire and staffing it with Texas National Guard troops.

It has been the epicenter of state and federal government showdown as Abbott continues to restrict Border Patrol’s access to the area, preventing them from apprehending migrants crossing in one of the region’s major hotspots.

The Biden administration has sued the state of Texas over a law that would give new authority to local police to crack down on those suspected of entering the country illegally.

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in the state-federal dispute and issued an order allowing federal authorities to cut down the razor wire installed by Texas in areas where it was otherwise difficult to help migrants in distress.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been critical of the Texas governor, calling Abbott’s unilateral actions on the border “unconscionable.”

PHOTO: Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, during a news conference at Shelby Park along the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, Feb. 8, 2024.
Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, during a news conference at Shelby Park along the Rio Grande River i…Show more
Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images
 

“It is unconscionable for a public official, to deliberately refuse to communicate, coordinate, collaborate with other public officials in the service of our nation’s interests, and to refuse to do so with the hope of creating disorder for others,” Mayorkas said in a recent interview with the Associated Press.

At the Friday press conference, Texas Maj. Gen. Suelzer said that in the coming weeks the Texas National Guard will be expanding operations and installing new barriers north and south of Eagle Pass, an indication that the state continues to build barriers despite the Supreme Court ruling last month that Border Patrol agents are allowed to remove or destroy razor wire fencing to apprehend migrants attempting to enter the United States. Suelzer did not specify if the expansion of those efforts means they will also restrict access to federal agents in those areas.

Without providing any evidence, Abbott claimed his efforts at Shelby Park and in other parts of the border are responsible for the number of crossings in the area dropping in recent weeks and increasing in Arizona and other parts of the border. The state’s operations at Shelby Park cover roughly 1% of the entire southern border. But the governor did acknowledge that the number of migrant encounters in the region might once again climb in the coming months.

“As we all know, come springtime, there’s going to be additional caravans that are making their way through the southern and central part of Mexico deciding where they are going to be going,” Abbott said. “We want to make sure that when they come to the crossroad about, ‘Are they going to go to Texas? Are they going to go elsewhere?’ They will know the wrong place to go is the state of Texas.”

TX Gov Floats Anti-Woke Wall On Oklahoma Border

 

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad3 days ago

It will increase the speed and flexibility of the Texas National Guard to be able to respond to crossings,” Abbott said.I

The National Guard has zero legal jurisdiction over border enforcement, which is a federal jurisdiction.

JCF  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad3 days ago

Unfortunately, right now not even SCOTUS saying that is making it happen.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad  JCF 3 days ago

They are ITCHING for Biden to to something to stop them.

Todd20036 3 days ago

Translation: stop women/girls from crossing the border to get abortions in blue states

Stop LBGTs from escaping

Sounds really American

Even if trump dies, this democracy is in deep trouble

Rebecca Gardner 3 days ago

We are already in the 2nd Gilded Age and now we are entering the 2nd Dark Ages.

Halou 3 days ago edited

First thought from the headline:
The American Nazi Party is already testing the waters with interstate travel restrictions for women and LGBT+ people, going so far as to legislate the presumption of guilt on the part of those making travel arrangements… The Federalist Society Inquisition has so far been somewhere between ignoring it and nodding their approval. So it only makes sense they’d try and enforce a ban on interstate travel with physical barriers and goon squads.

However, per the text of the article:
Putting all his private army thugs in one place right next to where he wants to start a fight with the federal government… I can only say fucking go for it! The US air force will no doubt program the coordinates into their missiles in order to knock it all off the moment shots are fired.

kal61678 3 days ago

Texas is literally becoming North Korea. The red states have gone full communist now.

LeeGP  kal616783 days ago

Not exactly communist. More like Oligarchical Collectivist where a small group owns and controls everything and the rest have no say and get crumbs.

The Milkman 3 days ago

I grew up in Oklahoma. If he’s worried about liberal ideas (or reasonable ideas of any kind), he’s looking in the wrong place.

Rebecca Gardner  The Milkman3 days ago

Tells ya all ya need to know about TexASS.

Paula  Karl Dubhe IV3 days ago

Yeah. Our governor wants to fight against the feds. DeSantis is just crazy with some of the crap he comes up with

 

Stephen Miller Is Excited

Stephen Miller Is Excited

Again Ten Grain at Mock Paper Scissors has written an important post every one should see and understand.   This is what these cult maga want, they are complete racist bigots.   Notice that they never talk about stopping immigration from Europe or Canada.  tRump once whined that we needed more people from Norway to move here, but I ask why the hell would they?  They openly praise the idea of concentration camps for the undesirables, which means anyone who is not white straight cis and Christian.  Hugs.  Scottie

Israeli Minister Celebrates Gaza Genocide During Knesset Hearing

Canadian Doctor Shot By IDF Describes Gaza’s Devastated Medical System | Dr Tarek Loubani | TMR

Please watch this video.   It is so important to understand just what Israel is doing to hospitals, medical providers, and how they just don’t see any Palestinian or their supporters as humans, as people.  To the Israelis, they are all something to be wiped out, to be terrorized to nonexistence.  Hugs.  Scottie

Emma speaks with Dr. Tarek Loubani, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario and leader of the Glia Project, to discuss what is happening on the ground now that hospitals in Gaza are mostly non-operational.

Doctor’s Gaza Experience Brings MSNBC’s Joy Reid To Tears

Let’s talk about Biden, Russia, the GOP, and a surprise….

Dr. Thaer Ahmad, emergency room physician and assistant program director of the Advocate Christ Emergency Medicine Residency Program, discusses his recent experience volunteering at the Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.

Total Chaos: What A Palestinian American Doctor Saw In Gaza

Thaer Ahmad then walks through his assessment of the already shaky state of the healthcare system in pre-October 7th Gaza, as well as his relationship to the healthcare system, as a first-generation Palestinian-American doctor, before tackling the extensive effort it took to get into Gaza as a healthcare worker. Next, Dr. Ahmad explores the extreme changes in quality of life in Southern Gaza from his previous experiences providing healthcare, parsing through the impact of mass displacement into Rafah alongside the dwindling number of functioning hospitals in the region creating a system of severely overworked, underfunded, and under-resourced healthcare workers.
Dr. Ahmad explores the extreme changes in quality of life in Southern Gaza from his previous experiences providing healthcare, parsing through the impact of mass displacement into Rafah alongside the dwindling number of functioning hospitals in the region creating a system of severely overworked, underfunded, and under-resourced healthcare workers. After looking at the impact of the mass starvation and water scarcity on health, Thaer explores the constant siege on hospitals, even in the south of Gaza, and the clear goal of extending the ethnic cleansing until Gaza is gone, also expanding on the massive impact of the violent occupation on children in Gaza.

Let’s talk about Denmark leading when the US wouldn’t….

God’s Greatest Hypocrisy

I know many of the people who follow my Play Time don’t care for videos, and also many are not interested in bible stuff.  However even though this is an animated and a bit over the top portrayal of god, it does lay out some of the biggest sexual hypocrisies of the bible including the one man / one woman joke that many insist the rest of the world follow.  Hugs.   Scottie

Did you know that God violates his own laws in the bible? In fact, there is an example that is so egregious, complete with the exact reason spelled out, that it is completely indefensible, and anyone who tries must compromise their own moral standard to do so.