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Proud Boys getting a warm welcome in Atlanta...

 

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So, the Trump parade was empty and millions around the country protested against him.......

At least the majority of the country is now awake.

DD

 

Damn, Trump's little birthday parade for himself looked as sad and pathetic as....well, the fact that he hijacked the army anniversary for his north korea cosplay was to begin with.

Everything Trump touches is poisoned. Even this, in a country that generally loves to honor its armed forces and military capabilities. All while people around the country made their voices heard as they protested his burning of the country. Quite a feat.

 

AOC in the shopping cart killed me hahaha

 

I support the military and our troops, but not spending 45 million to grandstand the troops to flex his power on his birthday, all while gutting VA workforce, cutting services for Veterans, and firing those who don't look the part Hegseth wants them to.




40,056 veterans are homeless on any given night. Over the course of a year, approximately twice that many experience homelessness. Only 7% of the general population can claim veteran status, but nearly 13% of the homeless adult population are veterans.

https://nchv.org/veteran-homelessness/

 

Part 2

Our Secretary of Defense

Then you have a Secretary of Defense who was no more than a platoon leader cutting people because of their gender or because they aren't Trump loyalists, not because of their performance, like the women and people of color all fired from leading all the different military branches. Just one example of his bigotry....

Marking National Women Veterans Day, Jacobs, who represents one of the largest military communities in San Diego, opened her remarks by highlighting the exemplary records of three women in uniform: a major responsible for advanced combat training, an aviator with more than 50 combat missions, and an ROTC instructor rated as one of the top noncommissioned officers in her command. All three, she noted, had received the highest marks from their commanding officers in recent months.

Hegseth applauded their records—until Jacobs revealed they are transgender women.

"I would commend the major, the aviator, and the instructor for their service," Hegseth said.

“You are actually kicking out these three highly qualified service members solely because of their identity,” Jacobs explained. “You are the one injecting culture wars into the military, and it’s at the detriment of our military readiness and national security.”

Cont...

 

Part 3

Veterans Speaking Out

“President Trump threatened Americans coming to exercise their first amendment rights would be met with ‘great force,’” said Michael T. McPhearson, veteran and director of Veterans for Peace, an organizer of the protest. “We are the actual people who put uniforms on because we believe in the freedoms this country is supposed to be about and we will not be intimidated into silence.”

McPhearson’s words echo the sentiments of others, including Chris Purdy, a U.S. Army National Guard veteran who served from 2004 to 2012 and was deployed to Iraq in 2011.

Purdy maintains the values of military might and respect set to be displayed in the parade exist in “stark contrast” to how Trump is treating both veterans and also “our neighbors and our allies that have helped build the peace.”

“[Veteran Affairs] announced an end to the VASP [Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase] program. This is a program that kept around 13,000 veterans in their homes last year, and there are 90,000 vets who are at financial risk through their [VA] loans that would have benefited from this program,” says Purdy, highlighting the reported $45 million cost of the parade. “I'm seeing a lot of attacks on the apolitical nature of the military, on the veteran community itself. And then, to kind of wrap it all up in this parade, it feels gross.”

Purdy recounts a lesson from a sergeant in the Army, who told him that “respect is built by coalitions, by relationships.” Purdy points to a defining factor of Trump’s first months of Presidency, which has included contentious relationships with multiple U.S. allies, including Canada.

“I think about my time in Iraq and the coalition partners that I served alongside—the British, Polish, and Lithuanian soldiers—we built these coalitions to help us accomplish the mission,” Purdy says. “We [veterans] believe that America can lead the world without being oppressive. So this kind of ostentatious display of American might feels unnecessary. It feels like the bully on the playground that needs to kind of go around and flex his muscles to prove like he's the biggest kid on the block.”

https://time.com/7294215/trump-military-parade-veterans-speak-out/

 

Democrats are like sitcom characters bro... Scary part is, it's real life and some of these clowns have legitimate power...

 

The veterans don't matter to Trump he thinks they are suckers and losers.

DD

 

Ron DeSantis directly stoked this act or terrorism.

 

How did so many violent protesters resist the urge to punch a fascist in the face.
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yet they still vote for him in overwhelming numbers…Trump won vets by 30 points