Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
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nice! it's going to washington for the Trumpy* floatilla..still a few squares left men on how many Trumpers* will get drunk and sink their battleship..betting window closed at 12PM MST.
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Shit like this makes me think about how any American that thinks this way must have listened to so much propaganda that your memory must be wiped of the feeling after 9/11. I really didn't understand how impactful that memory was for me until the power went out a few years later everywhere.
This may be pretty naive, because I never really had any understanding war/military outside of the great military movies and Rambo/Red Dawn and a couple months of Desert Storm when I was in middle school. But thinking back, knowing very little outside of my 3-4 channels of TV growing up in a rural town, I believe that Bush 1 and Clinton spoiled us into being able to think the reasonable in and out after accomplishing a actual goal would be the norm. Bush 2 just made a mess for America by injecting ourselves into the structure in the middle east after WW2 just wrecked the world and European countries walked away from the societies they brutalized.
Before then, I know a lot of people who signed up for all kinds of reasons, some was to make a better life because they had no real thought of school and needed to do something, a couple psychopaths, and a lot had fathers/grandfathers that were in the military and it was just always going to be their thing. It doesn't make them suckers just because people like Trump don't understand working to keep their country and the people in them safe, can get used by con artist politicians like him for their political purposes or personal whims.
Trump politicizing the military is just shitty, and much too far. Trump is not our king, he is the POTUS and his only job is to keep us safe, and he is failing. He is even trolling our wounded vets with his rich buddies screwing with the VA and taking credit for Obama's hard work. And allowing Russia to skate on paying bounties for killing our military because of whatever Putin has on him.
Him or anyone thinking people in the military that get injured are losers or suckers is bullshit.
This shit needs to stop, Trump and the Republicans need to go.
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Donny bone-spur, the draft dodger, thinks American vets are losers because he rather support the very fine members of the Schutzstaffel.
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The Atlantic's editor-in-chief says his story about Trump calling vets 'losers' is just the beginning
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said his magazine's story about Trump calling Americans who died in battle "losers" and "suckers," was just the tip of the iceberg.
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The Atlantic's editor-in-chief says his story about Trump calling vets 'losers' is just the beginning
New York (CNN Business)Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said his magazine's story about Trump calling Americans who died in battle "losers" and "suckers," was just the tip of the iceberg.
"I would fully expect more reporting to come out about this and more confirmation and new pieces of information in the coming days and weeks," Goldberg told CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. "We have a responsibility and we're going to do it regardless of what he says."
The magazine received backlash -- from Trump and many others -- for attributing the information to four anonymous sources. CNN has confirmed several aspects of The Atlantic's reporting, also with sources who chose to remain anonymous.
But Goldberg said that's how the media is able to do its job of uncovering stories that take place behind closed doors.
"We all have to use anonymous sources, especially in a climate where the president of the United States tries to actively intimidate," Goldberg said of his editorial decision to cite nameless people. "These are not people who are anonymous to me."
Carl Bernstein, the investigate reporter known for breaking the Watergate story that took down President Richard Nixon, told Stelter on Reliable Sources Sunday that anonymous sourcing is often a crucial tool for reporters.
"Almost all 200 of our stories about Watergate were based on anonymous sourcing," he said. Bernstein added that during the Trump era, "reporting is almost uniformly based on anonymous sourcing in part because that's the only way we can get to the truth."
When it comes to the current presidency, Bernstein said, "We have to recognize that almost everything we know about the truth of Donald Trump and his presidency comes from reporting," adding, "The fake news is the president's news," and journalists are "doing the real reporting."
On Sunday, Trump fired back at The Atlantic, directly attacking its majority owner, Laurene Powell Jobs.
"Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE," Trump tweeted. "Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!"
Goldberg shot back at Trump, saying that the magazine will continue to report on his administration.
"We're not going to be intimidated by the President of the United States. We're going to do our jobs," Goldberg said.
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Veterans Advocate Rieckhoff: Trump Has ‘Hit Every Guardrail In Our Democracy’ | Deadline | MSNBC
Paul Rieckhoff, founder of ‘Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America’ says that every day that Donald Trump is in office, the country gets weaker, and our enemies are celebrating.
Paul Rieckhoff, founder of ‘Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America’ says that every day that Donald Trump is in office, the country gets weaker, and our enemies are celebrating.
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You should read the article to gain some insights into yourself.
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A psychologist explains Trump's lack of conscience and warns of what a 2nd term would bring
"Pretending that these problems—namely, Trump's psychopathology—do not exist is an insult to our decency and common sense."
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"One weird feature of the Trump era is that for millions of us, this assessment of Trump might best be summed up as "Well, duh." His pathology is glaringly, painfully obvious. Even if it's refreshing to see it laid out so clearly, none of it is surprising. And yet, for millions of others, hearing that the leader of our country is missing a conscience makes no difference. The worse he behaves, the more his base salivates.
Mika has an explanation for that as well.
"There are many people, of course, who don't see anything wrong with Trump," she says. "On the contrary, they adore those traits that we see as pathological and believe that they make him a great leader. They elect him because his pathological character traits best suit their agendas, namely the destruction of the existing socio-political structure and their 'enemies'—typically The Others—whom they blame for their life failures."
"As I write in 'Trumpian Victory,' she continues, "Trumpism is about rage and revenge: rage that stems from aggrieved entitlement, but also from the very real wounds, and the revenge on those who are seen, mostly erroneously, as responsible for those wounds...Malignant politicians will steer people's anger away from themselves and other responsible parties, and blame it on easy, vulnerable scapegoats—immigrants, refugees, minorities, women, eternal Others."
In her writings, Mika also talks about "collective narcissism" and "narcissistic collusion" to explain the bond between Trump and his base, who see in him a way to fulfill their own dreams and wishes.
"He makes them promises that he cannot and does not intend to keep, but it does not matter," she says. "What matters is maintaining the shared illusion of their glory, future prosperity, greatness, and scapegoating The Others for their misery—the last one an absolutely necessary component of the malignantly narcissistic leader's appeal."
In "Trumpian Victory"—which she wrote in July of 2016—Mika explained the cult-like qualities that some Trump supporters exhibit:
"Narcissistic leaders and their followers fit together like hand and glove, as their pathological needs become enmeshed, to everyone's detriment. The leader obtains thousands of mirrors to reflect his glory, an open and ongoing line of narcissistic supply that feeds his insatiable desire for adulation and power, at least for some time; and his followers receive The Ideal to emulate, which, via emotional identification, patches up their inner wounds and makes them feel whole, if only for a while. In this state of heightened narcissistic collusion that suspends reason and conscience, anything, no matter how unrealistic or vile, becomes possible and necessary, including a bloodbath or several."
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You should read the article to gain some insights into yourself.
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A psychologist explains Trump's lack of conscience and warns of what a 2nd term would bring
"Pretending that these problems—namely, Trump's psychopathology—do not exist is an insult to our decency and common sense."
"One weird feature of the Trump era is that for millions of us, this assessment of Trump might best be summed up as "Well, duh." His pathology is glaringly, painfully obvious. Even if it's refreshing to see it laid out so clearly, none of it is surprising. And yet, for millions of others, hearing that the leader of our country is missing a conscience makes no difference. The worse he behaves, the more his base salivates.
Mika has an explanation for that as well.
"There are many people, of course, who don't see anything wrong with Trump," she says. "On the contrary, they adore those traits that we see as pathological and believe that they make him a great leader. They elect him because his pathological character traits best suit their agendas, namely the destruction of the existing socio-political structure and their 'enemies'—typically The Others—whom they blame for their life failures."
"As I write in 'Trumpian Victory,' she continues, "Trumpism is about rage and revenge: rage that stems from aggrieved entitlement, but also from the very real wounds, and the revenge on those who are seen, mostly erroneously, as responsible for those wounds...Malignant politicians will steer people's anger away from themselves and other responsible parties, and blame it on easy, vulnerable scapegoats—immigrants, refugees, minorities, women, eternal Others."
In her writings, Mika also talks about "collective narcissism" and "narcissistic collusion" to explain the bond between Trump and his base, who see in him a way to fulfill their own dreams and wishes.
"He makes them promises that he cannot and does not intend to keep, but it does not matter," she says. "What matters is maintaining the shared illusion of their glory, future prosperity, greatness, and scapegoating The Others for their misery—the last one an absolutely necessary component of the malignantly narcissistic leader's appeal."
In "Trumpian Victory"—which she wrote in July of 2016—Mika explained the cult-like qualities that some Trump supporters exhibit:
"Narcissistic leaders and their followers fit together like hand and glove, as their pathological needs become enmeshed, to everyone's detriment. The leader obtains thousands of mirrors to reflect his glory, an open and ongoing line of narcissistic supply that feeds his insatiable desire for adulation and power, at least for some time; and his followers receive The Ideal to emulate, which, via emotional identification, patches up their inner wounds and makes them feel whole, if only for a while. In this state of heightened narcissistic collusion that suspends reason and conscience, anything, no matter how unrealistic or vile, becomes possible and necessary, including a bloodbath or several."
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Image and illusion are everything, you've got no substance what so ever, no integrity either. One side are acting like responsible adults and the other like irresponsible fools, the polls say more than the cropped images Cletus.
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"Narcissistic leaders and their followers fit together like hand and glove, as their pathological needs become enmeshed, to everyone's detriment. The leader obtains thousands of mirrors to reflect his glory, an open and ongoing line of narcissistic supply that feeds his insatiable desire for adulation and power, at least for some time; and his followers receive The Ideal to emulate, which, via emotional identification, patches up their inner wounds and makes them feel whole, if only for a while. In this state of heightened narcissistic collusion that suspends reason and conscience, anything, no matter how unrealistic or vile, becomes possible and necessary, including a bloodbath or several."