The Crazy-brave and the Phoney-tough

[ChicagoRonin]

Read about Trumps ridiculous boast he would have run into the Parkland school to stop the gunman. Made me recall the phrase, "the crazy-brave and the phoney-tough," which I always thought was from the movie 'Full Metal Jacket.' Turns out, it originated from a 1972 Newsweek article on the Watergate conspirators. Funny that. (No online copies of the original article, but I found a retrospective). [link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1987/01/26/a-crazy-brave-among-phony-toughs/e300aa44-a016-4602-a1f2-78dfb0e4d3c4/?utm_term=.d89ab97c6c4c|

[Ohiogal]

1. I found this in the NYT:

"The president also said he would have run into the South Florida high school where 17 students and faculty members were killed in a mass shooting, even if he was not armed, and he criticized law enforcement officials who were at the scene of the school shooting but did nothing to try to stop it. He called their performances “frankly disgusting.”

“You don’t know until you test it, but I think, I really believe I would have run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” the president said."

[Hoyt]

2. Yeah, hes such a brave POS, just like the hero-wannabe gun-humpers who elected him.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Agree one thousand percent.

[Ohiogal]

4. Go ahead, Donnie. Do it next time.