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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrump threatened this morning to withhold pay raises for the military if
Congress agrees to remove Confederate names from our military bases.
WTF. That'll play well.
And for WHAT? To hang onto the redneck racist vote? What's a New Yorker's emotional investment in Confederate generals, anyway?
I mean, seriously.... he is the DUMBEST motherfucker that ever set foot in Washington, and for that, at least, I'm grateful.
Imagine if somebody just as evil but genuinely smart occupied the White House? This country would be over by now.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I hadn't heard this.
FFS he is a goddamned moron.
The military may not wait until January to escort him out.
Come Nov 4 they may say "time to go chump. Pres.-elect Biden has work to do."
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)Warren offered an amendment to the military funding bill to rename the bases. The bill includes pay raises. He threatened to veto it. At least one article characterized the veto threat as a direct threat to withhold funding, but that characterization was not supported by anything in the article.
As far as I know, with his limited patience for reading anything or sitting through briefings, he did not even know the bill contained pay raises.
SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)is basically clickbait.
grumpyduck
(6,198 posts)Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)Sloppy reporting.
grumpyduck
(6,198 posts)Keep pissing off the military, bonespurs. Keep pissing them off.
Goodheart
(5,264 posts)I should have known better.
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)over the idiot-in-chief's objections.
erronis
(14,942 posts)movie themes being discounted.
Usually intelligence goes along with understanding other's feeling and trying to work with them.
Yes, there may be smart psychopaths but they are usually unable to function in society enough to actually steal a presidency.
A dump psychopath with lots of money (borrowed or loaned) can do a lot more damage. They don't care. And they want to hurt others.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)Imagine if he had any intelligence. I shudder to think.
BComplex
(7,979 posts)Atty. General has to be either elected separately, or approved by both houses of congress, or 2/3 of the Department of Justice, or SOMETHING that will prevent a future attorney general from doing what Barr has done to our justice department.
MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)(and make no mistake, I think he's exceptionally thick), but more a combination of ego, narcissism, bigotory and racism. And a big dose of bullying.
TNNurse
(6,911 posts)The combo is lethal as we all know.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)coming over the fence for him. They need their paychecks. They deliver their part of their contracts, and its the government's duty to deliver its.
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)Trump, a NY yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.
After all, Trump 'tells it like it is'.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)C Moon
(12,188 posts)paleotn
(17,778 posts)sarge43
(28,939 posts)I swear if there were one crap pile left in the space/continuum, Moron would find it and step in it.
This is the Army's headache. The installations of the other branches are either named after a city/town they're near or significant individuals in the history of the branch. No Confederate generals.
So, just to kiss up to a handful of white nationalist bigots, Moron is going to punish a couple of million people who had the bad luck to believe that the government would keep its side of the contract.
Also I'm betting that you asked nine out of ten service members why their patch is named the way it is, "Don't know, don't care."