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Goodheart

(5,264 posts)
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 04:39 PM Jun 2020

trump 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.

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trump threatened this morning to withhold pay raises for the military if (Original Post) Goodheart Jun 2020 OP
Was this on tape or a tweet? SoonerPride Jun 2020 #1
It's an indirect threat. Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #3
So the OP title SCantiGOP Jun 2020 #14
Don't know if he can even do that. All that goes through Congress. grumpyduck Jun 2020 #2
He was threatening a veto. Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #4
Thank you. grumpyduck Jun 2020 #6
Yeah, looks that way. Rawstory's reporting is not always well expressed. Goodheart Jun 2020 #8
I was still nice to know that there was an amendment to rename the bases, Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #9
"just as evil but genuinely smart occupied the White House?" - this doesn't happen often, erronis Jun 2020 #5
I said in 2016 that we missed a bullet because Trump is dumber than a box of rocks. Doremus Jun 2020 #7
Which is exactly why we have to make Inspectors General more independent, and the BComplex Jun 2020 #10
THIS. roamer65 Jun 2020 #11
I don't thinkt it because he's stupid MrsMatt Jun 2020 #12
Oh, his evil is worse than his stupid. TNNurse Jun 2020 #13
He is taking a chance with the next protest march being the military NCjack Jun 2020 #15
"What's a New Yorker's emotional investment in Confederate generals, anyway? " keithbvadu2 Jun 2020 #16
Traitors gonna treason uponit7771 Jun 2020 #17
He wants his civil war--Putin wants his U.S. civil war. C Moon Jun 2020 #18
The racist rednecks are all he has left. paleotn Jun 2020 #19
Wow. Threating every member of the armed forces. sarge43 Jun 2020 #20

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
1. Was this on tape or a tweet?
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 04:43 PM
Jun 2020

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)
3. It's an indirect threat.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 04:46 PM
Jun 2020

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.

Goodheart

(5,264 posts)
8. Yeah, looks that way. Rawstory's reporting is not always well expressed.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:01 PM
Jun 2020

I should have known better.

Ms. Toad

(33,915 posts)
9. I was still nice to know that there was an amendment to rename the bases,
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:05 PM
Jun 2020

over the idiot-in-chief's objections.

erronis

(14,942 posts)
5. "just as evil but genuinely smart occupied the White House?" - this doesn't happen often,
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 04:47 PM
Jun 2020

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)
7. I said in 2016 that we missed a bullet because Trump is dumber than a box of rocks.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 04:53 PM
Jun 2020

Imagine if he had any intelligence. I shudder to think.

BComplex

(7,979 posts)
10. Which is exactly why we have to make Inspectors General more independent, and the
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:48 PM
Jun 2020

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)
12. I don't thinkt it because he's stupid
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 06:11 PM
Jun 2020

(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.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
15. He is taking a chance with the next protest march being the military
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 06:59 PM
Jun 2020

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)
16. "What's a New Yorker's emotional investment in Confederate generals, anyway? "
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 07:02 PM
Jun 2020

Trump, a NY yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.

After all, Trump 'tells it like it is'.

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
20. Wow. Threating every member of the armed forces.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 07:47 PM
Jun 2020

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."

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