Michelle Malkin has compiled a list of 25 ways you personally can help support the troops. Go check them out, and if you can, do something nice for our men and women overseas.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.
The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
Their freedom requires your slavery.
You cannot love your country only when you win.
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.
Optimism opens the door to great things.
We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.
Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.
With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.
Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.
I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.
Fight them, without becoming them!
Republicans do not trust women.
Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.
Otto Man
Hey, she forgot the most vital way to support the troops — the “Santorum for Senate” bumpersticker.
Why does Malkin hate our troops?
my cat
OK–thanks. I hope you realize how noble it is of me to go to her site, but, for the troops, I’ll do it!
demimondian
Otto Man — that was the point of her point 25. She said “immunize from Stein”, but what she meant was “don’t be a jerk who hides behind the deaths and suffering of other people to advance your own career
, even if they have been beaten in a persistent vegetative state“Lines
Did “beat Michelle Malkin into a PVS” make the list?
Patrick Lightbody
I think anyone who is both intelligent (as I believe Malkin may be) seriously reacts negatively to the Stein article immediately becomes a dunce. The Stein article had some decent points, with a touch of bitter humour and a very stinging introduction. But if you read the entire article, I think it has some good points for anti-war protestors and pro-war supporters alike (ie: the idea of being “against the war but for the troops” is arguably dumb).
One thing we can agree on though: he certainly isn’t helping the “opposition party” fight back the tide that is Rove.
Pablo
Stein was refreshingly honest. I wish there were more of that going around.
The Disenfranchised Voter
Did “support Arab intermint camps in the US” make the list?
Bob In Pacifica
I worked for the VA for four years after the last foreign military clusterfuck. Support the troops. Bring ’em home. Give ’em medical care, give ’em a decent GI Bill.
Paul Wartenberg
Idea number 26. Fire Rumsfeld and bring in someone who notices the problems the current military are having and works immediately to a) get body armor to every field soldier, b) get transport armor to every unit that needs it, and c) actually does something other than act like he’s got blinders on.
Mike in SLO
She forgot “Enlist Now”. That should be the #1 thing you can do to support the troops right now.
Kirby
#27. Vote Democrat.
Retief
You had your chance to support the troops back in November 2004. 52% of you chose not to. Now the troops have to live with it.
The Other Steve
I would say it’s only dumb because it’s even raised as a point.
Anybody who would dare question an American’s patriotism and loyalty to nation, just because of a disagreement on a policy decision, is dumb.
carpeicthus
Wow, and here I almost thought she was trying to be decent, without snarling. What was I thinking?
It doesn’t take away from the value of a lot of those organizations, though. Still, I think “Operation Baby Love” sounds pretty funny.
The Disenfranchised Voter
(ie: the idea of being “against the war but for the troops” is arguably dumb).
“You can support the troops but not the president”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
The Disenfranchised Voter
Well that sure didn’t turn out as I expected…
but you get the idea.
Perry Como
She forgot about buying a yellow ribbon magnet. I have two on my Hummer and two on my Suburban.
JJ
How to support the troops?
Bring them home! And don’t start reckless, unnecessary wars!
Krista
5
I shouldn’t giggle. I should give her the benefit of the doubt. She may be sincere in this.
But I now have a horrible image of two guys in Iraq, dusty, tired, and missing home. One is sporting a jaunty pink crocheted skullcap.
Otto Man
No, no. That’s so important it requires a whole book to itself.
demimondian
I have no doubt that she’s sincere, just as she is in advocating the Culture of Lie…I mean, Life. That doesn’t mean she’s not absurd and ridiculous.
As Lloyd Benson put it, so eloquently: “I know absurdity. Absurdity is my friend. Michelle Malkin is absurd.”
DougJ
Too bad it isn’t possible to crochet body armor.
DougJ
I see Krista zeroed in on number 5 as well. There’s something a little Brokeback about it, isn’t there?
DougJ
I wish I knew how to quit you, John Cole.
kl
Ha ha! Like in that movie!
Cromagnon
The only support the troops really need is fire-support! So if you really want to support the troops and are of military age and of sound mind and body, support the troops! ENLIST NOW!
OCSteve
For Christ’s sake people. The Stein article was one of the worst things I have ever seen a major publication run. It was not humor/satire. He made that abundantly clear in follow up interviews. I give him credit for his honesty – beyond that he is scum. LAT will never get as much as another page view from me.
Because the link goes to Malkin most of you can’t resist smacking her around, second only to getting in the usual shots at the administration, rather than address the topic of the thread.
Most of this belongs on DU or dKos.
Faux News
LOL. Great post to start the day!
DougJ, I hate to tell you this, but if you saw the pup tent scene in the movie, then John Cole is the “Top” in your relationship with him :-)
PS: that is not a slam against you. I still think you need to have your own blog.
Krista
Oh dear…mental image of DougJ and John Cole, in a pup tent, snuggling together under a lovely baby-blue blanket, crocheted lovingly by Michelle Malkin.
I think I just damaged a synapse…
Of course, when I saw #5, I immediately heard the voice of that garbage-can ersatz-Oscar character from Dave Chappelle’s “Kneehigh Park” skit, saying “Man, that’s the gayest shit I ever heard.”
DougJ
Perhaps the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on television.
Krista
That’s right…I said…”fuck it”.
Best. Song. Ever.
The Other Steve
Malkin is to Joel Stein like a Thompson Machine Gun is to a Colt .45.
If Malkin were actually ever sincere, then maybe this would be a topic worth discusisng. But she’s not.
charliedontsurf10
Malkin is sincerely wacked. So is anyone who buys her horsebrithume nonsense.
Why should anyone have to donate frequent flyer miles to the troops? What the fook are we paying taxes for? What the fook are we spending so much on Defense for?
Still, I’d love to see a platoon fall in with GI-crocheted hats and body armor. That’s entertainment.