Trump’s widely-reported comments about soldiers being “suckers and losers” as well as his reluctance to visit military cemeteries must be making a mark, so LaCivita and his crew of bumblers dragged grandpa to Arlington for a photo op. But, whoopsy doodle, it’s against the rules to have political photo ops at Arlington (because of course it is, otherwise the place would be full of assholes making some point or other literally on top of dead soldiers). But rules don’t apply to Trump, as we all know, so fuckery ensued:
Officials at Arlington national cemetery have filed a report over the behavior of members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff who reportedly shoved and verbally abused an employee during a “crass” photo opportunity for the Republican presidential candidate.
The officials confirmed that a confrontation took place at the Virginia cemetery on Monday after the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 US servicemen and -women killed in a 2021 suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The person who confronted the Trumps and the family was probably a park ranger. Here’s the Trump team’s take on that person:
Instead of an apology, the Trump campaign attempted to turn around the narrative of the Arlington incident, with senior officials separately branding the cemetery’s representative “a despicable individual” who was experiencing “a mental health episode”.
“There was no physical altercation as described and we are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made,” the campaign’s communications director, Steven Cheung, said in a statement.
“The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony.”
So “person doing their job” equals “mental health crisis” for these assholes. And I’m sure they’ll send over the footage of the incident with the draft of the next infrastructure bill.
Anyway, another day, another story of Trump & Co showing their asses. I await the fact check on Arlington’s claim that it’s against the rules for political photo ops. My prediction is that the fact checkers will say that Biden lays wreaths all the time, and he’s a politician, so five thousand Pinocchios covered in flaming shit to Arlington and the Harris Campaign.
Edit: Oh, and JD is having a normal day:
Villago Delenda Est
I cannot overstate my outrage at this desecration of hallowed ground by a draft-dodging coward who openly holds our honored dead in contempt as “suckers and losers”. Any veteran who supports this shitstain is a buddy fucker.
Baud
They is no footage and they are not prepared to release it.
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est:
I wish we could send you on a tour of the nation’s VFW’s.
Gin & Tonic
Interestingly, asshole LaCivita tweeted about “hollowed” ground. Some news outlets reprinted that verbatim with a [sic]. One well-known to the jackals print outlet reprinted it as “hallowed” with no indication of LaCivita’s error or their correction of it.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Not one person in that entourage had enough normal human emotion to realize that big grins and thumbs up around a soldier’s grave was a bad look.
Im reading that the Utah gov was one of the group, and he’s now getting some heat. Or at least raised eyebrows.
HumboldtBlue
@Baud:
Oh, there’s footage, footage of these motherfuckers desecrating a cemetery.
This fucking pig has lost his got-damned mind, just look at this mad motherfucker. And what the fuck is wrong with his teeth?
gene108
I think his comments about the Presidential Medal of Freedom being better than the Congressional Medal of Honor are being noticed more and more, just like Frederick Douglass.
Steve LaBonne
The fact that this will be a close election is a terrible indictment of our country. It’s shameful that so many continue to support this appalling creature and his personality cult pretending to be a political party.
dmsilev
Posing for a smile and a thumbs-up gesture. In front of a soldier’s grave. In Arlington.
It’s kind of impressive, in a sick way, that people still support him. I guess “he hates the people I hate” is strong.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: They can’t figure out how to work the AI.
Dave
@Baud: There might well be footage but they need time to edit it before they even think of releasing it.
Most likely though they’ll release it about the same time they release their ACA replacement plan.
What utter scum these people are the way they target average doing their jobs is not at all surprising but remains despicable.
On the other hand this is a scandal that the media can actually understand so maybe it will receive some play in traditional sources as well as newer ones.
Villago Delenda Est
@gene108: The national head of the VFW made his druthers very clear, but the MSM is going out of its way to underreport it.
dmsilev
@Gin & Tonic:
It’s a cemetery. Lots of holes in the ground.
Occupied by coffins and caskets, yes yes.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Good account from Mark Sumner at Teh Orange:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/28/2266259/-Trump-s-Arlington-stunt-should-be-a-campaign-ending-disgrace
The title says it all…and says it all about the insanity that is the modern GQP and coverage thereof.
Villago Delenda Est
@Gin & Tonic: Lemme guess. DougJ is their arch-nemesis.
Belafon
I can’t access my phone right now, but yes, there is an actual regulation that says that only park staff can take pictures.
laura
@Villago Delenda Est: Any veteran who supports this shitstain is a buddy fucker.
Anybody who knows a veteran and supports this shite-bag is a buddy fucker. Oh, and that disgrace of an ad below- he can’t bring himself to acknowledge they were soldiers in service to our Country- just “people.”
HumboldtBlue
Trump has already used footage from the cemetery in a motherfucking ad.
Also, here’s another great thread focused on the MSM freakout over being ignored, specifically the NYT.
Old School
Dean Baker had a thread about this.
His two main points:
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Villago Delenda Est:
The money quote:
And yeah, do a search “vfw on trump’s remarks” and it’s pathetic what comes up. Rolling Stone is like the 3rd article listed.
Jackie
@Baud:
There WAS footage; they burned the evidence that would have proved Arlington officials right.
Gin & Tonic
@Villago Delenda Est: Can’t get one past you.
Mart
CBS 10 o’clock news in St. Louis played the Arlington Cemetery tape as a straight news story with a giant 12 foot diameter wreath placed on a monument to the 14 fallen soldiers due to the disastrous and chaotic Harris/Biden Afghan evacuation. For some reason they did not mention that team Trump broke the rules of decorum, that 64 soldiers died in Afghanistan while he was President, and that the surrender to the terrorists was negotiated by Pompeo/Trump and was dumped on Biden with no transition assistance. Wife and I about lost our minds
schrodingers_cat
Patrick Healy of the Vichy Times
Harris Has the Momentum. But Trump Has the Edge on What Matters Most.
BTW he lead the charge 8 years ago on BUT HER EMAILZ.
Belafon
From Newsweek:
They tried to transcribe his comments from the video that can be found in the article, and ended up with this:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-retired-veteran-reacts-arlington-national-cemetery-treason-traitor-1944681
hells littlest angel
I believe the solemn ceremony involved Trump standing at a soldier’s grave attempting to grin while making his signature “thumb up my ass” gesture.
Eric S.
@Baud: if there is any footage it will be heavily edited before any release.
Josie
That grimace that resembles a smile and the thumbs up gesture is the only way he knows how to pose for a picture. He looks the same in every photo. They might as well use a cardboard cutout in his place. It would probably look more natural.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Media support?
ronnno2018
the disgraceful former president was invited to that area of the cemetery by some family members according to Steve Bennen, but he still broke the photography and promotion rules.
Tony Jay
On the one hand, there’s no downside to making them fail to provide this footage. Just zoom right past the usual “The Trump campaign should release this footage to clarify the truth behind this encounter” and straight to “Lying weirdos are lying to you about how they disrespected our heroic dead and physically attacked the custodians who tried to remind them of how decent people behave”. Every platform, no mercy.
Anyone doubt they’re lying? Just say it. Paint those fuckers thick with the truth that’s they’re weird, disrespectful liars who won’t dare release any footage they haven’t deceitfully edited. Sure, the corporate media won’t want to talk about it, but while they’re busy tearing out their own eyes rather than talk honestly about this Trump fuck-up, they’ve got less bandwidth to attack the Harris/Walz campaign.
rikyrah
UH HUH
UH HUH
Kara Calavera
@KaraCalavera
I’m getting the impression that the media is ticked off that they’ve not got enough time to “Hillary” Kamala Harris. You can almost feel themselves kicking themselves for not even having bothered to lay the groundwork to even begin the process during the past 4 years.
7:12 AM · Aug 28, 2024
https://x.com/KaraCalavera/status/1828767624823484557
Villago Delenda Est
@Belafon: Needless to say, I concur with his righteous rant.
Baud
The Google indicates they released some footage. I haven’t seen it.
Bill Arnold
@dmsilev:
A google searched turned up this: Hollowed Ground – Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s (Larry D. Lankton, 2010)
It’s like the comment about a “Feal President”.
Feal (adjective) is archaic, meaning “Faithful, loyal. “; unusual word choice when describing a narcissist for whom loyalty is unidirectional and transactional, and who is literally and clearly faithful and/or loyal only to himself.
Baud
@rikyrah:
The same thing happened with Obama. The media expected Hillary to be the nominee in 2008 and didn’t have time to create a narrative about Obama. They have even less time here.
TBone
August 28 obligatory read:
https://www.wonkette.com/p/that-time-martin-luther-king-jr-said
Important!
zhena gogolia
@Belafon: That was cathartic!
Mart
Oops
Tony Jay
@Bill Arnold:
They missed out the ‘r’ from the middle of ‘feal’.
Villago Delenda Est
@TBone: Dr. Erik Loomis regularly posts on American labor history on Wonkette; all of his contributions are well worth one’s while.
Elizabelle
@HumboldtBlue: I don’t know how to use Threadreader, but would like to read Bruce Bartlett’s points.
Could someone make them available to those of us not on Twitter? It seems this was first in a series of tweets. Thank you.
Ksmiami
The GOP needs to die
Craig
@HumboldtBlue: that’s Republicans in a nutshell. They want to turn off the lights. They want to go back to the 19th century. Clip that and make a campaign ad. We’re not turning off the lights.
Bill Arnold
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
This was the first google hit for me. (Note: links boost search results.)
VFW Admonishes Former President for Medal of Honor Remarks – The following is a message from VFW National Commander Al Lipphardt (August 16, 2024)
snippet:
JanieM
@Elizabelle: Here.
I found it by googling “threadreader Bruce Bartlett” — who knew!
Old School
@Baud:
The Trump campaign made a TikTok video of it.
Grampamomai
@Baud: On the other hand, from photos, it looks like there were uniformed soldiers present to help with the placement of a wreath. Did that happen? If so, who approved it, and why do they still have a job?
Chet Murthy
@Elizabelle: https://xcancel.com/BruceBartlett/status/1828801653203763462
HumboldtBlue
@rikyrah:
We discussed that right here on this very blog (a full service blog) the day Harris became the nominee, and it’s been a part of the discussion since.
Elizabelle
Steven Cheung saying that the cemetery employee had a mental health episode.
Wonder if it would work to sue his ass over that one. It is so cruel, and arguably false. Maybe the union could do so?
Cheung is the lowest of the low in Trump spokespeople. I hope karma hits him hard.
Baud
@Old School:
I can’t view TikTok on my phone. Does it show anything?
Quicksand
@Bill Arnold: Of course, the noun form “fealty” does apply to Trump – with respect to his relationship with Putin.
Elizabelle
@Chet Murthy: Thank you Chet! Appreciate it.
HumboldtBlue
@Elizabelle:
Does this link work?
Grampamomai
On the other hand, it appears from photos that there were uniformed soldiers helping to place a wreath. Did that happen? If so, who approved it? Do they still have a job?
Elizabelle
@JanieM: good to know! Will do that in future.
Papa Boyle
@Baud: It would not surprise me at all to find out that the staff of the NYT collectively fantasizes about Trump edging them.
We’re mere hours from them admitting it on the front page, by my considered expert analysis.
soapdish
They’re gonna Project Veritas that video.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Elizabelle:
Better still, a car, or an anvil from the sky ala Wile E. Coyote.
raven
@Baud: It has nothing to do with the incident in question.
Elizabelle
@HumboldtBlue: It does. And allows you to try out Threadreader at the bottom. Very good.
Love this line: “It’s not that ordinary people read the Times; they don’t.”
Again, the problem is the elites. Captives to whatever the Putz Sulzberger crew yorks up.
Baud
@raven:
Nice.
catclub
Was it last night or two nights ago this was noted here, and the assumption was the MSM would ignore/bury it ( pun intended).
They didn’t. Good.
Scout211
CNN has a few more details. Apparently, the families of the fallen troops approved the photo op.
So the Trump minions decided that they had approval from the families that day and their approval Trumped* federal law and the dignity of all the other fallen military and their families.
*SWIDT?
sukabi
@HumboldtBlue: his lower plate was coming out, not fitted correctly… FIXODENT fail…
he probably needs a new set because his jawbone is deteriorating… happens to older folks with dentures.
NutmegAgain
@gene108: Wait till somebody tells him that lots of soldiers from the USCT (U.S. Colored Troops) from the Civil War are buried at Arlington. Thankfully, the orange slime streak was nowhere near their graves. (And a little bit OT, but that’s a terrific double whammy towards R.E.Lee)
raven
@Baud: misfire
jackmac
My late father, a WWII veteran who actually DID have part of his ear shot off during action in Europe, was an immigrant and so proud of his adopted country that he would stand at attention — even as a civilian — during parades and salute when American flags went by. Dead now for almost 60 years, I’m glad he didn’t have to witness the disrespect shown by Cadet Bone Spurs. I suspect he’d be livid.
NutmegAgain
@Elizabelle: It takes a lot to get through to people who have read the NYT over a lifetime. They’re somehow thinking that it’s the same paper that published the Pentagon Papers. Of course, it’s not.
Elizabelle
The Tea Party weirdos have had signs up in an adjacent county for a long time now : “Remember the 13 fallen heroes.”
I never before knew what was on their tiny minds.
Harrison Wesley
@gene108: Hey, nobody ever got a Medal of Honor for making a big campaign donation, so what’s it worth, anyway?
Old School
@Baud:
It’s video of Trump visiting Arlington – the wreath, visiting graves, mingling with the families.
The video has nothing to do with Arlington staff trying to stop photographers.
Baud
@raven:
It works.
raven
““We had given our approval for President Trump’s official videographer and photographer to attend the event, ensuring these sacred moments of remembrance were respectfully captured and so we can cherish these memories forever,”
Yea motherfuckers and these mom’s gave their sons and they still locked them out of Arlington.
skerry
So JD Vance just said that MVP can ‘go to hell‘
(ETA: hope the link to threads works. my first trial)
Elizabelle
@NutmegAgain: And wait til you tell them how Republicans have changed. I guess it’s a party of moderate centrists with nothing but radical nut jobs somehow grabbing all the attention…. Although not always in the pages of the hallowed Times.
Anotherlurker
@Elizabelle: Not only is he the lowest of the low, but
I’ll bet her is referred to as that _____ by donnie’s inner circle.
Old School
I missed that Trump posted this to Truth Social last night. (LInk goes to Twitter).
What an asshole.
Baud
@skerry:
I’m sure all of those civility institutes washed up journalists join will be issuing a joint statement any minute now.
KatKapCC
I HATE THEM BOTH SO MUCH
Editing: by both I mean Trump and Vance, but throw Cheung in there too, although I admit I am impressed he is able to walk and talk while having his head buried deep in Trump’s colon.
HumboldtBlue
DougJ is perfect again.
Dangerman
@Belafon: Too long to be a tagline, right?
Trollhattan
@HumboldtBlue:
Reckon Trump is ready to hand Arlington back to the Lee family? “With the apologies of a grateful nation.”
Belafon
@Dangerman: I think that’s up to the site maintainers.
hueyplong
@Jackie: Cheung can’t release the footage just now because it’s under audit. But he will, at some undisclosed point in the future.
If only the park service had a surveillance camera that caught the incident and decided to release it.
We’ve seen elections be affected by less (tank rides, internet servers, purple band-aids, PABs rioting in suits in a lobby). I assume the Harris team will know how hard (or whether) to push this.
hueyplong
@Elizabelle: You sure it’s not “hollowed Times?”
Belafon
@raven: It’s a good thing those 13 families own the cemetery.
Scout211
As I said yesterday, you can tell Steven Cheung is lying if his lips are moving.
Steven Cheung looks like one of Trump’s bodyguards but he advertises himself as a political consultant. One who apparently does not care about federal law. Or human decency.
HumboldtBlue
Here’s a Twitter thread from a veteran of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), the unit that performs the burial ceremonies at Arlington.
I’ve also requested for Thread Reader to unroll, so that may come soon.
And here it is. Charlotte Clymer.
fancycwabs
Another day, another crime that should have Trump’s bond revoked in Georgia and/or DC.
Another Scott
@Belafon: I don’t think that’s the case, at least not for members of the public (who aren’t acting as members of the press).
ArlingtonCemetary.mil/Vistor-Tips
ArlingtonCemetary.mil/Photo-Use-Policy
Media-Policy:
The main thing is, the place is a cemetery. Visitors need to be respectful to the graves and to the people who visit to mourn. Turning it into a campaign prop is crass and disrespectful, and totally normal for TCFFG and his minions. He deserves every bit of criticism he’s getting.
(My grandpa is buried there.)
Grr…,
Scott.
lowtechcyclist
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Yeah, that’s the part that gets me too. Thumbs up at a grave – are you taking credit for this person’s death, or are you just celebrating it?
The latter, I expect – ‘I’m glad she died because I can blame her death on Biden,’ that’s Dump in a nutshell here.
Nora
Ten points for the Decemberist reference in the title.
Raven
@Another Scott: I’ve been to two funerals there and they do a great job under awful circumstances.
Chief Oshkosh
@Villago Delenda Est: About 15 years ago, I attended funeral services for a wonderful person, an outstanding professional colleague, who was the widow of a fallen soldier whose remains were interred in Arlington. She was also laid to rest at Arlington, next to her husband’s remains. I had never been to Arlington. Some of the words read at the service explained why we were there, in that place; much of the sentiment was about love for and devotion to one another and love for and devotion to country.
It was a beautiful autumn afternoon, so after the service I walked across the cemetery (I think to get to the Metro stop). I tried to choose paths to avoid visitors who weren’t there for a stroll. It is a terribly beautiful and solemn place.
It is profoundly disturbing that Trump and his entourage, the lowest examples of what our country has to “offer,” physically bullied their way in and held a political campaign photo-op in that place and over those graves.
Booger
@Scout211: He seems to lack the ineffable charm of his older brother Wang.
TBone
@Villago Delenda Est: 👍💙
MattF
About that image where TFG is grinning and making a ‘thumbs-up’ gesture over a soldier’s grave… There’s a hand on the side of the woman on the far left that doesn’t appear to be attached to anything. So, the image has been altered. At best, someone was removed…
Old School
@MattF: There a woman partially obscured by the other people in the photo. You can’t see her head, but her body is there.
Gretchen
@Old School: the woman in blue is crying in the video but then takes a smiling photo with thumbs up Trump and she and another woman are both making the white power hand sign.
Citizen Alan
@Steve LaBonne: What depresses me is that the absolute best case scenario is that Harris wins the White House, we hold the Senate, and we retake the House with huge numbers. And even then, we will still be grappling with the fact that 70 million of our fellow citizens are LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS!
Falling Diphthong
@Baud:
I expect there is footage, since they were filming for a campaign commercial.
“Stop criticizing us or we release the footage that would exonerate us” is… maybe not as convincing as it sounded in Cheung’s head.
Another Scott
@MattF: Enlarge the picture. There’s a woman in a long blue dress , the owner of the disembodied hand, beside her that is almost totally hidden by the blond woman with the tattoo on her right forearm.
[eta:] Late again…
Cheers,
Scott.
laura
@Baud: Yes, the tiktok is a gott damn disgrace. Villago Delenda Est put paid to the matter, but after viewing, I hope he takes a second run at it and dials the outrage up to 11.
hueyplong
@Falling Diphthong: If they had gotcha footage or really any footage that could have been edited into a gotcha, it would have aired on FoxNews last night.
lowtechcyclist
@Tony Jay:
They apparently broke Federal law concerning Arlington Cemetery. The US Attorney with jurisdiction over the cemetery should subpoena that tape.
KatKapCC
@Scout211: Lordy, he looks like he’s ready to cosplay as Humpty Dumpty.
West of the Rockies
Just picked up and placed our Harris/Walz yard sign and signed up to do 25 postcards.
Feeling jazzed! Thinking of re-watching DNC highlights.
Gretchen
@skerry: yes the link works. He’s blaming the loss of the 13 on Harris’ incompetence. He’s also saying the families gave their permission so it’s fine. The questioner didn’t mention that families can’t give permission to violate federal law.
KatKapCC
@Gretchen: “But Officer, it’s okay! I have a checking account at that bank and I gave my cousin permission to rob the whole place.”
Old School
@Gretchen:
They aren’t making the white power hand sign. They have the pinkie and index finger raised which has been used in sign language as “I love you” or the University of Texas “Hook ’em Horns”.
Gretchen
Steve LaBonne
@Gretchen: Golly, I wonder who negotiated the withdrawal agreement with the Taliban. Do you suppose the press might deign to divulge that information one of these days?
Jay
Wonkette has the full photo up. not just the cropped one,
https://www.wonkette.com/p/ghouls-just-want-to-have-fun-at-arlington
Jackie
@Belafon: Navy veteran Brad Berkwitt is my hero. I thank him for speaking truth for a lot of veterans, I’m sure.
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: 🔥
Darkrose
@Villago Delenda Est: He’s actually interesting when he’s not on LGM being an asshole.
cain
@rikyrah:
They can blame their own racism. They didn’t want to cover the black woman.
prostratedragon
Roxanne Shante, a different sort of Queensian.
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: thank you for sharing.
cain
@hueyplong:
He can’t release the video because federal law prohibits showing video at Arlington Cemetery.
Baud
@cain:
Pretty sure that’s not true.
E
Eight years ago I would’ve been going on about how this is finally the thing that will cause his followers to leave. Now it’s all just depressing.
Bill Arnold
@Gretchen:
His running mate surrendered to the Taliban in trade for no attacks on US forces in the run-up to the 2020 election.[1] Ceasefires are not a bad thing, but this should not be memory-holed.
As early as spring 2021 not-yet-Felonious D was bragging that he had tied the hands of the Biden administration re withdrawal from Afghanistan through that 2020 surrender agreement.
[1] Joint Declaration between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United States of America for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan
SW
The fact that there is a sizable market for this nonsense makes my skin crawl.
eemom
Someday Dump will be in a grave that can be pissed upon. #happythought
Juju
@Scout211: Cheung actually looks like the Wo Fat character from the original Hawaii-50 series, but without the mustache.
cain
@Another Scott:
Apparently those families must all be MAGA. So shame on them for desecrating Arlington and inviting a photo op as a campaign event.
SatanicPanic
And Trump did this to shit on Biden? Christ what an asshole
Scout211
@Falling Diphthong: The original NPR article quoted Cheung saying they had video evidence of their version of the altercation and if NPR didn’t believe their version they would release video evidence. Cheung did not release it. (surprise, surprise).
My guess is that they really didn’t know or care what the rules or laws were. And they all consider Trump a president so in their tiny minds they assumed Trump would be seen (in the campaign ads, at least) as presidential and no one would see it as a crass, manipulative, insulting and unpatriotic political move.
These people are horrible.
cain
Speaking of nuttiness. Gov Abbott is one fucked up asshole. He’s claimed that the border problem is solved. But apparently, problems still abound!
“Abbott said migrants aren’t just crossing into the state from the river but are coming from other U.S. states such as Arizona and New Mexico.
He said his state has begun putting razor wire on its borders with those states, to keep migrants and the cartel out of Texas.”
That’s right, he’s now going to put barbed wire around the state of Texas. #nottheonion
JFC. I thought it was a joke quote, but nope:
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4851507-texas-border-problem-solved/
Baud
@cain:
You either have self respect, or you own the libs. Can’t do both.
Anoniminous
MagaHeads think it was great and a real blow to Biden, thus Harris.
hueyplong
@Juju: That’s Wo Fat slander
The actor was great in The Manchurian Candidate.
Scout211
So sad. She’ll lose so many MAGA votes. Whatever will she do?
/s
Juju
@hueyplong: He was great as Wo Fat too. I’m just pointing out a slight resemblance between the two.
Peke Daddy
@Baud: Quality and quantity of click bait.
Regulon
@Juju:
Wo Fat was better looking.
Lyrebird
@Mart: @schrodingers_cat:
Yeah, I guess his fundraising disadvantage doesn’t matter when the news organizations are doing his advertising for free.
::spits::
TBone
@fancycwabs: 🎯
Jay
@cain:
as we well know, ReThug “promises” to the base are hollow.
On the other hand, fencing off TexAss with concertina wire and the State imposing border controls would be doing TexAss politics a favor.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Who knows, I don’t read the Vichy Times. I just saw this on my timeline.
TBone
@Jay: there exist more than one photo.
danielx
@eemom:
You and millions of others. Either he’ll be buried in an “undisclosed location” or his grave will have to be under twenty four hour guard, lest the bodily waste products accumulation grow unbearable.
Jay
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/media-elections-dnc-kamala-harris-military-20240827.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral
Will Buch rips the Media a new one.
pacem appellant
@Nora:
10 points!? That’s worth 100 points. Just saw the Decemberists in Oakland last month. Always a great show.
The Audacity of Krope
As though they think federal law applies to them. Trump and his coterie live according to Wilhoit’s Law. Federal law is not meant to constrain the powerful.
Not even successful prosecution has deterred Trump from this path.
Jay
@danielx:
Bedminister, by Ivanka and his “Top Secret” cache, unmarked and unmaintained, “Members Only”.
Scout211
@Jay: You mean Ivana (Ivanka’s mother)?
ETA: Autocorrect kept changing Ivana to Ivanka in my comment. Autocorrect knows which one is more famous. LOL
comrade scotts agenda of rage
This entire thing is beyond sad. As awful as every (R) president in my lifetime have been, none would have done this. Any of it, the photos, the statements, none of it.
The sad thing is, even my Embarassed (R) friends who’ve voted glibertarian since 2016, several of whom are West Point grads, will change their electoral minds even with something like this that insults their honor to the core.
sdhays
@Another Scott: Turning into a campaign prop is disgusting enough, but that was a party. If someone had started playing music from Cats, Trump would have literally danced on their graves.
Falling Diphthong
@hueyplong: I imagine the footage is the wrong direction of gotcha.
EarthWindFire
@rikyrah: 🎻 actual size
VeniceRiley
“rent free” – KamalaHQ
Their comments are excellent.
In other thoughts, having been lucky enough to be born because my grandpa survived WW1 and my father survived WW2, I disagree with J Divans about who should go to hell, as well as how fast they should go.
TBone
@cain: wtf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_United_States_law
EarthWindFire
@Juju: To me, he looks like Odd Job from the Bond movies but scummier.
Michael Bersin
It doesn’t matter who you are or who “invited” you. There is no privilege, reason, or permission possible to turn Arlington National Cemetery into a prop. Ever.
My father and mother were interred at Arlington in 2019. Even as deeply grieving family we were acutely aware at the time of the place and its somber meaning for all.
I just can’t…
Juju
@Regulon: Very much a possibility.
Juju
@EarthWindFire: That works too.
Nora
@pacem appellant: You lucky dog! I missed this tour.
BellaPea
As I posted previously, this article about Arlington was on my news feed. The WP article had over 14,000 comments, all of the ones I read were universally condemning Dump and were appalled over this disrespect to the military.
And my husband is a former marine. He is livid that JD Prance would tell a distinguished woman like Kamala, who is the current Vice President of this country, to go to hell.
The R’s are just disgusting. I’m so fed up with all of it.
Another Scott
@Michael Bersin: Thanks.
💡 – D’Oh. Of course the Hatch Act applies – it applies to every federal facility. That’s a baseline prohibition and should be obvious to anyone who has held federal office who contemplated such a stunt.
But also we have to remember that TCFFG used the White House as the site of one of his uuge political rallies. Without consequences. So why wouldn’t he think that he could use Arlington as a prop??!
Thanks.
Grr…,
Scott.
Rudi666
@Scout211:
Shamblin and the Hoover families invited Trump to the wreath laying ceremony. Shamblin is a Republican tool who appeared at the SOTU(guest of Republican), Faux News and the Republican convention. Slate artilcle puts this into perspective.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/rnc-gold-star-families-trump-biden-fallen-soldiers-marines.html
wjca
Rather see the body dumped in the ocean. Like bin Laden, and for the same reason: to not give the cult a pilgrimage site.
Uncle Cosmo
IMO what he looks like is an obscene cross between Oddjob and a brain-damaged blowhard. No doubt that makes his Secret Service codename Blowjob, in (dis)honor of the services he renders to Orangecandyass on a daily basis.
Paul in KY
@Belafon: I’m glad Mr. Berkwit gave a candid response to that traitourous POS using Arlington!!! as a ‘photo op’ and his MAGA suckers.
Puke!!!!
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: Agree. Make them prove they are not the lying scum that we all know they are.
Paul in KY
@pacem appellant: Sure hoping they hit some festivals next year. Always a great show. 1st saw them at Bonnaroo in 2011. One of the hottest ones ever. They played on What (main) Stage at about 3 pm. Mr. Meloy wore a brown suit. He stayed in that suit for the whole 1 hour set. Don’t know how he did it.