Never mind…
Mistermix has this covered.
I’m just going to leave this image up, because I like it:
A rare image of Donald J. Trump’s only known military decoration
OK– I’ll leave this too:
In related news, Trump lies. All the time. About everything. In the TikTok he posted of his Arlington visit–again in direct violation of laws and norms–he claimed that in the last 18 months of his term no US servicemen died in Afghanistan, and then under Biden, 13 got killed.
Bullshit top to bottom: 34 US service members died in-theater in 2019 and 2020. But you knew that?
Words cannot express how much I loathe Trump and all who stand with him. And I haven’t even got to Vance’s pathetic tough-guy stylings on this one.
Because I’ve got nuthin else…Open thread.
Image: Joao Estevao Andrade de Freitas, A Single White Feather Close-up, 2004
Arlington Update
Westyny
Wow, this story is sticking. It deserves to, because it exemplifies the creepy/weird bullying/tasteless core of the Trump ethos. I don’t believe I’ll be first by the time this is posted. ; )
ETA: what a pleasant surprise!
TBone
https://susiemadrak.com/2024/08/29/las-favorite-curse-word/
☝️ Musical accompaniment at link
PILE ON
wmd
When I hear TFG talk it reminds me of Idi Amin as he was deteriorating due to tertiary syphilis. Has the deranged old man been checked? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Manyakitty
Is it really possible that the Army is letting the pyrite pig skates on this? Just a mean letter and case closed? JFTDC. (Jesus fucking tap dancing Christ)
Belafon
@Manyakitty: What do you expect the Army to do?
TBone
New meme:
“I have never stood upon a grave and posed for a picture while smiling and giving thumbs up. But if I live longer than him, it may happen.”
Chet Murthy
@Belafon: @Manyakitty: There is little the Army can do, if the victim declines to proceed with the prosecution. And it’s a little rich to ask this poor civil affairs director to expose theirself to god-knows-what shit from MAGA, when the most powerful people in the country have refused to do their jobs and put this bastard in jail and expeditiously try him for his crimes: crimes we all saw him commit on fucking teevee.
This is a problem bigger than any one person: bigger than this Arlington cemetery employee. Government is how we solve problems bigger than ourselves. In this case, government has manifestly failed, b/c TCFG has found the cheatcode.
It turns out, the Constitution -is- a suicide pact.
TBone
@Chet Murthy: I read that last sentence in Judge Luttig’s voice 😔😡🤬
Chet Murthy
@TBone: In Ukraine they’re developing drones that will make it all-but-impossible to prevent the bastard’s grave from being desecrated on the regular. Gallons of urine, metric fucktons of shit. On. The. Regular.
rikyrah
We can use both posts :)
TBone
@Chet Murthy: 😆❤️
💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛
TBone
Maybe some urging of the owner of Arlington to take action is in order.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Cemetery_System
https://www.cem.va.gov/
National Cemetery Administration
Attn: General Inquiries
810 Vermont Avenue
Washington, DC 20420
dmsilev
@Belafon: Use Mar-a-Lago as the target for an artillery training exercise?
Manyakitty
@Belafon: how would they respond if one of us acted that way? That’s what I want.
TBone
@dmsilev: I might go for training many large flocks of pigeons to fly over repeatedly (after feeding them especially runny and disgusting items).
Manyakitty
@Chet Murthy: oh, I understand that part. If she doesn’t want to press assault charges or something, that’s up to her. What about his blatant violation of the rules? What’s supposed to happen then? They called the MPs. Arrest that fucker. So, yeah. Lock him up. That’s what I want.
Manyakitty
@dmsilev: only if he’s home.
Suzanne,
I also think of feathers as “advanced communications technologies available at the time of the Framers” in order to remind me that it’s good to re-evaluate what’s working and what isn’t from time to time.
Chet Murthy
@Manyakitty:
In a country with the rule of law, his bail would have been revoked long, long ago for his many violations of his conditions of release over the long months. In a country run by a state that knew how to defend itself, how to defend itself against a goddamn coup, he would be rotting in solitary in a military brig on a prison hulk, or at Gitmo.
That country is not the one we live in, that we call ourselves citizens of. Ah well.
Baud
As I understand it, the only plausibly criminal act is the pushing of the officer. And we don’t know that it was Trump that did the pushing, do we?
Manyakitty
@Chet Murthy: dammit. Wish I could argue with that.
Manyakitty
@Baud: no, probably not, but I keep thinking of that NATO summit where he shoved the PM of Montenegro out of the way so he could stand in front. My god. What a pig.
Baud
At least some people have some limits.
TBone
@Chet Murthy: I live in hope for our future nonetheless. We will crush him at the ballot box, and then…all bets are off. I do not expect the next Dem admin., run by a former prosecutor, to allow that state of affairs to continue.
Baud
@Manyakitty:
Well, my 2¢ is that I hope we don’t change the story from Trump’s disrespect of soldiers to the Army’s failure to do something. But based on experience, I’m not optimistic.
hueyplong
@Baud: Agree.
Belafon
@dmsilev: I did have that thought.
Belafon
@Baud: But it’s so much more fun to give other people agency.
mrmoshpotato
@TBone:
I would be sitting on a camp toilet.
Old School
Trump campaign decides to keep digging:
hueyplong
@mrmoshpotato: Yes, your particular area of interest is not unknown.
mrmoshpotato
@Chet Murthy:
It’s only fair that we Americans get to piss and shit on Dump’s grave every other month.
Chet Murthy
@mrmoshpotato: Oh, I agree. But one presumes MAGA will try to prevent us. All I’m sayin’ is, no matter what they do, his grave, or his mausoleum, his crypt (as it were) will be crusted with dried shit, covered in urine stains. The Baba Yaga drone (or her descendants) ensures that, and no amount of GPS blocking will stop it (b/c Ukraine is learning how to defeat all electronic countermeasures on the battlefield).
mrmoshpotato
@hueyplong: Haha. I know. 🟠💩
TBone
@mrmoshpotato: I have a camp toilet story. A friend was in dire straits on a hungover morning. He rushed over but … It collapsed at the most inopportune moment. Famous last words:
“Shoulda given it a dry run first!”
hueyplong
@Old School: The single best thing we’ve got going right now is picking a fight with the American military and service families.
— Chris LaCivita
scav
@Old School: They going to take on Deep Apple Pie next?
piratedan
@Old School: gleefully rubbing our noses in it and admitting that this is EXACTLY what they’re doing.
Manyakitty
@Baud: fair.
hueyplong
@scav: That’s really all that’s left after the Woke Military, the Woke NFL and Woke Corporate America.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Baud: Attendance is down 17-19%. That doesn’t sound to me like a huge impact. That means 80+% of the congregation is sticking with them.
Chet Murthy
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Southlake is in Tarrant County. There’s a saying: “As goes Tarrant County, so goes Texas.” It’s pretty conservative. The fucking Mayor of Fort Worth literally ran Bitcoin mining servers (I shit you not). It’s not exactly a progressive place.
Belafon
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: That could mean the difference between owning a private jet and renting one.
TBone
Dark Brandon needs to go on offense against the campaign that is publicly denigrating our military. And I mean DARK Brandon.
Elizabelle
@Old School: Meh. It’s just brief footage of Trump standing in the audience at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Big whoop.
Calling those at SecArmy “hacks” though. Take note, military voters.
Baud
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I said some. If Republicans lost 20% of their voters, we’d be sitting pretty.
Old School
@Elizabelle: Yes, the “hacks” part was what I was referring to. Sorry for not being clearer.
TBone
About those ads I’ve been seeing too many of, blaming VP Harris (“border czar”) and Senator Casey for crimes committed by “illegals,” it appears that another geography lesson is in order. Remember when Donold hailed the great state of Kansas when the Chiefs won?
Crudite, anyone?
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/08/senate-candidate-very-confused-about
Elizabelle
@Old School: Got it. Jerk move, for sure.
trollhattan
Fourth of the four condemned Klamath River dams has been breached and now the river runs free, from north of the CA-OR border to the Pacific.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-28/klamath-river-dam-removal-completed?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
geg6
@Chet Murthy:
That would an assault charge. But we have two federal laws being broken here: assaulting a fed employee and the law covering political use of ANC. Those are not violations against her, per se, but against the United States and all its citizens. I don’t see why she gets to control those charges.
Sister Golden Bear
@TBone: Geese, you want geese. A goose bombing is horrific.
trollhattan
@TBone: “One is pronounced ‘da cops’ and one ‘po-lees’.”
FastEdD
Here’s an interesting story about Arlington National Cemetery. Most of us know that it was formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and that Union soldiers were buried there as a statement about who won the Civil War. The squabbling over it lasted years and involved an adopted son of George Washington and a rotten ruling from SCOTUS in favor of the Lee family. Quite a read for history buffs.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-arlington-national-cemetery-came-to-be-145147007/
trollhattan
@TBone: Point. He does, after all, have a son interred at Arlington, while Trump has the Bowling Green Massacre, Ivana’s lawn patch, and the River of Blood plaque honoring an imaginary golf course war thing.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
We keep being told that taking photos and video in there and using them for political purposes is against the law. They took photos and video there, and some of it was used in a campaign commercial. So prosecute him (and any staff involved) for it.
Mike E
@hueyplong: when you think you’re poking the bear but in reality it’s a bear-size hornets nest… please proceed, putzes.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Baud: No, the filming there for political purposes violates a law. That law was explained to them and enforcing it does not require charges being brought by the employee in question because whether or not she tried to stop him what he did was against the law.
hueyplong
@Mike E: Yes, we’re not unhappy with the ground upon which they seem to want to fight.
lowtechcyclist
@Old School:
The video at that Xit is from Arlington Cemetery and clearly being used for political purposes. The U.S. Attorney for northern Virginia needs to charge LaCivita.
citizen dave
The episode is infuriating. The photo is infuriating. The GD blue suit thumbs up asshole pose.
I would like to know if the hand gestures by the two women have special meaning. Also, the woman on the left putting her phone on the adjacent gravestone, is, INFURIATING.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@FastEdD:
Great 1864 quote from the Union Quartermaster General:
The fucking Lees continued, as noted, trying to get it back and did via the Extreme Court of the era. But then sold it back to the US.
They should have been executed and driven into exile but noooooo, they profited from treason.
Barbara
What kind of ghoul grins like a lunatic and gives the thumbs up sign while standing behind the gravestones of deceased soldiers?
Attapooch
@Barbara: This kind of ghoul?
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/president-trump-smiles-gives-thumbs-up-in-photo-with-baby-orphaned-in-el-paso-massacre
lowtechcyclist
@Barbara:
The kind who doesn’t mind their deaths in the least, and derives such happiness as he is capable of experiencing if he can benefit from those deaths in some way.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
Not everything that is against the law is criminal. It could just be a park regulation, the kind that would get you kicked out but not charged.
skerry
IANAL but wouldn’t breaking the law about using AC in a political ad be of interest to TF’s probation officer in NYC?
Gloria DryGarden
Dear commenters 1-47. That was clarifying and amusing. Esp thx to Chet Murthy and manyakitty. I hadn’t thought of it that of course pressing charges, would entail becoming a bigger target for mr orange hater, and his team. I understood almost everything, except how the constitution is a suicide pact, if anyone wants to explain, and rip my blinders off, I’m sure it won’t hurt any worse. My poor sad imaginary country…
I do so wish bail had been revoked, in so many instances, etc.
enjoying the drones, and pigeons. It almost seems possible.
He needs to go swimming, the salt water is cleansing, and , I’m hopeful, electrifying, and full of natural animals of predatory nature. What will it take to Rock his boat enough that he falls into said waters?
oh well
the feather is nice. In Egypt, when you died, the goddess of justice weighed your heart on one side of the scales, against a feather. So for me, this lovely feather is a symbol of justice. And a symbol of the lightness in the air element, which I think of as the quadrant of clear thinking, and bright ideas.
rikyrah
@Baud:
Not a Drag Queen in sight
Gloria DryGarden
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: great quote
Elizabelle
MacBook question: how do I get my laptop to let me know what a blue-colored link is from, when hovering over it?
Used to rely on this feature. Had a new drive installed this week, and the old one was so damaged some of my preferences did not automatically transfer. (Still, I will take my 2015 MacBook’s drive lasting nine years.)
Also, it seems one cannot find out the link’s provenance on an iPhone. Or has that changed for the better, too?
Many thanks. And this makes me miss Steeplejack all over again, because he was so kind answering questions like that.
rikyrah
Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) (@cbouzy) posted at 3:18 PM on Thu, Aug 29, 2024:
What’s happening with the GOP in Florida? A Republican state rep and a Republican mayor were arrested. @EvanPower is going through some things watching Florida Republicans in disarray. https://t.co/jCal67KCti
(https://x.com/cbouzy/status/1829252420834341353?t=HQjkv3t-N1CF3LhRg0Gr_w&s=03)
rikyrah
Scott Dworkin (@funder) posted at 3:01 PM on Thu, Aug 29, 2024:
BREAKING: Firefighters’ Union Members wearing “Trump is a Scab” shirts to welcome JD Vance today #UnionsForAll https://t.co/6nzfKuB9Ku
(https://x.com/funder/status/1829247901077516588?t=R4aID7GEAmFjzzlcCqmYwg&s=03)
Chet Murthy
@rikyrah: Evan Power? Wait, what happened to Mr. “I call it a threesome even if it’s rape” Ziegler ? I thought he was their chair ?
Chet Murthy
@rikyrah: My memory is that firefighters (used to?) trend right-wing. This is a good sign, I guess.
catclub
Not completely. A prosecutor can still bring a case, they just won’t have a key witness. Prosecutors also have tools to compel testimony.
Gloria DryGarden
In an earlier thread, with the sweet succinct don’t vote for trump video, I was so so very, very happy to see Donnie wearing that orange jumpsuit I had specially made for him. I so wanted him to have it, I hand embroidered his monogram on it. ( Well, it’s true, the ladies sewing circle and terrorist society helped me with it. It’s not all dancing at the yurt and fire pit ceremonial commune.)
if I have to see any more pictures of him ever, I want him to be wearing that same outfit.
oh so joyously happy.
Sally
@TBone: Having not read all the comments, I agree with you here – if what they did in filming and subsequently using the video as a campaign ad, why can’t they be prosecuted? It doesn’t take the person who was shoved to prosecute an assault charge. A crime(s) was and is being committed, why are they not being charged? I really don’t understand.
ETA: Why bother having laws and rules if there is no way to enforce them? No rules, no laws, if that’s the case.
Manyakitty
@rikyrah: that is beautiful 😍
Manyakitty
@catclub: okay. That works, too.
catclub
Why not every month?
Gloria DryGarden
@Manyakitty: good point. Same, with the pigeons, only if he’s outside golfing when they fly over…
Quantum man
My wife and I were talking about the ANC thing and we got so angry. If we had done this we would likely be in jail. How the fu*k does Trump always get away with this shit!? It is so maddening! Had to vent.
mrmoshpotato
@catclub: I’m all for Ukrainian drones having a chance to dump piss and shit on the orange shitstain’s disgusting grave.
Sally
@geg6: So is it the DOJ that brings charges in this case?
Captain C
@Attapooch: To be fair, he probably thought he was going to be allowed to eat the baby afterwards (covered in ketchup, of course).
catclub
@Sally: I am still asking: Was it a felony or a misdemeanor? What fine or prison time for the crime?
Not the assault, the filming a political commercial on the National Cemetery.
MisterForkbeard
@geg6: My assumption is that she doesn’t get to control the charges, but:
1. The army doesn’t want to file charges against a former president and current campaign unless it has to and the charges are airtight
2. The primary witness and victim doesn’t want to be involved
I get why they’d hold off. They’re probably also aware that the ANC employee would get dragged through the damn mud. She probably even said something mean about Trump online once.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: What’s going on? They’re Republicans.,
catclub
@TBone: Yes. Well put.
Jeffro
I have to say: metaphorically speaking, when all of this is said and done…
…I’d sure like Cheung’s and LaCivita’s heads.
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: Entirely possible. Would be nice if they issued a statement that Trump had been banned for the next few years because he broke the rules knowingly and violently.
He can reinstate himself if he wins election, but that’s okay. Just more crass horseshit from the biggest asshole on the planet.
Jeffro
can’t thank you enough (seriously!) for putting this alternative delivery system possibility into my brain
I’m going to try the old-school way down the road, but if that proves impossible…drone it is!
Elizabelle
@MisterForkbeard: And. Suppose it turns out that she once was treated for depression, or something else? “Mental health episode!”
catclub
@Sally: It would be extremely ironic if it subjected Trump to public military tribunals – a la the demands of Q-anon.
MomSense
My mom is watching Ari Melber’s show and he is going to have Misty Copeland on shortly. She is the first Black woman to be named principal dancer of a major ballet company, American Ballet Theater (ABT). She has had to deal with a lot of BS including having “too athletic” a ballet build which is nonsense. Anyway she is a wonderful dancer and an interesting person.
MisterForkbeard
@Elizabelle: Yeah. I can see why they (and she) wouldn’t want to do it.
Chet Murthy
@Jeffro: We’ve all seen vids of Ukraine’s bomb-dropping drones. Now imagine those bombs swapped-out for water-balloons filled with urine! Heck, by the time of Ukraine’s victory, I fully expect that they’ll have deployed dive-bombers (they might even be doing it today with FPV drones — I hear they’ve got some that can drop bombs, so they’re not meant for one-way trips).
Sally
@MisterForkbeard: You know, I remember a judge (I think it was Chutkan) saying that it was irrelevant what your job is or how a trial will interfere with it (in his case it was supposedly campaigning – though in fact it was golfing, as I recall). The law and the courts don’t stop work because you have an appointment, a golf game, or a sick child to rush home to. You know, if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime …
Jeffro
so much inside baseball! (but true!!)
and yet more evidence that in a nation of nearly 350M Americans…it’s probably more than ok to raise the requirements for president by a LOT
“have you ever posted a plaque on your golf course that describes a Civil War event than never happened? you did? DQ’d!!!”
-Jeffro’s highly-specific Constitutional amendment =)
MisterForkbeard
@Sally: Oh, absolutely this is the way it should be
In reality, Trump gets a ton of protections from having an active campaign and having lots of sympathizers. His minions do things like threaten the women who’ve accused Trump of sexual assault, for example. And then they back out of witnessing.
Jeffro
@Chet Murthy: you don’t have to convince me…I am PSYCHED!
bombs away, orange dirtbag!!
Redshift
@rikyrah: And got booed repeatedly:
Don’t know if it’s been confirmed, but I read that his talking about criminal Irish immigrants in the past as part of his anti-immigrant schtick (in recently unearthed audio) didn’t endear him to firefighters either.
Elizabelle
@Jeffro: WRT the SecDef “hack” slur:
Trump is not going to win Virginia, never has before, but this really will not help. Northern Virginia is filled with federal workers, military, etc.
geg6
@Sally:
I would assume the local US Attorney.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
If it’s against the law, that means there is a law that would be broken, not a park regulation. I agree that if they broke a park regulation, the only legal offense that would come up would be if they refused to comply with an officer’s lawful order. But people have been saying it was against the law.
Maybe this is due to bad reporting, because the difference between laws and regulations is extremely important in this context.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
I haven’t seen anyone explain which “law” was broken, except assault on the officer.
TBone
@Sister Golden Bear: two thumbs up! 😆
Jeffro
@Elizabelle: yup
And Va Beach/Norfolk area is full of active and retired military, too.
lowtechcyclist
@mrmoshpotato:
Why wait for him to be dead? Why not dump piss and shit on him now, while he can have the full experience of it?
Sally
….. I wonder if some of those five thousand Taliban terrorists whom trump had released from prison, BEFORE the US withdrawal, and were thus available to overthrow the Afghan govt, were the ones who killed the thirteen US soldiers.
(sorry for the terrible sentence)
trump releases killers onto the the streets to kill again!
TBone
@trollhattan: 😊 and in DelCo, for some reason, we say “po po.” I don’t know why! I think it might have to do with the show “Cops” – maybe someone getting busted on TV said it and it went slang viral.
Chet Murthy
@Sally: over at LGM I read that in fact the lone suicide bomber at the Abbey Gate who was responsible for the 13 deaths was in fact one of those released among the 5,000.
hueyplong
They probably haven’t prosecuted many times because, let’s face it, who has ever been asshole enough to continue after being told to stop?
In light of the fact that taking it all the way would probably be a fine, having this episode be a political negative instead of a successful political ad is about as much as we could hope for, and I mean that in general, not just in the sense of “we only get scraps because Trump gets away with everything.”
He’s probably pissed, and what I’m rooting for is a stroke. In fact, it’s the “news” I check for every time I log on to this place
ETA: One day it will be so.
TBone
@trollhattan: 🎯 if anyone can troll Donold on this matter, it is Dark Brandon.
Elizabelle
@Chet Murthy: I hope and suspect Kamala has a good answer on Afghanistan ready to go in tonight’s CNN interview. Is it being broadcast live?
topclimber
@Gloria DryGarden: May one of his future trading cards feature fabric from his orange jumps suit.
TBone
@Sally: maybe the F.E.C.
I don’t know
https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/
topclimber
@Elizabelle: The MAGA shits will dox her anyway.
Redshift
@Baud:
The Hatch Act, according to the DOD policy document cited by The Hill (I know, but it was the first direct link I found.) So yeah, not criminal, and generally only enforced with “don’t do that again,” because it’s usually only applied to federal employees. I don’t know what its enforcement provisions are for a non-employee improperly using federal property for partisan purposes (especially one who committed a massive Hatch Act violation when he gave his acceptance speech from the White House.)
Sally
@Chet Murthy: Wow! If it is true, this should be big news. And should have been much earlier, but right now would be excellent timing.
“Your husband/son/brother/father was murdered by a terrorist who was released from prison, to kill again, by your forever president”.
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: pretty sure I supplied the answer to you last time around but I am not near my laptop so I can’t spell out the steps for you. But if you Google something like safari hover over URL I think you’ll get instructions.
Elizabelle
@WaterGirl: Thank you WG. Will give that a try. Skritches to Henry.
So many little laptop preferences I took for granted, and having to hunt them all down and make changes. May this drive last another nine years.
ETA: Brilliant suggestion. It’s easy. Go to VIEW and choose SHOW STATUS BAR.
worrum
@Manyakitty:
Being disrespectful at ANC doesn’t get you arrested unless you damage something. It gets you removed (and, at most, banned) from ANC. They tried the first part, Trump’s people assaulted the person trying to remove them, and she declined to press charges because doing otherwise would probably ruin her life.
The part where military police aren’t supposed to arrest people for failing to be adequately reverential is not actually a bad thing. On the other hand, they can get right on to permenantly banning that fucker from ANC.
TBone
@Chet Murthy: that needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
Manyakitty
@Jeffro: on a pike. Maybe in my front yard.
Geminid
@Jeffro: There are plenty of civilian federal workers in Tidewater, too. It sounds like the Arlington Cemetary employee who Trump’s henchmen abused was a civilian.
Geminid
@Elizabelle: The interview was this afternoon, to be televised at 9pm. CNN will likely show some teasers in advance.
Wolvesvalley
Here are a very interesting couple of paragraphs from Josh Marshall’s Backchannel newsletter today:
Marshall appears to be saying that the whole thing, the wreath-laying as well as the visits to the graves, was a political event, produced by the Trump campaign.
Tony G
@Elizabelle: The honest answer is that the chaos and violence of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal was inevitable starting shortly after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in September of 2001. The government in Kabul that was propped up by the U.S. military was always corrupt, unpopular and weak, and it was always inevitable that it would quickly crumble as soon as the U.S. forces withdrew. But the honest answer would not be the answer that people want to hear.
Fake Irishman
@Chet Murthy:
Tarrant County is firmly purple at the presidential and getting that way for statewide elections. The local politicians will follow soon.
Fake Irishman
@trollhattan:
That’s going to help a lot of ecosystems over the next decade.
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: Yeah, I knew it was easy, but couldn’t think of what exactly the wording was. Glad you are back in business.
Omnes Omnibus
@lowtechcyclist: Not all violations of the law are criminal. That being said, I am not familiar enough with the relevant laws to say whether any violations were criminal in nature. The other aspect of this is that it was a shitty and disrespectful thing to do regardless of the law.
mrmoshpotato
@lowtechcyclist: Shit drone?
sixthdoctor
At this point he’s just trying to get sued.
Baud
Via reddit
Baud
Via reddit
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Woohoo!*
*I know it’s primarily symbolic and all that but I am a big fan.
mrmoshpotato
@sixthdoctor: She should sue the shit out of Dump.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: Oh won’t this be fun! I love her.
Chief Oshkosh
@Old School: Waitaminit. So the TRUMP campaign is trolling the Secretary of the Army? Could it be because she’s a woman?
Gloria DryGarden
@TBone: now I think I need to understand more about dark Brandon. You referenced him on another thread, too. What might be possible at dark Brandon’s behest?
Chief Oshkosh
@Chet Murthy: Seems like that is something to be pointed out by groups like MeidasTouch or Republicans for Harris, etc. The Harris campaign shouldn’t touch it with a 10 ft pole.
Of course, if we had a functioning national press, this would’ve already been reported widely.
Betty Cracker
Just saw a clip on CNN or whatever Bill is watching of a disheveled Trump (his multidimensional combover is a mess these days) talking to a reporter and somehow making the Arlington story even worse by turning it into a “sir” story. “Oh these people really like me and they called me sir and they said please sir can you take a picture at our loved one’s grave sir” bow-and-scrape, blah blah blah. Just when you think it can’t get any more despicable. It will be funny if this is the one unforgivable act out of tens of thousands that actually breaks through.
Gloria DryGarden
@Baud: for reals?
oh frabjous day, Kaloo, callay
(fuck my tablet that doesn’t like new words, or proper nouns, and can’t seem to tolerate the names of important people. I’ve now told it to accept French and Spanish, this should go better)
Jasmine Crockett!
Tim Walz
Kamala Harris
( hey we got their names without having to erase retype from whatever autocorrect thought)
Manyakitty
@Baud: oh wow! She is a stupendous communicator.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: This was always going to be a damaging story, but Trump and his pet weasel Vance keep making it worse. And LaCivita and Cheung have amplified the controversy when it’s in their candidate’s interest to move past it. The bullying at Arlington Cemetary was bad enough, but the way these churls are trying it brazen this out has been even more discreditable.
prostratedragon
@trollhattan: Yaaay!!
Ruckus
@catclub:
Too many want to do so to let everyone go every month….
Also I’d imagine that a charge would have to be collected to pay for the clean up and the guards/cashiers.
Old Tom
@Chet Murthy: If verified, this really should be more widely known. Thanks.