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Trump is a Goddamned moron, and has no honor.Post + Comments (106)
From one bullshit statement to the next out of his mouth last night, he showed that he does not understand, and doesn’t really care to understand how the world works, how the military works, or how intelligence works.
He lies with a facility that is breathtaking, but as Fareed Zakaria pointed out, Trump is a bullshit artist, and the truth isn’t particularly important to him one way or the other.
He reminds me of that troop who somehow always talks the biggest shit, but is never around for the work details that make up most of a Soldier’s day, or keeps coming up on sick call at SP time. I wouldn’t trust him on shit-burning detail. He’d steal the JP-8 and the TP. He’s the guy who never does anything productive, whose gear is parade field clean, but lobbies for a combat award when an RPG hits the perimeter wall 600 meters away from him while he was in the line at Burger King. And you just know he’ll be telling stories about how terrible it was “in the shit” to the newbies. And he’ll strut around the mall on leave wearing those stupid T-shirts with skulls and M-4s and “MESS WITH THE BEST, DIE LIKE THE REST” on them.
Every Vet reading this knows the guy, or guys I’m talking about, and every Vet who watched that last night saw the same thing I did. I don’t know how much, if any, it changed anything, but if it did, it didn’t go Trump’s way. Another thing that I know struck people the wrong way was his sticky man-crush on Vladimir Putin.
Other than those observations, and the observation that Matt Lauer is as useless as tits on a boar hog, the Commander in Chief’s forum was an hour of my life that I’ll never get back. Of all the things we could have learned, like what do the candidates think about the new nuclear weapons program, what they want to do about the floundering F-35 program, how they’re going to pay for the VA’s burgeoning expenses over the next several decades, or the Army’s program to recapitalize the ground vehicle fleet, or how we’re going to deal with friends and allies in the early years of the 21st century. Instead we got that crap.