Far East Cynic

A great insult

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I took most of this past week off, primarily because I was not very motivated, and that lack of motivation will continue into the New Year. Of that I am quite confident.

The Christmas holiday was pretty much as I expected with the S.O. doing her best to go through the motions while either not understanding or caring about the things that are really important to me. Three of my “presents” were not presents for me at all – but rather additions to her collection that she “gave” to me. Since I pretty much knew it was coming, it was not much of a surprise and a disappointment. Rather it was just a disappointment for myself of how many things that I want, which are simply denied to me.

Watching the news over Christmas however was a disappointment, especially as I watched the details of the shitbag in Chief’s “visit” to US forces in Iraq. Flying from the US on Christmas day, in the middle of a totally self-inflicted wound of a partial government shut down, the visit to the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines was a studied insult to their service and a graphic demonstration of Trump’s fundamental unfitness to be Commander in Chief.

First and foremost was the fact that it took him almost two years to make the trip and then it was in response to pretty much near-universal public shaming by the news media and various political figures. Second it was set against the backdrop if his asinine recent foreign policy moves – which forced the resignation of an ambassador and the Secretary of Defense.

Then in the brief 5 or 6 hours that Trump was on the ground and again at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, President Shitbag just could not resist the urge to turn what should have been an ecumenical address to the serving troops into an open political rally. Trump’s remarks, especially when he said straight out to the servicemen that the US was no longer going to be “suckers” for other nations was an incredible insult to them and the sacrifices their predecessors had made before them. It is totally inappropriate for any President, regardless of political party to address people in uniform this way. Decorum and rules prevented them from giving him the booing these remarks richly deserved, but he deserves scorn for them anyway.

And then there were the fucking red hats. As well as the big fucking red lie. Lets look at the lie first:

“You protect us. We are always going to protect you. And you just saw that, ’cause you just got one of the biggest pay raises you’ve ever received. … You haven’t gotten one in more than 10 years. More than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one. I got you a big one,” Trump told the US troops at Al Asad Air Base on Wednesday, according to CNN.

He later added, “They had plenty of people that came up, they said, ‘You know, we could make it smaller. We could make it 3%, we could make it 2%, we could make it 4%.’ I said, ‘No. Make it 10%. Make it more than 10%.’ Cause it’s been a long time, it’s been more than 10 years. Been more than 10 years, that’s a long time.”

In fact, America’s troops have received an automatic pay raise every year for more than three decades. While the pay raise authorized by the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act was the largest in nine years, it only amounted to a 2.6 percent pay raise.

What’s amazing about this is that is a blatant lie, easily disprovable, and yet he told it. He probably believes it – but its not true and the smarter people in the audience knew it was not true.

Reason 467 why he is a worthless sack of shit.

Oh and let’s not forget the hats. I’m with Stonekettle here:

You should go to Twitter and read the whole thread. He’s right about the fact that a least the shitgibbon went and did what people had been brow beating him to do. My issue is how he fucked it up and insulted the troops when I got there, by assuming they were all brain dead Trump supporters. Many of them are not. The reflect America, a divided America, where most Americans hate Trump ( and with good reason).

Trump’s language was reprehensible and as with so many of his actions, violates accepted norms of behavior. Even George W. Bush never talked the way he did, in the middle of defending his flawed invasion of Iraq. Bush understood the difference between a political event and duty. President Shitbag does not.

And here is the end result:

Of course we have not even discussed the way he insulted the Iraqis, by whose grace we are allowed to be in Iraq – but that is a lesson that it appears Trump is just incapable of understanding. Which begs the question of what are his advisers really doing and why did they not build it into his schedule. Even Bush understood the need to do these things and if you go back and read earlier posts you will know that I am no fan of his at all.

Plus, coming back to the fucking hats, there is this little bit of hypocrisy by the USAF:

Trump did what he should have, and just like everything else he does, he did it badly, too late, with malice towards all – proving yet again that he is unfit to be President of the United States.

And this. Read this and remember why he deserves the hatred:

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  1. Have a Happy New Year. Let me know the next time you’re in the Midwest and I’ll go there to buy a couple of beers for us. The Shit Gibbon will get his just rewards soon enough. In the mean time, enjoy life to the most!

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