You need to read Tammy Duckworth's EPIC takedown of "#CadetBoneSpurs." I'm not kidding. EPIC.

[Miles Archer]

Tammy Duckworth
@SenDuckworth

#CadetBoneSpurs: no one cares whether you were a “fan” of the Vietnam War. No one believes you were medically unfit to serve. You used your wealth & privilege to avoid serving your country five times, forcing another American to serve in your place each time. 1/

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Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins

President Trump’s full answer to Piers Morgan on avoiding serving in Vietnam: “This isn't like I'm fighting against Nazi Germany, we're fighting against Hitler. And I was like a lot of people. Now I wasn't out in the streets marching saying I'm going to move to Canada...”

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Tammy Duckworth
@SenDuckworth

Now, you're stealing billions from @DeptofDefense's budget to fund a wall you promised Mexico would pay for. You're failing to support military families by taking away caregiver funding. You're kicking out Americans who *are* willing to serve only because they're transgender. 2/

3:26 PM · Jun 5, 2019 · Twitter Web Client

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Tammy Duckworth
@SenDuckworth

Sane people aren't "fans" of war—only #StableGeniuses would even think that. I’ve met many #WWII #DDay Vets. None ever said they were fans of war. They simply answered their nation’s call, regardless of what they thought. Especially during the draft—it wasn’t optional for them 3/

3:26 PM · Jun 5, 2019 · Twitter Web Client

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Tammy Duckworth
@SenDuckworth

These comments only make one thing clear: @realDonaldTrump got his deferments for the wrong thing. They shouldn't have been for his disappearing, imaginary bone spurs—they should have been for that yellow streak down his back. At least that would have been a real condition. 4/4
3:26 PM · Jun 5, 2019 · Twitter Web Client

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[mopinko]

1. my senator. she is the best.

[rampartc]

2. +1 yellow streak.

he has got to be psychotic.

[calimary]

37. Like they said in the old Almond Joy commercials - "Indescribably delicious!"

So sweet it damn near rots your teeth!

Dayum she’s good!

[donkeypoofed]

3. Oooooh,.solid burn !

She is GOOD, that Tammy Duckworth.

[riversedge]

4. Trumps deferments "--they should have been for that yellow streak down his back."

OUCH.



Tammy Duckworth
‏Verified account @SenDuckworth
6h6 hours ago

These comments only make one thing clear: @realDonaldTrump got his deferments for the wrong thing. They shouldn't have been for his disappearing, imaginary bone spurs—they should have been for that yellow streak down his back. At least that would have been a real condition. 4/4

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[CaptYossarian]

38. Maybe the dye in his fake hair was running down his back.

And did he ever learn about punctuation? What is his first language? It's chock full of run-on sentences.

He's a disgrace to Wharton.

[MyOwnPeace]

40. Trust me - he'll not feel any pain...........

He's a spineless creature void of any feelings.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. You FAKED a medical disability to avoid serving your country.

YOU are the LOWEST scum on earth.

Or as we said in the NAVY "You are lower than hammered whale shit."

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Here I thought that yellow streak was him peeing in bed and it creeping up his back to his face.

[denbot]

8. And BOOM goes the dynamite.

Well said Senator Duckworth.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

9. So, what war was he a fan of?

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Of course none of them will match up to the one he would like to start.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Liar. If you had guts you would just say it...I didn't want

to go somewhere where I thought I was sure to die.

That's what many many thought. Not courageous, when others were, for sure, but still the truth.

[mgardener]

11. So....

If Trump starts a war with Iran
It OK for service members to refuse to fight because
They are not a fan of an Iran war???

[MyOwnPeace]

41. Oh, SNAP!!!!!!!

Good one, indeed!

[Honeycombe8]

12. She's repeating what Mayor Pete said recently.

So while it's an obvious and accurate and plain-speaking take-down of Trump's non-military history, it was epic when Pete said it last week.

Good for her that she said it, too. It should be said repeatedly.

[Tanuki]

21. She was saying this more than a year ago, so I wouldn't call that "repeating"

what "Mayor Pete said recently." But good for Buttigieg for addressing it as well. It certainly needs to be amplified.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/02/06/politics/tammy-duckworth-cadet-bone-spurs/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Famp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org%2Fv%2Fs%2Famp.cnn.com%2Fcnn%2F2018%2F02%2F06%2Fpolitics%2Ftammy-duckworth-cadet-bone-spurs%2Findex.html%3Famp_js_v%3D0.1%26usqp%3Dmq331AQCKAE%253D
(February 6, 2018)
"An Illinois Democrat who was seriously wounded in Iraq derisively referred to President Donald Trump's draft deferments after Trump called Democrats "treasonous" for not clapping during his State of the Union speech.

"We don't live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath—in the military and in the Senate—to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap," Sen. Tammy Duckworth tweeted Monday evening.

Duckworth, an Army veteran who lost her legs while serving in Iraq, appeared to be referencing Trump's draft deferments. Trump received five draft deferments throughout the Vietnam War, and on one occasion, Trump received a deferment because of bone spurs.
........

This isn't the first time Duckworth has pointed out Trump's draft deferments. Last month, she brought it up on the Senate floor.

"I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible. I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger," Duckworth said at the time.".....(more)

[Honeycombe8]

24. Not quite the same thing.

It's calling the bone spurs "faking disability" and "for someone to go in his place." That's the part I was referring to.

Calling out his draft dodging has been pointed out since his campaign by a lot of people.

[Aussie105]

13. Delusional Trump

Trump tells us what he is - courageous, intelligent, good at leadership, good at global politics, a good businessman who drives a hard bargain.

He is none of those things, just the opposite on each point.

When asked for proof of his boasts and brilliance, he throws a twitter hissy fit. We are supposed to believe his words, not his actions. He wants us to follow him down the rabbit hole of self delusion.

The repugnant man-child really needs putting away somewhere, where he can do no harm, and the rest of humanity can forget he ever existed. Either prison or a coffin, I'm not choosy.

[bigbrother05]

25. "Because I say so" isn't proof in the world real people live in

Of course with the maturity of a 3 year old, he might still believe that works.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. I'm so happy to have her as my senator.

[Princetonian]

15. Gravitas anyone? Hope she is considered for VP by whoever wins the 2020 Democratic candidacy...

What a fine and courageous human being she is!

[GoCubsGo]

31. Apparently, she is not eligible.

She was born in Thailand.

[Princetonian]

34. Then Elizabeth Warren would make a fine VP choice if she doesn not get the Democratic candidacy

She and Biden both worked under Barack, after all.

[GoCubsGo]

36. I would be more than happy to see Sen. Warren in either spot.

I am glad that Sen. Duckworth is able to be a Senator, even if the circumstances of her birth prevent her from being President. I wish Jennifer Granholm wasn't born in Canada. She would have made a fine president, too. Not sure how Ted Cruz was going to get away with it.

[sueh]

16. Tammy is my senator. I love her.

[Wounded Bear]

17. I can think of no reason Senator Duckworth should...

pay Trump even the smallest modicum of respect I could imagine.



I think she has earned the right to criticize Trump's "service" to America.

[Schmice3]

18. Thank you Senator, but...

even though he is a putz in every way, I have to agree with him that Vietnam was a terrible blunder costing thousands of Americans and millions of South East Asians their lives. Meanwhile, the military industrial complex made trillions. It was a terrible time for us. Even if we were temporarily deferred, the specter of the draft hung over us. Well, for most of us. That's when we found our "side". [1968 says it all.]

The Senator is right that nobody can/should be a fan of any war. Because he is such a lummox he did not use, as he brags he knows; his best words, his beautiful words. But he is such a loathsome toad. And to think that millions voted for him and/or his ideas.

This man is taking from the military veterans to build his vanity project. [Ozymandias]. Because Mitch needs Trump so he and his un American Party can continue to stack the courts, nothing will be done and we will be doomed.

We no longer live in "The Golden Age" of American supremacy. Others have caught up and now compete on more even terms. Trump will ultimately cause our downfall earlier rather than later.

As Phil Ochs might sing: [Donald Trump] go find yourself another country to be a part of.

[bigbrother05]

27. Might reach the same conclusion, but his reasoning had no depth

No evidence, other than the deferments, he was opposed at the time.

[Scurrilous]

19. K&R

[misanthrope]

20. It's not YOUR money to give, you orange buffoon!

He talks about it like he donated something from his bank account. It's the nation's money. It's the big kitty he refuses to pitch into thinking that makes him "smart."

It's the same way he and his family look at charity drive money or foundations.

[Achilleaze]

22. republicans are dishonoring our war dead with this assclown

no honor (R)

[Vinca]

23. She was interviewed about this on CNN and was even more powerful.

It will take of couple of days, but Col. Bone Spurs will be going after her on twitter and you'd think that would be the nail in the coffin of any military support.

[underpants]

26. Awesome nt

[shanny]

29. Wow. Hadn't seen whole thread.

Thanks for posting.

[murielm99]

30. I am proud of my Senator.

[Stinky The Clown]

32. Perfectly Well Said By One Who Has EARNED The Right To Say It.

[peggysue2]

33. Whoosh!

Senator Duckworth just handed Don the Con his head! Well deserved, too. The GOP's chairman (Romney's niece) statement that D-Day should be a day to celebrate Trump was as disgustingly dishonorable as you can get.

These people have to go, never allowed near government or microphones again.

Sickening.

[corbettkroehler]

35. 100% EPIC!

So much so that I struggle to choose my favorite part. I wish I lived in Illinois!

[MasonDreams]

42. Remember last year, drumpf is afraid of rain.

But of paramount importance, what war/wars is /are he a "fan" of? I'd particularly be interested to hear about Yemen, Venezuela, Iran, N.Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.My apologies, there are probably 3~or~6 more places were "foriegn policy" is spreading "democracy". Which ones are you a "fan" of?
Have you ever made a mistake?
Have you ever read Article 2?
The Queen has gently requested that you read at least as much Churchill as you have hitler. For the love of God please honor her request.

[Miles Archer]

43. Afraid of rain, and McCain

Big baby can't fly over a ship with McCain's name on it unless it's moved and covered with a tarp.

Big baby can't fly over the moved and tarp-covered ship unless the crew, wearing caps that bear McCain's name on them, are given the day off.

Big baby can't. period.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

44. Ol' Yellow Streak

Donald "Yellow Streak" Trump is scared of rain, McCain, women, stairs, transgenders and non-white people. Would prolonged solitary confinement alleviate his fears?