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UTUSN

(70,706 posts)
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 12:51 PM Sep 2016

Add "generals" and other military & intelligence officers to the list of groups DRUMPF has insulted.

He never got the concept of this "elections" thing - that you need to ATTRACT voters, not run them off away from you -- in DROVES and wholesale GROUPS.

So now, despite his scoring with the usual active military and vets who yet again support candidates who are chickenhawk phonies like him in preference over candidates who are actual veterans (CARTER, GORE, KERRY, etc.), he has insulted current military plus intelligence briefers.

By claiming that the briefers communicated (by body language?!1) that the military disrespect the President, he is accusing them of blatant undermining their Mission (the policies of their civilian bosses) and professional misconduct.

Somebody here remonstrated with me that military people are "not robots" and have a right to opinions, including about politics, and the right to vote. Uh, yes, but it is drilled into active military and public servants that politics is to be kept to oneself, not only in public but also among the fellow troops since it leads to divisiveness among the fellow troops who need to be as unified as possible.

But, alas, as DRUMPF said about his supporters' blind loyalty to him even if he shot somebody, his military supporters will surely remain his zombies.

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