You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up

[dales]

Nov. 3, 2020 can't come soon enough.

[BoSoxGal]

Yes. And pure evil.

[ex-khobar Andy]

Fake news! We know, because Spicey told us, that Trump does not own a bath robe. I still want to know how Spicey knew the little nugget of information. On second thoughts, no I don't.

[Econoline]

From Andy Borowitz:

"'Enjoy Your Very Own Woodward Book, You Bastard,' Nixon Tells Trump From Hell."

[Econoline]

[BoSoxGal]

I actually now feel sorry for Nixon.

[Scooter]

The Trump campaign played a song about rich kids dodging the Vietnam War draft — which the president did 5 times — at a Michigan rally

President Donald Trump's campaign played a song about rich people dodging the Vietnam War draft — which Trump did five times — as the president got off his plane for a rally in Michigan on Thursday.

The 1969 song "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival blared as Air Force One arrived at MBS International Airport in Freeland to crowds of Trump supporters.

The song is sung from the perspective of young men drafted to fight in the Vietnam War who didn't have the powerful connections to avoid going.
The lyrics include the lines "Some folks are born silver spoon in hand / Lord, don't they help themselves, no" and "It ain't me, it ain't me / I ain't no millionaire's son."

The Washington Post's Dave Weigel tweeted that it was "an entry for the 'nobody listened to the lyrics' hall of fame."

It wasn't clear whether the song choice was intentional. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Trump received draft deferments five times in the 1960s and 1970s, according to Snopes: four times for college, and once for having bone spurs on his heels that qualified him for a medical exemption.

In December 2018, The New York Times reported that a foot doctor might have falsely diagnosed Trump with bone spurs to avoid the Vietnam War as a favor to Trump's father, who was also the doctor's landlord.

Michael D'Antonio, a biographer who wrote the 2015 book "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success," has said that when he interviewed Trump for his book, Trump "took off his shoes and tried to show me these bone spurs."

"I didn't see anything," D'Antonio said.

[Big RR]

I recall that Times article, but never understood how it worked. As I recall, we had to get a physical from the military (or something like that) which advised the Draft Board so it could classify us. For a medical exemption (4F) I would imagine that the Board physician would have to concur (although I am not certain); does anyone know the procedure for sure?

[ex-khobar Andy]

They sent Arlo Guthrie to the Group W bench, for littering.

[Econoline]

I recall that Times article, but never understood how it worked...does anyone know the procedure for sure?

You walked in, sat down, got hung down, brung down, hung up and all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly things: you got injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected. They kept you there for two hours, three hours, four hours, a long time, goin' through all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly things, while they was inspectin' and injectin' every single part of you, and they was leavin' no part untouched!

[Scooter]

Was it a physical, or the set of a really nasty porn flick?

[Econoline]

No, it was "a buildin' down in New York City called Whitehall Street", in a (non-porn) flick called Alice's Restaurant.

(Remember Alice? There's a song about Alice.)

[Econoline]

Back to the thread topic:

[Econoline]

Even though this "award" is nonexistent (he may be referring to a 2016 endorsement from the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association), inventing and bragging about an award for one of the worst military and foreign policy fiascoes of the twentieth century is very...ummmm... Trumpanistic???

[Bicycle Bill]

Everybody complains about politicians.  Everybody says, “They suck”.

But where do people think these politicians come from?  They don’t fall out of the sky.  They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality.

No, they come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and they’re elected by American voters.  This is the best we can do, folks.  It’s what our system produces:  Garbage in, garbage out.
.......George Carlin (1937-2008) — I don't know when he first said this, but whenever it was, he's still correct today

-"BB"-

[Econoline]

Honest to god, it's getting to the point where every time Trump opens his mouth, whatever comes out belongs in this thread...

Trump suggests he would 'negotiate' a 3rd term as president because he is 'probably entitled' to it

[BoSoxGal]

Well he HAS been witch hunted this whole first term!

[Bicycle Bill]

Well he HAS been witch hunted this whole first term!

Until I saw the at the bottom, I thought you had gone totally fucking nutz.

However, I dare say that is exactly the "logic" he is employing.....   Strange, though, that for being such a "stable genius" (self-described, to be sure) he has such a piss-poor grasp of the concepts of the ONE document he swore to defend and protect —

I do solemly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

— even before he parked his kiester in the Oval Office.

Although he did swear to do so "to the best of my Ability".  Maybe this IS the best of his ability....?
In that case, gods help us all.

-"BB"-

[Scooter]

Around the time of the impeachment there was something going around that Trumpanzees had clearly fallen for, that a president who had been impeached but not convicted was entitled an additional term to compensate for it. "It's right there in black and white in the Constitution," some would claim. The level of delusion is off the charts.

[Sue U]

OH COME ON!!!

Defense
Trump ad asks people to support the troops. But it uses a picture of Russian jets.

The Trump Make America Great Again Committee is run by both the Republican National Committee and the campaign.


An ad, made by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, featuring silhouettes of three soldiers walking as Russian-made fighter jets fly over them.

By DANIEL LIPPMAN and BRYAN BENDER

09/14/2020 08:19 PM EDT

Updated: 09/15/2020 10:55 AM EDT

A digital ad released by a fundraising arm of the Trump campaign on Sept. 11 calling on people to “support our troops” uses a stock photo of Russian-made fighter jets and Russian models dressed as soldiers.

The ad, which was made by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, features silhouettes of three soldiers walking as a fighter jet flies over them. The ad first appeared on Sept. 8 and ran until Sept. 12.

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