Thakkar

4 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

I have a heel spur, had it for many years of playing football.  Never used it as an excuse for anything and it doesn't interfere with anything I do.  But then again I have never looked to do any draft dodging as Trump clearly did.

Maybe Trump's heel spur is in his head. THat would explain a lot.

T

7 minutes ago, UncleFester said:

 

I just reported Takei to the Secret Service.  I read that as a threat to our 45th President, Donald John Trump.

Trump is his own worst enemy. I just report *him* to the Secret Service!

T

18 minutes ago, UncleFester said:

I seek truth. I seek information that does not resemble #fakenews.

 

 

"I seek truth"

Then acknowledge these truths:

Trump tweeted he consulted with the generals — he didn't. The Pentagon was unaware.

Tump said that transgender in the military entail "tremendous medical cost" — it doesn't. It costs one tenth of what the taxpayers pay for his own golfing forays which benefit his own businesses.

During the campaign, Trump said he would protect LGBTQ rights. What he's doing is the opposite of that.

There's your truth. Happy now?

T

TRnas ban: from the 3:4min mark

Colbert on the Mooch

https://youtu.be/O1PvIJjpPvE

Samantha Bee, even better:

https://youtu.be/kY6aUo2PkaM

24 minutes ago, UncleFester said:

Wonderful.  You take them.  You transgender them.  You pay for it.  We don't want to pay for nonsense and certainly not from a military budget.  The Few, The Proud, The Transgender Marines.

 

Uh um .... no.

18 hours ago, Skywalker69 said:

Trump Just Stopped A Rally To Ask Crowd If He Should Be Put On Mount Rushmore

 

Trump’s megalomania is reaching dangerous new lows. His already infamous, unhinged speech to the Boy Scouts yesterday showed him to be a president quickly untethering from reality.  Today, at a speech in Ohio, Trump gave perhaps his most absurd musings yet.

 

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/07/25/trump-just-stopped-rally-ask-crowd-put-mount-rushmore/

Ohio rally, a rally that "broke ALL records." Wow.

32 minutes ago, attrayant said:

 

So you're reading it just for the giggles, then?

Or looking for loopholes.

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31 minutes ago, kannot said:

isnt t hat how many people vote  though? id say many people are selfish

It's tricky to generalize. 

Some are single issue voters, like many evangelical women who are strongly anti abortion who held their noses and voted for Trump for the single reason that we would appoint a Supreme Court justice who could potentially overturn Row Vs. Wade.

others have complex other reasons.

but the vast majority, especially Republican vote along party lines. That's why a small slither of independents (and the many Dems who choose not to vote) decide many elections.

Some selfishness may be involved in many instances, but also altruism.

T

3 minutes ago, UncleFester said:

When Jesus makes the rank of General we can discuss your follies.

Jesus was a carpenter, so his teachings only apply to carpentry?

T

4 minutes ago, UncleFester said:

I'm reading the King James Bible

Then tell me what you think when you get to these parts:

1 minute ago, UncleFester said:

If you all want the Trannies so bad, we can send you ours.

Nah. Just send me a list of things you read and watch, so I can avoid them; they seem to have a deleterious effect. 

T

8 minutes ago, UncleFester said:

Way to go Mr. President! Who is going to be scared of some soldier wearing Khaki and high heels!  The US Military is designed to kill and break things.  No one will be scared if we send in Trannies to do battle.  Kick them all out.

23 minutes ago, Grubster said:

Look at the average woman in these developed countries. Perhaps the male system requires some stimulus huh.

Looking at the average Western male, maybe it's the women sending out anti-pheromones that are affecting the sperm production. 

T

1 hour ago, F4UCorsair said:

I'd be prepared to bet that if he had announced a drive to recruit more transgenders, the very same people would be criticizing him.....he can't do that, it's discriminatory.   

 

It would be difficult to imagine greater pettiness and churlishness than I see posted here about Trump.

 

 

Since we're purely speculating, I bet if Trump had a three way with a sheep and a Great Dane on the White House lawn and it was caught on camera, his supporters will say it never happened. Or that it was a brave thing to do.

2 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Well, the decision was a smart one for a lot of reasons not the least of which is, again, no one has a 'right' to be in the Armed Forces 

Plenty of other careers they can perform in with better aplomb than carrying a rifle into combat 

"one has a 'right' to be in the Armed Forces "

if trans people dont don't have the right, then neither do impotent white males. Yet they are not barred and their viagra paid for by the tax payer. 

19 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Bottom line it's all a ploy to get taxpayers to pay for sex changes. 

So that just makes them smart, like Trump:

"What we do know is that this [$916 million] loss...could be used to cancel out taxable income from other sources for up to 18 years, and therefore allow Mr. Trump to get out of paying federal and state taxes...If Mr. Trump wanted to defend his tax practices, he could simply release his returns. But it seems that even for Mr. Trump, paying no taxes would be a political embarrassment. It would show that the government bailed him out of his catastrophically bad business decisions. Legal or not, this is the kind of handout no ordinary citizen could hope to get no matter how dire the circumstance."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/opinion/mr-trumps-government-bailout.html

What's right for the goose is right for the gander, or a goose that needs to be a gander.

T

6 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Fair enough but the VA can't handle the numbers of sick Vets they have now let alone trannys enlisting in order to obtain a sex reassignment on the tax payers dime 

The point is, your RAND Corp reference was misleading.

I know a trans person living Stateside who supported Trump—until this latest twitter announcement. She was ok with him sh!tting on Muslims and Mexicans, journalists and women who aren't at least a '6'. But now she hates him. I also know Muslims who were ok with his Mexicans comment till he started talking about a Muslim ban—something that would affect their families visiting them in the US.

What this shows is that Trump supporters will continue to support him, until the day he comes after them (or people very like them) personally.

It seems a lot of his supporters are just like him—selfish to a fault.

T

*I realize that the above is a generalization based on a few anecdotes. In my defense, all I can say is that I've been watching too much Fox News and reading too much Breitbart.

11 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

According to a Rand study, transitioning military people have 14 times higher expenses than your normal soldiers, sailors, airmen etc

analysis by the Rand Corporation last year found that the costs of allowing transgender people to serve in the military would have a “minimal impact” on the budget, amounting to $2.4 million to $8.4 million each year, or 0.04 percent to 0.13 percent of the military health care budget. That’s little more than a rounding error when compared to the total U.S. military budget of roughly $700 billion.

• DoD should ensure strong leadership and identify and communicate the benefits of an inclusive and diverse workforce to successfully implement a policy change and successfully integrate openly serving transgender service members into the force.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1530.html

I thought you weren't supposed to count your sperms before they hatch, or something like that.

T

3 presidents

July 26, 1948

Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.

July 26, 1963

Fifteen years after Truman's order, on July 26, 1963, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara issued Directive 5120.36 obligating military commanders not to employ their financial resources against facilities used by soldiers or their families that discriminated based upon sex or race.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_5120.36


July 26, 2017

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
26/7/17, 10:55 pm
After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow……

....Transgender individuals to  serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military...

Jamil Smith (‪@JamilSmith‬)

27/7/17, 01:52

“The tweet was the first we heard about it," said a Pentagon official regarding Trump’s transgender military ban. on.wsj.com/2uZjrAn

Also, just 5 months ago:

9 minutes ago, rijb said:

We get it already!  They're dumb.  Trump voters are easy targets.  

 

What's your take on the Republicans in Congress?  Are they dumb too?

 

How long are they going to support numb nuts?

That's an interesting question. I believe the legislators' support for Trump is tied to two things.

1. The overlap between Trump loyalists and their own base. So far, they seem to have determined that the overlap is a lot, and certainly enough for them to fear losing those votes in case they go too publicly against Trump.

2. How long it takes them to get the tax cuts they've promised their masters. The healthcare bill is a tax cut in disguise and hasn't passed yet. The budget bill, another tax cut opportunity, is yet to be introduced.

These are the dynamics that will determine how long they will continue to support him, barring any seriously shocking revelations. And for this administration, such revelations have to super duper shocking and come with irrefutable audio, video and documentary evidence.

T