Category: Dumbass Bullshit

In the pages of the New Yorker, this woman, Masha Gessen, imagines that John Kelly’s speech to the press the other day was a prelude to a military coup;

Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don’t have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch Thursday’s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump’s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments.

Gessen concludes her little paranoiac ramblings with Kelly’s final words;

Before walking off the stage, Kelly told Americans who haven’t served in the military that he pities them. “We don’t look down upon those of you who haven’t served,” he said. “In fact, in a way we are a little bit sorry because you’ll have never have experienced the wonderful joy you get in your heart when you do the kinds of things our servicemen and women do—not for any other reason than that they love this country.”

Yeah, I don’t “feel sorry” for people because they didn’t serve. They made a choice, a poor choice, in most cases. Our pages here are replete with examples of people who have tried to correct their poor choices by pretending to have served beside us. Gessen, on the other hand, tries mightily to bring us down to her level.

There is no plot for a military coup – the Constitution has put under the control of our civilian masters, and we have sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, so a military coup would violate the tenets of the Constitution, but media goofballs like Gessen haven’t read the Constitution, so they woudln’t know that. If ever there as going to be coup, it would have happened while President Obama was dismantling the Defense Department.

Maria Alexandrovna “Masha” Gessen should stick to writing about Russian politics and quit trying to tear down the American military,

The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Francesca Wilson, the Democrat Congresswoman who misquoted the president on his call to a Gold Star widow has “looked up” the phrase that Gold Star father General John Kelly used to describe the member of Congress and she has determined that “empty barrel” is racist;

‘You know, I feel sorry for Gen. Kelly. He has the sympathy for the loss of his son. But he can’t just go on TV and lie on me,’ Wilson said Friday on CNN.

The Florida Democrat also accused Kelly of using a ‘racist’ epithet against her during a White House news conference on Thursday afternoon, where he compared her to an ’empty barrel.’

Wilson said that after looking it up in the dictionary, she had concluded that ’empty barrel’ is a ‘racist term.’

I’m having trouble believing that Wilson has the language skills required to use a dictionary. I’m convinced that the entire English language is racist, and that’s why she refuses to use it in a cogent manner.

Bobo sends us a link to the story of the Bladensburg “Peace Cross” which has stood in Maryland for a hundred years after it was erected by the American Legion to commemorate the 44 residents who gave their lives in the First World War. Until plaintiff Steven Lowe was shocked by the sight of the cross three years ago and filed suit to have the cross removed from his sight, you know, instead of driving another route which would not be as shocking to the snowflake.

Veterans prevailed in the lawsuit, two years ago, but the American Humanist Association appealed the decision. Their motto is “Good Without God” whatever that means. Anyway, the 4th Circuit Court overturned the lower court’s decision, according to the Baltimore Sun;

A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond, Va., found that the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial — known locally as the Peace Cross — “aggrandizes the Latin cross” to the point that an observer would conclude the government entity that owns it is endorsing Christianity.

“The Latin cross is the core symbol of Christianity,” the court wrote in a 33-page opinion that included photographs of the memorial. “And here, it is 40 feet tall; prominently displayed in the center of one of the busiest intersections in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and maintained with thousands of dollars in government funds.”

The 2-1 ruling reverses a 2015 district court decision that found the purpose of the cross is not primarily religious and that the site has been used almost exclusively for celebrating federal holidays.

From the American Humanists;

“The court correctly ruled that the cross unconstitutionally endorses Christianity and favors Christians to the exclusion of all other religious Americans,” said Monica Miller, senior counsel from the AHA’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center.

Supporters of the cross, which was erected in the 1920s, had argued that the monument was a memorial to honor fallen soldiers of the First World War, but the plaintiffs contended that war memorials nevertheless cannot endorse religion.

“Government war memorials should respect all veterans, not just those from one religious group,” said Roy Speckhardt, AHA executive director. “Religious neutrality is important in a pluralistic society like ours.”

The cross has stood for nearly a hundred years and one little snowflake who is obviously easily “shocked” by the sight of the cross, to use his word, then the rest of us are supposed to pay in order to alter his experience, because it’s too hard for him to avoid driving past the cross.

Fox News reports that Hanoi Jane Fonda isn’t proud of America;

During a recent interview with the BBC, Fonda was asked, “Are you proud of America today?”

The actress was very quick to reply with a hard “no.”

“But, I’m proud of the resistance,” she elaborated. “I’m proud of the people who are turning out in unprecedented numbers and continue over and over and over again to protest what Trump is doing. I’m very proud of them, that core.”

So, she’s proud of everyone who is anti-America, but not the folks who work hard and provide for their families.

The good thing, I suppose, is that she claims that she’s not proud of her propaganda pictures for the North Vietnamese, either.

“The thing that I regret is that on my last day there, I made the mistake of going to a ceremony at an anti-aircraft gun,” she added. “It wasn’t being used. There were no airplanes or anything like that. There was a ceremony. I was asked to sing and people were laughing and so forth and I was led, and I sat down. And then I got up and as I walked away, I realized, ‘Oh my gosh. It’s going to look like I am against my own country’s soldiers and siding with the enemy, which is the last thing in the world that was true.”

Yeah, bullshit. The fact that she was even in North Vietnam at the time makes that a lie.

Thanks to Mick for the link.

Stars & Stripes reports that Bowe “Walkabout” Bergdahl has told a military judge that he is pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

His lawyer says the prosecution and defense have not agreed to a stipulation of facts in the case, which is an indication that they did not reach a deal to limit his punishment.

Bergdahl is charged with endangering his comrades by walking away from a remote post in Afghanistan in 2009.

He told the judge that he now understands that what he did caused others to search for him.

Apparently, Bergdahl told one of the old media outlets that he pleaded guilty because he couldn’t get a fair trial in this country, you know, what with him being a coward and all.

QMC sends a link to USAToday;

Bergdahl said he initially left the post because he had concerns about his command’s leadership and wanted to bring them to the attention of top leaders. He said he was tortured and abused during captivity.

Before he was captured, he said he quickly realized that leaving was a mistake, then concocted a plan to redeem himself by trying to stalk Taliban insurgents to get valuable intelligence.

“I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing,” Bergdahl said in the interview. “You know, that I could be what it is that all those guys out there that go to the movies and watch those movies — they all want to be that — but I wanted to prove I was that.”

The Army can start by taking that CIB off of his uniform along with those sergeant stripes.