D-Day's 80th

[tower912]

Honest question Fahrenheit...back in your fire fightin' days, were you as anti law and order as you appear to be now? I find it extremely odd, based on anecdotal evidence, that you would be. What brought you to this point, hey?

Doc Scrivello, I am not sure what you mean?    From my perspective, you are the one who is anti-law and order, anti-democracy, etc.   

[NCMUFan]

Honest question Fahrenheit...back in your fire fightin' days, were you as anti law and order as you appear to be now? I find it extremely odd, based on anecdotal evidence, that you would be. What brought you to this point, hey?

1 Corinthians 15:33

[ATL MU Warrior]

Doc Scrivello, I am not sure what you mean?    From my perspective, you are the one who is anti-law and order, anti-democracy, etc.

I would love to see an answer to this question but doubt it'll come.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

1 Corinthians 15:33

"Bad Company ruins good morals"

So if true,  what does sharing a political party with neo-nazis, Westboro baptist church members, and KKK members do for morals?

[Mutaman]

even in the midst of repulsive leadership on both sides of the political spectrum.

So Muggsy.

[Mutaman]

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[Jockey]

"Bad Company ruins good morals"

So if true,  what does sharing a political party with neo-nazis, Westboro baptist church members, and KKK members do for morals?

The next 5 months will be fun...,

Tower and TAMU (2 guys who are among the most reasonable and levelheaded here on Scoop) are letting loose.

[Uncle Rico]

"Bad Company ruins good morals"

So if true,  what does sharing a political party with neo-nazis, Westboro baptist church members, and KKK members do for morals?

And Donald Trump

[The Lens]

Speaking of D Day, on Thursday night I attended the opening of a POW / MIA exhibit at the War Memorial in Milwaukee. It was very powerful.

I saw a number of friendly faces including many of my Trump supporter friends. 

I wondered how they reconciled celebrating a POW exhibit with Trump's:

"He's (John McCain) not a war hero...He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

Literally the entire event was people in tears celebrating POWs and half of them are going to vote Trump. 

I come from a very deep military family, it blows my mind that any veteran can vote for him.  It seems unconscionable.

[Uncle Rico]

Speaking of D Day, on Thursday night I attended the opening of a POW / MIA exhibit at the War Memorial in Milwaukee. It was very powerful.

I saw a number of friendly faces including many of my Trump supporter friends. 

I wondered how they reconciled celebrating a POW exhibit with Trump's:

"He's (John McCain) not a war hero...He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

Literally the entire event was people in tears celebrating POWs and half of them are going to vote Trump. 

I come from a very deep military family, it blows my mind that any veteran can vote for him.  It seems unconscionable.

"What's in it for them?"

[MU82]

Suckers and losers.

[NCMUFan]

Speaking of D Day, on Thursday night I attended the opening of a POW / MIA exhibit at the War Memorial in Milwaukee. It was very powerful.

I saw a number of friendly faces including many of my Trump supporter friends. 

I wondered how they reconciled celebrating a POW exhibit with Trump's:

"He's (John McCain) not a war hero...He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

Literally the entire event was people in tears celebrating POWs and half of them are going to vote Trump. 

I come from a very deep military family, it blows my mind that any veteran can vote for him.  It seems unconscionable.

John McCain was a great patriot.  And a politician.  Soooo, probably some history behind that statement, even though a dumb one.

[Jockey]

John McCain was a great patriot.  And a politician.  Soooo, probably some history behind that statement, even though a dumb one.

Probably some history behind the coup attempt, too. 

[NCMUFan]

Probably some money to the big guy blah blah blah.

[Lennys Tap]

Speaking of D Day, on Thursday night I attended the opening of a POW / MIA exhibit at the War Memorial in Milwaukee. It was very powerful.

I saw a number of friendly faces including many of my Trump supporter friends. 

I wondered how they reconciled celebrating a POW exhibit with Trump's:

"He's (John McCain) not a war hero...He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

Literally the entire event was people in tears celebrating POWs and half of them are going to vote Trump. 

I come from a very deep military family, it blows my mind that any veteran can vote for him.  It seems unconscionable.

After witnessing our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the woke transformation of our military and a confusing back and forth foreign policy re Israel, Iran and the entire region many of our military past and present could never vote for Biden either. I know I couldn't vote for either of them.

I'd be interested in the polling of vets and current members of the military. My guess would be that Trump is solidly ahead of Biden but it's only a guess.

[Scoop Snoop]

Ten years from now, the 90th commemoration of D-Day may involve a few survivors arriving all in one car with seat space for two or three more people. Among today's 98-year-old vets, there might be 2 or 3 who live to 108. It's rare for men to live that long. This year was very much of a final farewell in terms of 10-year anniversaries.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Not taking shots at anyone specifically here, but I think many people are often misguided or mistaken about the foreign perceptions of Americans, especially among the older generations.  Through plenty of interactions and experiences in Europe and with Europeans in places like HK, Singapore, and elsewhere, the majority of negative American sentiment is from combative millenial types and pushback against loud arrogant American tourists.

Older Belgians/Dutch, who I spent weeks with annually, particularly are fond of America/Americans.  Obviously YMMV but I usually comeback from trips abroad feeling more positive about the US and our perception than you'd think from conversations domestically.

My experience is similar.  Most of my travels in Europe or Asia I have seen nothing but positive feelings towards Americans.

My daughter and I were very aggravated in Bayeux, Normandy.  We were eating dinner on a Monday night.  Most restaurants in France are closed on Mondays, so you have limited options to begin with.  The food was great and service was very good as was the Norman cidre and beer   This one late 60's couple did not touch their food and then was getting heated with the restaurant owner because they said "service was slow and had to be somewhere".  It embarrassed us as Americans especially in a place where they still embrace the D-Day landings and they were wrong about the service.  They could have asked to take it to go since they had a schedule and it was their fault for not planning accordingly.  I don't want to see incidents like this that can tarnish American reputation.

[Hards Alumni]

After witnessing our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the woke transformation of our military and a confusing back and forth foreign policy re Israel, Iran and the entire region many of our military past and present could never vote for Biden either. I know I couldn't vote for either of them.

I'd be interested in the polling of vets and current members of the military. My guess would be that Trump is solidly ahead of Biden but it's only a guess.

my sides, holy sh1t

[Hards Alumni]

My experience is similar.  Most of my travels in Europe or Asia I have seen nothing but positive feelings towards Americans.

My daughter and I were very aggravated in Bayeux, Normandy.  We were eating dinner on a Monday night.  Most restaurants in France are closed on Mondays, so you have limited options to begin with.  The food was great and service was very good as was the Norman cidre and beer   This one late 60's couple did not touch their food and then was getting heated with the restaurant owner because they said "service was slow and had to be somewhere".  It embarrassed us as Americans especially in a place where they still embrace the D-Day landings and they were wrong about the service.  They could have asked to take it to go since they had a schedule and it was their fault for not planning accordingly.  I don't want to see incidents like this that can tarnish American reputation.

Cultural difference.  Food is an event in much of Western Europe, as I'm sure you well know.  It is extremely embarrassing when Americans act like that, because it only reinforces a lot of the stereotypes people have about USA citizens.

[MU82]

the woke transformation of our military

Jesus was woke.

Also, "woke" is so 2023. Y'all need to come up with a new word you don't know the meaning of to serve as a putdown for all the allegedly lib stuff y'all don't like.

Oh, and for the few still using "woke," it has become almost exclusively the domain of rabid supporters of the convicted felon, which you claim you're not.

[Pakuni]

After witnessing our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the woke transformation of our military and a confusing back and forth foreign policy re Israel, Iran and the entire region many of our military past and present could never vote for Biden either. I know I couldn't vote for either of them.

I'd be interested in the polling of vets and current members of the military. My guess would be that Trump is solidly ahead of Biden but it's only a guess.

Could you cite some specific examples of the "woke transformation" of the military?

[tower912]

Any time I get called 'woke', I give myself a mental high five.   It means I am not displaying racist or misogynistic tendencies.  Woohoo.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Probably some money to the big guy blah blah blah.

Indeed. The only difference is that one played out for hours on national TV for all to see with their own eyes and the other is the fever dream of Jamie Comer.

But I know the complete lack of evidence, the inconvenient issue that Comer's two star witnesses turned out to be criminal foreign agents, and the fact that he hasn't managed after three years to even pretend to be able to bring charges, will not deter you from thinking they are just the same.

Getting you and your ilk to believe that, NOT actually bringing charges, is the entire reason for their performance.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

my sides, holy sh1t

Chicos had me at "woke transformation of our military".

[MU82]

Indeed. The only difference is that one played out for hours on national TV for all to see with their own eyes and the other is the fever dream of Jamie Comer.

But I know the complete lack of evidence, the inconvenient issue that Comer's two star witnesses turned out to be criminal foreign agents, and the fact that he hasn't managed after three years to even pretend to be able to bring charges, will not deter you from thinking they are just the same.

"We've got lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence." - future convicted felon Rudy Giuliani