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7/26/2017 9:04 am  #1


Trump Bans Transgendered People From the Military

Interesting, but guess who tweeted this last year?

Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.

1:31 PM - 14 Jun 2016

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7/26/2017 9:07 am  #2


Re: Trump Bans Transgendered People From the Military

Just ONE MORE of his LIES to get elected. 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

7/26/2017 10:36 am  #3


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It's a culture war thing


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

7/26/2017 12:08 pm  #4


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I'd like to be there if Trump (ouch . . . my bone spurs hurt too much for me to serve) has the cajones to meet this ex-SEAL face to face:


Kristin Beck, transgender Navy SEAL hero: 'Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy'

A retired Navy SEAL Team 6 hero who is transgender had a message for President Donald Trump after he announced the US military would bar transgender people from serving.

"Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy," Kristin Beck, a 20-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, told Business Insider on Wednesday. "Transgender doesn't matter. Do your service."

Beck said Trump's abrupt change in policy could negatively affect many currently or wanting to serve in the military. The RAND Corporation estimated in 2016 that there were between 1,320 and 6,630 transgender people serving. Many of them just want to serve their country like everyone else, Beck said.

"Being transgender doesn't affect anyone else," Beck said. "We are liberty's light. If you can't defend that for everyone that's an American citizen, that's not right."

Beck is not just your average service member. Born Christopher Beck, she served for 20 years in the Navy with SEAL Teams 1, 5, and, eventually, the elite 6. She deployed 13 times over two decades, including stints in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. She received the Bronze Star award for valor and the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in combat.

"I was defending individual liberty," she said. "I defended for Republicans. I defended for Democrats. I defended for everyone."

In a series of tweets, Trump said the decision was based on the costs of medical services that transgender service members could use. But "the money is negligible," Beck said. "You're talking about .000001% of the military budget.

"They care more about the airplane or the tank than they care about people," Beck said. "They don't care about people. They don't care about human beings."

When asked about potential problems with unit cohesion or war fighting, Beck said those were not issues that would arise from transgender service members, but from leadership.

"A very professional unit with great leadership wouldn't have a problem," Beck said. "I can have a Muslim serving right beside Jerry Falwell, and we're not going to have a problem. It's a leadership issue, not a transgender issue."

 

7/26/2017 1:14 pm  #5


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Oh, Boy!  Would I love to listen to and watch that face-to-face meeting.

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7/26/2017 2:41 pm  #6


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Thinking about war all day long must put a damper on a man's sex life, or at least that's what a recently-published report would suggest.

According to the Military Times, data from the Defense Health Agency indicate the U.S. Department of Defense spent $41.6 million on Viagra and $84.24 million total on drugs for erectile dysfunction in 2014.

Since 2011, the bill for covering drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra for active and retired military personnel and eligible family members totalled $294 million -- nearly as much as four U.S. Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, says the Military Times.

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7/27/2017 5:03 am  #7


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Shiny object. Donald Trump is using American soldiers as political pawns to distract from his ongoing attack on the AG and the rule of law, as well as his own ineptitude.

Autocratic Distraction:  
"I need to pick a fight, and provoke a shit-show."
"Who do my supporters hate?"
" How do I remind them of that hate?"
" How can I make the hated targets angry so they lash out?"

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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

7/27/2017 5:48 am  #8


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Goose wrote:

Shiny object. Donald Trump is using American soldiers as political pawns to distract from his ongoing attack on the AG and the rule of law, as well as his own ineptitude.

Autocratic Distraction:  
"I need to pick a fight, and provoke a shit-show."
"Who do my supporters hate?"
" How do I remind them of that hate?"
" How can I make the hated targets angry so they lash out?"

Six months in, no repeal, no wall, no trade deals, no help from China on Korea, no tax cuts, no infrastructure.
Give the base a bone.


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

7/27/2017 12:54 pm  #9


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Does he just think up these things late at night and never even discusses it with the officials at the DOD ??  

Apparently this is his modus operandi. 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

7/27/2017 2:20 pm  #10


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That's what authoritarians do.

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