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Aristus
(66,820 posts)during bombing raids.
Churchill called it his 'siren suit'.
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Aristus
(66,820 posts)I own seemingly every book ever published on the subject of World War II.
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Aristus
(66,820 posts)I imagine the term air liaison is probably in there somewhere.
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czarjak
(11,538 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,355 posts).
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czarjak
(11,538 posts)calimary
(81,980 posts)INSIDE the Oval Office!!!
Wonder if anybody planted any listening device or other bug. Wouldnt be surprised.
Fraternizing with the ENEMY in the Oval Office. By his invitation - TO that same enemy!!! Thats sacrilege!
Damn you, donald. You sold us out. And if you werent quite able to finish the job, its galling as hell how close you got.
TheBlackAdder
(28,355 posts)bucolic_frolic
(44,025 posts)cilla4progress
(24,946 posts)better?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Both dudes, matter of fact, given the situations in their home countries at the time.
Seriously who has time to worry about this?
Attilatheblond
(2,485 posts)Something ChickenHawks like Tucker will never understand.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Welcome to DU
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,300 posts)Kennah
(14,407 posts)BadgerMom
(2,789 posts)The worriers are precisely the people who criticized Obamas tan suit. Theyre petty people who are so frightened by and jealous of people of substance who are secure in their own skin that these ciphers lash out.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)judesedit
(4,464 posts)Many in suit and tie are anything but good men. They think they can compensate for their shortcomings by wearing a suit to appear hoity toity lol. So not impressed.
barbtries
(28,873 posts)the only time you see him in anything but a suit is on the golf course.
ananda
(29,032 posts)Thanks
Bettie
(16,231 posts)was too busy looking at the little dog!
But, yeah, if this is the big "criticism" they can just fuck off.
Xavier Breath
(3,793 posts)Hekate
(91,633 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)His wartime presidential "uniform" is a lot more than just symbolic. It's what he wears. This is one of those litmus nonissues that reveals far more than the nothing it is.
I read that this is Zelensky's first trip out of Ukraine since the war began. Since the skies of Ukraine are far too dangerous, he took a night train across the Polish border and then probably a USAF jet accompanied by US fighter and NATO jets. Arrived @ 10 hours later in DC. around noon, met with our president, addressedcongress, then...stealth return to Ukraine via Poland. Zip-zip.
One of our security officials: "Putin and the Kremlin know he has to get back to home."
Marcus IM
(2,452 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,485 posts)levels.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)ShazzieB
(16,973 posts)I really do wonder how much of his shtick is an act. Fake outrage does play well on FoxNews, after all.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,863 posts)Thanks for posting.
PortTack
(32,941 posts)barbtries
(28,873 posts)what i did not know that there was a historical precedent. It does seem fitting that in a time of war, dressing up is totally optional. So much more important stuff to talk about!
I felt that was his message to me. either that or he's just left all that shit at home for the moment.
first of all, imagine if he did dress up and wore a suit. His country is literally war-torn people are freezing and starving. If he dressed up, he'd be hit with the "let them eat cake" criticism. Totally appropriate for him to be dressed down. Any criticism is cynical and fake.
burrowowl
(17,697 posts)malthaussen
(17,307 posts)... he was told to treat the White House as home, and he did so.
-- Mal
NBachers
(17,313 posts)Apparently Roosevelt was trying to come up with a name for the League of Nations-type organization he wanted to promote after the war. When he came up with "United Nations," he wheeled into Churchill's bathroom where he'd just emerged from the tub, to tell him about it.. Here are a couple of historical accounts: https://richardlangworth.com/churchills-naked-encounter
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/mr-churchill-in-the-white-house-1
malthaussen
(17,307 posts)Mr Churchill stayed with the Roosevelts for three weeks, and they were quite informal.
-- Mal
Joinfortmill
(14,789 posts)musclecar6
(1,707 posts)Just a loudmouth jackass who doesnt know shit about living in the real world, or a guy who is leading a country that is at war with a psychopath tyrant. Jerkoff.
Kid Berwyn
(15,597 posts)The GOP cowards are sore afraid of sharing, or paying taxes, or admitting their hypocrisy.
KS Toronado
(17,843 posts)Lasher
(27,807 posts)They stopped launching only after launch sites had to be moved due to Allied advances. They then became too far away for the rockets to reach Britain.
Sometimes history repeats itself.
WarGamer
(12,848 posts)The Germans deployed V2 rockets vs England all the way thru 3/27/1945 and the Germans held some launch area until the wars end, targeting European targets like Antwerp.
In fact... the last few months of the war saw the MOST V2 launches.
csziggy
(34,147 posts)So I don't blame him for not "dressing up" for this series of meetings. I do admire him for his dedication and resolve.
Upthevibe
(8,226 posts)Thank you for this post...
kpete
(72,145 posts)peace,
kp
planetc
(7,907 posts)that we finally have proof that Zelenskyy can smile. We have not seen many from his zoom station in Ukraine. Also, I thought he was wearing his neatest set of fatigues and a very clean pair of boots as he got off the plane. Thus attired, he brought the house down in the Joint Session.
Crunchy Frog
(26,752 posts)Glad he hasn't lost his sense of humor.
Cha
(299,191 posts)Not upset! TY
Raine
(30,565 posts)ShazzieB
(16,973 posts)Haters will always look for something to criticize and clutch their pearls about. They will hunt high and low to find something, and when they can't find anything real, they'll take the pettiest thing imaginable and spin and twist until they blow it up into the Hugest Fucking Deal Ever. Just like they did when Obama were that tan suit. Exactly like that.
When I watched Zelensky's speech, what he was wearing literally did not even register with me at the time. I was too riveted by his words and his heroism to notice. When I heard about the criticism of his attire, I was like, "Wait, what?" Looked at a pic and was like, "Oh, for Pete's sake."
The people claiming to be upset about his clothes are all Putin boosters who don't want to give money to Ukraine and hate Zelensky on principle. It's not about about the sweatshirt. It never was about the sweatshirt. Fuck them and the clothes horse they rode in on.
FakeNoose
(33,419 posts)The a-holes are always going to throw grenades, however they can.
Case in point - President Zelenskyy came to our Congress and gave his speech in English - which is a foreign language for him. I'm sure he was nervous speaking in English but he did it anyway. And he nailed it!
Has Chump ever done that? Of course not. Has any President ever given a speech in a foreign language? None that I know of, but Jimmy Carter is fluent in Spanish, so he might have.
I have so much respect for President Zelenskyy and I'm embarrassed about all the cheap-shot criticisms these MAGAts are throwing. What bullshit! What difference did it make, what he wore?
WarGamer
(12,848 posts)But this is ridiculously misleading.
Winston Churchill spent 110+ days at the White House in WW2.
The tweeter did a vast image search to find some where he's NOT wearing a coat.
It's perfectly OK for Z to appear in his "commander garb" but I really hate when people online seed misinformation.
BTW, do a search for Churchill INSIDE the White House and look at what he's wearing.
Aristus
(66,820 posts)He liked to walk around naked. Really shocked FDR. Churchill responded The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States!
soldierant
(7,153 posts)"Give us the tools and we will finish the job."
I don't know how anyone could have msissed it, even had he not mentioned 1944.
But then, I'm old (not old enough to have been alivein 1944 - but almost.)