Trudeau on Rain

[bigtree]

@DEMS VOTE WE WIN @we_dems 8m8 minutes ago

"As we sit here in the rain, thinking how uncomfortable we must be these minutes as our suits get wet and our hair gets wet and our shoes get wet, I think it's all the more fitting that we remember on that day, in Dieppe, the rain wasn't rain, it was bullets," Justin Trudeau

[RKP5637]

1. And we are stuck with tRump. n/t

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Really...nt

[ailsagirl]

24. UGHHHHH

[underpants]

2. NEWMAN!

[Guilded Lilly]

4. The human sitting in the Oval Office temporarily really is a pathetic jerk. n/t

[pazzyanne]

14. Are you sure its human? Just saying.

[tosh]

43. Clearly it's just a bloated orange swamp creature.

Not human at all.

[Honeycombe8]

53. Maybe it melts when it gets wet. nt

[pazzyanne]

61. Yep, you know what happens to witches when they get wet, LOL!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

58. You fools! It's getting away!

[pazzyanne]

62. Love this!

[msongs]

5. sounds like a sly dig does it not? nt

[dewsgirl]

28. It does, I love when other leaders do this to him. He is such a vile POS.

[demmiblue]

36. No, this is from last year.

Still great, though!

[knightmaar]

67. Time travelling smackdown

Our Prime Minister has a number of superpowers. We just don't talk about it since it's not polite to brag.

https://mashable.com/2017/10/31/justin-trudeau-superman-halloween/

[Polly Hennessey]

6. Please Father Time

move quickly so that the terrible abomination inflicted on us will be gone.

[RHMerriman]

7. An actual leader...

God Bless the Canadians. The Canadians who went overseas in WW I were all volunteers, and they suffered heavy losses in proportion to their numbers. In the same way that the shared sacrifice of the Revolution, Civil War, and WW II made the United States a nation, Canada's experience in WW I had much the same effect. The battle of Vimy Ridge, in popular memory in Canada, has much the same sort of impact as Yorktown and Gettysburg and Midway and the Ardennes (the Bulge) do in the U.S.

[pazzyanne]

15. Forever thankful to our neighbors to the north.

Thank you, Canada, for all you have done for the USA! Your support past and present is appreciated.

[karynnj]

8. Here's a link to his full remarks which are great

https://pm.gc.ca/eng/video/2017/08/22/prime-minister-trudeau-delivers-remarks-commemorating-75th-anniversary-dieppe-raid

He does eloquently contrast standing in the rain with the situation the men honored faced.

[bigtree]

10. thank you

...

[Iliyah]

9. I'm helping to take care of a

Vietnam Vet who fought in heavy combat . . . this man in the WH is a disgrace.

Thank you Canada!

[renate]

11. "... our hair gets wet...."

Subtle not subtle.

[Ohiogal]

12. The Stark difference

Between Justin Trudeau and the disgusting lump we are stuck with makes me want to cry. This disgusting cretin does NOT represent vthe majority in this country.

Please tell me why any military members past and present would support this disgraceful orange turd.

[Achilleaze]

13. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief disgraced himself again

by dodging his responsibility to honor America's fallen soldiers. So freaking sad that the republicans and russians would impose this jackass on the USA and the world.

[spanone]

23. while he has troops at the southern border that he used for political propaganda

troops who will surely miss Thanksgiving with their families

because he is donald fucking trump

[The Liberal Lion]

16. I remember when we had a statesman as our head of state

Now we only have a fraud and a traitor sitting in our White House, BADLY misrepresenting all of us (even the numbskulls who voting for him, and the complete asses who continue to support this abortion of a regime).

[lilactime]

17. BURN!!!

[demigoddess]

18. I would love to be a Canadian. They are more human and caring than Americans these days.

[mommymarine2003]

19. I had a similar thought as Trudeau.

I was thinking about my Marine son and his deployments to Iraq where it rained bullets and mortars over his head. He didn't get to stay home or in a comfortable hotel. Or my career Marine father who didn't get to stay inside in a soft cushy place when he was in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. What an embarrassment Trump is to our country. It makes me so ashamed. Tomorrow is Veteran's Day, and I am sure that he will be strutting around like he is the greatest soldier who ever served our country.

[demigoddess]

21. my father fought in WWII and Korea. My dad fought in Korea

I have about 4 or 5 uncles who served, at least one in Vietnam and one in WWII. Can trumpf say the same? Didn't anyone tell him that things like getting wet was part of the job?

[mommymarine2003]

26. I discovered Democratic Underground when my son was deployed to Iraq.

This site has been such a help to me. I am on it daily, several times a day. I very rarely make comments, but Trump just makes my blood boil. I have visited many of those grave sites in France. When my father was stationed in Germany we toured both WWI and WWII cemeteries on Memorial Day. It was an incredibly moving experience. So many lost at such young ages. One of my favorite poems as a child was "In Flanders Fields the poppies blow". When you looked out over cemetery and saw the hundreds of small American flags on each grave, it was burned into my memory forever.

[hostalover]

41. What a thoughtful post. We all are so ashamed of trump, but he is in for a reckoning,

and it can't come too soon for any of us. Such a horrid human being.

[Johnyawl]

30. And today is the Marine Corps birthday...

...I hate that man, and all his cult.

My very best wishes to your son, and your father if he's still with us

[mommymarine2003]

42. Thanks.

My father died 5 years ago this month at age 97. He was a fighter pilot in the South Pacific in WWII. He was on his way to Japan when the bomb was dropped. He always felt that life after that was icing on a cake. My son really struggled after his second deployment (was in Ramadi) and came back with severe PTSD. He didn't come out of his room for about two years other than for meals. It has been a struggle (lousy VA in Seattle/Tacoma but great VA in Portland/Vancouver where we live now). He is doing very well now, but it has been a major uphill battle since he came home.

[Johnyawl]

44. I'm happy to hear that your son is doing better...

...Ramadi was a brutal fight.

A Marine on twitter used the phrase "demilitarizing my consciousness", and I've adopted that as I think it's so descriptive of what we combat vets go through coming home. It took me years, and some therapy, to achieve that.

[calimary]

20. Now THAT'S class.

And leadership. And a noble example being set.

[IcyPeas]

22. And this is how a leader should speak !

[Timmygoat]

27. What was that

About taking a knee by a sportsman - unpatriotic!
Cheeto can out do that.

[Phentex]

25. ...

[Vinca]

29. Now that's a leader to be proud of.

[Pisces]

31. Wow, the comparison is jarring!!

[Pepsidog]

32. Shows the shallowness of rw fake patriotism lead by a chicken hawk draft dodger

[BootinUp]

33. Trump isn't fit to kiss his shoes. Nt

[Ilsa]

47. I wouldn't let trump lick the rain off my boots even

if he had crawled through Death Valley.

[IronLionZion]

34. It's time to trade leaders for a change. Can we have Trudeau

and Canada can have Trump for a bit. Just to see how it works out.

[TrogL]

57. No!!!! We voted Trudeau in fair and square

[world wide wally]

35. Trump is setting an example for his MAGA Warriors.

They ant have a civil war if there is rain in the forecast or anything.

[SunSeeker]

37. A real leader.

[NoMoreRepugs]

38. Still hoping a meteorite hits tRumpy and vaporizes him.

[demmiblue]

39. K&R

[red dog 1]

40. K&R, thanks for posting

[hibbing]

45. Fantastic n/t

[llmart]

46. Dear Canada...

Can we have him?

[smirkymonkey]

48. A national embarrassment.

He has destroyed our reputation. It will be a very long time before we are ever looked upon as a moral beacon to the world.

[samnsara]

50. and how can the world ever be sure that every 4 years we wouldnt get cray cray again?

[samnsara]

49. trudeau was in paris too? i can see why trump didnt want to go..he KNOWS the world..

...would be doing side by side comparisons... and Melania would be doing some checking out too! Shes gotta be so proud of her man.

[bigtree]

55. he went to Vimy

Link to tweet

[nini]

51. That's what real leaders say and know

I am so livid over this shitstain not wanting to be bothered.

But then we all know the enemy in WWI and II are the same people he's aligned himself with now. So of course he can't be inconvenienced to 'honor' them - he would have been on the other side in that war.

[Honeycombe8]

52. I wish he were our President. nt

[Rorey]

54. Absolutely profound!

Thank you, Prime Minister Trudeau.

As for -45, perhaps he was just being considerate. The sight of the orange makeup running down over his ill-fitting suit onto the ground would have been a distraction to the solemn words spoken by real leaders.

[obamanut2012]

56. Brlure!

[Paladin]

59. That's what a genuine chief executive sounds like.

As opposed to the piece of shit we're burdened with.

[demmiblue]

60. .

[debsy]

63. Wow. I can't wait until we have a leader in the Oval Office again.

Dumpster can't even be bothered to hold his own umbrella. The "person" who currently sits in the office of POTUS has no shame, no empathy, no kindness, no sincerity, no manners, no civility, no humanity. Canadians are very smart to have Justin Trudeau as their leader.

[DFW]

64. I have to wonder

Will Republicans see that and realize that THAT is what a leader looks, acts, and sounds like?

Of course not. What Republican would watch that anyway? Their "leader" was holed up in a luxury residence eating Big Macs, watching Fox on satellite feed, and tweeting.

[Murtagh101]

65. This is what I said on my FB page when I heard about the cancellation.

Never, not once in 100 years. 100 years, until now has a sitting US President NOT made a speech at the commemoration of the ending of World War One.
But that changed today. Why? It was RAINING.
Guess what? President Obama did his speech in the rain.
All those troops from not just America, but from so many countries, not just in Europe, but from around the world didn't leave the front lines because of rain.
So I don't want to hear how this current President supports the troops and the military. I don't want him making comments on anyone kneeling or protesting.
He just spit on the grave of thousands and thousands of American soldiers and millions more from other countries because it was RAINING.
If your a veteran of the military, I'd be very upset.
And please, don't try to equivocate with something else. This is a FACT, it's not FAKE news. He cancelled. On your fallen comrades in arms, those who gave the last, full measure for their country. And don't say "it's France, blah, blah.
Read a little history, France was t he ONLY major European power who supported America during the Revolution.
France and the US have always been staunch allies.
This is an insult to them too, if not just for the amount blood that is in the soil of their country.
Just because it was RAINING.

[blue-wave]

66. A true leader of the free world speaks

Thank you Prime Minister Trudeau for honoring all those who fought so bravely and gave so much.