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3 types of people you NEVER EVER trust. (Original Post)
634-5789
Oct 2020
OP
Maybe with specific draft dodgers like Ted Nugent or Donald Trump. But I consider Mohamad Ali ...
marble falls
Oct 2020
#1
IIRC, Muhammad Ali didn't go around telling other people how to be patriotic. nt.
Mariana
Oct 2020
#2
Nailed it. Very appropriate and true. Hypocrites who somehow grabbed the cameras and are
SWBTATTReg
Oct 2020
#5
marble falls
(57,350 posts)1. Maybe with specific draft dodgers like Ted Nugent or Donald Trump. But I consider Mohamad Ali ...
a real patriot.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)2. IIRC, Muhammad Ali didn't go around telling other people how to be patriotic. nt.
thucythucy
(8,094 posts)6. And he didn't "dodge" the draft
by claiming some bogus medical issue. He made a principled stand and was willing to go to prison as an act of conscience.
Big big difference.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)9. Ali was "the greatest" boxer he claimed to be.
Lochloosa
(16,073 posts)15. Thank you.
mitch96
(13,929 posts)3. I thought it was the Donald type, the Melania type and the Ivanka type.... nt
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)4. Those are all the same type.
SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)5. Nailed it. Very appropriate and true. Hypocrites who somehow grabbed the cameras and are
polluting the very air we all breath. No wonder so many have lost faith in some of our 'leaders' (I hate this word 'leader', none of these 3 have any leadership skills what so ever). Karma, I'd like to think, does have a way of coming back on such people.
Initech
(100,108 posts)7. I'll add a fourth: a billionaire who tells you that he's just like you.
Catcar
(1,356 posts)10. Perfect!
Catcar
(1,356 posts)11. Here's a 5th: a self proclaimed "successful businessman" who has declared bankruptcy 6 times
calimary
(81,527 posts)12. I LOVE this!
My Pet Orangutan
(9,335 posts)13. "Hell no, I won't go"
That's patriotic. Vietnam was a criminal war.
My cousin was drafted. He went and did not come back. Someone came back with the same ID, but 'Nam killed the man. 40 years later, 'Nam took his body, suffering from an inexplicable, 'atypical early-onset dementia' that finished he off.
Skittles
(153,214 posts)14. DAMN STRAIGHT
yes INDEED
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)16. Reduced to one: anyone who says "Trust me." n/t