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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAttack Trump from the point of view of an America Loving, Flag waving perspective.
The man's resume checks off every anti-American value there ever were and that's where the most damage can be done.
Just cut right to the fact that the man is a 5 deferment draft dodger who is the self-proclaimed healthiest man in the world but was not healthy enough to serve when his country needed him.
He brags about being a tax dodger. We pay taxes and they pay taxes. But not him.
Most of the people who shipped our manufacturing jobs overseas aren't known to the public. Never let them forget that he is one that IS known. Make him the face of outsourcing.
This man doesn't think that POWs were heroes. They really really don't like this one but the next one...... WHOA NO LIKEY!
This man had to ask staff what a Gold Star Family was. NO NO NO NO NO Jet setting millionaire 67 years old and never heard of a GSF! Really just keep going back to this one pardon the pun but it TRUMPS most anything they can possibly say. Who is that privileged and entitled?
There are numerous pictures of the future First Lady in scantily clad attire. Um no.
Etc Etc
They don't care about hurting a reporters feelings and would just as soon blow up Hollywood as not. They don't care about Trump's policies. They do care about PISSING OFF LIBERALS! Well, the above hammered home at every opportunity is what pisses them off! Of course there are far better reasons for opposing Trump but these are the ones that hit them where it hurts.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I remember when dissing the troops, questioning the generals, calling workers lazy, and being on one's third marriage would be an automatic "no way" from the flag-waving God botherers on the right. Now they've installed the apotheosis of everything they've claimed to hate for the last 50 years.
You can tell when you're getting under their skin, too: As soon as you bring up something objectionable about Trump, like his chumminess with the Kremlin, you get immediate vituperative pushback with something totally irrelevant or fictitious.
Yes yes yes!
There is really nothing they can say if you just keep bringing up the no-no's that they actually care about. Doing stuff that pisses off liberals is exactly what they want him to do. Being a con-man draft dodging troop hating third marriage tax dodging entitled spoiled rotten scumbag actually moves the needle.
phylny
(8,380 posts)compared with the Ten Commandments?
More ammo for my anti-Trump arsenal. Thanks!
eleny
(46,166 posts)Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)Jetboy
(792 posts)Jetboy
(792 posts)All we really need to do is pick off some of these true believers with their own beliefs and he's history. IMO, this is the route to accomplish that goal.
Nictuku
(3,607 posts)Bucky
(53,998 posts)it's never too late to speak up for your values. In fact the time is always perfect
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Bucky
(53,998 posts)I love my country, warts and all. I've studied and taught American history long enough and deep enough that I know that we represent real American values... and conservatives wrap themselves in the flag because otherwise the world will see how unAmerican most of their values are
The guy is Captain Anti-America.
This will either be the Golden Age of Comedy or every non RW comedian will be dead.
All of my favorite things are American and though we are not always in the right, I'm a total baseball hot dogs apple pie and chevrolet kind of a guy. I salute our veterans on veterans day and never fail to post Chuck Berry's 'Back In The USA' every 4th of July. 'I'm so glad I'm livin' in the USA!' I watch the Lone Ranger and cowboy shows and listen to Elvis, Little Richard, doo wop and rockabilly. I believe strongly in the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. I respect our Founding Fathers though I know they were far from perfect, I still revere George Washington and think about him crossing the Delaware. That's why I think I was effective when I came out swingin' against Donald Trump on FB. RWers and I have a lot in common as far as the entertainment we patronize and the kinds of stuff we think are cool like old tractors, Bigfoot trucks and low-brow old fashioned American good times. My politics is not purely liberal but pretty close. I just know what pushes their buttons and have enjoyed doing it just as much as they love pissing off liberals.
A lot of those on our side cannot get away with just naturally being one of them culturally but I can and I look forward to shoving Captain Anti-America down their throats until he's gone.
Everybody can focus on hitting them with stuff that actually hurts. Hollywood, policies and decency aren't it. Wave that flag right in their face!
nil desperandum
(654 posts)I feel like you do and the idea that some of my veteran buddies voted for Trump after hearing him talk about how he'd have been a "really great" soldier while knowing he did everything he could to avoid service while many of us chose service makes me quite disappointed.
Trump's another Dick Cheney style coward, a real tough guy now that there's a zero chance he'll face any actual danger himself. It's always easy to be tough with someone else's son or daughter doing the risky parts. He falls into the same category as that other jackass Ted Nugent another coward pretending he's now some sort of all American tough guy.
They had their opportunity to serve and they chose to hide, so did a lot of others but at least those others aren't trying to convince me today that they would have been a better soldier than I was at the time.
Chickenhawks are the biggest Blue Falcons on the planet...
Stinky The Clown
(67,796 posts)This is how I've been arguing for a very long time.
Jetboy
(792 posts)We all need to do whatever we can to get rid of Trump.
My travels have determined that attacking them with a great big American flag in their face is by far the most effective. The man does business all around the world thanks to our troops and he has had the opportunity to make millions and live a playboy lifestyle thanks to our troops. RWers would think that the man would have the decency to at least know what it means to be a Gold Star Family. But he didn't. Of everything I've posted, that has been the most effective point IMO.
Keep up the good fight!