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Old Vet

(2,001 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 02:40 PM Jan 2017

My friends on DU, Please stop using the phrase AGENT ORANGE for trump......

Ive noticed many using the name agent orange for FUNNY name for Trump, Theres NOTHING funny about the phrase agent orange. I shouldn't have to expand on why.

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My friends on DU, Please stop using the phrase AGENT ORANGE for trump...... (Original Post) Old Vet Jan 2017 OP
Thank you. femmocrat Jan 2017 #1
Femmocrat, Its very personal to me, Using a terrible disease that has shattered so many lives..... Old Vet Jan 2017 #3
What about Canteloupe Caligula? meow2u3 Jan 2017 #2
Agree. nt cwydro Jan 2017 #4
Agree, but the nickname is widely used. Even Krugman used it today: highplainsdem Jan 2017 #5

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
1. Thank you.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 02:50 PM
Jan 2017

Do you have any objections to the upside-down flag? I read that some veterans could find that distressing.

There are plenty of other disparaging monikers for he-who-shall-not-be-named.

Old Vet

(2,001 posts)
3. Femmocrat, Its very personal to me, Using a terrible disease that has shattered so many lives.....
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 06:32 PM
Jan 2017

To describe this insane president is just in bad taste.

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