The Rude Pundit: Imagine If a Democrat Had Said What Donald Trump Said Last Night...

[babylonsister]

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The Rude Pundit

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9/08/2016
Imagine If a Democrat Had Said What Donald Trump Said Last Night...


-- At last night's Commander-in-Chief forum on the decommissioned aircraft carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton offered this assessment of our military leadership: "The generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where it’s embarrassing for our country." When asked about how she would take advice from those leaders, Clinton said, "Well, they’ll probably be different generals, to be honest with you."

-- In an interview about the relationship between the United States and Russian, Bernie Sanders said, "I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin. And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia...[Putin] does have an 82 percent approval rating, according to the different pollsters. If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him. I’ve already said, he is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, oh, isn’t that a terrible thing — the man has very strong control over a country."

-- Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren commented on troubles at the Veterans Administration hospitals, "The V.A. is really almost, you could say, a corrupt enterprise."

-- At a town hall meeting today, Senator Chuck Schumer reiterated his belief that the cause of sexual assault in the military is the interaction of soldiers of both sexes. "There are many people that think that that’s absolutely correct," he said, adding, "The numbers are staggering, hard to believe, even. But we’re going to have to run it very tight. I at the same time want to keep the court system within the military. The best thing we can do is set up a court system within the military. Right now, the court system practically doesn’t exist."

-- Asked about his strategy for ending the United States's engagement in Iraq, John Kerry said, "If we’re going to get out, take the oil. If we would have taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS, because ISIS formed with the power and the wealth of that oil. We would leave a certain group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil. They have — people don’t know this about Iraq, but they have among the largest oil reserves in the world, in the entire world."

Of course, Democrats didn't say these completely stupid, worthless, embarrassing, and dangerous things. Donald Trump said all of them last night. If Democrats had said most of this, the GOP would already have pitchforks out and torches lit, ready to storm the castle and demand their heads on a platter.

Instead, we're supposed to act, I guess, like, "Oh, that's just Donald. He doesn't know much, bless his heart."

We are doomed.

[BlueCaliDem]

1. Instead, our shitty M$M - and host, Kornacki (is he a Libertarian shill??) puts a gold-star mom

on who says that she's all for Trump because "he knew how many veterans committed suicide".

I swear...Republicans are the dumbest p.o.s. this side of the local dump.

[demgrrrll]

5. He has worked for Republican enterprises in the past. He used to give disclaimers.

[TrogL]

6. Actually, he flubbed that

He insisted it was 22/min. Someone familiar with the facts corrected him to 20. He went with the "hyperbolic truth" of 20-22.

[shadowmayor]

7. Per day - not minute

Just to be clear here. Little over 1/2 million minutes in a year, at 20 suicides per minute that would be over 10 million veterans per year killing themselves. True number is somewhere around 8,000 per year. Or ~ 22 per day. Which is still a staggering number. Here in El Paso, we have a large military/veteran population (Fort Bliss is the 2nd largest Army post by area). And after every deployment, we have the now usual sad stories of veterans having trouble fitting in with stateside life and taking their own.

And no, we don't want privatized care for our veterans. We vets want the problems with the VA to be fixed which means more money, more doctors, and more staff. There was no shortage of cash when we were carrying M-16's, but once we're home, it's somehow a permanent shortage of funds. And Rummy said no more than 6 months and a few billion dollars would take care of the whole invasion.

[okieinpain]

2. ah, just being there.

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[apcalc]

3. Or a woman

If Hillary was as incompetent as Trump she'd not have a chance.

[kacekwl]

4. It doesn't matter

this idiot Trump is here to stay and if we don't vote and help everyone we know to vote we see the consequences of allowing him to win.