Saturday, September 5, 2020

Tale of competing messages?

Joe Biden wants to blame Trump for blm and antifa violence?

Will anyone buy it?

 

The most damning portion of these videos are the words of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden defending the blm and antifa protests, calling them a necessary revolution, mostly peaceful, and kneeling in support. Biden can attempt to remake history and pretend that he wasn't (until just recently) in full support of these violent protests. But he cannot take away the multiple images of him, Kamala, and most every Democratic leader kneeling in support of the black lives matter "movement".


The reality is that Democrats are tied directly to this movement and they are required to take the good with the bad. Attempting to rationalize their support in some sort of piecemeal message where they support this, while condemning that is simply not good politics. In fact, it's exactly the sort of politics as usual that pushed Trump to victory in 2016.


On the flip side, there is no images of Trump supporting black lives matter, antifa, taking a knee in support, or uttering a single word in favor of any revolution or violence. He has not chosen criminals and violence over the police and order. Attempting to convince people that "Trump is to blame" for what Democrats openly promoted will most likely backfire with most reasonable Americans who are still undecided moving forward.

64 comments:

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He's a pathological liar.

President Donald Trump has vehemently denied reports that he skipped a 2018 visit to a World War I memorial in France because he was concerned about his hair and considered the cemetery “filled with losers,” as the Atlantic first reported.

Trump told reporters Thursday that he “called home” to Melania Trump at the time and told her how upset he was about not being able to visit the cemetery. At the time, the White House said he had to cancel the visit because of bad weather.

Trump said: “I called home, I spoke to my wife and I said, ‘I hate this. I came here to go to that ceremony.’ And to the one that was the following day, which I did go to. I said I feel terribly. And that was the end of it.”


But Melania Trump was not at “home” — she was on the trip with the president and was also scheduled to visit the cemetery.

His whole story was a lie

This confirmed the Atlantic Magazine article about lazy losers.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott, the administration said that the right wing nutcase are the greatest danger much more than a few Antifa unarmed civilians


You people keep saying that Antifa is a great threat. But you don't have a clue.

White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.



Two later draft versions of the same document — all of which were reviewed by POLITICO — describe the threat from white supremacists in slightly different language. But all three drafts describe the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S., listed above the immediate danger from foreign terrorist groups.

Advertisement


“Foreign terrorist organizations will continue to call for Homeland attacks but probably will remain constrained in their ability to direct such plots over the next year,” all three documents say.

Russia “probably will be the primary covert foreign influence actor and purveyor of disinformation and misinformation in the Homeland,” the documents also say.

They are demonstrating in Kentucky today.

Heavily armed militias are being controlled by the police officers and the national Guard troops

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump is the President of the United States, Biden is a candidate

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I don't think that the public will believe your irrational feelings

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump supporters armed militias in response to the mostly peaceful protesters, is a call to arms.

Your emotions have been apparent since he was elected President.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He was NEVER in full support of these violent protests


That is a fucking lie Scott!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump has said that a 17 year old kid was justified to shoot and kill two people

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

multiple images of him, Kamala, and most every Democratic leader kneeling in support of the black lives matter "movement" is not going to change the minds of millions of voters in favor of the President

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Your attempt to discredit the Black Lives Movement is reminiscent with the Nixon campaign in 1968, Law And Order bs

Commonsense said...

He's a pathological liar.
President Donald Trump has vehemently denied reports that he skipped a 2018 visit to a World War I memorial in France because he was concerned about his hair and considered the cemetery “filled with losers,” as the Atlantic first reported.


A lot of people went on the record to say nothing the Atlantic story accused him of was true. Oh that's right you only believe cowardly people who hide behind gullible reporters because they are afraid of "bad tweets".

Caliphate4vr said...

You are insane

Commonsense said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Commonsense said...

Your attempt to discredit the Black Lives Movement is reminiscent

The truth is the truth. They are in fact lead by marxist who do not care about black lives.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott, I think that we face the most important election in history. Not just on political differences. He's the most dangerous President ever.

Dan Rather

Yesterday, I posted the text of the Gettysburg Address and some requested that I read it. I am honored to oblige and share the text again below should you care to re-read it as well.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Nixon said the same thing before

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

September 5th
Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin doubled down on her reporting that confirmed key details of an article from The Atlantic that alleged that President Trump disparaged World War I veterans during a 2018 trip to France.

“I can tell you that my sources are unimpeachable,” Griffin said on the air Saturday. “I feel very confident with what we have reported at Fox.”

The Atlantic article published Thursday alleged that Trump referred to slain American soldiers buried at a French cemetery as “losers” and “suckers.” The administration has vehemently denied the claims, though Fox and other outlets were able to confirm key details.


“Not every line of the Atlantic article did I confirm, but I would say that most of the descriptions and the quotes in that Atlantic article, I did find people who were able to confirm, and so I feel very confident in my reporting,” Griffin said.

The president lashed out at Griffin in an earlier tweet after she initially reported that her sources confirmed details of the Atlantic report, calling for her to be fired from the network, which the president is known to be a fan of.

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) came to Griffin’s defense on Saturday, calling her “one of my favorite reporters. Fair and unafraid.”


“It is always better when people come on camera, but you can see how people get destroyed when they get crosswise with the president when they come out, and so people are reluctant,” Griffin said Saturday. “They’ve seen the language used to describe people and the way Twitter has been weaponized against them, and I think they just don’t feel they need that kind of grief right now.

“What they are saying they feel very strongly is accurate," she added. "They were there, and I’m a reporter, and it is my job to report what I heard.”

Trump attacks Fox News reporter after she backs up key details of...
GOP lawmaker defends Fox reporter after Trump calls for her firing
Griffin also reported that Trump was adamant flags not be lowered to half-staff when the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a fierce critic of Trump, died in 2018.

Trump has previously made comments disparaging McCain, who was prisoner of war in North Vietnam, saying he’s “not a war hero [because] he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”


Multiple sources told Griffin the president “hated John McCain” and didn’t want the flags to be lowered, leading to a standoff, she said.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Fox news confirmed the Atlantic magazine story yesterday afternoon

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/515248-trump-attacks-fox-news-reporter-after-she-backs-up-key-details-of

Anonymous said...

BowelMovementMatters.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He said that he called his wife, claiming that she was at the White House, but she went to the cemetery

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

President Donald Trump has vehemently denied reports that he skipped a 2018 visit to a World War I memorial in France because he was concerned about his hair and considered the cemetery “filled with losers,” as the Atlantic first reported.

Trump told reporters Thursday that he “called home” to Melania Trump at the time and told her how upset he was about not being able to visit the cemetery. At the time, the White House said he had to cancel the visit because of bad weather.

Trump said: “I called home, I spoke to my wife and I said, ‘I hate this. I came here to go to that ceremony.’ And to the one that was the following day, which I did go to. I said I feel terribly. And that was the end of it.”


But Melania Trump was not at “home” — she was on the trip with the president and was also scheduled to visit the cemetery.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.mercurynews.com/in-denying-disrespect-of-soldiers-trump-cites-call-to-melania-theres-just-one-problem

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I shredded your bullshit again

Anonymous said...

From another group post:
"A warning from authoritarian country survivors.
Conclusion: "Let us survivors of authoritarianism warn you. This is not a drill. It’s not a game. It is the real thing. When a spectacular event like the RNC takes place, it is a powerful signal. When kids are groomed for power, when spouses are rolled out to gaslight a country, when the house of government is used for political theatre — all that is telling you something. This is the real deal. It is authoritarian fascism of the absolute and lethal kind. It’s funny, until it’s deadly.

Anonymous said...

Its objective is to murder democracy. To kill off its institutions — the rule of law, constitutions, rights, freedoms — and replace them with fascist-authoritarian ones, like secret polices, cronies, death squads, show trials, mock democracy, power held for life, and dynastically passed on to kids. This is 100% real.
Now let me come back to you. If you’re the sane and thoughtful American, you’re probably equal parts amused and horrified by this spectacle. That’s OK, too. But don’t forget. You’re not the target. They don’t care if you’re laughing at them, the authoritarians. Why not?
The target is the minority of committed fanatics it takes to bring down a society. It’s never — never — taken a majority, from Stalinist Russia, to Nazi Germany, to Islam now. The goal is to drive them into a frenzy, a mania. By sending them all the signals above.
“Wow, one of us can hold power forever,” thinks the Trumpist, watching the little Trumps give their bizarre speeches. Their hearts pound in anticipation. “Things really are getting better!! What a great guy Trump is!” thinks the Trumpist, watching Melania gaslight a nation. They grin in triumph.
The point is to drive the fanatical minority to a frenzy. So that they vote like never before.
Meanwhile, you? The sane American? The bad news is that you don’t vote. Maybe not you, specifically, but you, generally. America has the lowest voter participation rate in the rich world, by a very long way. Just above 50%. That’s barely a democracy at all, if you think about it. And mostly, it’s sane, thoughtful Americans who don’t vote — the fanatics and extremists on the right do. That’s how they’ve captured society’s political institutions wholesale, all the way to the White House.
The authoritarian personality grasps all of this intuitively. They don’t need pollsters to tell them, usually. They just know. That the good people don’t vote. That the silent majority stays silent. And so all they have to do is goad and whip their base into a manic, hysterical state, and then use it to capture power forever. If you think I’m kidding, go ahead and take a look at Iran, Russia, North Korea.
Let me distill the point I’m trying to make. Authoritarianism means “most of us didn’t want this.” That’s the part Americans still don’t get, I think. They seem to imagine, too many of them, that simply laughing at the bad guys is going to defeat them. It’s not.

Anonymous said...

This is how authoritarian collapses happen. All this. Exactly. An aspiring tyrant who’s absued power for years jokes about never leaving office. He builds a dynasty in plain sight. His wife gaslights the nation. The intellectuals have never read a history book — and they appear to have no clue, and normalize all this as just another legitimate kind of politics, through op-eds that glorify it all. But fascism is not legitimate, not normal. It’s deeply abnormal.
Meanwhile, the nascent institutions of real violence begin to emerge. Today’s paramilitaries are tomorrow’s death squads. Today’s phalanx of mysterious men without badges are tomorrow’s secret police. Today’s vigilante mobs are tomorrow’s SS’s, and today’s true believers are tomorrow’s Gestapos.
Today’s “lock her up!” is tomorrow’s show trial. Today’s “enemies of the people!” is tomorrow’s opponents, rivals, dissidents thrown in camps — what did you think those camps were for? All of that is what’s on the cards.
Let us survivors of authoritarianism warn you. This is how it happens. Exactly how it happens. From the aspiring tyrant announcing his intention to stay in power, to the dynastic politics, to the intellectual class normalizing it all, to the still silent majority — America deviates not one inch from the time-tested textbook of how societies collapse. Not one inch.
That brings me to the question Americans always have, to which the answer is so eminently obvious. “But what should we do?” Listen. You have one — just one — barely working institution left. An election.
You know what to do. You know what you should be planning to do right now, with friends, holding each other to account, encouraging others to do, building networks for, igniting, sparking.
You have to vote.
Like never before.
Like your life depends on it.
It does.
Umair
August 2020"

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump and the Attack of the Invisible Anarchists

Lurid fantasies about urban hellscapes are all he has left.


by Paul Krugman
NYT Opinion Columnist

On Thursday morning I walked across much of Manhattan and back again. (Why are all the doctors’ offices on the East Side?) It was a beautiful day, and the city looked cheerful: Shops were open, people were drinking coffee in the sidewalk seating areas that have proliferated during the pandemic, Central Park was full of joggers and cyclists.

But I must have been imagining all that, because Donald Trump assures me that New York is beset by “anarchy, violence and destruction.”

With only two months left in the presidential campaign, Trump has evidently decided that he can neither run on his own record nor effectively attack Joe Biden. Instead, he’s running against anarchists who, he insists, secretly rule the Democratic Party and are laying waste to America’s cities.

There’s not much to be said about Trump’s claims that people “in the dark shadows” control Biden and that mysterious people dressed in black are menacing Republicans, except that not long ago it would have been inconceivable for any major-party politician to engage in this kind of conspiracy theorizing.

There’s a bit more to be said about his claims of rampant violence and destruction in “anarchic jurisdictions” — namely, that these claims bear little resemblance to the mostly peaceful reality.

But invisible anarchists are all Trump has left. To see why, let’s talk about the real issues: the pandemic and the economy.

A few months ago the Trump campaign clearly hoped that it could put the coronavirus behind it. But the virus declined to cooperate.


It’s not just the fact that premature reopening led to a huge second wave of infections and deaths. Equally important, from a political point of view, has been Covid-19’s geographical spread.

Early in the pandemic it was possible to portray Covid-19 as a big-city, blue-state problem; voters in rural areas and red states found it easier to dismiss the threat in part because they were relatively unlikely to know people who had gotten sick. But the second surge of infections and deaths was concentrated in the Sunbelt.

And while the Sunbelt surge appears to be slowly subsiding now that state and local governments have done what Trump didn’t want them to do — close bars, ban large gatherings and require masks — there now appears to be a surge in the Midwest.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

What this means is that by Election Day almost everyone in America will know someone who caught the virus, and will also know that Trump’s repeated promises that it was going away were false.

When it comes to the economy, all indications are that the rapid snapback of May and June has leveled off, with unemployment still very high. Friday’s employment report showed an economy still adding jobs, but nothing like the “super V” recovery Trump is still claiming. And there will be only one more labor market report before the election.

Furthermore, the politics of the economy depend less on what official numbers say than on how people are feeling.
Consumer confidence remains low.
Assessments by businesses surveyed by the Federal Reserve range from unenthusiastic to glum.
And there just isn’t enough time for this to change much:
Trump isn’t going to be able to ride an economic boom into the election.

So he needs to run against those invisible anarchists.


Now, there has been some looting, property damage and violence associated with Black Lives Matter demonstrations. But the property damage has been minor compared with urban riots of the past — no, Portland is not “ablaze all the time” — and much of the violence is coming not from the left but from right-wing extremists.

It’s also true that there has been a recent rise in homicides, and nobody is sure why. But murders were very low last year, and even if the rate so far this year continues, New York City will have substantially fewer homicides in 2020 than it did when Rudy Giuliani was mayor.

In short, there isn’t a wave of anarchy and violence other than that unleashed by Trump himself. But can voters be swayed by the president’s lurid fantasies?


Actually, they might. For whatever reason, there’s a long history of disconnect between the realities of crime and public perceptions. As Pew has pointed out, between 1993 and 2018 violent crime in America plunged; murders in New York fell more than 80 percent. Yet over that period Americans consistently told pollsters that crime was rising.

And with travel and tourism way down, so that people can’t see the reality of other places with their own eyes, it may be especially easy for Trump to pretend that our big cities have turned into dystopian hellscapes.

What’s less clear is whether this lie will help Trump, even if people believe it. “America has gone to hell on my watch, so you must re-elect me” isn’t the greatest campaign pitch I can think of.

And polling suggests that fear is not, in fact, the president’s friend. For example, by a large margin respondents to a new Quinnipiac poll declared that having Trump as president makes them feel less safe. Reactions to Biden were much more favorable.

Still, expect Trump to keep ranting about those invisible anarchists. They’re all he has left.

Delusion squad said...

The Fox news poll found that Trump's approach with the African American is 8%
Trump cited the Rassmussun poll to claim 16% approval.

Thecockless Scott said...

I keep ranting about those invisible anarchists. They’re all I has left.

Kamala Harris Vice President said...

Three years ago today, Trump tried to end DACA and deport Dreamers from the only country they’ve called home.

He failed in the courts, but Dreamers still face uncertainty today.

On day one, Joe Biden will send a bill to Congress to create a path to citizenship for Dreamers and the 11 million undocumented people who have been strengthening our country for years.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump supporters. You agree with trump calling McCain, a national hero who suffered years of torture, and then served our country, a LOSER because he was Caught?! He says the same for the vets buried in France during the WW2. Really?!?..

Pathetic loser Scott

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This is going to piss you off and claim that it's not just!

New York's attorney general on Saturday moved to form a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after being hooded and held down by Rochester police earlier this year.

Killing a mentally ill, naked African American man is just fine with Scott!

New York's attorney general on Saturday moved to form a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after being hooded and held down by Rochester police earlier this year.

Just another dead ******

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

My father was a proud WWII Navy Vet. Trump is a disrespectful draft dodging POS.

Anonymous said...

The leftist here are in full panic mode.
A Joy to watch.

Antifa Hero said...

I hear Antifa subs took out four boats in a Trump boat parade today. Joe Biden has not denounced them.

It wasn't me!

Anonymous said...

Anger and HATE is the Biden Campaign, echoed here by the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT.

Anonymous said...

Roger, I earned a DD-214.

Surely you did, right?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump supporters are now accusing Antifa terrorists of using submarines to sink boats in Trump Water Parade in Texas

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I still have my 4F draft card

Anonymous said...

Unfit Roger.

Anonymous said...

"The 4F classification in the U.S. selective service for the military means that a person is not fit for military duty"

Susan Marie said...

For those of you who have family and friends opposed to abortion, voted for Trump in 2016 and now are struggling to justify a Biden vote, I found a pro- lifer’s post explaining WHY she is changing her. Vote in 2020. Hope you find this helpful. I have shared it with several of my very religious friends and they certainly did.

From an ardent pro-lifer;

“I have felt a heaviness in my soul lately.

For the past couple weeks, I’ve felt it. A weight. The heaviness. So this morning - when a block of time unexpectedly opened in my schedule, I closed myself in my room, read some of John’s gospel, opened my journal, and prayed, “OK, God. What is it? My heart feels heavy. I need to write. But I don’t have words. What is this feeling?”

And I began to write - Heartbreak. It’s heartbreak. And disillusionment. I’ve been here before - so many times since 2016. And here I am again.

I keep seeing Christians say they can’t vote for Joe Biden because of his stance on abortion. I”ve seen Christians proudly state they are single-voter issues - it all comes down to abortion. So they’ll vote for Trump. Because he promises to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade. That’s the one and only thing that matters.

But why? Why is that the one and only thing that matters?

Is that the one and only thing that matters to Jesus? Reading through the Bible, I would say unequivocally “NO.” What does the Bible say directly about abortion? And I ask this from my pro-life heart. The Bible has FAR, FAR more to say about pride, about abusing power to mistreat the poor, about lying, about treating others with hatred, about humility, about seeking forgiveness, about faithfulness -- about ALL of that than it does about abortion.

So, Christians, why are you so willing to toss all of those morals aside? Why are you so willing to turn a blind eye to so many behaviors that are completely, blatantly in opposition to the heart and character of Christ?

When I read about Joe Biden’s stance on abortion, I see a man who has wrestled with his faith. I see a man whose heart wants no abortions and who has struggled throughout his years in public service to determine the best way to accomplish that. Is it by making abortion illegal? (At one point, he said “yes.”) Is it by prohibiting government funding of abortion? (At one point, he said “yes.”) Or is it by supporting public policies that make abortion rates decline? (This seems to be where he’s landed.)

This personal wrestling resonates with me. I have had those same wrestling matches within myself.

Susan Marie said...

Did you know - between 1981 and 2016, the sharpest decline in abortion rates occurred under Democratic Presidents - not under Republican Presidents. The rates especially dropped under the leadership of President Obama and continued to decline after he left office. Most everyone agrees the reason for this is because access to contraception is key in preventing pregnancies. And under the Affordable Care Act, contraception coverage became more widespread. Even though some states enacted new abortion restrictions between 2011 and 2017, by 2017 57% of the nationwide decline occurred in states that had not enacted new abortion restrictions. So there is evidence that pursuing legal action isn’t necessary (or effective) to reduce the amount of abortions.

I am pro-life. I would like to see zero abortions. I also want to honor and value the lives of women who find themselves in the position of considering abortion. Those lives also matter to me. So I don’t believe criminalizing the choice is the best way to truly help those women. I think public policies that offer help and hope -- financial and medical - are the best ways to reduce abortions.

Therefore, I need to find political candidates who will support programs that help the women who are most likely to feel that abortion is their only option, candidates who support making effective contraception affordable and accessible to everyone.

I also want a candidate who values all life. Refugees’ lives. Women’s lives. Black lives. Poor lives. Lives during a pandemic. The lives of people who disagree with him.

You see, when you say you’re voting for Trump because you’re pro-life, I can’t take you seriously. Because Trump has not proven himself to value lives. For the love! - read his Twitter and show me how this man values life.

When you say you can’t vote for Biden because of your Christian beliefs, I can’t take you seriously. Because again and again and again, Donald Trump’s words and actions fly in direct contradiction to the character of Christ.

For the past four years, I’ve been so disillusioned and heartbroken and sad to see so many Christians abandon their morals and contort their beliefs in order to justify their support of someone who so obviously violates every moral and value I was taught in the Church.

Somewhere along the line, political masterminds decided that evangelical Christians could be manipulated into believing abortion and gay marriage are the only two things God cares about.

Friends, that is a lie. You have been hoodwinked.

Obviously, you don’t have to vote for Joe Biden. But you can’t use our Jesus and the Bible to defend your support of Donald Trump.”

Anonymous said...

😃 Thanks that is comedy gold.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The 4F was because I failed the physical exam. I passed the qualification test with a few high score. A much higher score kput'z could do!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

President Trump’s longtime lawyer and personal fixer, Michael Cohen, alleges in a new book that Trump privately mocked Evangelicals and called Christianity “bullshit.”

In the book, “Disloyal: A Memoir,” which was obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its Tuesday publication date, Cohen writes that before winning the presidency, Trump held a meeting at Trump Tower with prominent evangelical leaders, where they laid their hands on him in prayer.


Afterward, Trump allegedly said: “Can you believe that bulls–t? Can you believe people believe that bulls–t?”

“The cosmic joke was that Trump convinced a vast swathe of working-class white folks in the Midwest that he cared about their well-being,” Cohen writes. “The truth was that he couldn’t care less.”

Cohen also depicts Trump as being crude toward women, including inadvertently commenting on Cohen’s then-15-year-old daughter as she finished up a tennis lesson: “Look at that piece of a–,” Trump said, according to Cohen. “I would love some of that.”

https://thegailygrind.com/2020/09/05/trump-called-evangelical-christianity-bullshit/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Retired Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, America’s favorite airline pilot, is “disgusted” by the “current occupant of the White House,” he tweeted Friday in an uncharacteristic attack on President Donald Trump.

The easygoing pilot, who safely landed a crippled commercial airliner in the Hudson River 11 years ago to save every one of his 155 passengers, erupted over a report Thursday in The Atlantic about Trump’s shocking insults labeling fallen service members as “losers” and “suckers.”

As part of his nine-tweet attack, Sullenberger began by honoring his father, who, like him, was a war veteran. “His generation saved the world from fascism,” he wrote. Sullenberger, an Air Force veteran, volunteered for military service during the Vietnam War.

“I have long known that serving a cause greater than oneself is the highest calling, whether in the military or in civilian life,” he added in a following tweet. “And I have always tried to be a voice of reason and to speak in a measured way.”

But “this situation calls for a much more direct approach. It is time to call out egregious behavior for what it is,” he flatly stated.

“For the first time in American history, a president has repeatedly shown utter and vulgar contempt and disrespect for those who have served and died serving our country,” Sullenberger noted.

“While I am not surprised, I am disgusted by the current occupant of the Oval Office. He has repeatedly and consistently shown himself to be completely unfit for and to have no respect for the office he holds,” Sullenberger added.

“He cannot understand selflessness because he is selfish. He cannot conceive of courage because he is a coward.”

He concluded: “We owe it not only to those who have served and sacrificed for our nation, but to ourselves and to succeeding generations to vote him out.”

Sullenberger is a registered Republican

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

As soon a Joe Biden and Kamela Harris get elected for President and Vice President, all the demonstrations, all the rioting and all the protests will cease all over America .

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/515247-capt-sully-sullenberger-slams-reported-trump-comments-on-war-dead-no%3famp

Myballs said...

Someone should clue in sully that Trump never said it. But he's been opposing Trump for three years and wants it to be true. Just like sad sack Roger.

Commonsense said...

As soon a Joe Biden and Kamela Harris get elected for President and Vice President, all the demonstrations, all the rioting and all the protests will cease all over America .

In other words "Nice country you got there"

Thanks, now we know the Democrats are behind all the violence.

Commonsense said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...
The 4F was because I failed the physical exam.


Those bone spurs must have hurt.

Commonsense said...

Retired Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger,

He did one heroic thing relating to his job and we're suppose to treat his opinions as pronouncements from God?

If he was a Trump supporter, I don't think you would be so enamored.

That's the problem when ordinary people are suddenly thrust into the limelight of fame. Their flaw and phobias are exposed and magnified.

To tell the truth Sullenberger is a bit of a pompous ass that in ordinary life is a bit of an annoyance but magnified in the limelight of fame.

Commonsense said...

Multiple sources told Griffin the president “hated John McCain” and didn’t want the flags to be lowered, leading to a standoff, she said.

This is the only part of Griffin's report I take at face value. The feud between him and McCain is well documented and public knowledge.

Commonsense said...

This is going to piss you off and claim that it's not just!

New York's attorney general on Saturday moved to form a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after being hooded and held down by Rochester police earlier this year.


The irony is that they were following COVID-19 protocols.

Commonsense said...

Last night in Rochester, video appears to show protestors "shutting down restaurants" by smashing tables and harassing patrons into leaving.

Harassment and intimidation are the hallmark of the Democrat party.

Commonsense said...

Mommy and Daddy will bail her out and she will never see a day in jail.

Wealthy NYC woman, 20, facing 4 years in prison after BLM rampage
Clara Kraebber worked for Beto O'Rourke's failed Senate campaign

Commonsense said...

Kamala Harris says don't take COVID-19 vaccine because Trump.

Kamala Harris says she wouldn't trust Trump on safety of Covid vaccine before election

Asked if she would personally take any vaccine given the green light in the US before the November poll, Harris replied: “I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about. I will not take his word for it.”

Trump of course can not decide when a vaccine is ready for general distribution. All he can do is cut the red tape and prioritized vaccine development to facilitate development. It's ready when it's ready either before or after the election.

Harris's comments are irresponsible and are indicative of why she is unfit for high office.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I wouldn't take it either

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Not one retired General has endorsed the President

Commonsense said...

Funny thing Alky is with you age and high risk profile for COVID-19, you should be first in line for the vaccine.

Not taking it because Trump is a stupid hill to (literally) die on.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I didn't have a private doctor describe my flat feet that kept me out of the United States navy nuclear power enlistment program for a 6 year enlistment

Commonsense said...

Not one retired General has endorsed the President

Retired Generals usually don't endorse candidates, (can't think of one that endorsed Biden but I'm you can come up with one), so not much of a point.