Heather Cox Richardson notes that It MSNBC’s Dasha Burns has asked Trump directly: “Should your campaign have put out those videos and photos?”
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William Lindsey :toad:wrote last edited by [email protected]
Heather Cox Richardson notes that It MSNBC’s Dasha Burns has asked Trump directly: “Should your campaign have put out those videos and photos?”
Trump's nonsensical reply:
“Well, we have a lot of people. You know, we have people, TikTok people, you know we’re leading the Internet. That was the other thing. We’re so far above her on the Internet.”
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
/1August 30, 2024
Trump and the MAGA movement garnered power through performances that projected dominance and cowed media and opponents into silence.
(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Burns then said:
“But on that hallowed ground, should they have put out the images…?”
Trump:
“Well I don’t know what the rules and regulations are, I don’t know who did it, and, I, it could have been them. It could have been the parents. It could have been somebody.”
Doesn't know what the regulations are?! Doesn't know who did it?! It could have been somebody?!
Has the man no shame?
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Burns responded:
“It was your campaign’s TikTok that put out the video.”
Trump again:
"I really don't know anything about it. All I do is I stood there and I said, 'If you'd like to have a picture, we can have a picture.' If somebody did it; this was a setup by the people in the administration that, 'Oh, Trump is coming to Arlington, that looks so bad for us.’"
I really don't know anything about it?!
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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MasterMischiefreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy This is not strength. This is not leadership.
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"Despite the ongoing coverage of the dispute, the press is not digging for answers. There were a dozen witnesses to the scuffle, but no one has identified the campaign staff member who shoved the cemetery official. That is a knowable fact—and one certainly capable of ascertainment by the media. But the press seems to be giving Trump wide latitude on this story. Why??"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans #media
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FallsMom 🟦 🤖 🌻🌴🥥replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
How low will he go? How low will his followers accept?
How long will I keep being surprised?
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"I have come to the heartbreaking realization that the entire corporate media system is now utterly corrupt and broken without the desire or agility to meet this moment. They are willing masochists doing the bidding of a future authoritarian regime that would gladly punish and target them for disobedience."
~ Wajahat Ali
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #Trump #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
/5Trump's Abnormal Behavior Is His Normal Behavior.
Trump has disrespected veterans, potentially violated federal law, lied, and his Vice President mocked women. This all happened in the past week. Maybe it's time for us to accept this is the norm.
(thelefthook.substack.com)
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Richard W. Woodley NO THREADS 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Lawyers advice "just say I don't know to all questions" ?
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Richard W. Woodley NO THREADS 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
Most positive spin of that is "Who care if it was rght, it's working, were winning the Internet" -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Trump has disrespected veterans, potentially violated federal law, lied, and his Vice President mocked women. This all happened in the past week. Maybe it's time for us to accept this is the norm."
#Trump #JDVance #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans #women #misogyny #media #normalization
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Cindy Weinsteinreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy. Déjà Vu.
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bouriquetreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Check the bank accounts of the “witnesses”.
Or interview them and ask whether they’ve been threatened.
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BFSMan01replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Trump. Shame. Two words that should never appear in the same sentence.
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"Let’s face it: we can no longer call the majority of major news orgs 'mainstream.' Their bogus headlines, fear-mongering, and pro-Trump propaganda peddling has wreaked absolute havoc on our society, and I’m sick of it.
From now on, we will refer to them as 'corporate media.'”
~ Scott Dworkin
#KamalaHarris #Trump #JDVance #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MainstreamMedia #CorporateMedia #MediaFail
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"So, just to review: Trump blamed the families, who 'could have' put out the videos and photographs, it could have been 'TikTok people,' or it could have been 'people in the administration.'"
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
/8Trump doubles down on dishonor
I should have known that I would still be writing about Trump’s desecration of Arlington National Cemetery almost a week later. I’ve had help: Trump himself won’t let the story go, most recently at a rally yesterday in Michigan, where after bragging that he was “on time” for the wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and complaining about how hard it had been for him to get there, Trump started in on dishonoring the families who invited him.
(luciantruscott.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"All over the internet this week, bloggers and commentators and pundits have been marveling, once again, that every time you think Trump can’t go any lower with his lies and outrages and moral degradation, he comes up with a new low.
This time, as he has before, he has chosen to denigrate and dishonor soldiers who served their country in uniform, some of them sacrificing their lives in war."
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"I come from a family of soldiers. I was a soldier, my brother was a soldier, my father was a soldier, my great aunt was a colonel in the Women’s Army Corps and a nurse at Anzio, both of my grandfathers were soldiers, and now my son is a soldier. ...
Trump has made this personal. He must be beaten on November 5 and beaten soundly. He is beneath the contempt of my family and yours."
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to BFSMan01 last edited by
@MikeF I think they don't ever appear in the same sentence when it comes to his own view of himself.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to bouriquet last edited by
@bouriquet You'd hope the media would be doing that kind of digging, wouldn't you?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Cindy Weinstein last edited by
@CindyWeinstein Yes — like a Sisyphean cycle he can't and will never break, into which he pulls all of us against our will.