I thought underpants was more traditional in his case.
That was his “take the guns 1st, due process 2nd” insanity. There is a link to the video in my post above yours.
And while we’re at it, aren’t you supposed to be at attention when saluting? Not just kind of looking all over the place, distracted by whatever shows up?
You mean the losers who got dead, right? And everybody knows that is even worse than being prisoneer’d by the enema – very bad people those enemas! but dead, a lot of people say, that is forever. A horrible thing. Just horrible, I tell you. (cue farting sound)
He is a fairly clever and successful con man- whose cons have finally caught up with him.
Yep, for all the “Clinton/Obama/Biden is gonna take away our guns”, trump has actually done more "gun grabbing’. So far Bidens gun laws/etc have only made it more difficult for crooks, not honest gun owners.
And remember that it was Saint Ronnie who said no one needs an AK-47.
As you say, a civilian shouldn’t be saluting. Even Lloyd Austin, a career military man, knows it would be improper for him to salute:
As for the ‘salute during Amazing Grace’ thing, this post is likely to have nailed it, I think:
I think the President can return a salute given him as Commander in Chief.
I believe that’s correct. A few examples, and an article on the practice, which claims that Reagan initiated it.
https://thedrillmaster.org/2020/06/09/the-presidential-return-salute/
Can, but not required to. And depending on service branch you shouldn’t be saluting unless you have a hat on anyway.
Several former officers who went on to hold office, including Eisenhower, very deliberately did not salute as they were no longer in uniform.
While it is more or less expected now, in some cases, it’s very much performative patriotism on the part of people who only care about veterans to the extent they provide photo ops.
I’m a retired Sailor, I would not mind if a civilian had saluted me while I was in uniform.
Biden did have his own gun grab. He took advantage of Reagan’s closure of the civilian machine gun register in 1986 to ban forced reset triggers by telling the ATF to classify them as machine guns. Since they cannot be registered anymore, they’re contraband.
I’d use the term “cunning” rather than “clever”. But I’m a word nerd. Clever makes me imagine someone smart. Cunning makes me think of someone sneaky and manipulative.
Speaking before a donor roundtable, one which reports are calling a ‘pitch to Jewish voters’, Trump constructs a Holocaust analogy where he (Trump) is Hitler:
Is it possible that he’s unaware that almost everyone thinks of Hitler as the bad guy in WWII stories?
While that’s funny that doesn’t look at all like what he’s saying. He’s saying that Hitler comes about because the president is weak, and he’d be a strong president who would prevent Hitler.
It’s a stupid argument and it’s full of irony but in no way is presenting himself as Hitler.
Joe Biden is the weak President, anti-semitism is the “it” in the allegory, and Hitler was the result.
Who is Trump trying to replace again, and who is he in this analogy: Joe Biden or the guy who replaces him?
I don’t think JohnT was saying that trump did it intentionally.
ETA: but I could be wrong…
Whether or not Trump was stupid enough to compare himself to Hitler, (wouldn’t put it past him and I think his supporters would appreciate a dog whistle), let me just say he needs to stay away from historical analogies cuz he’s sucks at them.
Paraphrased from JohnT’s link:
“You have a weak president and then things build and build, and then you get Hitler!”
I mean like it’s a f****** “Hitler in a box”. You wind enough and he just pops out? Really? And it really sounds like he’s trying to blame FDR for the rise of Hitler. This might be the most assinine thing I’ve seen from him in a while and that’s saying something.