He’s an ass, and not an IDF soldier, but he did lose both legs to an IED in Afghanistan.
The service I can respect, but not the dressing up as something he’s not. In fact, it seems as if he better than any nonserving civilian should understand how wrong that is.
Rapey McForehead is sick and tired of his actions having consequences.
Loser Donald says Bill Barr, Mitt Romney, and Paul Ryan are cannibals who are plotting against him.
Okay, have a lot of people never heard the term “Eat their young”?
Maybe it’s because I grew up with a nurse for a mother that I know this phrase?
It’s a special case of the “eating their own” phrase that is apparently more common. It’s not just turning on people on your own side, it’s turning on new, up-and-coming people on your own side. It this case, it’s the older GOP members turning on the generally younger MAGA people like MTG and Gaetz.
I think you mean Boebert. Empty Greene turns 50 next year.
If you’re younger than me, you’re young! 
There are lots of cases in the animal world of mother animals literally eating their young. “Sows eating their farrow” has become proverbial (James Joyce in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), albeit not as common as “eating their young”.
I used to think it was grotesque that mother guppies often ate their young, until I kept tropical fish and ended up with a tank full of guppies. The problem is that mama guppies don’t eat enough of their fry.
Oh, yeah, this is a bed, bad thing.
Dan
I didn’t say it was a bad thing or a good thing, I’m just pointing out that it’s an actual thing.
Yup. Gaetz, MTG, etal are trying to out evil them. That makes Board of Directors of evil look bad.
I guess I should re-examine my refusal to add smilies (snarkies, smirkies) when I want to be a smartass - to explain my apparent failure of a joke, “bad, bad” doesn’t mean “aw, poor little trumplets”.
If ya gotta explain 'em, they didn’t work.
Dan
I’ve only ever known that phrase as a literal thing. I still remember being in grade school science class and learning about it because we happened to see one of the hamsters eating it’s babies.
I didn’t know there was any meaning beyond that, but it sounds like it’s akin to ‘gatekeeping’. At least from the point of view of people having the mindset of “I’m going to do what I can to prevent you from rising up to my level until you’ve endured the same hardships as I did to get here”.
In any case, I happened to run across the phrase just yesterday as it was somehow connected to this picture.
I think it’s well known. Google ngram has “eat their young” at around the same frequency as “swallow their pride” (an unrelated idiom as a frequency benchmark). No difference between US corpus and British corpus.
As you suggest, “eat their own” is streets ahead at about 6X more frequent.
But if you google it, you’ll find all sorts of stories about Trump saying it, with lots of them saying it’s some kind of bizarre slip, and suggesting that he thinks they’re literally eating babies. It’s a ridiculous over-the-top reaction to what is, to my mind, a very small slip, if it even was a slip (some are suggesting that the teleprompter said “eat their own”, and he mis-read it as “young”. So a slip, but not a big one, and it still made sense in context).
Trump has said enough actually weird shit that it boggles my mind that some people seem to be going out of their way try to to manufacture even more weird stuff.
Given his recent claim that he’s been endorsed by Hannibal Lecter, are we sure he didn’t mean it literally?
Well, that’s always a possibility, I suppose, but I think we’d need more evidence. Like a book entitled, “To Serve the Young”, or something.
ETA: or a heavily annotated copy of “A Modest Proposal”, in which he makes it clear he doesn’t understand satire.
You’re right, it wasn’t surprising that maybe one guy at Meidas Touch didn’t know the expression, but I’m seeing similar comments from Daily Mail, MSNBC, etc. Is it that one source that didn’t know the idiom commented that it’s a weird thing to say, and others are regurgitating that uncritically because they are so eager to dump on Trump? Or do people really not know the expression, maybe a generational thing?
Maybe. But what really drives me nuts in the reporting of this is, they’re focusing on the non-story of the phrasing, while ignoring the real issue here: Trump actually seems to believe that Republicans in general have a problem with “eating their own”, when the party is otherwise notorious for brand loyalty, refusing to disown any elected official for any reason other than that they aren’t sufficiently loyal to the party.
They’re not unrelated, if you’re a lion.
And Trump is pretty much always a-lyin’.
With one exception: Donald Trump can be as disloyal to the Republican Party as he wants.
Of course, to Donald Trump (and a lot of his followers), Le parti, c’est moi (note: I probably got the article wrong).