YOU get a medal! And YOU get a medal! Look under your seat, there’s a bonus medal hidden somewhere!
Wasn’t he tryna sell us stuff? Trump rx, Trump accts, I half expected him to whip out a Trump Bible or a Trump watch.
The top is velvet,
The crown is ermine,
The nape is blue,
And the sideburns are a lovely shade of green.
Maybe I’m wooshed but why would MAGA care about there being any wall on Mexico’s southern border? Or is the challenge of geographical irrational exuberance becoming more widespread?
I didn’t notice the Julius Caesar showing—bravo, they really are, er, sticking it to him! (And the beauty part is that it’s way too subtle for him to get.)
I need to catch up with reading the rest of this thread, but: I didn’t watch, but did flip over a couple of times to see how many empty seats there were on the Democratic side (not many; I heard “35” as the number who didn’t show) and whether Donald would start actually foaming at the mouth. If he did, my brief views weren’t enough to catch it.
Word is that Donald won’t have won over any new fans.
Immigrants from South and Central America usually pass through Mexico to get here. A lot of conservatives think America’s immigration issues would be substantially improved if Mexico closed its southern border to these immigrants, instead of letting them pass through Mexico to get to the US. “Mexico has a wall on its southern border, but they refuse to use it,” is just further scapegoating of Mexico.
Not whooshed. During trump’s first regime, people would defend trump building the Best Wall by arguing that Mexico has one on their southern border, so there’s nothing wrong with us making one. It was such a common argument that they all had to be getting it from somewhere (probably Russia, but who can say).
eta: It was also a inherently stupid argument, because, if Mexico DID have a wall on their southern border, it obviously wasn’t very effective, what with the caravans of millions of people coming up.
Too bad something like this didn’t happen.
It’s apparently a pretty involved process, here is a page explaining it.
https://www.cmohs.org/news-events/blog/how-is-the-medal-of-honor-awarded/
And here is a chart showing the process.
It isn’t something like the Presidential Medal of Freedom he can award to anyone he wants as a prop.
On the other hand, I’m sure as POTUS he can send pressure down all the way to the bottom through the chain of command to ensure the military follows along, and if Congress does whatever he asks they won’t object either. So it can be political theater, it’s just a really bureaucratic thing.
And I understand your objections, as stated on that page:
The Medal is authorized for any military service member who “distinguishes himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:
- While engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;
- While engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or
- While serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.”
The US was 100% a belligerent party, Venezuela is not an enemy of the US, and the force was only opposing the US because they were invading them unlawfully. By the criteria set for this award, this man didn’t earn it, regardless of the personal effort and sacrifice he made.
It was definitely an unusual choice given the history of the medal and (in my opinion) cheapens it.
He’s a one-man rainbow coalition!
They’re just as much a partner of the US occupation as the Irish were of the British or the Philippiines of the Americans. (Oops! Did I bring up another one of America’s disastrous colonial attempts?)
I understand “crazy eyes”, but what is “patel”?
I’m finding the felon’s whole narration about the event bullshit. As I mentioned when he uttered it, that’s a gross violation of OPSEC (Operations Security). Instead of a medal, he should be prosecuted.
If I recall correctly, most of the foreign nationals in the United States without a visa actually had one, entered via airplane, and overstayed their visa. The “caravans” of people crossing over the southern border constitute a much smaller number.
Of course not. He hasn’t been blowing up boats which could possibly be smuggling those drugs into the country. This is simply murder porn to get the magaflatearthers into yet another orgiastic thrall in support of him.
Why not? We have a marionette president.
As always, of course, that bullshit is not original with him. I’ve long been disgusted with the hijacking of graduations, class time, and even weddings by military members returning from deployments. First off, just do your duty. Second, why are you pulling attention away from the people who are supposed to be he stars of those events?
He’s copying Oprah. How woke! 
In other words: a peacock strutting around as if to say "look at me!*
They don’t particulary care about it other than to use it as an excuse for America to “do the same thing”.
My logic meter just ran away. I think it’s going to hit lightspeed in the time between the felon’s xits. You cannot not use a wall. A door, on the other hand, is a different matter.
He’s so woke. But why, then, does he keep falling asleep in public?
The last name of the guy with crazy eyes. The guy who runs the FBI as Trump’s personal thugs.
Before that, he was a lawyer, an aide to Devin Nunes (yes, the cow guy who runs Truth Social), and he ran an organization to raise money for the defense of Jan 6 insurrectionists. He’s done a lot of bad shit.
And he was partying with the US Men’s Hockey Team, which is super appropriate for the FBI Director.
Oh, that Patel. The lack of capitalization threw me off. That’s more crazy eyed than the character Susan Warrenn in Orange is the New Black.
Kash Patel. He of the crazy eyes.
Weelllll, I gerally don’t cap the names of the regime. People here have complained about “cutesy” nick names so it’s my way of not according them respect. However, the unqualified top official of our country has sort of ruined that strategy me. Now I have to rethink it. 
'Saright. I tried to get my “meatspace” friends to stop calling the powerful cards in card games “trump” and go with “mighty” instead. Sadly, it got no traction.
Patel constantly looks like he’s just been shown the unredacted Epstein files for the very first time.
Or someone barfed just before the camera snapped.
It’s been done.
He wishes that he had Homer Simpson’s professionalism and integrity.