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Rock Wilcox's avatar

Michelangelo, active military personnel do salute when the national anthem is performed, to the best of my knowledge, and those who are retired as well, as when the US flag is raised or displayed.

On the other hand, trump sees himself as a soldier, thus his reason for a salute. He may be the so-called 'commander-in-chief' of the US armed forces, but he had no right to salute, as he has referred to soldiers as 'suckers and losers'.

trump will be 80 years old, but he will always be a 2-year-old spoiled-rotten brat masquerading as an old man.

Michelangelo Signorile's avatar

Yes, someone pointed that out on my program today. I just added that. thanks.

donnab's avatar

He's a big baby . He said more were cheering than booing....another lie from the liar-in-chief.

Curmudgeon's avatar

Something you said yesterday about Scott Pelley acting as though CBSs capitulation as a result of inexperience instead of a focused effort to undermine the press. That kind of myopia is a very common and goes along with calling Trump stupid to play down the threat is a common theme I see all the time among people who dislike him and should know better. It looks to me like Americans are still in denial that horrible things can happen. Maybe nonvoters think that way too. America will always be fine because we are America and nothing bad can happen to us so just wait it out. Another question you raised about how much Trump voters care about more about their finances than democracy kind of follows the same line of reasoning. Once the economy feels secure they can go back to caring about other things. We aren't a compassionate country and I'm not sure if we have what it takes like Hungary did which takes dedicated voting to stop this evil. It appears a it's best not to frame politics as saving the country a little at a time but you have to promise a big sweeping change that washes away all evil or it's not worth doing. The same thinking process surrounds fantasies of a third party that will, once again, sweep away all evil and the 2 main parties and leave them scrambling. Magical thinking isn't just from religions. To my mind whatever we failed to prevent we have acquiesced to tolerating. Destiny is when its too late change history we get when we don't take the better alternative. History is full of unfortunate destinies. Al Gore wrote "An Inconvenient Truth" Who is going to write "A Preventable History of Fascism in America"?

Old Dad's avatar

It’s time to take this asshole out