This exactly. It's no coincidence that the rise of Gingrich and the end of the FCC's Fairness Doctrine, which then allowed for the birth of Fox News, all pretty much came into being around the same time.
That's bothered me for a long time. Somewhere back there, with the rise of Gingrich, Conservatives acquired really shitty attitudes about their fellow Americans, somehow came to regard us as their enemies. It's been astroturfed right into their heads by a myriad of thinktanks & poisonous political commentary, like Fox.
All those other leaders of nations and dignatories that actually managed to make it must have clogged up the roads.
Any time a president visits a city roads are closed - often with very short notice. That never seems to bother them any other time
Contrast President Reagan to Cadet Bone Spurs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Military_service
After completing 14 home-study Army Extension Courses, Reagan enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Cavalry on May 25, 1937.[33]
On April 18, 1942, Reagan was ordered to active duty for the first time. Due to his poor eyesight, he was classified for limited service only, which excluded him from serving overseas.[34] His first assignment was at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation at Fort Mason, California, as a liaison officer of the Port and Transportation Office.[35] Upon the approval of the Army Air Forces (AAF), he applied for a transfer from the cavalry to the AAF on May 15, 1942, and was assigned to AAF Public Relations and subsequently to the First Motion Picture Unit (officially, the "18th Army Air Force Base Unit") in Culver City, California.[35] On January 14, 1943, he was promoted to first lieutenant and was sent to the Provisional Task Force Show Unit of This Is the Army at Burbank, California.[35] He returned to the First Motion Picture Unit after completing this duty and was promoted to captain on July 22, 1943.[36]
In January 1944, Reagan was ordered to temporary duty in New York City to participate in the opening of the Sixth War Loan Drive, which campaigned for the purchase of war bonds. He was reassigned to the First Motion Picture Unit on November 14, 1944, where he remained until the end of World War II.[36] He was recommended for promotion to major on February 2, 1945, but this recommendation was disapproved on July 17 of that year.[37] While with the First Motion Picture Unit in 1945, he was indirectly involved in discovering actress Marilyn Monroe.[38] He returned to Fort MacArthur, California, where he was separated from active duty on December 9, 1945.[37] By the end of the war, his units had produced some 400 training films for the AAF.[36]
Determined to do his part regardless of physical ailment(s).
D Trump: "I can't go, my feet hurt.."
A disgusting piece of human filth.
Per the WH schedule Trump will not visit Arlington today.
They would've subpoenaed his luggage from Paris just to make sure he wasn't bringing any Dijon mustard back home.Wouldn't Republicans have already drafted another article of impeachment if Obama did this?
Wouldn't Republicans have already drafted another article of impeachment if Obama did this?
Wouldn't Republicans have already drafted another article of impeachment if Obama did this?
Lol. The guy who shuts down florida airspace every weekend because he wants to golf.He was just being thoughtful.
"Donald Trump didn’t attend an event honouring US military dead because he didn’t want to disrupt the traffic in Paris, the White House said on Sunday, as the fallout for his no-show on Saturday continued.
The US president had been scheduled to lay a wreath and observe a moment of silence at the Aisne-Marne American cemetery and memorial at Belleau, about 60 miles (100km) north-east of Paris. The White House cited rain that grounded the president’s helicopter for the cancellation.
The move sparked incredulity among some of Trump’s critics: Nicholas Soames, the Conservative MP and grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, tweeted: “They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen #hesnotfittorepresenthisgreatcountry.”
Nicolas Burns, an American diplomat who served both Republican and Democratic presidents, called the choice “astonishing”.
In the wake of criticism that Trump didn’t instead travel by car, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement on Sunday that noted the weather and “near-zero visibility” as well as concerns that a motorcade on short notice would have required closing roads to traffic.
“President Trump did not want to cause that kind of unexpected disruption to the city and its people,” Sanders said. She also said the trip to Aisne-Marne was 2½ hours each way by car."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...avoid-causing-paris-traffic-jams-says-sanders
What a great guy, eh?
A handy list of on-topic burns:
25+ Pics That Will Make Trump Regret Canceling WWI Cemetery Visit Because Of Rain
https://www.boredpanda.com/trump-cancels-cemetery-visit-reactions/
A real Commander In Chief vs a piece of shit. Trump voters I guess are proud of their hero.A handy list of on-topic burns:
25+ Pics That Will Make Trump Regret Canceling WWI Cemetery Visit Because Of Rain
https://www.boredpanda.com/trump-cancels-cemetery-visit-reactions/
Per the WH schedule Trump will not visit Arlington today.
He doesn’t like nobodies. He hasn’t got time for someone when no one knows who they are.Trump doesn't know this soldier. He likes soldiers that didn't die in combat.
2 days in, still nada from our normal Trump apologists.
They can't even bring themselves to vomit out the WH's lame excuses. Fox News is just ignoring it and running stories about a supposedly crowded Dem primary field for 2020 and LGBT immigrants in the caravan. You know the people even worse than MS-13 and small pox carriers. /s
Awkward...shameful. I hope it rains really hard every time he decides to go out and play golf.
And here, I thought it was because of my ignore list.I guess we've finally found something even conservative trolls can't defend. I guess this is a new low even for Trump.