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    Quasar FunkBrendan O'Connor
    7/19/16 2:52pm

    “We don’t all agree on who should be president,” O’Brien told Gawker, “but we do agree on who shouldn’t.”

    I’LL TAKE IT!!!!!!

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      Dave Quasar Funk
      7/19/16 2:52pm

      I didn’t want to laugh at this, but I did.

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      WhimsicalEthnographiesQuasar Funk
      7/19/16 2:56pm

      Truthful and funny. You take what you can get and do whatcha gotta do.

      GIF
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    Dave Brendan O'Connor
    7/19/16 2:57pm

    “He doesn’t actually have any more veterans supporting him than anyone else. Other than the people who go on stage and on TV for him, nobody I know” (mostly veterans of Afghanistan and the second war in Iraq) “supports him.”

    It would be interesting see the breakdown on this. I see Viet Nam vets just because of their age, but I feel like there are healthy dose of Afghanistan/Iraq vets who support him because of socio-economic background and geography: small town lower class whites. All the exposure to the wide world and different cultures means diddly if you run back to the same small town the second you separate.

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      Steve_Buscemi's_OrthodontistDave
      7/19/16 3:03pm

      Anecdotally, I think >50% of my friends (Aghan/Iraq Vets) loathe Hillary Clinton but a full 90% of them would rather sell their spouses to ISIS than vote for, or serve under, Trump.

      This is based on an idotically small sample of 20 or so people.

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      NooYawkDave
      7/19/16 3:06pm

      There’s plenty of uneducated yahoos that served in the military. Therefore Trump does have many vets supporting him.

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    OMG!PONIES!Brendan O'Connor
    7/19/16 2:59pm

    Please. Vets aren’t heroes. You know why they’re heroes? Because they were dumb enough to get suckered into a phony war.

    I like people who don’t fight dumb wars.

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      BDCBOMG!PONIES!
      7/19/16 3:05pm

      I know this is satire...and yet...

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      OMG!PONIES!BDCB
      7/19/16 3:08pm

      And yet it’s only a half step further than what he has already said.

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    benjaminalloverBrendan O'Connor
    7/19/16 2:59pm

    Trotting out the idea of the sacrifice of veterans to score jingoistic political points is cheap trick that must be absolutely crazy-making to vets, who have every right to call it out. I’m surprised that this doesn’t happen more often, because it should.

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      I don't really care, but...benjaminallover
      7/19/16 3:13pm

      As an Army veteran myself, it bothers me to no end. I know both sides do it, I know why they do it, but the conservative chickenhawks seem to have a special boner for those who served in their stead. They love supporting the troops without actually joining them, as if lip service is the same as military service. I have far more respect and patience for my fellow veterans at either end of the political spectrum than I ever will for civilian cowards who wrap themselves in the flag, jerk off to war porn and think it’s equivalent to having a DD-214.

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      benjaminalloverI don't really care, but...
      7/19/16 3:28pm

      It’s especially galling when these same politicians actively work against the interests of the vets who’s suffering they like to invoke for speeches, photo ops, or when they’re dodging questions or trying to rile people up in a vague and macho fashion. A lot of these republicans think “supporting the troops” is publicly pontificating on what country should be bombed into the stone age or mulling over which war we should start next. To me, you don’t talk like that if you have an iota of clue about foreign policy or single ounce of respect for soldiers as human beings. I hear these jagoffs and think that they must see a generation of military personnel and the stability of the free world as a means and forum through which to measure their soft, wrinkled old penises.

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    IskaralPustBrendan O'Connor
    7/19/16 2:55pm

    ““Despite her delicate features and voice, Disney expects us to believe that Mulan’s ingenuity and courage were enough to carry her to military success on an equal basis with her cloddish cohorts,”

    As a proud member of the habitually overlooked “cloddish cohort,” I am glad someone is finally daring to speak up against the “ingenuity and courage” that is ruining this great nation and its military. How can I follow someone with a delicate voice (not to mention features!) as I make my unimaginative, cowardly charge toward victory?

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      pre-emptive sighIskaralPust
      7/19/16 2:56pm

      When will stupid oafs get their own Disney movie? Always the bad guys, never the hero.

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      j4x_IskaralPust
      7/19/16 3:21pm

      In my experience, most non-veterans get the majority of the views from old movies about WW2 or some Vietnam films.

      It explains why most of them believe tactics have not changed since then.

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    LeNoceurBrendan O'Connor
    7/19/16 3:03pm

    On Monday nights, I play poker with a group of guys that consists of about 80 percent retired Marines (the rest being oddballs like me who somehow wrangled an invitation to the game). A bunch of white, gun-loving, conservative guys in their 60s and 70s, in a medium-deep-red state. Last night, much of the conversation was about how many of them couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Trump. Not that they’re going to vote for Clinton, mind you. The most common sentiments were “Gary Johnson, maybe?” and “stay home, I guess.”

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      DashleyinCaliLeNoceur
      7/19/16 3:18pm

      Huh. Gary Johnson wants to cut the military budget by 43% - I wonder what veterans who plan to vote for him think about that.

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      oddfutureDashleyinCali
      7/19/16 3:27pm

      Probably thinking about how much good all that funding did while their friends were dying in Iraq for no god damn reason

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    reggieinatlBrendan O'Connor
    7/19/16 2:55pm

    Trump’s military service. An actual video taken during the Vietnam war.

    GIF
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      OMG!PONIES!Brendan O'Connor
      7/19/16 3:01pm

      If anyone is going to insult the clods, it’s going to be me.

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        Rutherford B. Hayes, caretaker presidentBrendan O'Connor
        7/19/16 3:02pm

        Perry is a friend of mine. He is a brilliant, stand-up fellow.

        You’re doing good work, buddy.

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          AcmeDehydratedTornadoRutherford B. Hayes, caretaker president
          7/19/16 3:40pm

          He sure is. Shining light on dark vile hearts. Have downloaded his debate with Carl Higbie and Perry is the shining star. Yes, good work. Very good work indeed.

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        DisMyBurnerBaeBrendan O'Connor
        7/19/16 6:00pm

        I have online gaming friends who served, and they are pro-trump mostly because they are so strongly anti-obama.

        The real factor on their choice is of course, where they are from. Texans and Florida /Georgia line = auto-hate for anything Obama.

        They also call things in games they don’t like “gay” which irritates me to no end but with online gaming it is unavoidable.

        The are also white, working poor, with terrible health insurance plans and horrible pay rates for dangerous jobs. All of it, Obama’s fault apparently because “he’s a communist who wants to get rid of my guns”.

        Sometimes its’ really hard to chat w/ these dudes because I want to talk about grinding RPG levels, and DEY SO MAD all the time, and direct it all at “liberals” and the “VA hospital” which is also, apparently Obama’s fault.

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