Donald Trump’s desecration of Arlington National Cemetery and the Medal of Honor should disgust every American.
On Wednesday, Trump shared several QAnon phrases on Truth Social, including “Nothing can stop what is coming,” “Hold the line” and “WWG1WGA",” which refers to “Where we go one, we go all.” This should disturb and frighten every American.
His unhinged declarations claiming God’s endorsement are as delusional as anything that might have passed the lips of David Koresh or Jim Jones.. It is complete and utter lunacy. Here is what he said in a Tuesday interview with Dr. Phil:
Donald Trump’s behavior is becoming more unhinged by the hour, and his extraordinary accumulation of wack jobs, thugs, and apologists is a clear and present danger to the United States and every single American.
Let me be perfectly clear. Cruelty, when mixed with psychopathy and power, always turns deadly. Always.
Look at this picture of Trump with Corey Lewandowski and Chris LaCivita in the background at Arlington National Cemetery:
Does it not enrage and disgust you? It should.
Donald Trump’s campaign assaulted a federal employee at Arlington National Cemetery, and then smeared her as “mentally challenged,” which was apparently enough intimidation for her to decline pressing criminal charges for fear of her safety.
When citizens are afraid of politicians in America it means freedom is in crisis. 2024 offers a choice. There is one candidate who seeks to preserve it, Harris, and one that seeks to take it away, Trump.
This can only happen if the American people choose national suicide. There will be no escaping catastrophe should he return to power.
The fall campaign will last for 60 days, beginning on Tuesday morning, the day after Labor Day.
There will be 62 days between Donald Trump’s defeat and January 6 when the electoral votes are counted, and then two more weeks until the constitutional transfer of power.
These next 68 days will be some of the wildest, craziest and most dangerous in all of America’s political history. A fascist movement has risen in America, and has fully revealed itself. There is something monstrous in front of us all. The inability to see it stems from either apathy, ignorance, willful blindness or affinity for the cause, which is a wretched one.
Throughout our history different generations have been called to make sacrifices that required their lives, which were laid down so WE THE PEOPLE and GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE can endure. Our war dead are buried in Arlington, and Donald Trump pissed on their graves. Two weeks ago, he also dribbled out some more on the Medal of Honor denigrating it by comparing it to the Medal of Freedom award he gave Rush Limbaugh:
It’s actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor. They’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. [Miriam Adelson] gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman. They’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom and she got it through committees and everything else.
I’d like you to read something that will help understand the Medal of Honor. It is a citation for the award received by Staff Sergeant Edward A. Carter, Jr., an African American serving in a segregated unit. It’s a true story:
Conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty: Staff Sergeant Edward A. Carter, Jr. Distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 23 March 1945. At approximately 0830 hours, 23 March 1945, near Speyer, Germany, the tank upon which Staff Sergeant Carter was riding received bazooka and small arms fire from the vicinity of a large warehouse to its left front. Staff Sergeant Carter and his squad took cover behind an intervening road bank. Staff Sergeant Carter volunteered to lead a three-man patrol to the warehouse where other unit members noticed the original bazooka fire. From here they were to ascertain the location and strength of the opposing position and advance approximately 150 yards across an open field. Enemy small arms fire covered this field. As the patrol left this covered position, they received intense enemy small arms fire killing one member of the patrol instantly. This caused Staff Sergeant Carter to order the other two members of the patrol to return to the covered position and cover him with rifle fire while he proceeded alone to carry out the mission. The enemy fire killed one of the two soldiers while they were returning to the covered position, and seriously wounded the remaining soldier before he reached the covered position. An enemy machine gun burst wounded Staff Sergeant Carter three times in the left arm as he continued the advance. He continued and received another wound in his left leg that knocked him from his feet. As Staff Sergeant Carter took wound tablets and drank from his canteen, the enemy shot it from his left hand, with the bullet going through his hand. Disregarding these wounds, Staff Sergeant Carter continued the advance by crawling until he was within thirty yards of his objective. The enemy fire became so heavy that Staff Sergeant Carter took cover behind a bank and remained there for approximately two hours. Eight enemy riflemen approached Staff Sergeant Carter, apparently to take him prisoner, Staff Sergeant Carter killed six of the enemy soldiers and captured the remaining two. These two enemy soldiers later gave valuable information concerning the number and disposition of enemy troops. Staff Sergeant Carter refused evacuation until he had given full information about what he had observed and learned from the captured enemy soldiers. This information greatly facilitated the advance on Speyer. Staff Sergeant Carter's extraordinary heroism was an inspiration to the officers and men of the Seventh Army, Infantry Company Number 1 (Provisional) and exemplify the highest traditions of the military service.
There is an addendum to the story. Sergeant Carter stunned the white officers when he interrogated his captured Germans in fluent German.
This is what Dr. King meant when he talked about the content of character, and it demonstrates the Trump malignancy and deep moral rot of MAGA.
Character is on the ballot, and despite the sloth of National Review’s Rich Lowry’s corrupt arguments and Palin-like imbecility in suggesting in a The New York Times guest column, that the advantage belongs to Trump, it doesn’t. American freedom is going to be defended by two American leaders that Trump wouldn’t have admitted to his clubs, or sell condos to. Kamala Harris and Hakeem Jeffries are in the same business that Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln were in: the freedom business.
Harris and Jeffries both need to be in charge on January 6.
The choice ahead is coming fast, and there is no going back. It’s time to end this insanity in America by repudiating MAGA, Trump and his entire creature cantina.
Thanks for the recollection of Staff Sergeant Carter. The juxtaposition of his valor with trump’s callous cowardice could not be more striking.
And, of course, the person at Arlington that they bullied, denigrated and demeaned was a woman. If women's voter registration data for Democrats and first time campaign contributions to Harris hold, the women of this country are about to deliver a stunning rebuke to Trump and his merry band of Visigoths.
I certainly hope so.