General-ly pathetic

My kind of military men...

It's reached a point with the police in America where every time there's an officer involved shooting, within minutes some police officer spokesman is on the air telling us why exactly it was the blind and deaf quadriplegic's fault he got shot 47 times in the back by a cop.  And it's also reached a point where the spokesman's comment is met with either intense anger or a roll of the eyes--and the end result is that less and less Americans have either any trust or respect for America's police forces.

Cue to the pathetic spectacle that was General John Kelly yesterday trying to defend Donald Trump's showing us yet again that he's a cretin without an ounce of empathy in his callous comments to the widow of La David Johnson, who was one of the four American soldiers killed recently in Niger.  Even setting aside the fact that Trump had time to golf four times in between the soldiers' deaths and his calling of their families (beyond unacceptable), Kelly's performance should give pause to every single American.  He lied about Rep. Frederica Wilson (and make no mistake, his comments were meant to appeal to republicans' racist base), noted that there was a time when women were sacred without the slightest sense of awareness that his fucking boss was caught on tape saying how he grabbed women by their *****, mentioned Gold Star families without the slightest sense of awareness that his fucking boss has completely disrespected Gold Star families again and again, and then gets a pass because he's in the fucking military.

If there is any good that can come out of another mess created by the kings of incompetence, it's that maybe finally we on the left can begin to counter the support our troops bullshit that we've been fed for far too long, when in reality it has nothing to do with supporting our troops and everything to do with stifling criticism of the republican party.  And if the end result is the same for our military as that of our police officers, they, too, will have no one but themselves to blame for defending the indefensible.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee