Trump also said McCain was not a war hero. McCain suffered lifetime physical disabilities when he ejected from his aircraft and suffered fractured arms and a leg. When he was dragged ashore by the enemy his shoulder was crushed by a rifle butt and they bayoneted him. McCain also refused out of sequence release at the end of the war. Keep in mind McCain’s dad was an Admiral and he could have easily stay out of the war. Those remarks and the fact they came from a draft dodger is the reason I have no respect for any Vietnam Vet who votes for Trump.
I don't deny anything you've said here re: McCain, nor did I deny it in my earlier post. I never heard Trump say the words you attribute to him: "McCain was not a war hero"either. I have no evidence any of what you've said is not true, therefore I'll not make that claim. Neither will I make the claim that anyone was a "draft dodger" since I have no evidence of that either.
Yes, I believe Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers. What do you think a jury of your peers is, 12 billionaires? It would have taken just one juror for a hung jury, that didn't happen. Apparently, you must believe all the jurors were Democrats.
A 'jury' of one's peers is a jury made up of those who, in a manner of speaking live the same/similar lifestyle or travel in the same/similar circles. That's not an absolute mandate but it should be as close as possible to the man on trial. In all honesty, how many of those jurists were not convinced by the prosecution that simply because Trump was as rich and famous/infamous as he is that he somehow deserved those convictions. It's done by them playing the same game as when the liberals convince the masses that "big corporations" don't pay their fair share of taxes when the same politicians who make that claim are the same ones who make the tax laws that allow them to pay as they do. But some of us never make that connection ... do you? But they'll never even mention that. I don't know, but seems to me to be some conflict there ... how 'bout you? And I won't even bring up the judge himself and some of the rulings he made. But obviously we have a difference of opinion, and the sad thing is neither you nor I can prove a damn thing either way. We take what we see/hear on news outlets we trust and try to make sense of it all. Although I'm pretty sure one of us is a tad more logical than the other. For example, I see the higher prices of goods and services than when the current admin took over, can you see those higher prices? Jus' askin' for a friend.
Sexual abuse? He even admitted in an interview that he could grab a woman by her Pu**y and get away with it.
Yes he did and again that's
HIS opinion ... did that offend you in some way? And the way that got out is very indicative of what I was saying about how the man has been treated ever since he took a stand in national politics. Likely how he was looked at by that jury, but since I have no proof of that I will not make it a statement. He was basically stabbed in the back (politically/metaphorically) by what/who he thought was a friend/confidant and could make a boast like that ... It's called
HYPERBOLE! I personally thought it was pretty crass, but I've heard far worse than that in a Jr High School gym class. But then I grew up and recognized I had a choice of condemning folks for what they might 'say' in a locker room situation to how they are in real life. There's an old saying about 'those who talk like drunk sailors', and I was a drunk sailor on rare occasion back about 55+ years ago and there were times I talked pretty rough. Not that I'm real proud of that, but I can assure you I've held many, many positions throughout my career that if that were a direct connection as to how I had lived my life would have never happened. I even had a drunk sailor friend who was far worse than I and he later became a Southern Missionary Baptist preacher. Point is that one can't judge a book by the cover, unless of course they're willing to gamble on just how wrong they can be!
And I'm sorry you are so poor your wife can't afford to buy a dozen eggs. I'm on a pension and can not only buy eggs, I can afford to buy guns too.
Oh my friend, I was using a little hyperbole myself there... must have slipped past you. While I'm many years retired with a very substantial nest egg, a retirement pension in the high 5 figures, all my student loans paid off by myself many years ago, relatively newer vehicles for my wife and me, several pieces of rental properties, and a credit rating above 810. I could literally buy an entire chicken/egg farm if I wanted. So a dozen eggs is not a real problem for me. However there are many, many good, hard working folks around this country that do have a difficult time buying enough eggs, milk, and groceries in general for their families that another 4 years of the insanity we've just been through will/can totally ruin some of them. Oh and BTW, I'm still paying that additional 86¢ per gallon of gas that I wasn't paying 4 years ago, and that's down from more than a $3.00 increase in a gallon of gas over the past 3.5 years. It almost seems unfair for you and me to be able to "afford to buy guns" when so many are having a hard time feeding their families, don't you think?
You cast your ballot and I'll cast my ballot. Regardless of who wins, it won't affect my life much. I will continue to travel and enjoy shooting my guns. I like that my investments increased by 36% since 2021 and even my CD's are now earning 5% annually. My life has been very good through all the Democratic and Republican administrations.
Au contraire my friend my friend ... If one of these candidates gets into office, it will definitely affect your life a lot more than you realize. In fact you have no idea yet just what this one side will/can do to this country in another 4 years. This past <4 years has brought this country closer to socialism than it has ever been in my long lifetime ... and that ain't a good thing. You'll have to decide which candidate that is. On the other hand if the other candidate is elected, there will likely be a cleansing of at least some of the corruption so deep seated in our government (deep state, and oh yes it exists) that it just might give the good ol' USA enough breathing room to recover from what it has suffered. It won't be a perfect 4 years by everyone's measure, but until and unless you can see the other option, one will never know for sure except that it didn't continue to get worse. I didn't respond to you to cause an argument, but to just offer a couple different points of view. I think I did it with respect and honesty. I'm going to agree with you that we'll both cast our ballots the way we see fit. I only hope that we both can find a way to look at the other's POV for the realities of our lives today. Like---
avg $3.00-$3.86/gal gasoline still today when it was more than a dollar less 3.5 years ago. An inflation rate of less than current (2.5%), (lowest since early in the Biden Administration which exceeded 9%), average prices of goods at >21% higher than since the pandemic recession began in early 2020, and only about 6% of the nearly 400 items the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks cheaper today. Seems a pretty clear and easily definable choice to me ... how 'bout you? The fact is I may not make it through another 4 year administration, but I'm truly hoping to make it assuming the right side is elected. I'd truly like to see the improvement in my country and how far it made it back to the real promise of the United States of America and the American Dream. I've seen how far it can go in the wrong direction over the past 4 years. Peace!
