#8

The finishing paragraphs of President Biden's statement after he named all 13 victims:

It exposed just how incompetent Joe Biden was as a leader, and Harris, too

One of the gold star moms said Biden and Harris were also invited but they never heard back from the White House.

That's because the President honors all of America's fallen on Memorial Day, the national holiday set aside for just that purpose.

Only an imbecile would fail to realize that their isn't a day on the calendar that some American lost their life in service of our military. A President couldn't get anything else done if they tried to attend ANC for every family's memorial services individually.

Biden, Harris, or Jill attends the return of fallen at Dover and delivers personal remarks to the families. Trump did twice because he got yelled at by a distraught father over his son's death.

And I'm aware that some of these families felt Biden was detached and looking at his watch when they met with him. And I'm not going to dispute what they say. My only question is what was Joe distracted by that day that obviously kept his mind elsewhere?

Presidents can't determine when everything happens no matter how hard they try.

that their isn't a day on the calendar that some American lost their life in service of our military.

...that there isn't a day on the calendar that some American didn't lose their life in service of our military.

#20

False, totally false and vacation worthy imo.

The retreat was horribly planned and executed.
Someone should have lost their jobs. Remember Biden said there would be an investigation on the retreat?

JFC, there have been multiple investigations, none of them able to overcome the manpower shortage that Trump caused by failing to listen to the generals when he lowered troop strength to 2500 before he left office from the 4000 they demanded.

You need manpower for security, and Trump's unforced error left our forces woefully overstretched and outmanned due to Trump's agreement with the Taliban to release 5000 prisoners back into Afghanistan before we left overwhelming the Afghan military forces and led directly to the attack in question.

We also had to relinquish Bagram AFB because of our troop shortage which led directly to the debacle we saw at Kabul's airport.

Because it happened under Biden's watch and orders, he is directly responsible. But this clustertruck had multiple authors, including its leading critic today in complete obliviousness that 65 Americans died in combat during his ignominious administration's reign.

You mean, like this:
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Or is that (D)ifferent?

#25 | Posted by BellRinger

#32

The same BS on the same thread that's already been answered to with facts, not the uninformed opinion of an ignoramus.

That's because the President honors all of America's fallen in ANC on Memorial Day, the national holiday set aside for just that purpose.

Only an imbecile would fail to realize that there isn't a day on the calendar that some American hasn't lost their life in service of our military. A President couldn't get anything else done if they tried to attend ANC for every family's memorial services individually.

#13 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-01 01:41 PM

It all should have just ended there but our garbage media decided to try and make a scandal out of it.

" Ultimately I don't criticize either of them for not attending"

"But I posted a thread that does criticize only Joe Biden and Kamala Harris - simply because I'm so uncritical."

Moron. Look in a mirror sometimes before trying to gaslight everyone with your insolent lies.

#36

President Joe Biden "did a campaign ad at the graves in Arlington in 2020."

MOSTLY FALSE

A 2020 Joe Biden campaign ad featured a May 31, 2010, photo of Biden at Arlington National Cemetery.

The day that Arlington National Cemetery picture was taken, Biden was acting as vice president, delivering a speech and participating in a wreath-laying ceremony.

The ad contained a disclaimer that said the use of Defense Department footage does not imply the endorsement of the U.S. military or the Defense Department.

The public can take photos at Arlington National Cemetery without a release from Arlington or the Army Department. But Arlington National Cemetery's media policy prohibits filming or photographing "if it conveys the impression that cemetery officials or any visitor or family member is endorsing any product, service or organization."

The policy also said the cemetery will not authorize "filming for partisan, political or fundraising purposes," citing 32 Code of Federal Regulations 553 of the Hatch Act. That law says "memorial services and ceremonies at Army National Military Cemeteries will not include partisan political activities."

That fact gets pointed out and Tony Roma calls it disinformation and asks Rcade to kick me off this site.

I asked that he protect the integrity of this site that he owns and controls from unrepentant and malicious liars like yourself who intentional and repeatedly post lies and malinformation in support of a convicted felon who himself has over 30,000 annotated and documented lies.

To repeat:

The public can take photos at Arlington National Cemetery without a release from Arlington or the Army Department. But Arlington National Cemetery's media policy prohibits filming or photographing "if it conveys the impression that cemetery officials or any visitor or FAMILY MEMBER (EM) is endorsing any product, service or organization."

"Biden continually looking at his watch during the "dignified" transfer of the bodies told us all we needed to know"

The US was still in the middle of the withdrawal. Perhaps Biden had a Situation Room meeting that he didn't want to miss. I admit that I'd find this off-putting too. But him referring to Beau was his attempt at empathy and reminding the families he too suffered a heartbreaking loss of a son due to his service in Iraq.

A person would have to be bereft of compassion to complain about this when every story ever written about Joe tells that Beau's death is something he's never gotten over and haunts him to this day. Still, if Biden were aware of how some felt he would have apologized on the spot, not send his goons out to publicly denigrate the families criticizing him like Trump's people did with the ANC employee assaulted and trashed for only doing her job.

Anyone seen Strawbringer's derriere? I think he lost it somewhere in this thread.

We'll be waiting for publication of those "invitations" to the President and Vice President.

I'm sure the families will be posting them any second now. They first made the allegations almost a week ago. Maybe they're having trouble finding copies or something, who knows?

Perhaps you don't understand what "gaslighting" actually means?

Amongst a list of things stretching the length of the universe....

Biden posted a picture of himself at Arlington in a campaign ad in 2020.

A photo taken by an AP photographer in 2010, not a photo taken by Trump's own paid photographer and posted hours later on social media with pointed criticism of his political opponents.

Biden's also contained a disclaimer to any connection or endorsement by the Defense Department. His photo showed no headstone names, no other people, and falls within complete legality. Biden is making no political gestures, as he walks in dignified solitude with his head bowed.

Try that with Trump's grinning thumbs and compare the differences, Mr. False Comparison. Again, with the deceitfulness when given the truth and proper context. This is why I despise your ilk so. You're happily dividing this nation in service of a criminal lunatic.

How do you live with yourself?

Gold Star families who have earned the right to take pictures if they want

Another already disproven lie. This place reeks like Trump's overloaded Depends. The families that invited him spoke at the RNC convention in support of his candidacy, they were not apolitical families at all.

Visit post #44 for the relevant law and stop lying. The Army itself stated Trump violated federal law and written protocols prohibiting exactly what his campaign did.

Lumpers are here having a meltdown over it, going after gold star families

No one is going after Gold Star families - at least have the respect to capitalize the group's name. Not a single families name has been mentioned by anyone on these threads.

What is being criticized is that an already convicted felon AGAIN violated federal laws - including having one of his male goons push aside a female ANC employee rightly doing her job - and he's using the ignorance of those families to defend his own demeaning behavior in failing to show the decorum such a sacred site demands of its visitors.

And by ignorance, I mean the families either don't know or don't care that just because their deceased lie there, they can't unilaterally decide that federal laws and cemetery protocols can be violated simply because they wanted a photo taken.

The rules are not made by the families, they're made by the government, period.

#75

Read this as many times as it takes to penetrate your pointed concrete head:

Suggestion: Change your moniker to Strawlighter. It's a far more honest description of the vast majority of your posts and your favored style. And throw in the Trumpian "I know what I am but what are you" retorts and that exhausts the breadth of your extremely limited abilities of self expression.

Your posts are either strawmen that immediately go up in flames or gaslighting, which you fail to comprehend, confirming your innate inability to express yourself outside of Tourette's-like repetition of already discredited or out of context factoids which you cling to like Linus does his safety blanket.

#79

And how that photo came to be used was 100% legal and drew no comment from the military and violated no federal laws. It was taken by the federal government itself, totally unrelated to any politics or political campaign.

Trump's photos and video DID violate federal law and was condemned by the US Army along with the fact his goons assaulted a federal employee in the course of simply doing the job she was hired to do.

But go ahead Strawlighter, keep digging your hole deeper and deeper. Pretty soon Trump will be in there with you and don't come crying when you're forced to smell his nasty Depends. They smell worse than your reputation does here on the Retort.