US Army defends Arlington National Cemetery employee in Trump campaign incident

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-army-defends-arlington-national-cemetery-employee-trump-campaign-incident-2024-08-29/

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dogsnest@lemmy.world · 129 pts · 1y (5 replies)

finley@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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kescusay@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm sorry your parents are so terrible. That sucks.

finley@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
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NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

str82L@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

I literally laughed hysterically at this. Actually scared myself with the noises I made.

MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 110 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung had said: "The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump's team during a very solemn ceremony."

Project 2025 is trying to drag the US back to a time where any woman who dares to question a man, or expresses an opinion not given to her by her father or husband, or speaks out of turn, is immediately labeled as, "hysterical".

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 53 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Oh this makes so much more sense now. The army soldier was a woman.

That explains the whole "mental health episode" excuse.

Corvidae@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Also reverse victim and offender, DARVO.

paf0@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y

The very solemn ceremony that they turned into a campaign video.

str82L@lemmy.world · 89 pts · 1y (4 replies)

He really is quite weird saying that someone who tried to enforce the rules they're employed to enforce was ”clearly suffering from a mental health episode”

Did I say ”weird?” I meant ”a complete cunt”

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Bruh have you heard about that guy before?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_(political_advisor)

He's fucking nuts, and as soon as I heard trump staff got in a fight at a cemetery and accused workers of having a mental illness, I knew it was Cheung.

Calling him a "complete cunt" is really underselling it. He acts like Elong Musk, just responds to anything with outrageous insults and loud noises.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-face-of-donald-trumps-deceptively-savvy-media-strategy

stoly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I can’t believe he’s 42. The photo there from 2018 makes him look 60.

aniki@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 1y

Terrible to himself, terrible to others. Terrible human being.

Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Things you say to protect a rapist.

Rapidcreek@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 1y (14 replies)

For those keeping track, Trumpers have now picked fights with:

-the US Army

-Bud Light

-the NFL

-Taylor Swift

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 1y (12 replies)

You dropped these:

  • women
  • LGBTQ+
  • persons of color
  • the rest of the military
  • Capitol police
  • atheists
  • the childless
  • education
  • people who like cats
  • literally not being mean to people
  • school lunches for poor children
  • Gillette
  • nonviolence
  • democracy
  • the rule of law

The fact that they even have double digit vote share is a sign that actual merit is low on the list of criteria in politics.

mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Don't forget (covered by "the rest of the military") but still needs to be called out:

  • P.O.W.s
  • Medal of Honor recipients
  • Gold Star families
NewtonPulsifer@lemmy.myserv.one · 7 pts · 1y
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Neon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I know it's weird that I'm hung up on that one, but:

Context/Source for "literally not being mean to people"

I know, I know "democracy" should be more than enough (and it is) but I still want to know

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

“Woke” is basically “not being a raging dick to people”. They can’t ever define it because basically any real definition of the term makes them look incredibly bad.

Neon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

oh yeah, makes sense.

I've had my bad experiences in the past with people you'd typically call "woke", namely I've had a person tell me that I couldn't use the german word "Digga" because it sounded too close to "nigga". (I am not making this up.)

But I am very well aware that this isn't what the MAGA crowd means when they call someone "woke" and that there are militants in every group (looking at you, c/vegan). So yeah, your explanation makes sense. Thanks for explaining :)

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

There’s obviously such a thing as taking it too far, but yeah “anything I don’t like is woke” is more their play.

auzy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You forgot the ex Australian prime Minister too

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

And most of Europe. Look, it’s not a comprehensive list, okay?

Tyfud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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EvilBit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It was a while ago back in 2019, but…

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-46874617

DigiDemiFiend@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It is fucking wild to me that, that's all it took to create backlash. That is so incredibly tame.

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Like I said, they’re literally violently opposed to “not being assholes to strangers”.

N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y

In just this last 24 hour news cycle, you can add wind (which causes people not to eat bacon) and sleeping on the beach while on vacation (Biden). Trump is a deeply weird dude.

roofTophopper@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 1y

The guy could graffiti the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and say he had permission from a family, and his people would say it was totally okay.

Etterra@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The biggest travesty here is that the employee won't press charges because he's afraid of retaliation. Either by Trump himself, his mom of rabid cultists, or both.

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Least the bar Is not so low he has to pay for protection.

jonne@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1y

She, and they'll probably still go after her anyway. Hopefully she can still press charges if that happens.

MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 1y

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