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2017-07-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Trump tweets that transgendered will not be allowed in the military - SJW head's explode

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Posted by DarthVader 2017-07-26 09:32|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Well, you now know what will be on the news cycle 24 hours a day for the next week...

Posted by DarthVader 2017-07-26 09:34|| 2017-07-26 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Dear ladies,

For all the integration of females into the service, many have done a lot of good and have served honorably. However, those commanders and first shirts down in the company and platoon level have an encyclopaedia of 'fail' that only the brass has covered up for year. Remember the uproar when the theater commander in the ME threaten Art 15 when the next one got pregnant?* They, the preggies, get evaced and some male gets yanked for the duties (probably making his stateside rotation usually w/family very abbreviated). The Narrative(c) is not just owned by the Left. That suppression of the truth helped lead to this. If you want to serve, thank you, but serve to standards on the terms that the battlefield dictates, because the enemy doesn't care about pols, activists, or your desires in life. Do not endanger others in your ranks because your dreams do not match the reality that is the unforgiving combat environment.

* in olden days a soldier who inflected a debilitating wound upon himself to avoid danger or combat would be courts martialed as a minimum and in the real old days, executed as an example to others.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-26 09:57|| 2017-07-26 09:57|| Front Page Top

#3 I like the part where SJW's heads explode. Anybody got popcorn?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-07-26 10:52|| 2017-07-26 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Another red rag while he prepares the sword.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-26 12:44|| 2017-07-26 12:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Substantial mental illness should be disqualifying for military service.

Profound gender "dysphoria" is a substantial mental illness.

Ergo: Transgenders should be barred.

This is not really about "them" as individuals. It is about unit cohesion, and fundamental concepts of gender identity - "for whom we fight".

Posted by Lone Ranger 2017-07-26 13:41|| 2017-07-26 13:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Maximum 0.3% of the general population. Gotta be even smaller in military.

Posted by Frank G 2017-07-26 13:44|| 2017-07-26 13:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Again, Trump does something to reverse the insanity of the past 8 years. This is exactly what I hoped for! This and Gorsuch alone make him worthy of re-election. A Jacksonian figure with moments of vulgar and crude behavior, plus silly and immature reactions to things he should ignore, he still is doing great things. We cannot let the Lilliputians in the press and the progs bring this man down. He fights! (With kudo's to Abe for the last )

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-07-26 14:09|| 2017-07-26 14:09|| Front Page Top

#8 A Jacksonian figure with moments of vulgar and crude behavior.....

..... but by no means a match for the duplicity, betrayal, perversion, and filth of the beltway. Will Rogers would think him grand.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-26 14:23|| 2017-07-26 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Frank G, yet Fauxcahontas and other SJWs are screeching about what an insult Trump's tweets are to the "thousands" of transgenders honorably serving in the military today.

Somehow I find it hard to believe that there are thousands.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-07-26 15:59|| 2017-07-26 15:59|| Front Page Top

#10 the "thousands" of transgenders honorably serving in the military today

Ah, I wondered about the origins of the expression "come on you pussies!".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-26 16:08|| 2017-07-26 16:08|| Front Page Top

#11 :)

Posted by BrerRabbit 2017-07-26 16:40|| 2017-07-26 16:40|| Front Page Top

#12 If nobody knows - ie. they can do the job ad use the existing facilities without causing unit disruption - then nobody cares. Trump's tweets apply to the other 99.7% of them.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-07-26 17:07|| 2017-07-26 17:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Obvious smoke screen. For what?

Posted by KBK 2017-07-26 18:39|| 2017-07-26 18:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Thousands of transgenders? I think not. I am also fairly certain that the number of serving gays in the military hover around and about 2% or possibly less than that. My own gaydar is likely not that acute - but really and for trannies? Dear lord, get your issues sorted out on your own time and pocketbook.
The medical and surgical issues are HUGE. Asking combat troops, or even behind-the-front-line troops to accommodate their particular hangups? This is not the job of the military. The job of the military is to kill baddies and blow their s*it up, not serve as social service enablers for every pathology that comes down the pike.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2017-07-26 20:15|| 2017-07-26 20:15|| Front Page Top

#15 The job of the military is to kill baddies and blow their s*it up, not serve as social service enablers for every pathology that comes down the pike.

At least it was in days gone by. I can only speak for the Army of the 1960's - 2000, but it's been a social petri dish for decades.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-26 20:26|| 2017-07-26 20:26|| Front Page Top

#16 I expect there would be volunteers for the surgery, takers and givers.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-26 22:43|| 2017-07-26 22:43|| Front Page Top

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