What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Valmy]

Why do you keep those coins around? We haven't had the value equivalent of a 1 cent coin in decades.

Nobody knows. We waste lots of money minting them. But for some stupid reason the Treasury Department just cannot make that decision. Congress needs to and Congress won't or can't. Why? No idea.

I mean if we are going to continue to have coins the only ones that should be out there are quarters, half dollars, and dollars. Nobody needs or wants those small denomination coins if they still want coins at all. Just my opinion.

[dps]

Sounds like we need another war.

I have a list of potential adversaries.+

If we want to go by who deserves it most, the list is headed by Iran.

If we want to go by who should give us an easy victory, the list is headed by Belgium.  We'd certainly have the advantage of surprise.

[Habbaku]

The Saudis deserve it more than Iran, but otherwise I'm with you. Those lousy Belgs will never see it coming.

[Razgovory]

Sounds like we need another war.

Or we could just stop worshiping the military.

[viper37]

If we want to go by who should give us an easy victory, the list is headed by Belgium.  We'd certainly have the advantage of surprise.

With a military base in Germany, you could even re-use some older invasion plans!

[Sheilbh]

I can see how in the Trumpiverse backing the badass SEAL who's only crime was a harmless selfie with a dirty Mooslim, over the pencil necked Secretary of the Navy, plays pretty well.

What I'm more surprised by is how his comment that only pussies get PTSD hasn't created the tiniest bit of stir.

The further we get away from the era when ordinary citizens had first hand experience of war, the more distorted the popular views of it are going to become and the more perceptions of the military and the military experience become wrapped up in fantasy. The gun fetishism that seems to have seized the modern Right doesn't help.

Same thing here on the military in general. The remembrance stuff is going crazy.

Former General Sir Mike Jackson has commented that he worries that it could actually be damaging for fulfilling the military's purpose which is to go and put themselves in danger and, probably, kill people.

[Admiral Yi]

The further we get away from the era when ordinary citizens had first hand experience of war, the more distorted the popular views of it are going to become and the more perceptions of the military and the military experience become wrapped up in fantasy. The gun fetishism that seems to have seized the modern Right doesn't help.

But the Trump base skews military and military family.

That's why I think Trump shitting on McCain and PTSD cases is causing cognitive dissonance.

[The Minsky Moment]

But the Trump base skews military and military family.

The Trump base is far wider than that.
Also there are many military personnel that have no experience of being in a combat zone.

[grumbler]

Also there are many military personnel that have no experience of being in a combat zone.

Including the commander-in-chief, who suffered the misfortune of having bone spurs for only one day in his entire life... but that day being the day of his draft status physical.

[Admiral Yi]

The Trump base is far wider than that.

Which is why I would expect Trump's comments to impact less than 100% of his base.

Also there are many military personnel that have no experience of being in a combat zone.

In my experience those members of the military who have not been deployed still have contacts and affinity with those who have.

[Syt]

[The Larch]

And that tweet is going right into the presidential archives. Future historians will have a blast. 

[The Brain]

And that tweet is going right into the presidential archives. Future historians will have a blast. 

A cockroach historian? Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive.

[viper37]

Pushing back on rumors that he was treated for a cardiac arrest, he explained he hadn't worn a tie for the tests because he knew he'd be asked to remove his shirt.

"Why would I wear a tie?" Trump asked the crowd. "If the first thing they do is say 'Take off your shirt, sir, and show us that gorgeous chest?"

"We've never seen a chest quite like it," he added, mimicking a doctor's voice, to his audience's rapturous delight.

I think I have... so many years ago...

[Hamilcar]

And that tweet is going right into the presidential archives. Future historians will have a blast. 

A cockroach historian? Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive.

Good reference