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Three things you just don't joke about, ever: (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2019 OP
he already said he should get the purple heart samnsara Aug 2019 #1
Instead of the black one he already has? Meadowoak Aug 2019 #2
with bonespur clusters. nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2019 #8
I've got two Purple Hearts. I would have preferred not to get any. n/t Fortinbras Armstrong Aug 2019 #23
Actually, Donald did get a Purple Heart... keithbvadu2 Aug 2019 #3
"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart"..... Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2019 #5
I'd like to think that man realizes his mistake and would like it back. yonder Aug 2019 #12
Piece of shit. mahina Aug 2019 #18
And he's hinting that perhaps a Medal of Honor recipient will hand it over to him, as well. maddiemom Aug 2019 #24
He will end up with one somehow, some way. MontanaMama Aug 2019 #4
You probably also shouldn't criticize Gold Star families gratuitous Aug 2019 #6
regarding number 1: barbtries Aug 2019 #7
No loss there Farmer-Rick Aug 2019 #16
lol barbtries Aug 2019 #21
I'm sure that you've perfectly summed it up. maddiemom Aug 2019 #29
OMG as a kid in middle school, we toured the Hershey chocolate factory Farmer-Rick Aug 2019 #30
Aww...your teachers/chaperones should have made prior arrangements for the park, too. maddiemom Aug 2019 #31
My 6th grade class got to tour k55f Aug 2019 #33
Oh, stinky paper factory, yuck Farmer-Rick Aug 2019 #35
No to all 3... lame54 Aug 2019 #9
I agree with you. Timing needs to be correct and whoever... Lucky Luciano Aug 2019 #20
Unless you're a Republican. sinkingfeeling Aug 2019 #10
Serious question malaise Aug 2019 #11
How? How else? Republicans. JHB Aug 2019 #25
They haven't registered?? n/t sarge43 Aug 2019 #28
Or being King of the Jews mgardener Aug 2019 #13
Don't forget about sexual assault Blecht Aug 2019 #14
#4: A totally insane president who isn't being removed from office. Cyrano Aug 2019 #15
Not a joke. spike jones Aug 2019 #17
Holy crap. I didn't know that. mahina Aug 2019 #19
Nazis, Nazism, white supremacism and white nationalism. Initech Aug 2019 #22
lynching, the holocaust and rape DBoon Aug 2019 #26
Any a-hole who thinks joking about the MoH and the PH is ok sarge43 Aug 2019 #27
Oh, gosh! Medals are as important as genocide and mass murder? Nitram Aug 2019 #32
For sure. Sudsy Aug 2019 #34

MontanaMama

(23,238 posts)
4. He will end up with one somehow, some way.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 11:08 AM
Aug 2019

No doubt in my mind. Even if he isn’t gifted one...he or one of his grifter kids will get one for him.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. You probably also shouldn't criticize Gold Star families
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 11:14 AM
Aug 2019

But for some reason, all those gung-ho Republican types seem to be just fine with their hero and his antics. I've noticed that when I confront a troll online with a specific action Trump has taken (e.g., the King of Israel nonsense), they ghost on the conversation if not the whole board. It's like troll-b-gone!

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
7. regarding number 1:
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 11:16 AM
Aug 2019

don't joke about having a bomb in your backpack at Disneyland either. My niece's ex-boyfriend did that and they were all escorted immediately out of the park.

she grew up at Disneyland and totally loves it (I grew up close enough and totally do not). It was mortifying for her. I think her ex is never allowed back in. and it was a joke.

Farmer-Rick

(10,071 posts)
16. No loss there
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 12:59 PM
Aug 2019

The few times I was required by relatives to go to Disneyland I hated it. The heat and humidity, the crowds, the long, long lines, the overpriced food and water, the overpriced souvenirs, the awful junk food, the cost of everything, the fakery of everything, the annoying costumed cartoon characters getting in your face, the crying and screaming from children, the smell (vomit and chemicals), the endless walking, the stinky bathrooms and overcrowded restaurants and shuttles. You couldn't pay me enough to go back.

So, her ex-boyfriend was probobly saved from an experience worse than the DMV.

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
21. lol
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 02:12 PM
Aug 2019

yeah. i haven't been there since 1998. my memory is of lines and dollars out the door. but my niece, she loves it. go figure.
on that last visit my poor son waited over an hour for TWO rides only to have them break down before he ever got on.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
29. I'm sure that you've perfectly summed it up.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:03 PM
Aug 2019

I've never gone, but am sure that Disney World is even worse. Over the years I've been to a number of (lesser) "super" amusement parks. The bigger and more hyped, the worse. It's been thirty years since I've been the parent of children of amusement park age, but back then Hershey Park in PA. was one exception. You could also "tour" the chocolate factory, but was really just another "ride." When I was a kid in the Fifties, you could tour the actual factory. I do believe all parents owe their kids at least one big super amusement park outing. After that there are school outings as they get old enough to be on their own.

Farmer-Rick

(10,071 posts)
30. OMG as a kid in middle school, we toured the Hershey chocolate factory
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 07:11 PM
Aug 2019

But they made it clear we would not go in the amusement park.

They gave us free chocolate. It was the best school outing ever.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
31. Aww...your teachers/chaperones should have made prior arrangements for the park, too.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 07:33 PM
Aug 2019

I imagine you were already scheduled to tour something else in the Harrisburg/Gettysburg area. There's a LOT of fun/educational stuff to do in that part of PA.

 

k55f

(6 posts)
33. My 6th grade class got to tour
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 02:46 PM
Aug 2019

the Crown Zellerbach paper mill in Camas, Wa.
I'm betting that the chocolate factory tour was more enjoyable.

Farmer-Rick

(10,071 posts)
35. Oh, stinky paper factory, yuck
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 11:10 PM
Aug 2019

Yeah, we toured something else while we were there, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

The chocolate factory was the highlight. And I was glad we didn't do the amusement park. I was a curmudgeon even back then.

Lucky Luciano

(11,242 posts)
20. I agree with you. Timing needs to be correct and whoever...
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 02:00 PM
Aug 2019

...uses such satire must be known well enough so that others know they are in fact skewering evil rather than participating in it (though I guess that is redundant since that is the point of such satire!).

malaise

(267,784 posts)
11. Serious question
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 12:29 PM
Aug 2019

Didn't the Con explicitly state that no money would be given to his sons if they registered for military service?

How does bone-spur Don the Con get away with pretending to give a damn about the armed services?

JHB

(37,128 posts)
25. How? How else? Republicans.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:38 PM
Aug 2019

They picked him and back him at every turn. Some of them mewl and complain, but none of them actually do anything.

That's how.

spike jones

(1,654 posts)
17. Not a joke.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 01:02 PM
Aug 2019

Last edited Thu Aug 22, 2019, 01:37 PM - Edit history (1)

Twenty soldiers that participated in the Wounded Knee massacre that slaughtered 300 unarmed Native American men, women, and infants, were later awarded the Medal of Honor for that action.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/politics/medal-of-honor-wounded-knee-trnd/index.html

People have been trying to do this for years. It always goes nowhere.

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
27. Any a-hole who thinks joking about the MoH and the PH is ok
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:56 PM
Aug 2019

should have to read the citations of those who have been awarded them, especially those who got them hard way, posthumously.

They are not laugh riots.

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