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notinkansas

(1,096 posts)
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 05:56 PM Sep 2020

Driving behind a vehicle today

with American flags flying off both sides and trump stickers galore on the back window. One of them said 'Vets for Trump'. Really? I find that hard to believe. After the suckers and losers comments? Are there any veterans who could still support him? Is this just mobile propaganda to convince vets that they should support him? I dunno.

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Driving behind a vehicle today (Original Post) notinkansas Sep 2020 OP
Maybe a Russian brought in to help with the campaign nt Wicked Blue Sep 2020 #1
I live next to a veteran hurple Sep 2020 #2
Sigh! notinkansas Sep 2020 #3
I'm friends with a Vietnam veteran. Dem2theMax Sep 2020 #4
I was raised as a Catholic. notinkansas Sep 2020 #5
I was raised Episcopalian. Dem2theMax Sep 2020 #8
Smart lady. notinkansas Sep 2020 #9
Believe it. They've decided that Trump never said that. Mariana Sep 2020 #6
That would be heartbreaking. notinkansas Sep 2020 #7

hurple

(1,306 posts)
2. I live next to a veteran
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 06:01 PM
Sep 2020

Who put up a big trump flag AFTER those comments got reported and played over and over on the news...

Dem2theMax

(9,645 posts)
4. I'm friends with a Vietnam veteran.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 06:15 PM
Sep 2020

He left some of his leg in Vietnam. He brought home three purple hearts. He's voting for Trump.

Why? He's Catholic. Abortion.

notinkansas

(1,096 posts)
5. I was raised as a Catholic.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 06:27 PM
Sep 2020

I remember seeing a movie as a teenager - The Cardinal. Anybody remember that? It shook me to the core. It confirmed something for me that I already suspected - that women had no real value in Catholicism. We were vessels.

I do not reject God, but I do reject the man-made institution of the church. It is faulty to the core. And I do not respect people who think they have an absolute right to make decisions over other people's bodies. They don't!

Dem2theMax

(9,645 posts)
8. I was raised Episcopalian.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 07:24 PM
Sep 2020

And I have seen the movie The Cardinal, although it was some years ago.

I could have written your second paragraph. I am in total agreement.

Quite a few years ago I was engaged to someone who is Catholic. One day we were having a discussion about how we would deal with disagreements once we were married.
(At the time, we were in the process of remodeling the house we were going to live in once we were married. Quite a stressful situation all by itself. Talk about finding issues in which to disagree!)

Anyway, I asked him what would we do if we couldn't agree on any one specific issue. His reply?
"We will do what I say because I'm the man."

That was the exact moment I knew I would never marry him.

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
6. Believe it. They've decided that Trump never said that.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 06:41 PM
Sep 2020

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he gets the majority of the veterans' votes again, like he did in 2016.

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