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Just Don't Vote

Writer's picture: Dan MarichDan Marich


Until the day I die I will never understand how anyone could vote for the orange felon but I've resigned myself to the fact that there are millions of people out there who will do so again even knowing what a piece of shit he is as a human and politician.


I also know that many of you that are planning to vote for this worthless pile of poo would not do so if there was another choice. I get it you hate Democrats with a passion and could never bring yourself to vote for one even as thousands of registered Republicans have lined up to to say they will be voting for Harris over the orange felon.


Here is who has said that he is unfit to be commander in chief. That he is a fascist. That he is the most dangerous person to our country ever. That he must not be allowed back in the White House ever.

Gen. Mark Milley Gen. James Mattis Sec. of Defense Mark Esper


These are military men who never get involved in politics but are so concerned about him that they feel they must do what was once unthinkable, publicly condemn the guy they used to work for. Friends this is unprecedented.


This is General John Kelly. I wanted you to see him in both of his uniforms. On the left as a Marine General and on the right as the orange felons chief of staff. He is regarded as the most honest and fiercely loyal person anyone has ever met. He and his wife made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, losing their son to war. Yesterday a bombshell story came out in the Atlantic that would have ended the campaign for any person on earth not named the orange felon. Kelly was quoted in it for the first time. Last night the New York Times had another story with the same information that included an audio tape of Kelly saying these same things. Here are some of the highlights.


Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, in Texas. The killer, aided by his girlfriend, burned Guillén’s body. Guillén’s remains were discovered two months later, buried in a riverbank near the base, after a massive search.


Guillén, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up in Houston, and her murder sparked outrage across Texas and beyond. Fort Hood had become known as a particularly perilous assignment for female soldiers, and members of Congress took up the cause of reform. Shortly after her remains were discovered, President Donald Trump himself invited the Guillén family to the White House. With Guillén’s mother seated beside him, Trump spent 25 minutes with the family as television cameras recorded the scene.


In the meeting, Trump maintained a dignified posture and expressed sympathy to Guillén’s mother. “I saw what happened to your daughter Vanessa, who was a spectacular person, and respected and loved by everybody, including in the military,” Trump said. Later in the conversation, he made a promise: “If I can help you out with the funeral, I’ll help—I’ll help you with that,” he said. “I’ll help you out. Financially, I’ll help you.”


At a certain point, according to two people present at the meeting, Trump asked, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?”


According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.


Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”


And this.


Last year Kelly told me, in reference to Mark Milley’s 44 years in uniform, “The president couldn’t fathom people who served their nation honorably.”


The specific incident I reported in the 2020 article that gained the most attention also provided the story with its headline—“Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers.’” The story concerned a visit Trump made to France in 2018, during which the president called Americans buried in a World War I cemetery “losers.” He said, in the presence of aides, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” At another moment during this trip, he referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who had lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for dying for their country.


And this.


I’ve also previously reported on Trump’s 2017 Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery. Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security, accompanied him. The two men visited Section 60, the 14-acre section that is the burial ground for those killed in America’s most recent wars (and the site of Trump’s Arlington controversy earlier this year). Kelly’s son Robert, a Marine officer killed in 2010 in Afghanistan, is buried in Section 60. Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned to his father and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” At first, Kelly believed that Trump was making a reference to the selflessness of America’s all-volunteer force. But later he came to realize that Trump simply does not understand nontransactional life choices. I quoted one of Kelly’s friends, a fellow retired four-star general, who said of Trump, “He can’t fathom the idea of doing something for someone other than himself. He just thinks that anyone who does anything when there’s no direct personal gain to be had is a sucker.” At moments when Kelly was feeling particularly frustrated by Trump, he would leave the White House and cross the Potomac to visit his son’s grave, in part to remind himself about the nature of full-measure sacrifice.


And finally this.


In their book, "The Divider: Trump in the White House", Peter Baker and Susan Glasser reported that Trump asked John Kelly, his chief of staff at the time, “Why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump, at various points, had grown frustrated with military officials he deemed disloyal and disobedient. (Throughout the course of his presidency, Trump referred to flag officers as “my generals.”) According to Baker and Glasser, Kelly explained to Trump that German generals “tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off.” This correction did not move Trump to reconsider his view: “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the president responded.


This week, I asked Kelly about their exchange. He told me that when Trump raised the subject of “German generals,” Kelly responded by asking, “‘Do you mean Bismarck’s generals?’” He went on: “I mean, I knew he didn’t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, ‘Do you mean the kaiser’s generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals? And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.’ I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler.” Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel.


This man is the stupidest person to ever be elected to any office anywhere. He is a charlatan, a grifter, a convicted serial sexual assaulter, and a convicted felon. And people are going to vote for him.


I am going to ask you once again. If you can't bring yourself to vote for Harris then please do the country a favor and do not vote for anyone for President. We cannot afford to have this dictator wannabe anywhere near the Oval Office again because our country will not survive him.


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