Wednesday, September 12, 2018

On this anniversary of 9/11, I want to thank Trump for restoring my faith in the American people. I lost it on Sep 12 @ThomasWictor


(1) On this anniversary of 9/11, I want to thank for restoring my faith in the American people. I lost it on September 12, 2001.
10:28 PM - 11 Sep 2018
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    1.  10 hours ago
      (2) Having been born in Venezuela, I always felt like an outsider. I began losing my faith in the lead-up to Desert Storm. The press LIED continuously about our equipment, our training, and the alleged skills of the Iraqis.
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    2.  10 hours ago
      (3) A demented has-been-never-was celebrity here on Twitter called me a "war groupie." He's of the opinion that studying warfare makes you a FAN of warfare. I guess oncologists love cancer. Cancer groupies!
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    3.  10 hours ago
      (4) I didn't want the US to go to war, but Iraq had ANNEXED a sovereign nation. It had to be challenged, or the consequences would have been catastrophic for the planet.
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    4.  10 hours ago
      (5) The way most people failed the test upset me greatly. War is a catastrophe. It shouldn't be politicized, trivialized, celebrated, or opposed for stupid reasons. That was the beginning of my loss of faith.
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    5.  10 hours ago
      (6) Then we had 9/11. My late mother woke me up by pounding on my bedroom widow. She was standing in my garden, yelling that terrorists were attacking over the country.
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    6.  10 hours ago
      (7) We watched the news all say. And the very next day, THIS man spoke for everyone who made me lose faith in America.
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    7.  10 hours ago
      (8) He wrote an utterly disgraceful piece full of gleeful snark, about how now we were going to "bomb the brown people," and weapons manufacturers--who stock he owned--would make tons of money.
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    8.  10 hours ago
      (9) We dropped the ball. We didn't act like a nation of adults who cared about those 3000 lives taken by blunt-force trauma, smoke, or flames. Every day was a trial.
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    9.  10 hours ago
      (10) The horrifying, genetically deficient conspiracy theorists began howling the day after Michael Moore gave them permission. They're STILL howling.
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    10.  10 hours ago
      (11) Then we invaded Iraq, and EVERYBODY screwed the pooch. The man who fought tooth an nail to be president crapped out. "We'll let history decide," he slurred over and over. I got so tired of defending him.
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    11.  10 hours ago
      (12) The first one who accused Bush of "lying us into war" was a man who never faced any consequences for letting a young woman drown in his car. More howling.
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    12.  10 hours ago
      (13) It didn't matter that the argument is insane. Bush knew that Saddam didn't have WMD. How? Is Bush a remote viewer? All his intelligence agencies were telling him that Saddam had stockpiles of WMD. How did Bush alone on the planet know that Saddam didn't?
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    13.  10 hours ago
      (14) The answer, of course, is that we found everything Bush said was there, but it wasn't ASSEMBLED. I spent years explaining that, and then I gave up. When we elected Obama, I stopped paying attention to politics.
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    14.  10 hours ago
      (15) We had proven ourselves to be absolutely hopeless. I had a brief moment of hope during the first presidential debate of 2012, when Romney deftly eviscerated Obama. But of course Romney then "lost with honor."
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    15.  10 hours ago
      (16) So I gave up. My plan was to no longer vote. Both parties lied, the public always made horrible choices, and anyone who wanted improvement was attacked mercilessly.
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    16.  10 hours ago
      (17) In World War One, a German flamethrower operator who served on the Italian front was haunted for his whole life by the suicidal incompetence of the Italians and Austrians. He called it the "Clown Apocalypse."
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    17.  10 hours ago
      (18) That's how I felt about the United States. My brother and I looked into becoming citizens of other countries. Donald Trump changed all that.
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    18.  10 hours ago
      (19) I didn't know a thing about him. Just for fun, I watched the first GOP primary debate, and Trump was low key. I thought he was having trouble, since he wasn't a professional politician. Then I watched the SECOND debate. He was like a different man.
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    19.  10 hours ago
      (20) So I rewatched the first debate and saw that Trump had used that time to STUDY his opponents. And then he began dismantling them. Effortlessly.
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    20.  10 hours ago
      (21) I therefore read everything by and about Trump, and I realized that he would win, and he would be the best president in our history. Guess when Trump began thinking about how to solve the world's problems? In 1969. That's when he learned about thermonuclear weapons.
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    21.  10 hours ago
      (22) Therefore it's clear that Trump began PLANNING FOR HIS PRESIDENCY in 1969. I have no doubt. And Americans were able to see that. They redeemed themselves.
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    22.  10 hours ago
      (23) I now have faith in us again. See, it turns out that everything was simply so negative and corrupt that MOST OF US had given up. If we're honest, we'll admit it.
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    23.  10 hours ago
      (24) Nobody REALLY thought that things would get better. We were so DEBAUCHED that the woman who wrote Reagan's "shining city of a hill" speech VOTED FOR OBAMA. That can't be defended.
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    24.  10 hours ago
      (25) I don't blame the average person for voting for him, but everyone in Washington knew he was a total fraud and a con artist. Obama taught me that there IS a ruling class, and they DO want to enslave us.
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    25.  10 hours ago
      (26) If we'd elected Hillary, we would have been washed out to sea. We would've never made it back to shore. And I would've renounced my citizenship. NOW?
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    26.  10 hours ago
      (27) Now I realize that we ARE the people who I'd always hoped we would be. When Trump asked, "Would you like to be great again?" we roared "HELL YEAH." And it's just been growing since then.
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    27.  10 hours ago
      (28) People may think I'm politicizing 9/11. No. I'm explaining how restored my faith in the COUNTRY. In the people, regardless of their political party.
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    28.  10 hours ago
      (29) I thought we'd embraced the negative forever. A country of Michael Moores. I'm happy to have been proven wrong.
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    29.  10 hours ago
      (30) I think we are given signs that we are on the right track. I bought a postcard that shows World War One German flamethrower operators about to go into battle on the Dead Man in Verdun, December 27, 1916.
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    30.  10 hours ago
      (31) This is the man who coined the phrase "Clown Apocalypse." His name was Georg Lembke.

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    1.  7 hours ago
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      Required reading. Awesome thread.
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    1.  9 hours ago
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      Maybe it’s my phone. This is the 3rd time trying to read this thread and the app quits. I hate this platform.
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    1.  2 hours ago
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      twitter invideo see this thread



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    1.  10 hours ago
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      9/11 was the US hitting rock bottom.....we have slowly climbed out the debris and will always remember the innocent lives lost. Release everything that happened that day. The truth is all we ask. Plain and simple...........
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    1.  7 hours ago
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      Great read. Before Trump I too had given up hope that our country, after going in the wrong direction so long could ever be turned back around. I worried about the future of my children and grandchildren. I no longer have that sense of foreboding. MAGA.
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      On that morning I woke up and got ready for work and turned on the news, couldn’t believe my eyes when only 1 tower was left and the horror shortly after of seeing the 2nd one collapse, I knew the world would never be the same, sadly I was correct 😔
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    1.  10 hours ago
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      Restoring your faith in the American people? Wha??
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    1.  3 hours ago
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      A long read by Wictor but well worth it.



    1.  8 hours ago
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      he has done nothing to expose the truth and his flunky bolton is doing everything possible to avoid investigation into war crimes. trump is no better than any of the monsters that came before repub or dem
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    1.  16 minutes ago
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      Good morning.... I just read your thread.... made my morning... Thanks!



    1.  53 minutes ago
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      It’s a new day in America. We need to do our part to ensure we can enjoy it and pass freedom, Liberty and justice on to future generations.



    1.  2 hours ago
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      Very VERY well said



Posted by Robby Ball at 5:49 AM