Impressive. Are Cotton and the chaps you mentioned, all HARVARD EDUCATED LAWYERS? They appear to have impressive service records. What is their GREENLAND connection? Perchance are any of these chaps going to run for POTUS? If so will you become their campaign manager?old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:15 pmTrump got the Greenland idea from this Harvard educated lawyer :wahoomurf wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:21 pmIsn't this old salt person the guy who gave an analysis, both financial and strategic, encouraging Trump to seriously consider buying Greenland. Call me I would prefer that the money be spent giving THE SOUTHERN FRIED CHILDREN, (those disgusting rapists, drug runners, and sex mules, better food & water, warm blankets, toothpaste, toilet paper, non-grungy billets and perhaps,if there's re a few shekels to spare, reunite them with their parents .a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 3:04 pmBullsh*t. I've been telling you about how Trump not managing this trade war has affected flyover Americans. Farmers. Suicide. Trump's forgotten voters who haven't enjoyed the last 20 years like you and I have.old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:24 pmI care more about our long term financial security & the impact on workers, than on the short term damage to my personal wealth.CU88 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:18 pmSome of us worry about the USA we are going to leave behind, must be nice to not care...
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If i didn't, I'd be braying with the goats over the "trade war" market fluctuations.
Your response---and the response of several other posters----is to make fun of this, call us chicken little, and braying goats.
You have made fun of me every step of the way. Where is Trump when it comes to helping these people find other markets for their goods? Where's the help? I"ve told you EXACTLY what Trump should be doing to help us prepare for a cessation of trade with China. Instead of saying "yep, Trump dropped the ball on this, and as a result, Americans are suffering unnecessarily".....
....you come back with braying goats.
I served with some USNA grads. Called themselves goats. I get wistful and angry when I see the word GOAT in the same paragraph as the word TRUMP. Those goats were all about honor, duty and were focused on getting the task accomplished. This TRUMP guy does not come close to possessing any of the aforementioned qualities that made those chaps, IMHO, the best of the best.Trump's Sec of State & Sec of Def are West Point grads & veterans who served honorably.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cotton
On January 11, 2005, Cotton enlisted in the U.S. Army.[9] Cotton declined offers to serve in the Army J.A.G. Corps and instead volunteered for the infantry. Cotton had resolved to serve as an Army infantryman in his third year of law school while watching live news coverage of the September 11 attacks, and had begun a regimen of physical exercise and studying military history.[10] In March 2005, he entered Officer Candidate School, and in June 2005 was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry.[11]
In May 2006, Cotton was deployed to Baghdad as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division. In Iraq, he led a 41-man air assault infantry platoon in the 506th Infantry Regiment, and planned and performed daily combat patrols.[11] In December 2006, Cotton was promoted to first lieutenant. He was assigned as a platoon leader for the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) at Fort Myer, Virginia.[12] In October 2008, Cotton was deployed to eastern Afghanistan. He was assigned within the Train Advise Assist Command – East at its Gamberi forward operating base (FOB) in Laghman Province as the Operations Officer of a Provincial Reconstruction Team, where he planned daily counter-insurgency and reconstruction operations.[11] His 11-month deployment ended on July 20, 2009 and he returned from Afghanistan.[11] He then returned to farming his family ranch.[13]
In July 2010, Cotton transferred to the United States Army Reserve. His military record shows his final discharge from the U.S. Army Reserve was in May 2013; he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and earned a Ranger Tab, Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, and Iraq Campaign Medal.[11][14][15]
They volunteered to serve in his cabinet & pursue his policies.
Duty, Honor, Country
The "curious" positioning of your post could lead one to believe you were trying to trump (fully intended) the prior posters comment praising some brave and honorable men with who he served?Not even you could sink that low. I for one have respect for any man or women that put on a uniform and served our country. How about you?