Posted on 06/25/2017 4:12:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Now here's a photo from our U.S. armed forces in the field worth a look:
It's an M109 self-propelled tank from an undisclosed field location, bearing President Trump's cryptic Twitter typo, COVFEFE, according to the Daily Caller, which ran the picture yesterday. COVFEFE was the subject of much speculation, mostly on the left, as to what it might have meant. In this case, one of the troops has helpfully given the answer: rising military morale. You never saw such repetitions of presidential words during the Obama administration. Did anyone ever stamp 'You didn't build that' or 'If you like your health care' on one of the barrels of a howitzer?
It comes against the backdrop of two things.
One, military morale has been disastrously low, with the military rating the legacy of Commander in Chief Obama in acidic terms across every service. Morale reached a rock bottom low in 2015 with 52% of the troops across all branches "pessimistic about their future," and 70% expecting it to get even worse, representing a 30-point plunge since Obama came to office, according to a Military Times poll. That was after the military spent $287 million during six of the Obama years on an "optimism program." Go figure that one out - sweet deal for some NGO sociology-majors probably. The various analysts of this survey cited bad pay, troop drawdowns, lack of support from Washington in the deployments in hellholes like Afghanistan and Iraq, and micromanaging of field decisions from the lawyers and White House petty officials. But most of all, there was commander-in-chief who didn't believe in their mission - and who didn't believe in victory. He just preferred to let the wars slog on and the soldiers pay the price.
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I now crave two scoops of coffee ice cream every time I see it.
It’s a simple typo and folks trying to make it more than that are silly.
That’s the nicest term I can come up with.
I would say malevolent.
But you are being nice.
I can sort of see how the Samsung “Swype” keyboard might get “covfefe” from an attempt the swipe “coverage” ... I can’t see how the spell-check would have accepted it, though. The only way this happens is if you’re using Swype with spell-check turned off.
While we’re on the subject: How about bringing back nose art? Why should the ground pounders have all the fun?
Yeah, but that says Coyefe
For a real moral booster, bring back war trophy guns.
It was a proud American tradition right up to the first Gulf War.
I would love to see President Trump bring it back!
That is my take on this as well.
THIS!!!!!!
I don’t think there is an app for a spellchecker on your smartphone, or is there?
It means President Trump continues to live rent-free in DemocRAT heads.
I was in the first pilot program for Marine non-NCO’s to be trained for an M110 Self Propelled ( 8 inch )crew.
I have no idea how that program turned out.
I remember that. John Kerry who was in Nam thought the troops were stupid.
That 155mm will probably end up at a Presidential Library someday.
Here's an oldie :
Gotta laugh ... somebody really enjoyed the high-altitude training...
Here's a more modern example:
What does ‘COVFEFE’ mean?
It means “I will stand” in Arabic.
It also is an acronym:
Comey
Obviously
Violated
FBI
Ethics
Fabricating
Evidence
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And if you feed it back in for arabic and click on the computer to voice the pronunciation, it sounds like “so f*** off”.
Read the whole tweet with the “I will stand” and “so f*** off” added to the end.
Love the acronym :)
You got it.
I use a laptop, not a smartphone. It has an all-too-active spellchecker, that often gives me words I never intended, including on my FR posts!
Look at what 0bama did to our military and the stupid decisions that came out of Washington. LBJ did the same thing with Vietnam.
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