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Someone asked Trey Gowdy a question:

How can President Trump claim to represent all U.S citizens, regardless of sexual orientation, when he banned transgenders from joining the military? Isn't that discrimination?

Trey Gowdy's Response:

"Nobody has a right to serve in the Military. Nobody! What makes you people think the Military is an equal opportunity employer? It is very far from it - and for good reasons - let me cite a few.

The Military uses prejudice regularly and consistently to deny citizens from joining for being too old or too young, too fat or too skinny, too tall or too short. Citizens are denied for having flat feet, or for missing or additional fingers."

He went on to explain: "By the way, poor eyesight will disqualify you, as well as bad teeth. Malnourished? Drug addiction? Bad back? Criminal history? Low IQ? Anxiety? Phobias? Hearing damage? Six arms? Hear voices in your head? Self-identification as a Unicorn? Need a special access ramp for your wheelchair? Can't run the required course in the required time? Can't do the required number of push-ups? Not really a morning person? and refuse to get out of bed before noon? All can be legitimate reasons for denial.

The Military has one job: Winning War. Anything else is a distraction and a liability. Did someone just scream, that isn't fair? War is VERY unfair, there are no exceptions made for being special or challenged or socially wonderful. YOU must change yourself to meet Military standards and not the other way around.

I say again: You don't change the Military - you must change yourself. The Military is not about being fair, it is about taking advantage of others and about winning. The Military doesn't need to accommodate anyone with special issues. The Military needs to Win Wars and keep our Country safe - PERIOD! If any of your personal issues are a liability that detract from readiness, Thank you for applying and good luck in future endeavors.

Any other questions?"

1 posted on 04/12/2019 10:17:40 AM PDT by PROCON
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2 posted on 04/12/2019 10:19:11 AM PDT by easternsky
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To: PROCON

Who thinks it’s a good idea to arm delusional people that don’t even know what’s between their legs?


3 posted on 04/12/2019 10:21:31 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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That’s a fine response.


4 posted on 04/12/2019 10:22:02 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: PROCON

Wow!!!!!!!!!!

Exceptional comment!!!!!

Should be read aloud at every military recruitment/ induction center...


5 posted on 04/12/2019 10:22:53 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: PROCON

But the military IS affirmative action, and has quotas to fill.

Especially for the academies. They turn away stronger, smarter, and in all ways better qualified white males in favor of females and minorities.

So we aren’t allowing our country’s best to lead our ranks.


7 posted on 04/12/2019 10:26:08 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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Good


8 posted on 04/12/2019 10:26:43 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: PROCON
"You mean they're going to let me go, finally!?"

9 posted on 04/12/2019 10:27:12 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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BRAVO!!!


10 posted on 04/12/2019 10:31:34 AM PDT by FES0844
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Good. Now, “allow” those who identify as trans or who have had surgery to transition early release from their terms of enlistment. Stop degrading military capability with social experimentation to “normalize” this stuff. It’s the military, not a progressive liberal college campus/business. Grrr....


11 posted on 04/12/2019 10:39:18 AM PDT by sassy steel magnolia
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To: PROCON

Trey Gowdy nailed it, the US Military is NOT a democracy.


12 posted on 04/12/2019 10:47:01 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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Have you got a link to that? Sometimes these are not said by politicians they are accredited to- He said all this in the spur of the moment? Sounds more like a carefully written and thought out response, but perhaps he did say it off top of his head, i dunno- just would like verification as we’ve been burnt a number of times posting things that turned out not to have been said by folks-


15 posted on 04/12/2019 10:52:27 AM PDT by Bob434
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ok- he ‘may or may not have said these things’ a comment was posted on social media site days before it appeared on Trey’s community site, but no author was cited for the post-

https://www.truthorfiction.com/trey-gowdy-transgender-military-ban/


16 posted on 04/12/2019 10:57:25 AM PDT by Bob434
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Not good enough.

Why is the administration equivocating on this issue? Less than a decade ago, not a single one of these deviants would have been allowed to serve an additional day.


21 posted on 04/12/2019 11:02:33 AM PDT by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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Let the gays and lesbos do something they might actually be good at—How about running liberal cities like Houston, South Bend, etc.


25 posted on 04/12/2019 11:18:17 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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Even those enlisted claiming cross dresser status before today should be honorably discharged, given their benefits and sent on their way. Next, get women out of combat arms and start to clean out the Obama left wing social experiments designed to destroy the military.


26 posted on 04/12/2019 11:27:42 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: PROCON; All
The Military has one job: Winning War.
Anything else is a distraction and a liability.

27 posted on 04/12/2019 11:28:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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That is a lovely quotation, and is ABsolutely Right.

But can you tell me WHEN he said it ?

And WHERE it is recorded?

A PROPER Citation would be nice.

Pretty please ?


31 posted on 09/17/2019 1:44:03 PM PDT by RobinClay
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