Posted on 07/26/2017 10:39:55 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Multiple Republican senators broke with President Trump on Wednesday after he announced on Twitter than transgender troops would be banned from serving in the military.
In separate statements, GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Richard Shelby (Ala.), and Orrin Hatch (Utah) all criticized Trump for his decision that Obama-era rules allowing transgender troops to serve would be reversed.
McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, ripped the call and said that Trump shouldn't be making policy announcements via tweet.
“The President’s tweet this morning regarding transgender Americans in the military is yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter," McCain wrote in his statement.
“The statement was unclear," he added. "The Department of Defense has already decided to allow currently-serving transgender individuals to stay in the military, and many are serving honorably today. Any American who meets current medical and readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving."
"There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military — regardless of their gender identity."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Congratulations, President Trump! You’re making them lay bare, before their constituents, who they really are. Party be damned!
see this thread post to back up what I’m talkign about- He puts it very strongly that transgender people aren’t mentally fit to serve- it’s a powerful post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3572217/posts
From the thread:
“I served in Iraq in 2006. For the first five months I was on a 12 man firebase out in the middle of nowhere in the desert.
Everyday was Groundhog Day. Wake up and do the same patrols, the same shifts, every single day. It was so damn hot. 150° in the gun trucks.
Tracer fire would go overhead occasionally at night. IED’s on the road were a daily threat. We got resupplied food every 8 days.
QRF was an hour away. After they made the minimum three gun truck rule after the guys got kidnapped, life got harder.
The stress of being out there and doing the same job every single day eats away at you. The younger guys had problems with that overtime.
Any tiny little personal issue they had suddenly became a mountain. And that shit came out on that fire base. And they snapped mentally.
After stepping on each other’s nuts living in the same can for five months, guys were at each other’s throats. The stress made it worse.
Guys would literally snap over a dear John letter. Their personal issues came out and they were instantly combat ineffective.
Now take someone confused about whether they are a man/woman. Take those psychological and emotional issues and put them in that environment
Take someone who is right off the bat not uniform or part of the same team. Give them special treatment because of their identity.
Take that person, put them in that stressful war environment and watch what happens. It’s a fucking ticking time bomb.
You have to be incredibly tough mentally, physically and emotionally. War is not a fucking video game. It tests every ounce of your being.
You can’t teach someone to be a fearless warrior in a fucking PowerPoint. You either have it or you don’t. You can hack it or you can’t.
We had guys who couldn’t. When faced with combat situations they crumbled. They had mental and emotional issues. They were a liability.
To be successful at war, you have to become a warrior mentally, physically, and emotionally. You can’t fake it and go through the motions.
In war if it comes down to kill or be killed, and you hesitate, you’re dead. It’s a simple as that. It’s not a fucking video game.
War is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil. You have your shit together, or you don’t.
And if you don’t, you’ll just get people needlessly killed. Political correctness has absolutely no place in the military.
Enough for now. This one armed veteran has a business to run. Unlike Iran, the country that took my arm, Obama didn’t pay me millions.”
They are not GOP senators....they are puppets for their money masters. Traitors the whole lot of them. Lamp-post!
Yes, let freaks into our military.
It doesn’t seems if these rhinos are criticizing the actual decision keeping trannys out. It appears they’re criticizing the way he delivered the message. sounds like a bit of cya.
People who are “transgendering” are suffering from a debilitating mental disorder. They should not be given any position within our military. The military is a tough enough occupation and responsibility for a normal person. It is not a place to indulge the fantasies of mentally ill patients who reject reality.
Yes. I am disappointed in Shelby. Shelby is a former democrat so that explains some of it. He is a moderate pub but not a complete wackjob.
I am surprised at Joni Ernst since she has a military background. Then again, she did support Rubio.
It was an illegitimate decision by an illegitimate President.
Everyone in the District of Corruption knew he was not a natural born citizen.
This is what leading looks like.
This is what conservatism looks like.
This is why we love him and hate you, you sniveling little bitches.
Richard Shelby can go home to Alabama and explain his opposition to this new policy.
Democrats have the republicans Pussy-Hat whipped.
They are afraid to stand up against even the most outlandish political correctness.
This homo/lesbian intimdation is just a repeat of the tactic democrats used on republicans over race.
For the last 40 years or more all a democrat had to do was accuse a republican of racism and they got weak in the knees and gave away the farm.
Now they surrender at the slightest hint they might upset the homos.
Do republicans think they are going to win over the .001 percent of the voters who are homo and queer by giving them preferential treatment and stomping on everyone else?
This guy is running rings around those people who lie when they tell the voters they are Christians and Conservatives.
Easy campaign challenger ammo and news footage.
Same thing with the up or down vote on the Obama Care repeal.
DRAINING THE SWAMP.
Ah the good ole Hill. How the heck can they break from Trump when they have never been with Trump!??
“Do you really want to trust someone who is mentally ill with a loaded weapon?”
You have identified the salient question with superb succinctness.
Most politicians are attorneys.
Many (or most?) attorneys have a socially liberal perspective.
They can be very effective at hiding their personal views.
I suspect that a supermajority of Senators are social liberals in spite of whatever they say publicly.
When I read stories like this, I have to keep the above in mind. Nevertheless, it is disappointing.
OMG next he’s gonna ban girls from boy scouts
Richard Shelby just killed his career in Alabama. What an idiot.
Not soon enough.
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