Posted on 08/27/2024 5:53:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
Fuming Kamala Harris supporters are calling for the director of the Arlington National Cemetery to be "fired" for allowing Donald Trump to attend a Monday memorial service for fallen soldiers.
Democratic media figures and activists expressed their fury at Arlington National Cemetery director Karen Durham-Aguilera, a longtime senior Army official, after Trump marked the third anniversary of the Kabul airport terrorist attack by attending a wreath-laying ceremony with the families of the fallen service members. The Gold Star families invited Trump to attend the service.
Thirteen American soldiers were killed and 18 wounded in the Abbey Gate suicide bombing during the Biden-Harris administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Steve Schmidt—a failed GOP campaign operative known for smearing his deceased war hero ex-boss, John McCain—accused Trump of "desecrat[ing] Arlington National Cemetery and America’s most hallowed ground."
Charles P. Pierce, an opinion writer for Esquire, said Trump "grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery as a campaign prop."
"[H]ow dare you let that creep Trump do what he did yesterday. You must like our service men and women being called suckers and losers! You are really a low class person. You need to resign. Shame on you!" wrote one Harris supporter in a message to Durham-Aguilera on X.
"F—king disgusting! My brother is buried in that cemetery. U should be fired," wrote another X user.
Others flooded Durham-Aguilera with comments calling her a "disgrace" who should "RESIGN IMMEDIATELY"; arguing that "Heads should roll for whoever approved that"; and demanding to know, "Why was the draft-dodging rapist thug convicted felon traitor wannabe dictator laying a wreath today???"
A spokeswoman for the Arlington National Cemetery told the Washington Free Beacon that Trump "was invited by a Gold Star family to participate in a public wreath-laying ceremony and was afforded the same access to ANC ground and facilities as afforded to other unofficial visitors."
"Our focus was on supporting our Gold Star families as they came to honor and pay respect to their loved ones at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and their final resting place," said the spokeswoman.
Forgive my ignorance, but does one have to get ‘permission’ to visit Arlington National Cemetery? Are former Presidents routinely banned?
Certain areas of the cemetery have restrictions, no cameras, no large groups, etc...............
LOL. You were just lying by omission when you repeatedly kept deleting a section of the Minnesota bathroom law when that section didn’t fit your narrative.
I rarely if ever offer viewpoints.
Yes! I live in Irvine and Laguna Beach in beautiful Orange County California! It used to be Republican stronghold and was well known as such, but since 2016 is majority democratic. I am actually quite active in Republican politics here, am good friends with our former US Congressman, have served as a delegate at the RNC, am a volunteer at the Republican Party headquarters on MacArthur Blvd in Newport Beach. I have worked at the polling place in every presidential election since 1996 but will be out of the country on election day this year.
I don’t think I’ve ever posted my opinion here, or if I have it is very rare. Stating that someone did something that you don’t like, or want to deny happened, especially when there is eye witness or video evidence, is not an opinion. When you don’t have a valid argument you bait and switch, and try to change the subject. For example, on the Minnesota bathroom thread when I quoted the law, which clearly did not include the terms boys bathrooms or identifies as female, all of a sudden Butterdezillion starts talking about where the products will be stored. Or in another thread when I said Trump now supports EVs everyone starts yelling in all CAPS that Trump doesn’t support mandates. I never said he did. LOL. You guys are so predictable.
"It" is a troll. Probably one of kamunist's 157 online disruptors that she hired.
No point in feeding the troll. This one is begging for the zot.
Looks to me like EVERYONE there was giving a ‘thumbs up’...
Drop dead commie
Liar. All lies.
Stop lying. I posted it in its entirety. Which anybody can see. I’ve told you that before and at this point you’re posting flatout libel. Cease and desist, troll.
Where tampons would be stored is what the MN law allows school districts to decide. All restrooms used regularly by students grades 4 to 12 are mandated to have period products. Even the leftists admit that because it’s in the law which I copied verbatim from the MN legislatures website with a link.
The left is so mentally deficient.
Every stupid complaint is full of left wing news lies. All lies.
And idiot Republicans think we can work with these retarded monsters?
Yes you did and below is a copy of your post copying the law verbatim. For the last time, nowhere in the law does it say all restrooms used regularly by students grades 4 to 12 are mandated to have period products, as you claim. I know you want it to be true that Minnesota makes schools put tampons in boys bathrooms but it isn’t true, and I have nothing to do with it, and neither some random guy on Twitter that you quoted saying tampons are required in all bathrooms. You can “feel” they want tampons in all bathrooms or “know they mean” they are planning to put them in all bathrooms but the law doesn’t say they are required and we follow laws, not “feelings” of people on websites, or tweets, or statements by people who oppose the law.
A school district or charter school must provide students with access to menstrual products
at no charge. The products must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms
regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school
district. For purposes of this section, “menstrual products” means pads, tampons, or other
similar products used in connection with the menstrual cycle.”
You’re counting on people not checking out the truth. At https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4260576/posts?page=103#103 I posted the entire section of that MN law including the portion that you claim I left out - about the school districts devising a plan to carry out the provisions of the law. You claimed that the school districts have discretion to NOT put period products in some “restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4-12”, which is NOT what the law says.
This is also the strategy of the never-Trump “Republicrats” and the so-called “news media”. Trust that the lie will make it around the world twice before the truth can get its shoes tied. Trust that people won’t actually check to see that what you post as truth is, at best, distortions or half-truth.
I’m not going to waste any more of my time with you. I have never seen you show even an ounce of integrity - seeking to genuinely understand and represent the whole truth. That’s why most posters here recognize your odor.
When I was very tired I posted, mistakenly thinking that “restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4-12” meant the restroom that a particular student regularly used - IOW, whatever gender they identify as. It actually just means any restroom that 4th-12th-graders use. IOW, all school restrooms except faculty restrooms that are not available to students. Any bathroom available to students is required to have period products according to the law. School districts decide how to implement that - what products to include and how to dispense them. If you think that my actually addressing your incorrect belief is “changing the subject” then you’re an idiot. More likely you’re just trying to libel me just like you try to libel Trump constantly.
AS for eyewitness video, etc... you’ve never explained why the Gold Star families did the same thing you mention that Trump did, and you’ve never said whether you find fault with Gold Star families giving a thumbs-up. In fact, you haven’t answered any of my questions (speaking about “When you don’t have a valid argument you bait and switch, and try to change the subject...”)
Good-bye. I’ve already wasted too much time trying to refute your libel of me and of Trump.
Good grief. You said that below was a copy of my post and then you didn’t copy my post.
I guess your reading comprehension is just “different” than the people who wrote and passed the law, the people who debated the law, NPR, and the leftists celebrating the law.
I wonder how the whole world got it wrong except you.
lol
Also, as usual, you matter-of-factly say “yes, you did” after several posts where you claimed the opposite. No apology, no explaining how you got it wrong, nothing. Just matter-of-factly saying that I did and claiming to post a copy of the post where I did but not actually copying it.
You are a piece of work.
The language of the law that I posted is cut and pasted from your post. Have a nice day!
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