The fateful day the G.I. Generation took the first steps on the long road to becoming the Greatest Generation.
Year: 2018
The War to End War
One Hundred years ago on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an Armistice was declared that ended hostilities in “The war to end war.”
It wasn’t!!!
3478 Days
Better late than never. My bionic left hip was 3,278 days (9 years) old on 29 March 2018. Today, on its 3,478th day of service, it has yet to rip, bust, collect dust, roll downhill, or unravel.
The Supremes
The current Supreme Court Justice confirmation Goat Rope is a classic example of the bipartisan use of each and every one of these fallacies.
He Loves a Parade
POTUS45 cancelled his military parade that had been planned to take place on or about Veteran’s Day. He used his favorite means of communicating with the masses to explain why the parade was canceled:
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up! I will instead…
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
….attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date, & go to the Paris parade, celebrating the end of the War, on November 11th. Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we can buy some more jet fighters!
The total cost estimate for the parade has not been made public; however, some estimate it to be 80 to 90 million dollars. The D.C. government says its costs will be around 21 million dollars:
MurielBowser@MurielBowser
MurielBowser Retweeted Donald J. Trump
Yup, I’m Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, the local politician who finally got thru to the reality star in the White House with the realities ($21.6M) of parades/events/demonstrations in Trump America (sad).
FYI…According to one of POTUS45’s favorite “Fake News” sources, the cost of one F-35 fighter plane is about 94.6 million dollars.
P.S. In case you are history-challenged and don’t know which war POTUS45 is talking about, it’s the one that ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
MAGA
Saw this recently on Quora.com. It pretty much explains why some are fans of the MAGA. Huckster. They do not realize that in the real world You Can’t Go Home Again.
What do Trump supporters mean when they say “make America great again� What period of American history are they referring to and what typified greatness during that period?
Ryan Cooper, Self Employed Sales (2008-present)
My dad is a huge Trump supporter. He’s also 80 years old. He watches VHS taped movies because he can’t get a digital tv signal where he lives. He has never used a computer and didn’t own a telephone until the early 1990s.
It’s easy to look back in time and reflect on a simpler era. Back in the 1980s, OJ Simpson was a football player, Bill Cosby was America’s favorite dad, gay people didn’t exist, Muslims were the freedom fighters whooping the Soviets in Afghanistan, and Hulk Hogan got big muscles by drinking milk.
None of that was true. Add another 30 years to that.
Life in the 1950s seems so quaint. Everyone seems so happy on the Andy Griffith Show or Leave it to Beaver. Sure, minorities didn’t have rights, women were treated like property by their husbands, and gay people were considered criminals.
America was great in the 1950s due to the simple fact that none of our factories or homes had been destroyed during World War II. Everything from washing machines to tv screens, toasters and ovens, trains, planes and automobiles were all made in America. No other country had the ability to make consumer products like America in the 1950s.
Having no competition also made American businesses complacent. Ford, Chevy and Chrysler began investing in non-automotive industries that often didn’t make money. Unions demanded and received lavish contracts because people had to buy an American car. Zenith made television sets that doubled as furniture.
It was only a matter of time before someone else would make a car that wasn’t the size of a whale, a TV set that wasn’t as big as the kitchen table, and a refrigerator that wasn’t olive green or harvest gold.
For many older white male voters like my father, Trump is the only politician who “gets it.†They truly believe that Trump is the man who will return America to 1950s greatness.
Unless Trump starts a nuclear world war that demolishes every other country except America, there will never be another time in world history where America manufacturers everything.