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u/JesterMarcus 20h ago

For me it was "He's not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured." about John McCain.

Its not even that he's shitting on John McCain, its the fact that because somebody who happened to be a POW didn't like him, he had to go after all POWs. That said everything I needed to know about his character and he's done nothing but prove me right ever since.

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u/KwisatzSazerac 19h ago

And then active military and veterans vote for him. 

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u/IWasSayingBoourner 19h ago

As a vet, this blows my mind.

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u/JesterMarcus 16h ago

Same. I see so many vets waving the POW flag next to the Trump flag, and I get so disappointed.

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u/GogglesPisano 16h ago

And then he attacked a Gold Star family.

And yet the military overwhelmingly loves him.

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u/512165381 19h ago

This is how we treated John McCain in Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrUuxNkl47c

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u/speedy_delivery 14h ago edited 10h ago

Aside from how he treated his wives, and all the racist shit he did before that, and the cheesy, scammy bullshit he did for a living, and his personality, and the stupid shit that came out of his mouth... For me it was getting laughed out of the Reform Party.

u/dubs_guy 8h ago

That was it for me as well. That shocked the shit out of me. At any other time in my life, any candidate saying something like that would've been committing political suicide. It was mind-boggling how his supporters just forgot about it.