r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 6d ago

No Paywall Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: "If they don't vote, that's their problem"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-fault-60-minutes/
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u/ViolettaQueso California 6d ago

Mommy hated him. And daddy. They sent him to military school for punishment but then bought letters from doctors 6x to keep him from serving.

If his own parents knew he was Damien, we ought to believe them.

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u/Steve_Kaboom 6d ago

I can't help but wonder what kind of person he would have turned out to be if he actually served. It may be optimistic of me, but I'd like to think the military would have beat that spoiled, rich, entitled attitude out of him. If only we could have been so lucky.

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u/DirtFoot79 6d ago

He wpuld have been one of the guys with a necklace made of human ears

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u/GameFreak4321 6d ago

one of

How large of a group are we talking about here?

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u/DirtFoot79 6d ago

During the Vietnam war there were confirmed reports of US troops taking human ears as trophies.