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@kurteichenwald
Sep 4, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Follow this thread to understand further Trump's contempt for our military and how he denigrates everything our troops hold dear -including the lives of their comrades in arm who have bounties on their heads.

Trump now orders @starsandstripes closed. The first issue from.../1
...February 8, 1918 was put out for our boys fighting in WW1. There was another paper with the same name in the Civil War, but the WW1 version is the @starsandstripes we know today.

General Jack Pershing - AEF commander on the Western Front, wrote this on page 1 of issue 1:.../2
...Pershing's key words were at the end of his introduction of @starsandstripes to the troops. As Pershing says, it is THE TROOPs' paper, not ours, and certainly not the paper of Donald Trump the draft-dodger.../3
...so why is this contemptible man Trump killing @starsandstripes? First, he knows the troops cant criticize his decision - they are forbidden from criticizing the Commander in Chief, even a poser like Trump. So it is up the rest of us to honor our troops and fight for it.../4
...you know why. I know why. @starsandstripes - while paid for out of the Pentagon budget - is not controlled by the Executive Branch. It is, to the extent possible, independent in its articles and broadcasts, just like Voice of America, which is being kneecapped by Trump...
...for not being an adjunct to his campaign, not celebrating him enough. I am told the decision to cripple @starsandstripes came sometime in November/December 2019, which is why Trump tried to zero out its financing in early '20. So, what was @starsandstripes printing then?.../6
...well, they had a lengthy piece about an undisclosed effort by the White House to justify Trump's decision to illegally place a hold on military aid to Ukraine when he was pushing them to "do us a favor" by attacking Biden.../7

stripes.com/news/us/white-…
...now, I dont know if that's the one. But I urge you, figure out if there was an article from @starsandstripes from 11/19-12/19 that was discussed on Fox. Because you know damn well the illiterate Trump didn't read it, but saw it on TV.

Fight for our troops #SaveStarsAndStripes

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Trump continues to show he is an idiot with absolutely no knowledge of American history or the history of our Armed Forces. Pumpkinhead declares that the Department of War was renamed the Department of Defense because it was "woke." In fact DOW was NEVER renamed DOD..../1
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1. Wrecked decades-long relationships with USA's best allies, who now have said that relationship is over.
2. Sent global stocks markets into a tailspin.
3. Sent bond markets into collapse.
4. Moved world against dollar as global currency.../1
...5. Lied to courts & refused to abide by rulings, in what could be the greatest breakdown in Constitutional government since founding.
6. Ignored due process before shipping someone to a torture prison.
7. Wistfully discussed his desire to send Americans to torture prisons.../2
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11. Crippled the FDA, CDC..../3
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People looking only at the stock market are missing the full magnitude of Trump's economic incompetence. His "yes-no-maybe" idiocy with tariffs is leaving equity investors with no sense of which way to go. But worse is the bond market..../1
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...this means that they are losing faith - or certainty - in the US long term economic future. The only way to deal with this is to increase interest rates - thus providing bond investors with higher rewards for taking what they perceive as higher risk..../3
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As a German citizen (I hold dual citizenship) Im disgusted by the ignorance of @JDVance & @elonmusk in promoting AfD as if it's a normal party. Perhaps they aren't just ignorant & AfD actually reflects their viewpoints, but there is a reason its founders resigned, the German.../1
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whose growth of control of AfD is what led to the resignation of its founders, as "a right-wing extremist endeavor against the free democratic basic order" and as "not compatible with the Basic Law." AfD sued, but a court ruled "there were sufficient factual indications.../3
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As someone who has been a journalist for almost 40 year, working as a senior writer at the New York Times, Newsweek, etc, the decision by @WilliamLewis, a Murdoch alum, to cripple the @washingtonpost by abandoning endorsements, is one of the most craven actions I've ever seen../1
...taken in the industry. Make no mistake, this wasn't just cowardice. It was @WilliamLewis and perhaps @JeffBezos dragging a now-once great paper into the sewer because of their own political beliefs. If Lewis et al wanted to abandon endorsements, fine. But you don't do it.../2
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