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highplainsdem

(48,968 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:26 PM Jan 2019

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None of these generals would have ever knowingly allowed someone like Trump to command so much as a platoon.

Conway was commenting on this tweet from Mark Hertling

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about this Tme magazine piece, "Why Trump’s Generals Have Abandoned Ship":

http://time.com/5492636/donald-trump-generals/

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George Conway: None of the generals Trump's criticizing would have allowed him to command a platoon (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2019 OP

. dalton99a Jan 2019 #2

I disagree! ExciteBike66 Jan 2019 #3

Trump couldn't even handle squad leader. Elwood P Dowd Jan 2019 #4

(66,316 posts)

1. I was just a sergeant, but I wouldn't have put him in charge of a latrine detail.

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:28 PM

Jan 2019

I'd put someone else in charge of him, and made sure Trumpy got the literal shit-detail.

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2. .

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:31 PM

Jan 2019

(2,336 posts)

3. I disagree!

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:33 PM

Jan 2019

I have had one dirtbag platoon sergeant and one dirtbag platoon leader in my time in the Army.

(11,443 posts)

4. Trump couldn't even handle squad leader.

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:38 PM

Jan 2019

The discussion is meaningless anyway because Trump would last but a few days in basic training before he went home crying for mommy and daddy.