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Moostache

(9,897 posts)
1. Irony is something that requires intelligence...hence the oblivious one's lack of discernment.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 01:18 PM
Aug 2017

He does not even realize yet that he IS the joke, not part of or in on, but the whole thing...

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
3. The added irony is donald trump does not give a shit about the military.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 01:24 PM
Aug 2017

In fact if you get him off camera he will tell you only losers who cant make it in business join the military.

He has said this, I cant prove it right now, but he said this.

Lots of other really stupid shit like that, which will all come out someday if the people who control the information let it out.

patricia92243

(12,597 posts)
6. Now, now, now, don't be too harsh on fearless leader. He got a medal for neatness
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 01:31 PM
Aug 2017

when he was in military school. He is a medal carrying hero - don't you know?

orangecrush

(19,581 posts)
9. I'm pretty sure
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 02:25 PM
Aug 2017

The common interpretation of the usage of the word here in the U.S. is russian.

One fights for "his fellow soldiers around him", or "his buddies", or "brothers in arms."

"Comrades?"

Seriously?


Kathy M

(1,242 posts)
17. Get a grip people .... By mocking this tweet , people are actually cutting down the person who
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 03:50 PM
Aug 2017

received honor and the military ...........

"Army Veteran Remembers Fallen Comrades in Iraq"

'Remembering Fallen Comrades

She said she often thinks of Army Spc. Kyle Adam Brinlee, a fellow soldier and dear friend from her unit, the 120th Engineers. When Mooney contracted pneumonia just before deployment to Iraq, she said, it was Brinlee who was the first person to visit her in the hospital."
https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1190523/army-veteran-remembers-fallen-comrades-in-iraq/

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Definition of comrade in arms

: a person one fought with or worked together with to achieve something He spoke fondly of his old comrades in arms.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comrade%20in%20arms

find something else .... not this

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