Well, luckily for the former president*‘s campaign, it wasn’t raining on Monday, when he grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery as a campaign prop because, as we know, he gets a little nervous around soldiers’ graves in the rain, and he says things that require him to lie his ass off later. Most recently, of course, he devalued the Congressional Medal of Honor in favor of a bauble he draped on Rush Limbaugh and the wife of one of the sleaziest of his sleazy donors.

  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
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    2 months ago

    It’s a public cemetery, so I don’t take issue with him being there and acting respectfully. The problem comes when he uses it as a publicity stunt and gives the thumbs up when he’s placing the wreath.

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      2 months ago

      It’s specifically against federal law to use military cemeteries for campaign purposes. Presidents often lay of wreath there on Memorial Day, but they’re already President and not campaigning.

      We have enough issues in the US with glorifying the military for political purposes. Let’s not go backwards on this one.