Muh Bone Spurs

My mind is normally boggled at the incompetence of this administration, but what really boggles my mind is the support from military veterans who served, follow, and believe Trump is a patriot. I get it, nobody wants to die in combat, but that’s the break, my friend. Either you die, come back alive (and that’s where the real suffering happens), or you lose a limb or other things. A lot of veterans come back with their minds messed up (including me), or physically impaired, from combat and other military action, or simple military service. Overall, through the years, it’s verboten that veterans eschew civilian life because the military molds you into something, either good or bad. Who knows, everybody reacts differently to military service, and post-military life, my life took a turn for the worse, and I am still recovering from it.

But what I don’t understand is how a five-time draft dodger is ranked as somebody who is a “Patriot”, and the AI-generated memes of him being a servicemember, when he lied and got out of military service. Again, I understand that unless you’re suicidal, you don’t want to die in some misbegotten foreign land and suffer the effects if you live through it. Those who died? Well, unfortunately, death is a certainty, and I wish that they didn’t die and lived full lives. But I don’t control Fate anymore; they could have. It was simply their time to go. It took me a month in Iraq to accept that I might die there. I didn’t, of course, and still was a little worried (and was caught on video by Waldrup, who was sitting inside a Humvee, all safe from small arms fire. I don’t blame him, honestly, but it remains to be seen what happens when I finally die. I enjoy life now that I am a veteran, and even with a slight suicidal breakdown, I managed not to kill myself. It’s real, and an issue.

But what pervades the veteran's mind to support somebody who decided he’d lie his way out of serving, because “he didn’t like it.” I didn’t always enjoy military service, and sometimes I wished I hadn’t made the mistakes I did back then. Anyway, I think it goes along with the grievances he raises with people, and military service is just an afterthought. But he constantly shits on veterans and servicemembers, and people were outraged that Biden looked at his watch at Andrews one morning. I mean, yeah, he shouldn’t have, but everybody clutched their pearls only because he was a Democrat. But at least he didn’t have to be pressured to go down there, like Trump had to in this term. He never cares about anybody, and the fact that his VA is fucking servicemembers still, shows that he doesn’t and will not give a shit of a demographic that cares about (right or left-wing) the country. We served for a purpose, and being constantly shit on by the president shows that those who served that continuously support him have something missing in their heads, which shows that they don’t care about their fellow veterans and servicemembers.

I’d like to think that words, strung together, would somehow motivate people. But usually when I see somebody who supports Trump, I make fun of them anyway, because while veterans are a brotherhood and sisterhood, we do fight amongst ourselves anyway. Even my good friend of 12 years, who served for 26 years, I clowned on him, too. Fuck him and his belief that Trump is a patriot. I will party hard when he dies, and I get my disability check each month just like they do, so fuck them and the horse they rode in on. And on another note, it’s funny how MAGA encourages war, but so far hasn’t signed up for it yet. Go ahead, be cannon fodder for a president who doesn’t really give a shit about anybody but himself. Come out of it, and I’ll make fun of you, too. It’s the American way.