Retired military generals have described Donald Trump as a “danger” to America’s security as they endorsed Kamala Harris.
On the eve of a critical debate between Ms Harris and her Republican rival, 10 former top US military chiefs released a letter calling the vice-president the only candidate “who is fit to serve” in the country’s highest office.
While Ms Harris had “demonstrated her ability to take on the most difficult national security challenges in the Situation Room and on the international stage”, they wrote, Trump posed “a danger to our national security and democracy”.
The letter, signed by retired General Larry Ellis and retired Rear Admiral Michael Smith, among others, accused Trump of disparaging service members and putting them in “harm’s way”, including with his deal to free 5,000 Taliban fighters.
It coincided with a new Harris campaign advert placed in Palm Beach featuring Trump’s most senior former officials warning of the risks of his White House return.
The attack advert shows a montage of scathing comments about the Republican ex-president by some of his most senior former cabinet officials in what appears to be an effort to goad him ahead of their televised live showdown on Tuesday night.
“In 2016, Donald Trump said he would choose only the best people to work in his White House,” the attack advert’s narrator said. “Now those people have a warning for America: Trump is not fit to be president again.”
I’m trans. They’re going to fucking kill me.
I still won’t vote for genocide. I’d rather die.
Nah, you just think you won’t be subjected to it, like all the other people campaigning for Donald every day. Like all MAGAs, you love the genocide and human rights abuses happening to everyone you hate even if it harms groups that include you.
I’m in a red state! I half expect them try to take away my hormones no matter who wins the election, but it’s definitely more likely if Trump wins (or, more likely, gets his fascist Court to steal the election)
Like all Blue MAGAs, you are happy to inflict genocide on Palestinians to save your own skin.
Classic lemmy.ml MAGA cosplaying as a leftist. Pretend all you want that “Blue MAGA” is a real thing, nobody takes that seriously. It’s disgusting that you recognize your genocidal MAGA cult is despicable enough that you attempt to stick the label on everything else, yet you still campaign for Donald every day.
Blue MAGA is every cultist that is enabling genocide by voting for it.
If Harris knew she was going to lose for her unconditional support for Israel then she would change her positions.
It’s your fault that she won’t.
You’d rather kill everyone in Gaza than stand up against your cult leader.
Nah, the guys complicit in genocide are you MAGAs, filling a corrupt SCOTUS with theocrats.
You know there will be millions of dollars put into campaigns against her if she declares anything. You know the gerrymandered maps make losing any support disastrous. You know the only chance of ending it sooner is pressuring Dems.
But you love the genocide, so instead you undermine the only possible ceasefire. You want Donald in to finish the job. Every day you are on here agitating for that.
I just don’t understand what you get out of campaigning for Donald every day. Cult member or some sort of theocracy enjoyer, I guess.
I truly don’t understand your reasoning here. I’m not trying to be antagonistic, I just simply don’t get it. Even if the parties were functionally equivalent, wouldn’t a better treatment of folks domestically be a better option than changing nothing? It seems like functionally abstaining from voting is saying that some kind of protest vote is more important than the treatment of folks who are being demonized by the far right…or more important than people’s access to abortion and proper medical care…or even shitty attempts at combating climate change.
You claim that voting for the Democrats is inflicting genocide on Palestinians to save one’s own skin.
I’m going to say that not voting, or voting for a candidate that has absolutely no chance of winning, is inflicting genocide on Palestinians and folks domestically.
It absolutely pains my bleeding heart that the DNC is so deeply corrupt and shitty, and way too happy to bomb civilians abroad. Absolutely despicable.
The GOP is worse. The GOP is also worse on the domestic front.
Trump has literally said that Israel should “finish the job”. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-criticized-palestinian-insult-debate-with-biden-2024-06-28/
So yeah…it’s morally compromising to vote for the DNC candidates for any number of reasons, but until the way we vote changes in the USA, it’s the least worst option when it comes to voting. It also does not preclude us from trying to change the system outside of voting. It doesn’t stop protesting, or mutual aid or other actions.
TLDR: It’s just the trolley problem, and call me a maniac, but if I can press a button that saves even one life, even if it makes me feel slightly morally complicit in the deaths of others, then shit…I consider it the price of being human in the world we’re shackled to.